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Spiders Can Catch and Devour Fish
Entomologists confirm fish-eating spiders are widespread and wily
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Ocean-going spiders can use their legs to windsurf across water
Many common spider species orient their arms and bodies into sails and their silk into anchors, allowing them to catch a breeze and sail on water
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A man's lifelong fear of spiders vanished overnight with the removal of a part of his brain
Scared of the dark? Terrified of heights? Spiders make you scream? For the first time, a person's lifelong phobia has been completely abolished overnight. Unfortunately, it required removing a tiny bit of the man's brain, so for now, most people will have to find another way to dispel their fears.
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Hidden housemates: Australia's huge and hairy huntsman spiders
Huntsman spiders deserve a place alongside koalas and kangaroos as iconic Australian wildlife.
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305 million-year-old ‘early spider’ fossil discovered
A team of researchers have discovered the fossil of a 305 million-year-old arachnid, which will help scientists to understand more about the early origins of modern-day spiders. The new species, named Idmonarachne brasieri in honour of Professor Martin Brasier, University of Oxford, who passed away in December 2014, was found in Montceau-les-Mines, France, and researchers from The University of Manchester, Berlin’s Museum für Naturkunde, the University of Kansas...
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Why Black Widow Spider Venom Is So Potent
The painful bites and lethal venom of black widow spiders have evolved rapidly over the years, according to a new study that also found common house spiders produce similar toxic compounds. The difference is that female black widows produce ample amounts of highly potent venom to the point that these spiders are even crafting stronger webs to handle ever-bigger prey. The findings were presented at the 2015 annual conference of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology...
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Spiders Identified By DNA Extracted From Their Web
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...
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Spiders Dosed With Graphene Can Spin Stronger Silk
Spider silk is one of the world’s strongest natural materials. Graphene is a super material with many amazing uses. So, oddly, scientists decided to combine the two by spraying spiders with the carbon-based wonder material—and the results were surprisingly impressive.
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Adorable New Peacock Spiders Will Rock Your World
The team that brought you Sparklemuffin and Skeletorus has introduced even more additions to the dancing arachnid clan.
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Facts Vs Myths about: SPIDERS
Don't like spiders in your home? Use a water hose or broom to regularly destroy any webs that are constructed on or around the house. Spiders often move elsewhere when their webs are regularly destroyed. For more safety details Contact Us at: https://www.porch.com
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Can Spiders Count?
Golden orb-web spiders (Nephila clavipes) are sit and wait hunters that accumulate prey larders on their webs. These larders are sometimes stolen by other spiders. If prey items are removed from their webs, golden orb-web spiders search for them. They search longer when they have lost more prey items as well as when they have lost larger prey items.
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9 Amazing New Arachnid Species
Whether they’re dancing, hunting, or being a pain in the nose, these new arachnid species will knock all 8 of your socks off.
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Ancient arachnid 'walks again'
The dead walk again: an arachnid that lived 410 million years ago has crawled back into the virtual world.
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