spiders

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

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...

EDIT This a general thread for discussion on insects that do not necessarily fit under Cryptozoology i.e. they're not a new species and or a rediscovered species. Thanks, TheQuixote ------ I found a couple of huge insects on the web in the last week, I realise these ones have...

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...

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...

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