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Tongue Bunnies


AKA: Night’s Despair


According to West Virginian superstition: you should never eat before you go to bed, else you’ll have a spider in your head. These spiders are commonly known as Tongue Bunnies-a species of arachnid that only lays its eggs inside of open, human mouths. Adults are 3 - 4 in. long (including their legs) and are covered in dark brown hair with spots of black on their abdomens. They have a very acute sense of smell and can move from place to place with surprising speed.


After mating in the spring, females begin to look for locations to lay their eggs- venturing throughout human households to reside under beds or on bedroom walls. At night, the spiders wait for the scent of food to alert it of a human’s mouth; then, they amble towards it.


A Tongue Bunny either crawls into an open mouth or slides between one’s lips, quickly releasing its eggs into a hastily spun sack. The mouth’s moisture and chemical makeup activates the hatching of the spiderlings,…

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