What a cuty
Pretty sad and impressive at the same time
"He lived a life...Wasnt the best one...But was a life" (c) ChilledChaos
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had likely been attacked and parasitized, a gruesome process in which a wasp implants its egg in a living spider. Then, once the wasp larva hatches, it consumes the spider from the inside out over a period of weeks.
Nasty way to go! 😬
I've always thought those wasps were probably the inspiration for the Alien movies 😏
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It got what it deserved. Spiders have the ugliest modus operandi of all the animal reign (except us).
All of them should die. What about the insects then ? Well, spiders can be substituted by birds. Birds are cute. Birds are life. Spiders are creepy. Spiders are evil.
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Soooo.... I may be way off, but I'm getting the impression that you're not exactly a fan of spiders? 😉
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A rare video of me when I see a spider.
Six legs, that's too many, but I let it pass. Eight hairy disgusting legs? Nope, just nope. But that's not the worst. Eight eyes ? Face the truth, those creatures are from outer space.
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But I can't keep birds in my house. I can keep spiders, though. (Well, I don't keep them, I just leave them be when I run into them.)
And spiders kill mosquitoes. You know, the world's deadliest animals. The true enemy of mankind.
Spiders! Weavers of webs! Silk as strong as steel! Venom with applications in medicine and pest control! Spiders aren't cute, but they got your back. Spiderbros will keep an eye out for you. Eight of them, in fact.
You know what's creepy? You know what's the most evil creature? It turns out it's man!
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Birds and bats are way more efficient since they are active predators. I just read that "a single little brown bat (myotis) can eat up to 1000 mosquitoes in a single hour".
Spiders (regular ones, not the crazy ones from Amazon with giant webs) ? If they catch 5 insects outside or 1 inside per day, I think they can be happy, that's a lucky day. .
And for the insects in your house, an ultrasonic insects repeller or a fly swat will do the job, without the trouble of webs and invasions of dozens of baby spiders. Or even a cat can do the job better !
Then a little bit more birds and bats and no more spiders, pretty please :(
(I might be not very objective on this subject)
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Little and large parasites are the worst nasties, for sure. ^^
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The worst of these are probably the fleas who were the carriers of the bubonic plague or black death.
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And hopefully sleeping in a bed without bedbugs! :-)
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"I come from a distant land. A traveller gave me to Hagrid when I was an egg."
—Aragog
"Farewell, Aragog, king of arachnids, whose long and faithful friendship those who knew you won't forget! Though your body will decay, your spirit lingers on in the quiet, web-spun places of your forest home."
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I do appreciate not getting bitten by funnelwebs XD
Also GAH, nuuu, why did you send that, I can't sleep at night knowing there are strange airborne spider colonies, you're evil ;-;
At least it's nearly winter here now. Nothing compared to your Scandinavian freakish winters, but it's still great. The animals sure are better at dealing with the heat than I am, that's for sure. Here's more Australian madness, anyhoot.
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Australia: 45 degrees in February.
Finland: 10 DEGREES MEANS SUMMER IS COMING?!?!?!?!
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I live on the surface of the sun...
RIP little spidey... that makes me sad that she met such a horrible death and didn't just die of old age. Spiders are awesome!
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I love Australia.
Well, I was conceived in Australia..
My father made his best documentary there for the Italian medias in my opinion (he worked as a freelancer photographer, something like that).
He basically ate every kind of animal you can imagine, spiders included. They stayed six months over there. As far as I remember though, fried spiders were like found in Asian townships or something like that. Still they ate them xD
What a country. Can't wait to see it as an adult!
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I feel so patriotic talking about Australia all the time XD
But yeah, crazy weird landscape, crazy multiculturalism, crazy food everywhere. I have yet to eat any crocodile or kangaroo though, so I must be doing it wrong :P
Safe travels if you come by!
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i like spiders atleast the small ones in germany .
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If they just protected the spider, they could have learned other things (like how old can they really get?) but that's me.
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i love dogs and cats:D but not spiders at all.
i remember that creepy scene from the first JB movie, DR. No. that was really tensely and scared me to death. :D
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It only lived this long because it never met me.
Also, voted for vegetables. Mushrooms are vegetables, right? And I really hate Mycoses, which is basically mushrooms. On the other hande they are parasites too...
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Mushrooms are not a vegetable, they are a fungus.
Mushrooms are great, especially gold tops and blue meanies. :D
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Raw in a salad or with a bit of salt an pepper on a cracker with cheese and choritzo, fried in butter and tipped on top of my eggs and kippers for breakfast, or my favourite is to cook a stir fry while roasting some large shrooms in butter then pouring the stir fry over the mushrooms, cover it with cheese and bread crumbs and leave in the oven for 10 minutes until golden brown.
Gold tops and blue meanies are best eaten when freshly picked while walking the dogs through the forest. Makes for an interesting 'trip' home. :P
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Well, I have a love-hate relationship with every animal.
I love nature, but I don't like animals in general xD
This means that I respect them all too and have no phobias or fears whatsoever.
The only exceptions are big dogs - they're my everlasting love.
I said big! XD
This said, I thought that there were (and I'm pretty sure about it!) THOUSANDS of species/kinds of spiders, and usually when there is such variety I expect it to be in a broad sense.. I mean they're not pandas, they live all over the world and so they probably have adapted in extremely different species..
So, I thought that there were spiders that lived 1 or 2 years and others 20 or 25!
Another surprise u.u'
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Big dogs are awesome ahah!
It's not that I hate small or medium-sized dogs, but they look like standard animals to me XD
While I love big dogs and I've always had lots of them!
Unfortunately they've often got short life spans.. but they're so beautiful! In the last ten years I've been raising only big hunting dogs, but in the past I had many other dogs like the St. Bernard ones. Big dogs are awesome, fluffy, funny, they have no problems with humans or animals and they're so sweet :D
Yeah I thought that I mean, spiders are found basically everywhere so, maybe the standard spiders we see here in Northern Italy don't live many years but there should be for sure tons of other spiders in America or in Australia that live 20 or 30 years, and maybe they look totally different to our small ones xD
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Yeah, all that you wrote in the second paragraph is one of the main reasons why I am absolutely in love with nature, although as I said I don't like animals that much xD
For the first part I'm too with you, yeah huge dogs require much more food energy and so on, my grandma's little mixed breed lived 20 years and she was like a fluffy ball that lived in the countryside (cherry tree fields below the po river in northern italy), without the need of any kind of constraint or fence while of course big dogs need to get a little bit more attention xD
and every race and doggo has his own personality and such so it's important to consider every aspect.
how much i love dogs!! *** Yeah it's not that I dislike the small ones they're cute but nothing compared to my love for big sized dogs and here we have tons of them, even our hunting dogs are definitely big although they're not fat or super floofy XD
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Interesting. I have owned a couple of tarantulas, and had no idea some spiders live that long.
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I did more reading about the subject, and apparently the males don't live anywhere near as long. Tarantula males only live 3-6 years, while the females can live 30-40 years. That's just mind-boggling to me.
I had a male and a female, but the male died after a couple years (I believe the female may have killed it), and someone stole the female at a party (yes, someone actually stole a 6 inch spider). Anyway, thanks for the cool article. Definitely piqued my interest. :D
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Is it possible spiders don't age? They just die from violence from other spiders or predators or people?
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This little guy lived on my TV for a couple weeks. It jumped on my phone when I had it real close taking pics. Had another on on my smaller computer monitor that would "bungee jump" off the edge and occasionally chase my mouse pointer.
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As an arachnophobic, I imagined a giant ugly spider.
As a masochistic and curious arachnophobic, I checked your pictures, thinking I would regret it.
If it's an adult, it's kinda "cute" actually (though I would have killed it at sight if it was on my TV).
If it's a baby, kill that shit before it turn into a freaking tarantula.
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The only spider I can tolerate is Lucas the Spider.
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