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Incy Wincy, a spider from Bristol, said: “The other night me and the missus had it off behind a sofa while a family were watching Victoria.
Do take care when you're trying to eradicate spiders ...
Flaming spider causes $11,000 worth of damage in apartment
A California man using a lighter to kill a "huge" spider in his apartment ended up causing $11,000 worth of damage when the arachnid ignited a mattress.
Lyndsey Wisegarver, a caregiver for a resident of the apartment in Redding, said another resident was trying to kill a massive spider with a torch lighter and succeeded in setting the pest aflame.
"It was a huge wolf spider," Wisegarver told the Redding Record Searchlight.
The attempt turned to disaster, however, when the flaming spider fled into a mattress, setting it on fire.
Wisegarver said the flames soon spread to the apartment's drapes and a flag collection.
Redding firefighters responded to the building, where residents tried unsuccessfully to extinguish the flames with a garden hose.
The damage from the fire was estimated at about $11,000. ...
Simply unbelievable. Of all the ways to kill a spider.
Simply unbelievable. Of all the ways to kill a spider.
Office worker finds 'deadly spider from Brazil' in his Asda bananas
Neil Langley didn’t notice the venomous intruder until he got to his office the next day.
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The stowaway was identified as a Brazilian wandering spider (Image: Birmingham Mail)
- deadly spider from Brazil in a bunch of bananas he bought from Asda.
Neil Langley didn’t notice the highly poisonous intruder until the following day when he got to his office.
Colleagues at the building in Birmingham Five Ways helped him pass on the spider to the RSPCA, and the venomous stowaway has now found new digs in Bristol Zoo.
The creepy-crawly is believed to be a Brazilian wandering spider, reports Birmingham Mail .
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There is truly nowhere safe. Intertidal spiders, as their name suggests, inhabit the stretch of shoreline between high and low tide, and have evolved an array of techniques to survive underwater. These range from water-repellent hairs that enable the spider to keep a layer of air around its abdomen; air-tight webs that the spiders can stay submerged in - the article portrays a positive sense of arachnid domestic bliss; and even a kind of gill, so that the spider can directly obtain oxygen from seawater. I repeat: nowhere is safe.
Lock up your birds!
Two huge tarantulas may be on the loose after three baby tarantulas were found in a car park without their parents.
The RSPCA rescued the baby Brazilian bird-eating spiders after being found in pots in Somercotes, Derbyshire.
However, two of the larger pots had been run over by a vehicle and it is thought the two adults may have been in these and escaped.
This tarantula species is one of the world's largest with a leg span of up 10in - the size of a dinner plate.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-derbyshire-44832778
Lock up your birds!
Two huge tarantulas may be on the loose after three baby tarantulas were found in a car park without their parents.
The RSPCA rescued the baby Brazilian bird-eating spiders after being found in pots in Somercotes, Derbyshire.
However, two of the larger pots had been run over by a vehicle and it is thought the two adults may have been in these and escaped.
This tarantula species is one of the world's largest with a leg span of up 10in - the size of a dinner plate.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-derbyshire-44832778
Would make a good avatar, that...The wonderfully strange Bunny Harvestman spider:
https://www.popsci.com/megapixels-harvestmen-dog?dom=currents&src=syn
The wonderfully strange Bunny Harvestman spider
Police responding to emergency discover man trying to kill spider
Yahoo7 News2 January 2019
Police in Perth thought they had a potentially tragic incident on their hands when they were called to a house after reports of a toddler screaming and a man shouting death threats.
Multiple police units arrived at a property on Wednesday morning after neighbours heard a child’s piercing screams and a man repeatedly yelling, “Why don’t you die?”.
Fearing the worst, officers “responded lights and sirens” to the incident only to find a man had simply been trying to kill a spider.
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Deadly Black Widow spider found an inch from Dundee car nut's face as he renovated classic motor
Experts discovered a nest of the venomous arachnids inside his imported Ford Mustang when they were called in by stunned John Blain.
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Cath Ascroft
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- 14:34, 5 JAN 2019
- UPDATED14:35, 5 JAN 2019
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John Blain was stunned to find the deadline spider in his car (Image: CASCADE NEWS)
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A Scottish man had a lucky escape when he discovered a deadly Black Widow spider hiding in his classic car.
John Blain was in his shed refurbishing his Ford Mustang, imported from California, when he spotted an unusual arachnid just an inch from his face.
After searching the internet for a match he realised the creepy crawly matched the description of a Black Widow the most venomous spider in North America.
When experts arrived they found two live females and a spider nest in the 1965 classic motor.
The 47-year-old from Tealing near Dundee in Angus says he believes the spiders must have arrived with the car more than nine months earlier.
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I love how at 13 seconds in, the subtitle on the video says that the spider was the size of a dinner-plate, fuelling my belief that crockery gives us the SI units for arthropod size, just like double-decker buses for height, Olympic swimming pools for volume, and Wales for square kilometrage.Two spidery tales here. The Aussie Redback killing and hanging up a sizeable snake was impressive, but the Tarantula dragging an opossum to its lair was jaw-dropping. Must be close to a record leg-span:
https://www.foxnews.com/science/hug...s-amazon-rainforest-floor-in-haunting-footage
I love how at 13 seconds in, the subtitle on the video says that the spider was the size of a dinner-plate, fuelling my belief that crockery gives us the SI units for arthropod size, just like double-decker buses for height, Olympic swimming pools for volume, and Wales for square kilometrage.
Immune as in "totally unaffected by", or as in "did not die"? Deadly spiders don't actually seem to be all that deadly. Their bites can give you quite a bad time, but actual, confirmed fatalities are fairly few and far between. Google - with all the caveats that entails - seems to suggest about 6 deaths per annum can be attributed to spider bites in the USA. In what seems a case of arthropodic non-determinism, the precise number seems to correlate with the length of the winning words in spelling bees:I am pretty sure that I am immune to deadly spider bites. I have been bitten by a couple Brown Recluse and Black Widows a couple of times since that time in my youth.
Immune as in "totally unaffected by", or as in "did not die"? Deadly spiders don't actually seem to be all that deadly. Their bites can give you quite a bad time, but actual, confirmed fatalities are fairly few and far between. Google - with all the caveats that entails - seems to suggest about 6 deaths per annum can be attributed to spider bites in the USA. In what seems a case of arthropodic non-determinism, the precise number seems to correlate with the length of the winning words in spelling bees:
Doesn't it? I'm not a medical doctor, so you may be right in strictly clinical terms, but in common parlance it is commonly used in that way. Granted, when the topic is spider bites, we are not necessarily too far from the emergency room. Anyway, what is it that led you to think you may have some kind of immunity?Immune does not mean "totally unaffected by"
I'm sorry it landed with you as a correction, that wasn't my intention. I simply enjoyed the apparent correlation between two seemingly otherwise unconnected phenomena. It's also a gentle reminder for us never to take things at face value.thank you for a needlessly correcting me using spelling bee data