• RIP Spidernaut: The Space-Traveling Arachnid Is Dead, millions of spiders mourn the loss
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[QUOTE=ButtsexV3;38707788]trap door spiders and orb-weavers for example have no venom and rely on other methods to catch their prey[/QUOTE] you mean these buttmassive buggers are safer than I thought? [t]http://waynesword.palomar.edu/images/garspi1b.jpg[/t] [editline]e[/editline] [QUOTE=Neo Kabuto;38707967]Most orb-weavers do have venom. Only Cribellate Orb Weavers do not. Normal trap door spiders have venom, but there are a few species without it.[/QUOTE] god DAMMIT I'm surrounded by death again doesn't help we're getting more brown recluse out here too
[QUOTE=daijitsu;38708729]you mean these buttmassive buggers are safer than I thought? [t]http://waynesword.palomar.edu/images/garspi1b.jpg[/t] [editline]e[/editline] god DAMMIT I'm surrounded by death again doesn't help we're getting more brown recluse out here too[/QUOTE] I don't think you should be worried about any of those other spiders except the brown recluse. I had one jump on my face before as I tried to get a closer view when I was being stupid so I recommend to kill the temperamental fucks.
Every summer, there's tons of those orb weavers in the barn. Last year, I think there was a total of five or six. Each of them were a different size.
Amazing how spiders get to go to space before we do :(
[QUOTE=SadisticGecko;38707645]All spiders are venomous. Really, the only dangerous spiders around here are black widows and fiddlebacks. I was going off of what I learned when I was younger: arachnids and insects move via changing the pressure in their limbs. I know things about spiders and arachnids, just not the in depth anatomy.[/QUOTE] Do you know literally anything about spiders? Everything you've said about them has been false.
[QUOTE=SadisticGecko;38707200]Spiders are awesome bros. Last fall, I rescued a Virginia Wolf Spider from a heavy freeze. She only had seven legs, from I assume kicking the ass of something awesome. Anyways. It got to the point that she would recognize when I was going to feed her. She regrew her leg, and then laid an egg sack. When the eggs hatched, I took her out on a warm day and let her and her brood go. Awesome stuff.[/QUOTE] As an arachnophobic, that sounds fucking horrifying.
I remember seeing the little guy live from space on youtube space lab with Bill Nye. [editline]4th December 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=daijitsu;38706964]a jumping spider in zero gravity sounds terrifying I wonder if he adapted and learned to control. What would be cooler is if he slowed down his jumps knowing he didn't have to power-drive to travel farther or stick landings in distant/'high' places[/QUOTE] If I remember correctly they said that it adapted after only a few jumps and after that thrived on fruit flies it hunted. Video when the experiment was suggested [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2OFf1rR1OY[/media] Th spider hunting [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObA_pwbw0XI[/media]
[QUOTE=SadisticGecko;38707200]Spiders are awesome bros. Last fall, I rescued a Virginia Wolf Spider from a heavy freeze. She only had seven legs, from I assume kicking the ass of something awesome. Anyways. It got to the point that she would recognize when I was going to feed her. She regrew her leg, and then laid an egg sack. When the eggs hatched, I took her out on a warm day and let her and her brood go. Awesome stuff.[/QUOTE] I couldn't help but cringe at this story spider, regrow leg, egg sack, brood
RIP and may the force be with him...
[QUOTE=phygon;38709177]Do you know literally anything about spiders? Everything you've said about them has been false.[/QUOTE] Oh stop bawling because I do more research on reptiles than I do arachnids. Admittedly, I'll be doing research on needs for when I finally get around to cleaning out a tank for a tarantula.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2-PJRYHx60[/media]
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See you space spider cowboy...
Fuck that. I don't want to be on the ISS if there's a spider up there, too, ever. I'm glad this spider's dead, now let's send the rest of them into space, all of them
as an arachnophobe i can safely say[B][I]i am adblocking every image in this thread[/I][/B]
Spiders are terrifying but this is just amazing A true spiderbro, unlike the lazy shits in my house who just sit in the corner for 3 days then die, daddy long legs can't do shit, GET A JOB
[QUOTE=SadisticGecko;38709841]Oh stop bawling because I do more research on reptiles than I do arachnids. Admittedly, I'll be doing research on needs for when I finally get around to cleaning out a tank for a tarantula.[/QUOTE] then maybe you shouldn't be making statements about things you don't know anything about
[QUOTE=Vodkavia;38710327]It's crazy how this day in age blatant spider racism is still rampant.[/QUOTE] i want segregated buses and sinks. funny anecdote: i once had a bowl of cereal and when i finished and was about to drink the milk i realized there was a ginormous dead spider inside it. i screamed so loud that my relatives thought i had listened to UmmaGumma again.
[QUOTE=Vodkavia;38710327]It's crazy how this day in age blatant spider racism is still rampant.[/QUOTE] It's like they come in here expecting anything different and yet are still pretentious enough to say "[I]as an arachnophobe..."[/I]
Wow, a spider has done more with its life than me. That fucking sucks.
[QUOTE=Roger Waters;38710265]as an arachnophobe i can safely say[B][I]i am adblocking every image in this thread[/I][/B][/QUOTE] How are these [IMG]http://www.tulsamastergardeners.org/insects/jumpingspider.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhtkvf7IW11qgp5rno1_500.jpg[/IMG] scary?
[QUOTE=DeEz;38711589]then maybe you shouldn't be making statements about things you don't know anything about[/QUOTE] Since when has that ever stopped the average FPer?
[QUOTE=joost1120;38712225]How are these [IMG]http://www.tulsamastergardeners.org/insects/jumpingspider.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhtkvf7IW11qgp5rno1_500.jpg[/IMG] scary?[/QUOTE] certain jumping spiders can come across as being kind of creepy when they stare at you with those big weird eyes, but they're bros to the core and most look pretty cool
can't forget smiley [t]http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6trnyJrnE1rp3ye5.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=daijitsu;38712711]can't forget smiley [t]http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6trnyJrnE1rp3ye5.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] Still looks better with his top hat and monocle... [IMG]http://i50.tinypic.com/b9j1p3.png[/IMG]
All these goddamn spiders Game over, unreading thread, racism level has peaked, fuck this shit
I know spiders aren't the most social of creatures but I wonder why they didn't get him a friend. Spider babies in microgravity would be interesting! What happens when they bring them back, would they buckle under gravity?
[QUOTE=ChaosUnleash;38713964]I know spiders aren't the most social of creatures but I wonder why they didn't get him a friend. Spider babies in microgravity would be interesting! What happens when they bring them back, would they buckle under gravity?[/QUOTE] just imagine they accidentally got out and let loose an entire brood of tiny jumping spiders also I was disappointed by the jumping spider hunting in microgravity video, he just clung to the wall. Was hoping for some slow-motion precision jumps
[QUOTE=daijitsu;38714592]just imagine they accidentally got out and let loose an entire brood of tiny jumping spiders also I was disappointed by the jumping spider hunting in microgravity video, he just clung to the wall. Was hoping for some slow-motion precision jumps[/QUOTE] If microgravity was incomprehensible to me and I came down with a bad case of superhuman jumps I'd probably cling to any surface I could too!
[QUOTE=SadisticGecko;38712388]Since when has that ever stopped the average FPer?[/QUOTE] doesnt make it any less dumb are you saying that you are dumb?
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