sandrewn Posted May 23, 2025 Posted May 23, 2025 A dock spider enjoying a fish for dinner. Fish-eating SPIDERS discovered by scientists | Daily Mail Online
Site Moderator TalonRider Posted May 25, 2025 Site Moderator Posted May 25, 2025 On 5/23/2025 at 8:47 AM, sandrewn said: A dock spider enjoying a fish for dinner. Fish-eating SPIDERS discovered by scientists | Daily Mail Online Somebody's going to have bad case of fish breath later. 1
Bill W Posted May 25, 2025 Posted May 25, 2025 On 5/23/2025 at 8:47 AM, sandrewn said: A dock spider enjoying a fish for dinner. Fish-eating SPIDERS discovered by scientists | Daily Mail Online I wonder what type of lure it was using? 🤪 2
sandrewn Posted May 30, 2025 Posted May 30, 2025 How about we take the Nopemobile? Nope, nope and nope! (Maybe they aren't spiders, but the answer is still, nope) 1
Bill W Posted May 30, 2025 Posted May 30, 2025 1 hour ago, sandrewn said: How about we take the Nopemobile? Nope, nope and nope! (Maybe they aren't spiders, but the answer is still, nope) If you first look at this car, it merely looks like it has a considerable about of rust spots. However, when you get closer, you see those rust spots are moving, so you turn around quickly and run like hell in the other direction. 1 1
Bill W Posted May 31, 2025 Posted May 31, 2025 4 hours ago, sandrewn said: Did You Know That Tarantulas Can Swim? It's doing the stroke named the crawl, but to a fish swimming in that water, it could look like dinner floating above. 1
Bill W Posted June 3, 2025 Posted June 3, 2025 5 hours ago, sandrewn said: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Assassin spiders Temporal range: Middle Jurassic–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Austrarchaea sp. Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Class: Arachnida Order: Araneae Infraorder: Araneomorphae Superfamily: Palpimanoidea Family: Archaeidae C. L. Koch & Berendt, 1854 Diversity 5 genera, 90 species Archaeidae, also known as assassin spiders and pelican spiders, is a spider family with about ninety described species in five genera.[1] It contains small spiders, ranging from 2 to 8 millimetres (0.079 to 0.315 in) long, that prey exclusively on other spiders.[2] They are unusual in that they have "necks", ranging from long and slender to short and thick. The name "pelican spider" refers to these elongated jaws and necks used to catch their prey. Living species of Archaeidae occur in South Africa, Madagascar and Australia, with the sister family Mecysmaucheniidae occurring in southern South America and New Zealand.[1] Assassin spiders were first known from 40 million-year-old amber fossils which were found in Europe in the 1840s and were not known to have living varieties until 1881, when the first living assassin spider was found in Madagascar.[3] The fossil record of this family was first identified from Baltic amber dating to the Eocene, although many taxa from these deposits have been reassigned to Mecysmaucheniidae, Malkaridae, and Anapidae. Currently valid Baltic species include Archaea levigata and Archaea paradoxa. In 2003, Afarchaea grimaldii was described from Cretaceous Burmese amber aged between 88 and 95 million years, extending the record of this group considerably, the oldest fossil known of the group is Patarchaea muralis from the Middle Jurassic (Oxfordian/Callovian) of Inner Mongolia, China.[4] Taxonomy [edit] The family Archaeidae was erected in 1854 by C. L. Koch and G. K. Berendt[1] for one genus, Archaea, initially with three extinct species,[3] all found in amber from the Baltic Sea or Bitterfeld in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. No living species are placed in this genus. 1
Bill W Posted June 5, 2025 Posted June 5, 2025 4 hours ago, sandrewn said: The magnificent spider (Ordgarius magnificus) Neat looking spider. It appears to have nipples or two tiny shields on its back! 2
Bill W Posted June 5, 2025 Posted June 5, 2025 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ordgarius magnificus Ordgarius magnificus, Manyung, Queensland Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Class: Arachnida Order: Araneae Infraorder: Araneomorphae Family: Araneidae Genus: Ordgarius Species: O. magnificus Binomial name Ordgarius magnificus (Rainbow, 1897) Ordgarius magnificus, the magnificent spider, is a bolas spider in the family Araneidae.[1] It is endemic to forests along the Australian east coast. Description [edit] Females are up to 14 mm long and almost as wide; males reach only 2 mm. Females are creamy-white with a pattern of pink and yellow spots on the abdomen, and a crown of white and reddish tubercles on the head. Habits [edit] They live in trees or tall shrubs, rarely less than 2 m above the ground. The easiest way to find them is to search for clusters of large, brown egg-sacs suspended among foliage; the spider will be found nearby, at day sheltering in a retreat made from rolled leaves and silk. Like all bolas spiders, the female attracts male moths with an airborne pheromone. Once a moth approaches, the spider senses it coming due to vibration sensitive hairs on its outstretched legs. It is then caught with a sticky globule that is swung at the prey. The egg-sacs are up to 5 cm long; one spider produces up to nine sacs per season, each with several hundred eggs. 1
Site Moderator TalonRider Posted June 6, 2025 Site Moderator Posted June 6, 2025 I was thinking more along the lines of one half of a snap button. 2
sandrewn Posted June 8, 2025 Posted June 8, 2025 The Cobweb Hotel (1936) (hard to believe this was made 89 yrs ago) 2
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