Spiders

[sandrewn]

8 hours ago, Bill W said:

Damn, that looks surreal.  Are the red mites living on the spider in a symbiotic relationship?  They appear to be the spider's eyes, and that's freaky.  

Life quite often is. Knowing your love of spiders, I know who you are cheering for.

I should of titled that picture, 'The Predators and The Prey'.

Symbiotic, no. Parasitic, yes.

 

[sandrewn]

5 hours ago, Bill W said:

I read the article and it says the male is 2 to 3 inches in length and its venomous.  That's one good-size spider.  Later, it claims this is a tarantula, but I didn't know tarantulas could spin webs.   

Do Tarantulas Make A Web? You’ll Be Surprised! | Keeping Bugs

 

[Bill W]

3 hours ago, sandrewn said:

Do Tarantulas Make A Web? You’ll Be Surprised! | Keeping Bugs

 

I'm amazed at how you come up with all this stuff.  Did you check out that link?  When a tarantula makes a sperm web is kind of sad.  It's the males last chance to get off before its final moult and it dies of old age.   

[Doha]

Daddy long legs

 

[sandrewn]

23 minutes ago, Doha said:

Daddy long legs

 

@Doha

Right subject material, but I'm missing your point?

 

On the off hand chance, based on your last couple of posts, you may have zigged instead of zagging to arrive here. Let me just say.......

 

- I have been to New York(a long while ago), looked out from the top of the Empire State building as they worked on completing the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center.

-Scuba dived in the Red Sea, with far off sharks, but real close(like I stopped to give them and their teeth, the right of way) Barracudas.

-I have bobbed up and down in the Dead Sea.

 

Hmm, it seems I am now, most definitely  guilty of zigzagging.

sorry,

[Valkyrie]

[Bill W]

1 hour ago, Valkyrie said:

Then I'm mostly back to work/school - just not here! 

[Zombie]

1 hour ago, Valkyrie said:

Grammar Tip #42

understanding adverbs is quite important  

[Mancunian]

4 hours ago, Bill W said:

The government won't accept that as a legitimate reason when you're brought up on a Court-Martial.  I hope you're good at fabricating another excuse and can pull it off in a believable manner.  

It may have only looked to be about 2cm in size, but it really was a huge tarantula! Honest!

[Bill W]

5 minutes ago, Mancunian said:

It may have only looked to be about 2cm in size, but it really was a huge tarantula! Honest!

Damn, I thought it was as large as the creature in the movie Alien!

[Mancunian]

1 minute ago, Bill W said:

Damn, I thought it was as large as the creature in the movie Alien!

It was a mutating alien tarantula, I'm sure of it.

[TalonRider]

Reminds me of some of the ceremonial masks the natives use. 

[TalonRider]

I wonder how long the kid had to lay there with the spiders to break the world record? 

[sandrewn]

On 12/8/2023 at 5:13 AM, TalonRider said:

I wonder how long the kid had to lay there with the spiders to break the world record? 

First I would say, the boy is braver, because of his age and not having lived long enough to know better.

Now Mr . Tarantula, admittedly crazy, but not stupid by a long shot. He chose the Chilean Rose Tarantula for a very wise reason.

Chilean rose hair tarantula - Zoo Atlanta

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Most spiders on the body - Guinness World Records - YouTube

 

 

[sandrewn]

 

 

 

[Bill W]

4 hours ago, sandrewn said:

It might be a million reasons to hunt down the inventor and show him what you think of his invention. 

Edited December 11, 2023 by Bill W

[Drew Espinosa]

 

[JamesSavik]

[sandrewn]

22 hours ago, JamesSavik said:

 

I have to admit that I had no idea of what the hell you were talking about! Yes I looked it up, yes it is funny, thank you for replying.

 

[Zombie]

On 12/12/2023 at 5:44 AM, sandrewn said:

Huge purple arachnid scuttled out of Lyndsey Herlihy's utility room. The terrified mother-of-two called the RSPCA to her Ruislip home to trap it. The beast legged it but was finally caught.

that’s just 99 miles from me    

[Drew Espinosa]

1 hour ago, Zombie said:

that’s just 99 miles from me    

It's a seven year old article, you have nothing to fear.

[sandrewn]

6 minutes ago, Bill W said:

Is this the Darth Vader of spiders?  And why is it called a mouse spider? 

Is it because its as large as a mouse or because it preys on mice? 

I love it when I actually have an answer for you, but to be honest, the answer was already at your fingertips. It was in the blurb (first paragraph) of.....

Mouse Spider (Missulena bradleyi)

Description
Female Mouse Spiders are all black and male spiders are black with a bluish-white patch on the front of their abdomen. Females are larger than males. The common name of the mouse spider arises from the mistaken belief that they dig a deep burrow like a mouse. Mouse spider fangs move in and out sideways, and not up and down like Funnel web spiders.
 

[Bill W]

4 minutes ago, sandrewn said:

I love it when I actually have an answer for you, but to be honest, the answer was already at your fingertips. It was in the blurb (first paragraph) of.....

Mouse Spider (Missulena bradleyi)

Description
Female Mouse Spiders are all black and male spiders are black with a bluish-white patch on the front of their abdomen. Females are larger than males. The common name of the mouse spider arises from the mistaken belief that they dig a deep burrow like a mouse. Mouse spider fangs move in and out sideways, and not up and down like Funnel web spiders.

Sorry, with my eyes I wasn't able to read the facts listed on the blurb when I clicked on it.  

[TalonRider]

Looks like it was sculpted out of a thick mousse.

[sandrewn]

Don't know about you, but this one gave me a shiver or two!