/lit/ - Literature

:3.....WHAT IS THAT

whatcha reading OP? Starship Troopers? LMAO
looks like a bedbug to me

>>18319978
I don't know, that's why I'm asking. They're little book friends but I don't know how common they are?

>>18319967
No, where on earth do you live?

>>18319997
Currently the collected ghost stories of M. R. James and The Complete Angler by Izaak Walton.

>>18319999
Canada.

That doesn’t happen if you are properly maintaining your books.
If you are going to own books, you need to understand how to take care of them.
Book scorpions are a sign of not doing that.
If you are not using your book washer to go clean your books once a week, once every two weeks at the very least, you aren’t yet mature enough to be a book owner.

>>18319967
Pseudoscorpions, aka book scorpions. They eat other thing bugs that might chew your books or clothes up, they're cool dudes.

>>18319967
These guys are cool. They slaughter other more annoying insects.

>>18320018
>>18320014
Huh, they really are called book scorpions! Very cool, thanks.
>>18320021
And they really are bros.

cute. why have i never seen one in America? i been reading books for 29 years

> Pseudoscorpions often carry out phoresis, a form of commensalism in which one organism uses another for the purpose of transport.

They're called pseudoscorpions. They're harmless and they also get rid of more annoying crawlers. Also interesting is that they practice what it called phoresis, which means that they'll sometimes hold onto a bigger bug in order to travel (pic related).

>>18320128
Instantly made think of this

>>18320091
They are really small

>>18319998
>little book friends

tiny creepy termite/scorpion/tick/arachnid claws typed this post

Can you buy these? I like the idea of releasing a swarm of them into my bookshelf to protect my knowledge from intruders.

>>18320365
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uq9pp586AE

>pseudoscorpion
my fave album

>>18320365
...until you think about the likelihood they will crawl into your mouth and you'll swallow them while you sleep.

Which is now. You're thinking about that now :3

>>18319967
Pseudoscorpion! I hardly ever see them, but I think they're really neat. Harmless, but if they're around you've probably got silverfish or firebrats or something hanging around for them to eat, too.

>>18320406
Just because they're small doesn't mean they're retarded and will just climb into a predators mouth randomly

>>18320080
I'm calling all of my jewish friends book scorpions.

>>18320408
Not so fast. Spiders are some of the most intelligent insects and they will repeatedly climb into your mouth while you sleep.

Every year, you swallow an average of around 8 spiders. :3

>>18320428
No, they don't. This is babby's first troll

>>18320446
https://animals.howstuffworks.com/arachnids/do-we-swallow-spiders-in-sleep.htm

Babby's first fact :3

>>18320428
jokes on you anon i sleep with a ball gag

>>18320453
>howwstuffworks

>>18320462
>http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20151117-is-it-true-that-we-accidentally-swallow-spiders-when-we-sleep

:3

>>18320468
>it happened once, therefore a huge number of spiders are suicidal evolutionary dead ends

They would be extinct

Wow I thought this was some Filipino novel lover posting, but now I find out these things live all the way about the timber line in North America. God damn it OP thanks.

>pseudoscorpion
haha guys...

>>18320018
holy shit I thought you were fucking with us, then reverse search and ooohh
everyday you learn something new, thanks

how i know op is a pseud

>has literal pseud bugs in his books

>>18320476
They say they could. Not that 'it happened once'. Many sources/studies say they do.

Stop being a little sarcastic shithead.

>>18320483
The one he posted is the sort that lives around here in Wisconsin. The ones in places like the fillipines look demonic lmao

>>18320501
>stop being sarcastic
You're the one who ended all your posts in :3

:3

>>18320513
That's a 'butterfly ate my dick' face

:o C=====3
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:3

They're based.
When they have sex they don't even touch the girl at first. They cum all in a big pool and then bodyslam the female into it

>>18320002
>Complete Angler
Very good! Nice to know there are anons who read good obscure literature

>>18320128
Cute!

>>18320453
>>18320428
>>18320468

the 8 spiders a year thing is a well documented myth

>>18319967
Even Aristotle had them:
>There are also other minute animals, as I observed...[o]thers also are found in books, some of which are like those which occur in garments; others are like scorpions; they have no tails, and are very small.
From his _History of Animals_

>>18320128
The fuck kind of creature is it holding on to

>>18319967
Shit like this is why I resist the temptation of taking the books of my grandpa library and mixing them with my personal bookshelf. I don't want my books to be contaminated.

>>18322010
Pseudoscorpions are not doing any bad thing.

>>18320408
I saw a couple silverfish last year. My house was built in the 1880s so pest control is part of everyday life. Between traps, a pellet gun and my cat I killed 16 mice in a week once, that's an extreme example though.
>>18320814
Lol yeah, I just read that. Apparently they use a foot to kick jizz into her.
>>18321012
It's funny I was actually just looking for books about fishing in general when I stumbled upon that. Just started it, Walton seems like he's got a touch of the autism and is easily excitable.

>>18322005
His trusty steed.

>>18320184
>don't talk to me or my wife's son ever again!

>>18320018
>>18320489
I thought you were just taking the joke further and I didn't expect to get this, but holy shit, they're real.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscorpion

>>18322010
Book scorpions are physically incapable of harming men even if they wanted to. Meanwhile they genocide insecto-niggers like cloth eating insects or flies and spider larvae.

>>18320380

u nasrty

>>18322569
Lost.

>>18319967
>scorpion
That's fucking weird, seek help. The only book friend you usually get is the Ctenolepisma longicaudata, also known in many languages as silverfish. They're kinda cute and a few laurel leaves chopped artfully or gathered into bundles are enough to keep them away from nibbling pages. Not scorpions, dude, seek help.

>>18319997
bedbugs don't look like that

>>18320428
>Spiders are some of the most intelligent insects

>>18320008
wtf

>>18323572
It's actually not that odd. We're just north of the united states. Known for our cold weather, charismatic megafauna, affinty for maple syrup, hockey and communist government.

>>18323219
Pseudoscoprions eat book-eating bugs (including silverfish) so they're /lit/ friends. Please don't kill silverfish though, they're really pretty.

>>18324391
I don't kill them, anon, I only keep them away with laurel, because they don't like that smell.

>>18323219
>>18324531
Where do you put the laurel leaves? In front of the books? Inside all of your books? What if they're already inside the books?
How else can we protect books? Do modern books need protection? Why isn't this required learning for every human? Why am I just now learning about bookscorpions? I see silverfish sometimes and like watching their fluid movement, but I never thought they posed any danger to me or my family (of books).

>>18320128
>Also interesting is that they practice what it called phoresis, which means that they'll sometimes hold onto a bigger bug in order to travel (pic related).
Disgusting commie freeloaders.

>>18324599
I make small pouches like this. I mince the leaves when they're dry and change them two or three times a year. Usually you don't see many silverfish in winter, so you can change the sachets just in the early spring and summer. Put them here and there on your shelves, they can stay either on the top of your books or in front of them, it doesn't matter because they're very fragrant for a silverfish. They also give a nice and relaxing smell to your room.

If you can't make the sachets you can just use single laurel leaves, for example as bookmarks or shoved inside the pages. They will be less fragrant if not chopped, but it works nonetheless.

When I change the sachets I don't throw the laurel away, but keep it in a jar to make herbal tea. Laurel has the wonderful feature that it doesn't lose its beneficial properties even after a long time. And it makes a really good infusion.

Silverfish do like modern books, unless the paper is made of some shitty lab mixture of cellulose and plastic. Naturally, though, they prefer old books. Moldy yellowed pages are more palatable to them, and they love to gnaw the edges of the book. However they really produce little damage, basically unnoticeable, so you don't have to worry. Maybe put a few laurel pouches like mine close to your antique books, if you have any.

>>18320453
Who the fuck teaches baby's this?

>>18319967
They are chimera ants

>>18320500

Underrated

>>18324823
Dis nigga drinking tea made with chewed up bug leaves.
Seriously though, that's pretty cool anon, thanks for sharing.

My town built a new library a couple years ago and deliberately introduced a colony of pseudoscorpions to protect the books.

>>18325628
Cool! Link a news article?