Thread about spiders (not for the arachnophobic!)

[farmerbarleymow]

I'm not gonna look in it!

Look at 2:04 onwards for the lovely spider. Everyone likes watching spiders scuttling about.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Do you have any videos of you feeding your spiders tonysingh?

 

[tonysingh]

Do you have any videos of you feeding your spiders tonysingh?

Not yet but I can try put something together. My Greenbottle Blue is the best candidate

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Trapdoor spiders are interesting.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Not heard of turret spiders before.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Interesting video about people reacting to huntsman spiders. The narrator explains that they can run 40 body lengths a second - Usain Bolt can only do a paltry 5. So you can't outrun them moochedit

 

[moochedit]

So you can't outrun them moochedit

Never going to Australia again They have snakes that live in toilets as well

 

[tonysingh]

Never going to Australia again They have snakes that live in toilets as well

You say that like it's a bad thing?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Be careful if you're planning on a summer boating trip moochedit

 

[blossie33]

Amazing!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Amazing!

It is isn't it? Although I'd feel really bad about ruining the web, it would feel amazing to be captured by a 2m wide wed in the middle of the river. I've always liked being caught in webs - spider silk is amazing stuff.

Although I do have an amusing mental image of moochedit trussed up in a silk coccoon suspended in a web mid-way across a river.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Hope you can swim mr moo chedit...

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Decided to join the British Arachnological Society - a worthy cause to protect the lovely spiders.

Join the Society | British Arachnological Society

www.britishspiders.org.uk

 

[Chilli.s]

One I've not seen before and not yet identified

 

[tonysingh]

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One I've not seen before and not yet identified

That's Steve.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Spider twitter can come to the rescue in identifying your spider.

https://twitter.com/britishspiders

 

[Chilli.s]

Seems to be a female Misumena vatia

 

[gentlegreen]

any idea what the plant is that it's on ?

 

[Chilli.s]

any idea what the plant is that it's on ?

A rose bush

 

[iona]

Saw this year's first wolf spider carrying an egg sac today

 

[tonysingh]

Saw this year's first wolf spider carrying an egg sac today

Mummy spider.

 

[tonysingh]

I get all my tarantulas and other invertebrates from the same retailer, an online place. I placed a huge order yesterday, most of which is substrates for a mates Ts. I have 2 rather gorgeous sets of beetle larvae plus other bits for me.

They just rang me. It turns out my order basically fried their website. I wasn't charged shipping but since they've been so good to me in past, I don't mind making that right. I am somewhat impressed with myself for breaking a website through.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

How brilliant is this? Spider silk can act like optical fibre.

Eensy Weensy Spider Silk Takes the Temperature of a Single Cell

(Inside Science) -- Even though he works with spiders regularly, Yao Zhang, a physicist at Jinan University in China, admits he's afraid of them. In fact, most of the people in his lab are, except for graduate student Zhiyong Gong, who keeps spiders as pets in his dorm. Naturally, Gong was the...

www.insidescience.org

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Here's an event I'm sure moochedit would want to attend.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Sweet baby spiders.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

From https://twitter.com/RabBennett56

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Spider shit underwater.

From https://twitter.com/BerryTylan

 

[farmerbarleymow]

From https://twitter.com/tea_francis

 

[farmerbarleymow]

All offices should have ceiling spiders.

From https://twitter.com/ChalkhillBlue1

 

[gentlegreen]

How do such spindly spiders manage that ?