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Unfortunately, spiders are misunderstood, and a lot of the other picture threads don't like it when they pop up. BUT THEY ARE GREAT SO POST THEM HERE. I mainly just want lots of fun pictures of cool eight legged dudes, but if you are some sorta genius feel free to share facts and whatnot, but I'd like the thread to stay interesting to people who don't have a degree in biology, too. I'll start us off with some of my favorites: Salmon Pink Birdeater!  I see a lot of tarantula enthusiasts with these as pets, and I totally understand why because they are fuzzy and adorable and HUGE. Red Kneed Tarantula!  You probably have some halloween decorations tucked away in your basement shaped like this one. Like the Salmon Pink, this one is also fuzzy and adorable.  JUMP  ING  SPIDERS  As everyone knows, it is a scientifically proven fact that jumping spiders are adorable. I am sure we will be seeing a lot of them in this thread! Do you like documentaries? Then you should watch this awesome National Geographic spider doc, Super Spider, thanks to Cosima. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGHeAjCOyM0 Ok now everyone share their favorite spiders! Edit: Pick posted:Technically, Arachnidae includes things that are not spiders, such as opiliones and camel spiders. If you mean only spiders, you're referring to order Araneae. I apologize if any of you fans of amblypygi, ricinulei, acari, etc. were offended by my Araneae-centricity; please feel free to post any of your favorite critters from the Arachnid class! Ruin Completely fucked around with this message at Apr 4, 2013 around 23:25 |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu7xpq7uoh0 T. blondi, second largest spider in the world, largest by mass. I'm not arachnophobic or anything, but I don't like bigass spiders as a rule. I was always confused why people owned tarantulas and scorpions, and I imagined them handling these spiders all the time and playing with them. I read the invertebrate thread in PI and it was very interesting. I'd say most of the posters who owned spiders rarely handled them at all and some never touched them ever. I'd still never own one, but it makes sense to have one as just sort of a cool thing to look at and not as a "pet".
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*turns up speakers* Jeezum crow, is that thing hissing? 
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Juming spiders are cool. They have awesome colors and are adorable.  They also eat pests and are concerned about your safety and comfort!  Jumping spiders are my bros. 
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zoux posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu7xpq7uoh0 I find the big ones less creepy, frankly. At least you know where they are, I don't think many of the bigger ones are poisonous (venomous?), but I could be wrong. I did really enjoy how he kept referring to her as "sweetie" and "baby."
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cowboythreespeech posted:I find the big ones less creepy, frankly. At least you know where they are, I don't think many of the bigger ones are poisonous (venomous?), but I could be wrong. They do have venom, but more along the lines of 'bee sting' than 'oh look at that your flesh is melting off now'. I've seen a couple of that guy's videos with Zilla, but to be honest she seems kinda stressed and not happy in a lot of them (I could be wrong, though). However, I really like this video of a lady handling her Salmon Pink, who is really big and really chill (I think she likes the groovy beat). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i0IpU-1WEc VVVVV Yeah, if you're just a spider fan looking for a pet then you definitely want new world. That includes stuff like the Salmon Pink and Mexican Red Knee I posted. If you go old world, you get stuff that is really pretty but also really aggressive, like the cobalt blue.  VVVVV Ruin Completely fucked around with this message at Feb 22, 2013 around 21:26 |
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cowboythreespeech posted:I find the big ones less creepy, frankly. At least you know where they are, I don't think many of the bigger ones are poisonous (venomous?), but I could be wrong. When I went through that thread I mentioned earlier, I basically kept googling every spider that I came across (since it was all latin names largely) and from what I can discern, old world spiders are usually aggressive with "more toxic" (more painful, not more fatal) poison and new world tarantulas are more docile. Exceptions apply, but all the "Don't buy this unless you are a spider owing expert" guys were from like Thailand and Borneo. Like these cobalt blues are fast and aggressive with a painful venom, but they're popular because they're beautiful. These are native to SE Asia.  P. murinus is an African spider that will just bite you for no reason and also has a painful venom  zoux fucked around with this message at Feb 22, 2013 around 21:25 |
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I like that tarantulas can be used as a natural barometer. They can use the hairs on their body to feel drops in pressure so they leave their holes so that when it rains they won't drown. Sadly because I live right in town I haven't gotten a chance to photograph any up close. Not my picture. Does anyone know the species? 
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Ruin Completely posted:Red Kneed Tarantula! This spider makes a cute pro-spider appearance (rare in film) in 1997's Fierce Creatures, where it also sets up a "OMG SPIDER" gag later (it isn't a good movie but isn't awful IMHO). Michael Palin later said that he didn't have any problems working with such a big spider because you can see its eyes and you can see what it's doing. He also revealed that the spider handlers made the spider move by standing off camera and blowing at it with straws, which looked quite silly. Ever since then I've wanted to own one of these. EDIT: The spider in the movie is named "Terry" after Terry Jones, who contributed the a basic idea for the film's premise. And it stars John Cleese. So if you're a big Monty Python fan, give Fierce Creatures a look. Ema Nymton fucked around with this message at Feb 23, 2013 around 01:25 |
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My kids found this guy outside their day care center and decided to bring it home. (Employees at the day care wanted to squash it) It goes through a lot of crickets. We live in Austin, TX and I am assuming these buggers aren't uncommon around here. 
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MattO posted:My kids found this guy outside their day care center and decided to bring it home. (Employees at the day care wanted to squash it) I live in Austin too and I hope they are uncommon! I know quite a few people who have seen them around, but I haven't. I think they're more common out toward west where the Hill Country starts. Apparently these things also live around here.
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I'm sure everyone's seen this dude before, but goddamn I love the peacock spider. Edit: Now with more adorableness. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEAMq3y0950 Lumberjack Bonanza fucked around with this message at Feb 22, 2013 around 22:06 |
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Atticus_1354 posted:I like that tarantulas can be used as a natural barometer. They can use the hairs on their body to feel drops in pressure so they leave their holes so that when it rains they won't drown. Sadly because I live right in town I haven't gotten a chance to photograph any up close. That looks like a European garden spider, Araneus diadematus or a close relative. They are really common over most of the Northern hemisphere. e: For those who have their own spider pictures and are looking for identification, please post in the Critterquest thread.
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This is not a spider: It's a decoy spun buy this crafty little fucker:  Also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLw-9dpHtcU
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zoux posted:I live in Austin too and I hope they are uncommon! I know quite a few people who have seen them around, but I haven't. I think they're more common out toward west where the Hill Country starts. Apparently these things also live around here. When I lived up in the hills at 360 and 2222, I routinely found both tarantulas and Scolopendra heros in and around my apartment. Zoo Keeper on Burnet used to buy them from me.
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einTier posted:When I lived up in the hills at 360 and 2222, I routinely found both tarantulas and Scolopendra heros in and around my apartment. Zoo Keeper on Burnet used to buy them from me. i've lived off 620/2222 for two years now and haven't seen a single one. I did see a dead one when I worked at Riverplace nearby in the parking garage. Where are you finding them?
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zoux posted:P. murinus is an African spider that will just bite you for no reason and also has a painful venom Commonly referred to as an OBT (Orange Baboon Tarantula or Orange Bitey Thing!  ) by tarantula hobbyists.A nice tarantula is X. intermedia. Female - bigger and live longer  Male - sweet colours on front legs and pedipalps at maturity 
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Don't understand all the spider hate on these forums.  Jumping spiders are especially great.
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Jumping spiders are the puppy dogs of the spider world.
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OBT Spiderlings!  
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Seriously, this looks like a still from a cute as gently caress Pixar movie about spiders (but I know that's never going to happen  ).Itchy Bear Dong posted:OBT Spiderlings! One of the only kinds of babies I can get excited about! Unrelated: I can't help but notice you finally embraced your new username whole hog. I would also like to make a public apology to the non-fuzzy spider community. I was very discriminatory with my original post, and I want to make amends by acknowledging the Orb Weaver family of spiders. Here's a Walnut Orb Weaver!  Something about their body shape combined with the patterns on their abdomen makes them very pretty. They are also pretty good at making webs!  Edit: Right you are! I'll add a blurb about that to the OP. VVVVV Ruin Completely fucked around with this message at Feb 23, 2013 around 03:38 |
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Technically, Arachnidae includes things that are not spiders, such as opiliones and camel spiders. If you mean only spiders, you're referring to order Araneae. A harvestman (an opilione).
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Pick posted:Technically, Arachnidae includes things that are not spiders, such as opiliones and camel spiders. If you mean only spiders, you're referring to order Araneae. I am going to venture a pretty good guest that this is the thing that headcrabs are based on in terms of their physical design. e: speaking of design inspirations, Jumping Spiders were the inspiration for the Tachikomas from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, chosen since jumping spiders are 1. really cute and 2. really really smart and 3. jumpy. Zorak fucked around with this message at Feb 23, 2013 around 03:39 |
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Zorak posted:I am going to venture a pretty good guest that this is the thing that headcrabs are based on in terms of their physical design. Opiliones are some of the most amazing animals on Earth, and I say that as someone who has interests that are basically limited to "animals and things animals do". Here's some neat behavior: quote:Males of the tropical harvestman Zygopachylus albomarginis guard eggs inside open mud nests that they build, usurp or occupy if abandoned. They maintain the nests for extended periods by removing fungus, repairing them when damaged, and guarding them from conspecifics and ants. Females wander on tree trunks and visit nests; they actively court males, mate and oviposit inside the nests and then leave. A male guards a nest with eggs of different ages and from different females. This behaviour may be unique among arachnids. There was considerable variation in numbers of eggs that males guard throughout the breeding season. This variability could not be explained in terms of obvious characteristics of nests or males. An experiment in which males were removed from nests showed that nest guarding by males is essential for egg survival. This system has not been described in detail before and remains the only known case of paternal care in arachnids. *Note: This was published in 1990; there is more information now. Anyway, yeah, harvestmen!!!!      
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Oh poo poo some of those purple and blue spiders are beautiful. Are exotic colors like that really common? I haven't really seen it before.
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Adorable as jumping spiders are, these continually impress me: Great Raft Spider  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1jqPZrP-gY
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Its my firm opinion that spiders are some of the coolest things in nature, even though they kinda gross me out.  
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I love jumping spiders myself and can't help but go "D'awww " anytime I see one. But unfortunately none of my friends have the same appreciation. I also love these guys. The Yellow Garden orb weaver. I love its colors, its long shapely legs and the cool pattern it makes in the web. It even serves a double purpose! To warn off birds and large things from accidentally running into the web, and it gives off a UV light that attracts bugs. Thanks Critterquest for teaching me cool spider things! 
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The bolas spider. http://youtu.be/2UfMJJAzvbI  Maybe not the prettiest of species, but definitely one of the most peculiar. Crasscrab fucked around with this message at Feb 23, 2013 around 04:14 |
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Autechresaint posted:i've lived off 620/2222 for two years now and haven't seen a single one. I did see a dead one when I worked at Riverplace nearby in the parking garage. Where are you finding them? I grew up near Lake Travis (Volente) and they are a relatively common sight out there, I'd come across probably 3-4 a year, even kept one as a pet for a little while, watching it eat crickets was really fascinating. I hate that they have such a bad reputation cause as far as I know the ones out here are really docile and just wanna eat all the other annoying bugs and won't really mess with you unless you go out of your way to piss it off. Now the giant centipedes, those can go straight to hell. I'm kinda fascinated by them too just cause they're so impossibly creepy but anytime I saw one of those I killed it immediately with great malice.
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ol moon in the sky posted:I grew up near Lake Travis (Volente) and they are a relatively common sight out there, I'd come across probably 3-4 a year, even kept one as a pet for a little while, watching it eat crickets was really fascinating. I hate that they have such a bad reputation cause as far as I know the ones out here are really docile and just wanna eat all the other annoying bugs and won't really mess with you unless you go out of your way to piss it off. What did you use, a hatchet? I hear those things are pretty durable.
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Usually a shovel, they're definitely total bastards about staying alive though, remember usually having to jab them quite a few times.Buggiezor posted:I love jumping spiders myself and can't help but go "D'awww I love these things, my grandparents have a nice big piece of rural property and when the grasshoppers were plentiful these things could get GIGANTIC, and their webs were always really cool to look at. They didn't have TV for a long time so when I was staying there I'd sometimes spend hours catching grasshoppers and throwing them into their webs, kinda messed up I guess but still, I thought it was cool.
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The big spiders tend to produce more shivers down my spine, but Maratus volans is a different story. A spider that literally has to do or die, waving it's butt like it just don't care.
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Spiders are great!!! All my friends think I'm weird, but I think they're adorable. I don't get the goon hate, either, but it was fun seeing posters in the funny pictures thread collapse into a quivering heap and capslocking in fear of a few of the little guys. When I was working in the Bahamas, the paths on the island were full of awesome spiders. I can't find the pictures I took right now, but these guys were some of the awesome spiders that inhabited the island. These are called banana spiders on the island, but Wikipedia is telling me they're actually Golden silk orb-weavers. A huge one had built its web right in the path we were searching for snakes on. We almost ran into it, but I saw it in time and we missed messing up his gorgeous web. Had to be 5 feet across. Awesome.  Just look at those gorgeous colors!  And then there was this guy, who made me think Skulltulas were real.  Google indicates some sort of crab spider.
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Atticus_1354 posted:I like that tarantulas can be used as a natural barometer. They can use the hairs on their body to feel drops in pressure so they leave their holes so that when it rains they won't drown. Slamhound posted:This is not a spider: These are both wicked things I didn't know about spiders. Pretty stoked on this thread. The harvestmen are pretty awesome, too. Some of them look like they have decorative horns and things.
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Usually my reaction to spidery creatures is disgust but this guy looks almost exactly like Metroid Prime which honestly struck me as pretty cool. Obviously this (or something similar) was the inspiration for MP and didn't happen to naturally look like a video game monster, but thank you spider thread for that neat little moment in my day. And holy poo poo this dude looks like a Geemer. Metroid sure likes its insect/arachnid lifeforms.
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Oh my. I love this thread already. zoux posted:Like these cobalt blues are fast and aggressive with a painful venom, but they're popular because they're beautiful. These are native to SE Asia. Aww, I miss my cobalt blue. She was faster than lighting and aggressive as all gently caress, but drat if she didn't make up for it by being absolutely gorgeous all the time. I'll need to dig up some of my photos of her.
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How has no one mentioned the Diving Bell Spider? It's a spider, but it lives under water.  They spin a web around themselves to trap air, and spend their whole life under water.
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A better shot of the OBT babies  Also, I like this one because it looks like some kind of medallion.  The harvestmen around me are really boring. They're just the basic beige ones. I wish we had the badass arachnid warrior ones 
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