Spider love

selfobsessednewguy

jesus christ almighty allahu akbar bismillah ya muhammad that's awesome man

some spider trivia: some of the biggest spiders have been known to kill mice and birds. how awesome is that? spider love forever

Emp_Fab

I love all animals, but ones that can move a bit swift do put me on alert.  I can stroke a spider and go 'coochy-coo' to it, as long as it's a slow mover.  Once it has the ability to run, I'm out.  I do not want incey-wincey racing up my inside leg.  That also applies to tigers.

Sambostar

This is not a trick of the mind, the are here and I notice them.  I have done my bit to restore the natural ecological ecosystem in my flat and I'm glad.  Cellar spiders are evil.   I am amazed as the bipolar Robin who sings and forages all night down the pub under the floodlight.

breakstuff

http://img.memecdn.com/happy-spider_o_147423.jpg

TheMarlin

Kill them with fire!

I'm almost always guaranteed to get a full spiderweb in the face when sleepily dragging the bins out on a dark winters morning...

My garden is festooned with spiderwebs.  Looks pretty cool in the frost though.  It's the massive hairy ones that scurry over the carpet, and look like they may carry flick- knives that make me shudder.  The Dyson makes short work of them....

57Deluxe

on a recent BBC World Service science programme it was debated what is the strongest substance on Earth. After all the diamond/carbon fibre suggestions were analysed, it was concluded that 'Molecularly' spiders webs are! This is due to the way the molecules stay stable.

To captilise on this. scientists have isolated and extracted the gene for spider silk and implanted into goats so that it can the be extracted from their milk in large quantities regularly and cheaply. When asked why not farm it from Spiders, the answer was that all spiders will kill and eat any other spider in it's territory and would thus be a hopeless task!

So - NO - Spiders DO NOT SEEK LURVE!!!

Ravenous

Forgot to say - recently I found this article while "browsing the web" (sorry):

http://www.biotaxa.org/hn/article/download/23156/25075

...there's only one photo (fortunately), but it's a description of a tarantula caught eating a (small-ish) snake.  As a sad note, it ends with "Both specimens were collected" so they didn't even let the spider finish its huge meal first...

(Yes there really is a science journal called "Herpetology Notes".)

selfobsessednewguy

57Deluxe said:

on a recent BBC World Service science programme it was debated what is the strongest substance on Earth. After all the diamond/carbon fibre suggestions were analysed, it was concluded that 'Molecularly' spiders webs are! This is due to the way the molecules stay stable.

To captilise on this. scientists have isolated and extracted the gene for spider silk and implanted into goats so that it can the be extracted from their milk in large quantities regularly and cheaply. When asked why not farm it from Spiders, the answer was that all spiders will kill and eat any other spider in it's territory and would thus be a hopeless task!

So - NO - Spiders DO NOT SEEK LURVE!!!

love is not always derived from the same species. love comes from the energy oscillilations from the cosmic plane of existence and the propogation of our lives through the space-time continuum. spiders can be aggressive but this is their very nature, like a flower which rotates towards the sun. spiders get their love from life, from flowers and trees and fresh air and especially meditation. 

did you guys know that spiders do not actually ever go into peoples mouths at night despite common conception? some people like to spread rumours about spiders because they are bullies. 

Sambostar

WTF?

Sambostar

Because we love you and we want to do what we can for you, like rape you.

Mercy for the spiders.

funkyfraz

Sambostar said:

I've said it before, but I love all British Spiders, they keep you company and keep themselves to themselves, kind of like a demented Siamese cat, but equally well I have no love for those Cellar/Vibrating Spiders that have falsely acquired the cute name 'Daddy Long Legs' when they are in fact foreign imposters, have only shown up around these parts in the last 20 odd years and outbreed and eat all other British house spiders.

I've totally draft excluded the place now, down to the micrometre and all I see now are money spiders and the occasional gurt hunting Cardinal spider.  I've also committed mass Phocidae genocide and it's like a 1980's utopian natural order has been restored.

Those Cellar spiders, or Daddy Long Legs or Phocidae genus for want of a better term are not Daddy Long Legs, Daddy Long Legs are Craneflies or Harvestman Spiders.  Cellar Spiders come from the Tropics and never, ever stop breeding their 1000 strong tiny sporn and they make a hell of a mess as well.  They don't even look like a proper spider.

I don't crush spiders but if I see one of those Phocidae it's smashed.  Being burnt alive is too good a fate for them.

Them female false widow makes are pretty scary as well, but only because of their armour, they are also foreign I gather. 

Does spider hate and extreme spider racism exist?

Pass the WD40 and I'II show you it's real.

Thank you for identifying this spider. Only in the past two years  I've been finding 3 or 4 of these a week in my bathroom. Varying sizes.  Don't  know if it's a coincidence but I have rarely found any normal house spiders in the same time.... which are much bigger and scarier!   

Strangely though my bathroom is an internal room with absolutely zero food   (I would guess) so don't know how they've flourished!  Maybe there's something tasty in the loft!

stimpsonslostson

@Sambostar said:

 if I see one of those Phocidae it's smashed.  Being burnt alive is too good a fate for them.

Pedantry point: 
I THINK you mean Pholcidae:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pholcidae
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pholcidae#/media/File:Pholcus.phalangioides.6905.jpg

As opposed to Phocidae which are (unless I'm mistaken) Earless Seals:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earless_seal
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r4SNnDCz0Hs/TrzS0ZIowXI/AAAAAAAACEA/iSg7EbmFdCM/s1600/true+seal3.jpg

Admitting to clubbing seals is probably as distasteful as admitting you like 2015 Les Pauls.

Ravenous

stimpsonslostson said:

Admitting to clubbing seals is probably as distasteful as admitting you like 2015 Les Pauls.

Is it OK if we club the seals with a 2015 Les Paul instead? I think we should be told.

stimpsonslostson

Ravenous said:

stimpsonslostson said:

Admitting to clubbing seals is probably as distasteful as admitting you like 2015 Les Pauls.

Is it OK if we club the seals with a 2015 Les Paul instead? I think we should be told.

You can use the Gibson to attract them- just activate the Autotuna! 

I'm here all week, try the veal, don't forget to tip your waitress...






I'll get me coat.

olafgarten

Ravenous said:

stimpsonslostson said:

Admitting to clubbing seals is probably as distasteful as admitting you like 2015 Les Pauls.

Is it OK if we club the seals with a 2015 Les Paul instead? I think we should be told.

No, but you can club the Les Pauls with a seal. 

I agree with Sambostar, the foreign spiders are the nasty ones. We have loads of them, I've even seen a False Widow but managed to remove it. Most of the foreign spiders come when we imported fruit from North Africa and the Canary Islands. 

I was also bitten by a Tube Web Spider from somewhere in the Mediterranean, that hurt a lot and there was a purple lump on my leg for 2 months. 

Sambostar

stimpsonslostson said:

@Sambostar said:

 if I see one of those Phocidae it's smashed.  Being burnt alive is too good a fate for them.

Pedantry point: 
I THINK you mean Pholcidae:

Admitting to clubbing seals is probably as distasteful as admitting you like 2015 Les Pauls.

Must have been the whiskers that confused me.  Is it OK to club seals if you thought they were spiders?

Sporky

stimpsonslostson said:

As opposed to Phocidae which are (unless I'm mistaken) Earless Seals:

On balance, I'd be more surprised to find a seal in the bath than a spider.

Haych

My mate has a wife who collects them (she's a bit mad) - at one point she had over 100 of them all in tiny little clear boxes!  They don't mix well apparently although I think it would be great fun to put them all in the same big clear box and see which one won!

If that wasn't enough one of the little ("big" would be more accurate) blighters escaped one night (the most aggressive and dangerous one to boot!).  They didn't find it again for several months. 

Sorry but that is a burn-the-house-down event if ever there was one!