>>19050707Kinda? But that doesn't mean that it's hard to get rid of them.
A single stomp does the job and if you hit them with poison they run around for a bit before spazzing out on their backs. I think that's what happened and why that bastard crawled on me, since they usually keep their distance from humans.
I've noticed that they do still twitch a bit afterwards if you move them around, so maybe they're still alive. But they can't really do much if their entire exoskeleton is shattered/they're tripping balls and dying.
Apparently they can survive a nuke, but that sounds like complete bullshit. I think that maybe they can survive the fallout and that's where the saying comes from.
They can also live for a few days without their head. But that seems tp be true since I once managed to perfectly decapitate one with a machete and it was squirming for a lot longer than usual.