#SPIDER-BABY

[alternateworldcomics]

From 1998 to 2006

The Daughter of the true Spider-Man! Spider-Girl

[cultfaction]

SPIDER-BABY remake announces cast with Dustin Ferguson directing

Director Dustin Ferguson’s remake of Jack Hill’s 1967 cult classic horror movie “Spider Baby, or the Maddest Story Ever Told” has wrapped principal photography in L.A. The film, from production company SCS Entertainment, tells of a pair of greedy relatives that try to repossess the Merrye Estate. But the inbred children protect their home and bloodline at all costs. The cast includes Beverly…

[artifacts-and-arthropods]

Strange Bedfellows: these unprecedented photos show a leafcutter bee sharing its nest with a wolfspider

I stumbled across these photos while I was looking for information about leafcutter bees, and I just wanted to share them, because they're really remarkable. The images were captured by an amateur photographer named Laurence Sanders, and they depict an unprecedented scene that has garnered the attention of both entomologists and arachnologists.

The photos show a leafcutter bee and a wolfspider living in the same burrow.

The leafcutter bee (Megachile macularis) can be seen fetching freshly-cut leaves, which she'll use to line the inner walls of her nest, while the wolfspider sits at the entryway to the burrow; as the bee approaches, the wolfspider moves aside, allowing her to enter the nest, and then she simply watches as the leaf is positioned along the inner wall.

Once the leaf is in position, the bee and the spider seem to inspect the nest together, sitting side-by-side in the entryway. The leafcutter bee seems strangely at ease in the presence of the wolfspider, which is normally a voracious predator, and the wolfspider seems equally unfazed by the fact that it shares its burrow with an enormous stinging insect.

The man who took these photographs discovered the peculiar scene by accident, and he then captured a series of images over the course of about two days (these are just a few of the photos that were taken). During that two-day period, the bee was seen entering the nest with bits of foliage dozens of times, gradually constructing the walls and brood chambers of its nest, and the spider was clearly occupying the same burrow, but they did not exhibit any signs of aggression toward one another.

The photos have been examined by various entomologists and arachnologists, and those experts seem ubiquitously surprised by the behavior that these images depict. The curator of entomology at Victoria Museum, Dr. Ken Walker, noted that this may be the very first time that this behavior has ever been documented, while Dr. Robert Raven, an arachnid expert at the Queensland Museum, described it as a "bizarre" situation.

This arrangement is completely unheard of, and the photos are truly remarkable.

Sources & More Info:

Brisbane Times: The Odd Couple: keen eye spies bee and spider bedfellows in 'world-first'

iNaturalist: Megachile macularis

[radladrobin]

KNOCK KNOCK

[naarisz]

Ah yes. Me. My girlfriend. And her five cat sized spiders, she found in a hole.

[deadclawshc]

me if i was an anti social young adult man who has spider powers in another universe

[faunandfloraas]

[varpusvaras]

"Jason Todd being banished to MCU" I can't stress how much no one at Marvel would bat an eye at him. He's the team mascot in every team in a week. His cortisol levels have never been this low.

[rosieandthemoon]

[jubileeeeee]

Some dratchrod doodles for today

[cosmosluckycharms]

Masterlist

Just a warning, everything is probably out of order + my first masterlist so PLEASE be patient with me

also my asks are open and appreciated !!

Bug Like Angel

neglectful batfam x spider!reader + spiderverse

P1 P2 P3 P4 P4.5 P4.5 P4.5 P4.5 P5 P6 P6.5 P7 P8 P9 P10

Show☆Time

neglectful batfam x emu!reader + pjsk

P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6

Super Rich Kids

Yan-Batfam x gn reader

P1

the fridge drawings (FANART!!)

☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

anons:

🦦, meow meow, 🍰, 🫴🧠, 🪽,🦋, 🍧, yeet, 💫🐍

[nocek]

Wade is always winning at the pay attention to me game.

In this case grand prize is hour long lecture about spiders reproduction (and also genetics, don't forget the genetics ;P)

[ratbugs]

it is once again

little guy time

[valtsv]

the most compelling evidence that there's something fundamentally wrong with my brain i think is that every time my hormonal balance gets out of wack i start desperately wanting a dog-sized pet bug. not one of the "cute" ones either. i'm on the verge of tears right now thinking about petting a giant wasp.

[grezzirossi]

Stealing Wearing Bae's (Cool?) Jacket cuz it's warm.

[goryhorroor]

“60s horror movies reflect an era of rapid change and uncertainty, and a yawning generation gap. the social stability of the post-war years crumbled as attitudes to everything from hemlines to homosexuality underwent a seismic shift. horror movies, especially those made for low budgets outside the mainstream studio system, offered ways to process and interpret the rapid pace of change. they often served as cautionary tales about the dangers of abandoning traditional values.”