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"The truth is... I am Iron Man"

[Edited on November 5, 2013 at 9:47 AM. Reason : ahahahaa]

11/5/2013 9:46:45 AM

http://thedailybanter.com/2013/11/supermarket-offers-british-woman-10-after-lethal-brazilian-spiders-burst-out-of-banana-bag/

11/5/2013 10:26:29 AM

what? no pictures? ...pussies

11/5/2013 10:30:35 AM

Sorry I'm posting from my iPad and that sometimes is a little difficult.

11/5/2013 10:33:39 AM

not you^ , I meant the people with the bananas, they totally should have taken photos!!

11/5/2013 12:38:34 PM

Lol sorry

If you search for that story there is a picture

I thought I was posting the daily mail link ...my mistake. I'm sure there is picture in that story of the actual banana

11/5/2013 2:49:40 PM

spiders on her carpet


sweeeeet

11/5/2013 3:04:52 PM

PEACOCK FLY

11/5/2013 3:53:21 PM

green magnolia jumping spider

11/21/2013 11:05:54 AM

11/21/2013 2:44:28 PM

this is not a spider




so cute

11/22/2013 9:28:32 AM

BED BUGS



yay

[Edited on December 23, 2013 at 11:19 AM. Reason : I mean bed bugs are bad, but the research is so fun]

12/23/2013 11:19:06 AM

1/10/2014 2:46:55 PM

look at this fat beauty

1/13/2014 10:54:20 AM

1/13/2014 10:55:40 AM

discuss

1/13/2014 10:56:27 AM

[Edited on January 13, 2014 at 12:38 PM. Reason : preach that spider tolerance!]

1/13/2014 12:37:25 PM

I like that wormy caterpillar at the top of the page

1/13/2014 1:20:20 PM

2/2/2014 8:16:33 PM

2/4/2014 2:55:15 PM

Quote :

"Osmia avoseta bees do not live in colonies. These solitary bees make their nests from collected flower petals. These tiny nests are about half an inch tall and hold a single egg. The mother glues the petals together with nectar and fills the inside with nectar and pollen before laying the egg inside, so that her offspring will have food when it emerges."

2/4/2014 3:03:54 PM

http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/spiders-identified-dna-extracted-their-web

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"Spiders Identified By DNA Extracted From Their Web November 26, 2015 | by Josh L Davis Scientists have successfully managed to extract DNA from spider webs, which not only identified a web's architect, but also what insects the spinner was feeding on. The proof-of-concept study, published in PLOS ONE, used captive southern black widow spiders to show that their webs contained enough fragments of DNA to potentially provide a reliable, non-invasive biomonitoring technique. Not only could the researchers identify the inhabitants of a freshly used web, but even one that had been vacant for 88 days. The researchers collected the spiders' silk by inserting a sterile stick into the web and using it like a spool, winding the strands around it. They then took these samples, which had no visible bits of either spider feces or insect remains on them, and amplified the fragments of DNA present using a modified method normally reserved for shed reptile skins. This allowed the researchers to conduct DNA barcoding, which told them if any black widow spider DNA was present. They found not only the spiders' DNA, but that from their prey, too. Spiders can be important health indicators of both naturally occurring and agricultural ecosystems, as they are one of the major predators of insects. But with over 45,000 species of arachnids existing, they can be difficult to identify, especially from sight alone. By sampling their DNA, researchers can be far more confident of the species present, but this requires killing the arachnids. In addition, traditional sampling methods, such as pitfall traps and sweep netting, can be difficult and easily skewed by the often low number of specimens sampled relative to the number present in an area. Yet the webs that the spiders produce are often far easier to detect, and could now be used as a reliable biomonitoring tool that doesn't require the death of its builder. "

11/26/2015 11:11:39 PM

pretty cool

11/26/2015 11:34:52 PM

I got new friends to post

1/17/2016 11:33:24 AM

now my friends are dead

7/27/2016 3:27:00 PM

all of them?

7/29/2016 2:31:54 PM

well last year I got 2 tarantulas, and they were what I was referring to above as "my new friends" ..... one of them was in rough shape and it died, the other one..... my beauty ..... was killed by my asshole cat

7/29/2016 3:28:15 PM