A number of spider species are capable of catching and eating fish. They've evolved strategies for using the water as a sensor net rather than relying on a web. SOURCE (With Photo): https://www.livescience.com/a-man-caught-a-spider-eating-his-pet-goldfish-and-well-its-terrifying.html

This 2017 article: https://peerj.com/articles/3972/ ... lists 99 records or superlatives (e.g., biggest, etc.) pertaining to spiders. A selection of 21 examples drawn from that article are featured in this Live Science slideshow: https://www.livescience.com/64848-extreme-spiders.html

I thought there was a thread for spiders somewhere, but can't seem to find it. I don't think this fits in the 'Arachnophobia' thread in the HC sub-forum, as none of them invaded anyone's bodiliy orifices (afaik). Also, it's 5 years old. Sorry...

I hadn't heard this story before, and it doesn't seem to have been mentioned in the forum either: The day UFOs stopped play By Richard Padula, BBC World Service Sport Sixty years ago a football match ground to a halt when unidentified flying objects were spotted above a stadium in...

OK I'm quite a serious arachnophobe. I think I picked it up off my mum when I was a kid. I've been thinking about it again because I had a conversation with a bloke at work about the bird eating spider. He mentioned attempts to find the chicken eating spider. I'm not as bad as I used to be...

Incy vegetarian spider is a scientific first (Unknown) SCIENTISTS have discovered the world’s first known vegetarian spider. Bagheera kiplingi, a South American species, lives almost exclusively on leaf buds and is thought to be the only spider of about 40,000 species to have rejected a...

Chile's black widow spider may yield spermicide By Antonio de la Jara SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Scientists have discovered a potentially marketable contraceptive in the venom of Chile's black widow spider, whose bite is fatal to many but can also cause prolonged, painful and involuntary erections...

mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/isast/articles/duprat/duprat.html Link dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20020214004657/mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/isast/articles/duprat/duprat.html Archived version via Wayback Machine "Since the early 1980s, artist Hubert Duprat has been...

Read this in today's Mail On Sunday . Don't know what to make of it though : From the Mail on Sunday , 20th November 2005.

This has to be one of the most bizarre UL/superstitions I've heard, it was told to me by my 78 year old neighbour this afternoon, who heard it from a friend at his social club. He claimed that spiders are allergic to conkers, and if you place conkers or chestnuts around the house, you won't...

The following events occurred about 3 years ago, when I lived in a rented flat. The flat itself was one of six that had been converted in an imposing Victorian semi (semi-detached for all you non-UK readers). It was the height of mid-summer and my housemate was away with his girlfriend for 10...

yes another spider thread :D ive been thinking about this for some time:- why spiders build webs around or near outdoor electric lights sources have they (spiders) learned to associate lights with food? and when did this behaviour begin?

Here in central Indiana Saturday afternoon,there was a widespread incident of spider's webs"parachuting",a fairly common occurance where myriad small spiders throw out long sections of web that catch in the wind and may carry the little buggers for miles.I myself drove through several long...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,848400,00.html If taruntalas climbing all over your bananas weren't bad enough, now the grapes are biting back too! Oddly, the appearance of black widow spiders in imported grapes seems to be linked to an effort to reduce the use of pesticides...

the giant spider of the ukraine has anybody heard of this supposdly true story,if so could anybody shed light on this because it is frighting and i would love to find news on the matter[it was in articles around the world] or even better pictures .i be very gratefal if somebody does:D