No Spoilers ABC - Arachnids Be Cool

[nonoob]

Spiders are beautiful, fascinating creatures with interesting ways of catching prey. Enjoy it if you can stand these cool 8 legged critters!

 

[NoSmilez]

Burn the fuck out of all spiders

 

[Thrawn33]

Burn the fuck out of all spiders

Do you want flies and mosquitoes, because that's how you get flies and mosquitoes...

 

[nonoob]

Burn the fuck out of all spiders

We have some of the most beautiful jumping spiders in North Carolina. Bright white with deep blue and velvet black highlights, a classy cool looking little guy dressed in a formal tuxedo - he just needs a black top-hat to be fully pimpin'.

 

[TCE]

I posted this in @Zookeeper Gabe animal thread the other week so I think it well deserves to be posted in here, as well ...

I nearly forgot to post this...

A completely new specie of jumping spider was discovered last year about 5 minutes away from my house, which is my hometown. They identified the spider this year as a whole new species.

Jumping spider unknown to science found on university campus in Cornwall

A jumping spider previously unknown to science has been discovered on the University of Exeter’s Penryn Campus in Cornwall.

www.falmouthpacket.co.uk

New species of exotic jumping spider spotted in Cornwall

Anasaitis milesae - a tiny jumping spider - is less than 3mm long, and was found on the grounds of the University of Exeter's campus in Penryn, before being spotted at a second site 30 miles away

www.cornwalllive.com

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Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anasaitis_milesae
Its nearest known relatives are found in the Caribbean region, suggesting that A. milesae likely arrived in Britain from distant tropical or subtropical regions through international trade and travel.

The species was discovered by Tylan Berry during a "bioblitz" on the Penryn campus in Cornwall, England, home to the University of Exeter and Falmouth University. Immature and female spiders were first collected on 29 April 2023, adult males on 17 May 2023. It was confirmed as a new species and named by Russian arachnologist Dmitri Logunov of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.[3] The specific name milesae honours Claire Miles (1958–2023), a former honorary curator at the Manchester Museum where the holotype is kept.[2]

Logunov provisionally assigned the species to the genus Anasaitis, based on the diagnostic features of the genitalia of the two sexes. It most resembled three Anasaitis species from the Greater Antilles: A. emertoni, A. peckhami, and A. squamata. However, there were differences from other Anasaitis species, including less differentiation in body colour between males and females.[2]

 

[shunyata]

TELL THAT ARACHNID TO BE COOL

SAY, "BITCH, BE COOL"

 

[Renard]

Correction: Jumping spiders are cool. The other ones... meh

 

[nonoob]

Correction: Jumping spiders are cool. The other ones... meh

"Meh" is absolutely understandable. We also have the Wolf spider here, these are some savage predators. I used to regularly lay my hand on the ground near one, then guide 'em into it and pick them up. Picked up a gazillion different spiders the same way & watched as they crawled up my arm, a nice interaction with nature. Then one day l did the same thing with a whopper wolf. He (or she) went onto my hand like usual but as soon as it got past the palm of my hand I felt insane pain. That was the last time picking up a wolf spider.
Jumpin' guys - still do it to this day, they're cool AF and always a thrill to watch !

 

[Excelsior]

I used to be a massive arachnophobe. Now I regularly wrangle black widows in my garage. I still don't love them, but I can deal and I'm actually an ready to welcome our new Joro overlords if they ever show up here.

 

[TribalDrumz]

 

[nonoob]

Cool AF reptile TD. Vipers are just So Evil looking, and so bad. Here's a fat Gaboon viper, they're deadly AF. They remind me of a Gila Monster - striking with no warning at all if they feel threatened when ya get too close.

 

[Corona]

I remember when I was 18 I had to help my dad toss out one of those rolling basketball courts in the front cuz the backboard broke. When I flipped it over to dump the water dozens of black widows came running out. That shit was terrifying. I went inside the house and put on 3-4 layers of clothes and a snowboard mask and poisoned the fuck out of them. I probably looked ridiculous wearing that in 100 degree weather but I don’t fuck with black widows. Other spiders here are chill I guess.

 

[jeff7b9]

We had a "pet" spider at a house I lived at around age 21-24.

He set up a HUGE web on our staircase.
(Outside, near the private back entry to our apartment over a law firm)


My first instinct was "gotta kill that creepy ass 8 legged freak alien thing" but cooler heads prevailed and he became our own personal mosquito and annoying flying shit assassin.

Dude stuck around a WHILE.
Whole summer, maybe longer.

His web was quite beautiful. And he (she?) Would perform routine maintenance and sometimes we would see the little bugger doing repairs or just strengthening up sections.

Web was probably 36-40 inches and spanned from deck to top railing and then across the whole side section of the landing of the deck.

 

[nonoob]

TELL THAT ARACHNID TO BE COOL

SAY, "BITCH, BE COOL"

Wouldn't it be cool if Noche Bueno 3-D'd hologram spiders falling onto the crowd !

 

[Meatspin]

Definitely not here to fuck spiders