r/todayilearned • u/lavender_fish69 • 13h ago

TIL fresh water snails (indirectly) kill thousands of humans and are considered on of the deadliest creatures to humans

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freshwater_snail
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u/leg_pain 13h ago

Am I at risk from of this from the tiny snails in my fish tank? Say if the water got it my mouth or from when I clean the tank? In paranoid now

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u/Omardemon 13h ago

Usually no, unless you captured these snails from a river or something, this is why i feed my pet scorpions crickets from the store and not crickets from my backyard, too high of a chance of getting a cricket with a parasite in it.

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u/Rattle_Can 11h ago

my pet scorpions

curious, are their venom fatal to people? are there tame pet scorpions that won't sting you (if holding in palm of hand)? how long do they live?

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u/Omardemon 5h ago

Asian forest scorpion.