Creepy spider!

Just remember that jumping spiders are cute and adorable.

Vrikk wrote:

Just remember that jumping spiders are cute and adorable.

Until they jump OUT of your banana...

That's one case where I'd kill that thing. Then burn the banana. Could be an invasive species.

It certainly invaded that banana.

BadKen wrote:

It certainly invaded that banana.

In Soviet...

I can't

LouZiffer wrote:
BadKen wrote:

It certainly invaded that banana.

In Soviet...

I can't

I did have something similar happened when I was a kid. My grandmother used to keep a bowl of fruit on the kitchen table. We were sitting there one day talking when I noticed a grape started pulsing and shortly thereafter sprouted small legs.

I'm not proud of the scream that came out of me.

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Giant Spiders in Dallas surprise experts with their striking communal behavior

Also, it is poorly written and it seems the author is trying to call people out in the comments.

This Spider Spins a Web as Long as Two City Buses

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This is why I’m never setting foot in Madagascar. The island contains a small spider—nothing remarkable to look at. The spider spins webs that span entire lakes. Those webs are stronger than any other form of spider silk.

The Darwin’s Bark spider, Caerostris darwini, was only known to people outside Madagascar in 2009. That was the year the rest of the world’s luck ran out, and we had to know that spiders, under the right conditions could learn to spin webs 82 feet long. Being canny predators, they made sure to put them in places no animal could avoid—stretching across lakes and rivers. And just to complete the horror, they make it out of the second toughest biological substance in the world. To get any tougher, and you have to go to teeth—not our teeth, only limpet teeth. This spider’s silk is proportionally tougher than kevlar, and is the second toughest substance known.

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Yeah I had a professor once that worked on spider silk. He had a wall of orb weavers in little boxes and his students would basically 'milk' them once a day for webbing. They only got around 10 cm at a time.

They discovered a lot about webs and why we can't make materials as strong even though we can reproduce the proteins. The way the spider spins the silk cause the molecules to align in certain ways causing it to be more elastic and maintain it's strength.

The spider, from the genus Selenops, is the only arachnid they found that was able to do this. Other arachnids -- scorpions, pseudoscorpions, whip scorpions and even other types of spiders -- merely plummeted to earth.

Now I have this mental image of some people in lab coats with row upon row of boxes with different arachnids in them, carefully opening up each box one at a time, and then dropping the arachnid from a tree to see what would happen.

"Deathstalker Scorpion?" *drop* "Plummeted to earth."
"Tarantula?" *drop* "Plummeted to earth."
"Parson Spider?" *drop* "Plummeted to earth."
"House Pseudoscorpion?" *drop* "Plummeted to earth."
"Wolf Spider?" *drop* "Plummeted to earth."
...

Science!

BadKen wrote:
The spider, from the genus Selenops, is the only arachnid they found that was able to do this. Other arachnids -- scorpions, pseudoscorpions, whip scorpions and even other types of spiders -- merely plummeted to earth.

Now I have this mental image of some people in lab coats with row upon row of boxes with different arachnids in them, carefully opening up each box one at a time, and then dropping the arachnid from a tree to see what would happen.

"Deathstalker Scorpion?" *drop* "Plummeted to earth."
"Tarantula?" *drop* "Plummeted to earth."
"Parson Spider?" *drop* "Plummeted to earth."
"House Pseudoscorpion?" *drop* "Plummeted to earth."
"Wolf Spider?" *drop* "Plummeted to earth."
...

Science!

Pretty much:
"This led them to toss from a tree every non-flying arthropod they could find to see which animals glided."

Yeah, welcome to 18th century science! The intellectual shoulders we stand on today surely suffered from repetitive stress syndrome...

I just ordered this shirt designed by my Hero Photographer Thomas Shahan
He also helped to design the game Incredipede

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BadKen wrote:
The spider, from the genus Selenops, is the only arachnid they found that was able to do this. Other arachnids -- scorpions, pseudoscorpions, whip scorpions and even other types of spiders -- merely plummeted to earth.

Now I have this mental image of some people in lab coats with row upon row of boxes with different arachnids in them, carefully opening up each box one at a time, and then dropping the arachnid from a tree to see what would happen.

"Deathstalker Scorpion?" *drop* "Plummeted to earth."
"Tarantula?" *drop* "Plummeted to earth."
"Parson Spider?" *drop* "Plummeted to earth."
"House Pseudoscorpion?" *drop* "Plummeted to earth."
"Wolf Spider?" *drop* "Plummeted to earth."
...

Science!

I cannot possibly be the only person who went here:

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BadKen wrote:
The spider, from the genus Selenops, is the only arachnid they found that was able to do this. Other arachnids -- scorpions, pseudoscorpions, whip scorpions and even other types of spiders -- merely plummeted to earth.

Now I have this mental image of some people in lab coats with row upon row of boxes with different arachnids in them, carefully opening up each box one at a time, and then dropping the arachnid from a tree to see what would happen.

"Deathstalker Scorpion?" *drop* "Plummeted to earth."
"Tarantula?" *drop* "Plummeted to earth."
"Parson Spider?" *drop* "Plummeted to earth."
"House Pseudoscorpion?" *drop* "Plummeted to earth."
"Wolf Spider?" *drop* "Plummeted to earth."
...

Science!

If this isn't science, I'm not sure I want to be scientific.

This thread is like a shrine to my biggest fear. I had a run in with a spider about a year ago man that was the most menacing spider i have ever seen. I do yard work for a lady from my church and one day I was mowing her yard and I almost ran face first into this huge spider who will only be known as "Oh H*ll Naw". I don't think I've ever run so fast in my life. My family still makes fun of me about that. If it wasn't for my grandad helping me out with the yard the other day he would still be hanging out around that house.

That's what I don't get... When I was a kid and went to camp, I got terrible mosquito bites. Then I hit on the idea of putting daddy long-legs spiders in my sleeping bag at night. Ended the mosquito bites almost completely.

I've never had a fear of spiders (black widows creep me out a bit, but that's it I guess) and to me the thread is akin to the pet pictures one. Every few days we get another cool crawlie to ooh and aah over.

shrug

Robear wrote:

That's what I don't get... When I was a kid and went to camp, I got terrible mosquito bites. Then I hit on the idea of putting daddy long-legs spiders in my sleeping bag at night. Ended the mosquito bites almost completely.

I've never had a fear of spiders (black widows creep me out a bit, but that's it I guess) and to me the thread is akin to the pet pictures one. Every few days we get another cool crawlie to ooh and aah over.

shrug

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Robear wrote:

That's what I don't get... When I was a kid and went to camp, I got terrible mosquito bites. Then I hit on the idea of putting daddy long-legs spiders in my sleeping bag at night. Ended the mosquito bites almost completely.

I've never had a fear of spiders (black widows creep me out a bit, but that's it I guess) and to me the thread is akin to the pet pictures one. Every few days we get another cool crawlie to ooh and aah over.

shrug

Daddy longlegs aren't spiders.

Jusayin

But good on ya!

groan wrote:

Daddy longlegs aren't spiders.

Jusayin

But good on ya!

Depends on whether they were Pholcidae or Opiliones. They're both arachnids, but the latter is not technically a spider.

Didn't know there were two "daddy longlegs". I just knew of the harvestman variety.

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I forget that in the rest of the world having 8 legs doesn't result it the immediate (and justifiable) reaction...

"I MUST KILL IT BEFORE IT KILLS ME"

m0nk3yboy wrote:

I forget that in the rest of the world having 8 legs doesn't result it the immediate (and justifiable) reaction...

"I MUST KILL IT BEFORE IT KILLS ME"

I... can't tell whether you're just trolling us.

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