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The spider that 'sings' to woo a mate (auto sound)
Researchers from the University of Cincinnati recorded the sound the ‘purring’ wolf spider, Gladicosa gulosa (pictured) makes using dead leaves in a bid to attract a mate.
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Airborne spiders can sail on seas
Water is no barrier to flying arachnids’ dispersal.
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TIL How Spiders 'Fly' Hundreds of Miles
TIL that spiders can simply cast out strands of silk that capture the wind to "fly" away.
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4 Reasons Why We Should Learn to Live With Spiders
They aren't all bad, in fact most are really helpful. And yet suffer from a terrible reputation.
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Cute little Platycryptus undatus I spotted today
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Putting Spiders On Treadmills In Virtual-Reality Worlds
The Matrix for spiders? Anthropologist Barbara J. King explores what scientists can learn about invertebrate perception and neurophysiology from chilling then magnetizing jumping spiders.
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Thirteen New Spider Species Discovered in Australia's north
A team of scientists, teachers and Indigenous rangers find new arachnids during survey of the Cape York peninsula in Queensland’s far north
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As if Australia didn’t have enough spiders – 13 new species found in Queensland
A team of scientists, teachers and Indigenous rangers find new arachnids during survey of the Cape York peninsula in Queensland’s far north.
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Jumping Spiders Watch Videos and People.
These spiders have a gregarious nature and a seemingly insatiable curiosity about humans and nearly everything else. Picture from Wikimedia Commons.
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cucumber
The little cucumber green spider is difficult to spot as it is well camouflaged.
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Why Don’t Spiders Stick to Their Webs?
Spiderwebs are designed to trap bug-sized creatures. So how come spiders don’t get stuck?
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DADDY LONG LEGS INVASION: Record 175 BILLION softly pitter patter across Britain
A VAST army of 175 BILLION daddy long legs is set to swarm across every corner of Britain in the next 72 hours.
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My pet spider, Peter :)
Natural macro, shot with my Canon Powershot SX100 IS. No post-processing.
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Untangling the web of fear around spiders
RN producer Kerry Stewart has been known to run out of rooms and jump on chairs at the sight of eight-legged creatures. In an attempt to cure her arachnophobia she heads into the bowels of the Australian Museum to untangle the web of myths, legends and hang-ups that surround spiders.
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Halloween's 5 Favorite Animals
Halloween is often associated with many iconic, spooky animals. From spiders, to black cats, ravens, werewolves and vampire bats, innocent creatures seem to get a bad rep for the fear they instill in humans. But are the animals really all that spooky?
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This Spider Destroys Female Genitalia to Prevent Future Mating
Talk about tough love—some male spiders lop off parts of females' genitalia to prevent her from mating again, a new study says. The behavior, which guarantees that the male will father all of her offspring, is the first to suggest that males evolve behaviors to maim external parts of the female genitalia. Published November 5 in Current Biology, the discovery also adds further nuance to the theory of sexual selection, which holds that males and females within a species...
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Fear of spiders? The London zoo wants to help
Since 1993, the Zoological Society of London has successfully been using group hypnotherapy to help people cope with arachnophobia.
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Tennessee Town Awakens to Spider Invasion
Millions of spiders banded together to create what's estimated to be a half-mile spider web in Memphis, Tenn.
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Blue tarantulas may help humans make better wide-angle computer displays
I would have killed for a tarantula as a child. Tarantulas are furry, they come in way more colors than the capybara, and they're very, very strange — what's not to love! I never did receive one, to my sister's great relief, but I'm still thankful for these amazing creatures. That's why the publication of a blue tarantula study this Thanksgiving week, in Science Advances, feels fitting. In it, scientists show that despite the vividness of their coloration, the blues that tarantulas...
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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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