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Snowglobe of Doom posted:They're lovely and friendly if you give them the chance That's a pretty adorable spider 
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I love spiders and have loved them since I was a young child. I'd have pet spiders, but my roommates have told me they will kill them the minute I leave the apartment. Jerks.
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Spiders are alright, I mostly try to keep them around because I vastly prefer them over the odd fly or mosquito buzzing around. At least until the one in my room started weaving up an egg pouch. gently caress that, it got relocated to the porch as gently as I could.
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I'm not sure what kind of golden orb weavers the US has, maybe they're invasive but I know I've seen some huge ones here in Florida.
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Nov 6, 2014 20:43
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Mustang posted:I'm not sure what kind of golden orb weavers the US has, maybe they're invasive but I know I've seen some huge ones here in Florida. I was gonna say those are just banana spiders but evidently that's just another name for the golden orb weaver. Who knew? They love to put their webs between trees right at face level which is fun when n the woods. Pointless anecdote: I was at the Alligator Farm in St. Augustine which has one of every crocodilean species as well as a ton of exotic birds, monkeys, and marmoset type things. But the foreign tourists were totally fascinated by the random banana spiders that were just random wildlife, not part of the exhibit at all.
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Nov 7, 2014 02:42
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That's something, right there. What is it? Whale?
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Jeherrin posted:That's something, right there. What is it? Whale? Gotta be. Unless its the Loch Ness monster.
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Nov 7, 2014 04:08
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It's from this guy's flickr album: http://www.flickr.com/photos/84343144@N00/5038634774/in/photostream/ And a short article about it: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/19/creepy-fin-whale-carcass-photo-svalbard-norway_n_3762939.html
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Bundle of Keys posted:It's from this guy's flickr album: http://www.flickr.com/photos/84343144@N00/5038634774/in/photostream/ Polar bear cannibalism is pretty  by itself even without the giant whale skeleton.
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So I'm walking my dog and she scoops up in her mouth a black golf ball-sized object that I figure is a rotted walnut or something. She spits it out and http://i.imgur.com/UM35xEw.jpgNope. Definately not a walnut
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:They're lovely and friendly if you give them the chance I actually got bitten by one of these things, I believe it was Nephila madagascariensis. Its web was in a small tree we were relocating, and I rescued the spider. It thanked me by biting me on the hand. Didn't even feel the bite; it later itched like a mild mosquito bite. I guess their silk is so strong that they don't need powerful venom to subdue their prey.
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The thing about spider venom is it did not evolve to kill large primates, so we simply don't react to most spider venom at all because our bodies work so much differently than a bug's. Nephila are so much fun to handle, they anchor silk on your hand and then jump off only to climb back up and chill on your forearm.
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quote:I guess their silk is so strong that they don't need powerful venom to subdue their prey. And with a million spiders worth of it you can make a nice cape. 
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They've actually been experimenting with harvesting spider silk from the milk of transgenic goats. I read about it a while back, don't know if anything ever came of it.
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ReidRansom posted:And with a million spiders worth of it you can make a nice cape. Close-up. Wow, it's beautiful 
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Basticle posted:So I'm walking my dog and she scoops up in her mouth a black golf ball-sized object that I figure is a rotted walnut or something. She spits it out and I looked inside a lightpost on top of a parking garage once and inside there was this 
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Dynastes posted:The thing about spider venom is it did not evolve to kill large primates, so we simply don't react to most spider venom at all because our bodies work so much differently than a bug's. However, through some luck of evolution, the primary toxin of the Sydney Funnel-Web Spider (Atrax robustus) is incredibly toxic to primates. And ONLY primates. It doesn't affect other mammals. There have not been primates in Australia long enough for this to be an adaption. It, through dumb luck, is just really deadly to humans. Also this is what a Sydney Funnel-Web looks like:  Yes, that is venom. And for scale: 
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I want to like spiders. I really, really do. But I have arachnophobia, in the truest sense of phobia. I know it's completely irrational, and I'm only afraid of spiders indoors for some odd reason. That big weaver in Borneo, I had no issue getting close to it because it was outdoors. If that thing was inside a building I would freak. And I kick myself anytime I panic near an indoor spider because I know it's stupid to be afraid. I just cant seem to control it. I go hiking and let spiders crawl on my hands, but as soon as I get indoors, nope. The mere thought of one on me freaks me out. It makes me mad that I can't control it. It's seriously ridiculous.
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That's what phobia is, I guess. I am not able to sleep in a room if I know there is a spider there. It's gotten better now to the point where I can handle really small ones, so I try not to kill them. Still, I had an incident like a month ago where the biggest loving spider I've ever seen was hanging out on the outside of my doorframe, and I just started immediately getting coldsweats and nearly had a panic attack when I tried to get rid of it. loving brain, man.
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Honeybees!  Now wasps should be killed with fire. 
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Mr Hootington posted:Now wasps should be killed with fire. That almost looks like a screenshot from The Blob, except it's a Blob filled with wasps.
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Can we stop with the bugs and poo poo? They're not really in the spirit of the thread.
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Sharzak doesn't find these particular things creepy folks, can we stick to their pre-approved list only please.
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This is beautiful! If I owned that property I would hold off until the bees has filled those up. Edit - Uh.. wrong image... but y'know I'm keeping it because I think it's funnier this way
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Dr Scoofles posted:This is beautiful! If I owned that property I would hold off until the bees has filled those up. Well, be fair. Dogs with bees in their mouths that shoot bees when they bark are terrifying.
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cptn_dr posted:Well, be fair. Dogs with bees in their mouths that shoot bees when they bark are terrifying. Terrifying != creepy, stick to the topic please!
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Bad Munki posted:Terrifying != creepy They're synonymous.   Please note that I am terrified of synonyms therefore this post is still on topic. Also I was shrieking at the top of my voice in abject fear while I was typing all this.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Also I was shrieking at the top of my voice in abject fear while I was typing all this. How I make all my posts on the internet. 
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cptn_dr posted:Well, be fair. Dogs with bees in their mouths that shoot bees when they bark are terrifying. Dogs with bees in their mouth you say? 
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The new Assassin's Creed game launched with a few... bugs.
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Zeroisanumber posted:The new Assassin's Creed game launched with a few... bugs. So thats how the Headless Horseman could see where he was going!
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The music really makes it http://youtu.be/Tzwm7t9Xs_o
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"Would you yiff me?" "I'd yiff me."
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Hakkesshu posted:That's what phobia is, I guess. I am not able to sleep in a room if I know there is a spider there. yook posted:Spiders are alright, I mostly try to keep them around because I vastly prefer them over the odd fly or mosquito buzzing around. Ignimbrite posted:However, through some luck of evolution, the primary toxin of the Sydney Funnel-Web Spider (Atrax robustus) is incredibly toxic to primates. And ONLY primates. It doesn't affect other mammals. There have not been primates in Australia long enough for this to be an adaption. It, through dumb luck, is just really deadly to humans. InequalityGodzilla has a new favorite as of 08:47 on Nov 14, 2014 |
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