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Ask absolutely anyone who actually specializes in the biology of spiders and their venom and they will all tell you the danger is severely exaggerated, that a typical healthy adult doesn’t need to be afraid of spider bites when they even happen at all, and especially that the medical world is horrendously under-trained to correctly differentiate spider bites from bacterial infections. This isn’t just a few scientists I had to dig around for to back up some opinion I had. It really is all of them. Find yourself a spider biologist and e-mail them about it if you really don’t believe it. For that matter, ask a doctor what specific training they were given on identifying spider bites and they will generally tell you they received none. They just get told that any generic rash might be a spider, that’s pretty much it, and real confirmed spider bites just aren’t common or usually serious enough that it’s even worth devoting much more training to the subject. Like when I dumped 15 different links earlier, it was just a little sample of the sources you can find on all this. Just what I remembered off the tip-top of my head.

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This is what it's like. Spider people will understand.

DM: out of the shadows you see many legs and a shiny black body. It looks to you like a giant spider-

Me, ooc: *clasps hands together* awwww!

DM: uh… not the reaction I was expecting…

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Aura.

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hello i have learnt more spider facts

spiders will pull their own legs clean off if they get damaged because most of them can regrow legs during molting, which explains why you often see spiders missing a leg but never any missing half a leg?

some remarkably distressing scientists proved this by getting a spider to pull off all of its legs and then feeding its limbless torso for months until it sprouted a full complement of legs again and then hopefully used them to get the fuck out of dodge

baby spiders don’t get lenses until their first molt and before that they just have baby eyes and while this ought not to be any weirder than the concept of baby teeth, welp,

there are so many spiders floating around thousands of metres up in the air that they’re described as “aerial plankton”

The Sky Is Full Of Spiders

there are spider-parasitising spiders but instead of laying eggs in organs or stealing blood or anything like that they just ride on top of bigger spiders and steal snacks when their mighty steed is eating

there are ant-mimicking spiders that use their disguises to raid ant nests and w/e but there are also ant mimics that just. hang out. they make fake ant colonies full of fake ants. sometimes the actual ants that they’re mimicking find their house and live with them. stealth 100

some mother spiders live in communal family nests, where multiple mothers can work together to bring down bigger prey while all their collected babies are cared for by the babysitters

some mother spiders feed their babies mouth to mouth like birds

some mother spiders carry their babies around and i was aware of this but not the fact that if you steal their eggsac they’ll freak out and search for it for hours and sometimes end up adopting anything that’s vaguely the right size, they will carry around empty snail shells for weeks and lovingly dote on them…

guys i am literally about to cry over spider moms

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How a Tarantula Builds a Trapdoor Lid on it's Burrow

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Female Black and Yellow Argiope Orb Weaver Spider

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Myth: Baby tarantulas made cactus explode

By Rod Crawford

Myth: Someone bought a cactus at a local plant nursery. Later, it exploded and scattered baby tarantulas everywhere!

Fact: That is a full-fledged Urban Legend and one of the best-known ones, which has passed from person to person by word-of-mouth for so long, it has been around the world several times. Oddly enough, persons repeating this story commonly (and falsely) state that it happened to someone they know personally.

No one knows how the story started, but the event described never happened. Tarantulas do not inject their eggs into cactus plants, hatching tarantula egg sacs do not explode, and baby tarantulas are quite harmless in any case.

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Spider wizard doodle for /tg/.

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Huntsman spider playing super smash brothers melee on the nintendo gamecube

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can we start calling “creepy crawlies” cutie crawlies instead?

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Get free tarantula tips!

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jumping spider infodump

- there are over 5,000 species of jumping spider. (x) - they come in a huge variety of colours, ranging from purple and metallic gold to black and white. (x) - researchers have identified a variety of personalities in individual jumping spiders, ranging from extremely defensive to calm and docile. (x) - aggressive spiders tend to make faster decisions but don’t sacrifice accuracy. it was previously thought that faster decisions would increase the likelihood of making the wrong choice like in humans, but this isn’t the case. (x)

- phiddipus audax has demonstrated an ability to “hear” things 10ft away. (x)

-  euophrys omnisuperstes can be found on mount everest. their latin name means “standing above everything.” (x) - bagheera kiplingi is herbivorous. (x)

- portia species have shown the ability to plan long detours to acquire prey in a specific area; for example, they can descend from a bush and climb the next in order to get to a fly on a specific leaf. (x) - their diverse predatory strategies include araneophagy, myrmecophagy, aggressive mimicry (eg. the ant mimic) and trial-and-error problem solving. (x)

- brettus, cyrba, gelotia and portia have developed specialised web-invasion tactics to practice araneophagy. they slowly advance onto the web, vibrate the silk, and wait for the occupant to approach. (x)