#Spiders

[apsciencebydan]

Why do people always act surprised when you say you have live spiders in your pocket, and they ask if you really have spiders in your pocket, and you tell them you do and you pull out several vials containing live spiders

[squishyfauna]

💕 Little babie!!!! 💕

Purple gold jumping spider - scientific name Irura bidenticulata

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[danshive]

So… Spider-Man does whatever a spider can, right?

Because I just learned about a type of male spider that, to avoid getting eaten, uses its front legs to catapult itself three feet away (a proportionately huge distance) immediately after mating.

[mindblowingscience]

Seasonal, spider-like features have been spotted sprouting through cracks in Mars' surface.  The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter captured new images of small, dark features that resemble spiders scuttling across the Martian region known as Inca City near the Red Planet's south pole.  This phenomenon appears when spring sunlight warms layers of carbon dioxide deposited during the dark Martian winter. In turn, carbon dioxide ice in the bottom layer turns into gas, which builds up and eventually breaks through overlying ice up to 3.3 feet (1 meter) thick, according to a statement from ESA. 

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[chuchu666yay]

found cool bug on floor today

[hazel2468]

Nothing like seeing your new tarantula all settled into the cork log you gave him and eating dubias like a champion! Go, Cecil!

[someguyiguess]

spiders have got to figure out contracting I need to be able to call my local spiders union and be like "hey can you send a guy out for a few days the fruit flies are back" and then pay it in spider currency. I'll learn the conversion rates. I'll be generous with my rounding. please.

[enby-ralsei]

[kedreeva]

She has finalized her decision and chosen the mailbox with her name on it to start making her hammock!

[scribblyspaceskeleton]

Speaking up and educating people on why the most hated life forms on the planet are important and meaningful is a thankless task.

How do we reach out and get people to care about insects and spiders when the average reaction is either "EEWW KILL IT WITH FIRE" or blind panic?

Arthropods are crucial to the survival of life as we know it. Yes, even commonly vilified bugs like wasps and mosquitoes have ecological niches that the world CANNOT do without.

I cannot overstate their importance.

[kleefkruid]

I was making coffee and I heard a "mpeep" behind me so I turn around an on my kitchen floor sits Kotelet, the tiny stray that visits me every day, and to her side sits a big fat house spider, you know the one that gets stuck in your bath.

So I go "Hey ehh, you brought a buddy?" and she looks down at the spider and swallows it in one go -legs and everything- and looks back at me with these cute big eyes

[platypu]

orb weavers' sexual dimorphism is hilarious to me like.

me and my big beautiful wife

[emmaklee]

spider eye arrangements

[catchymemes]

[shamanicganja]

[cannibalchicken]