Posts Tagged ‘spiders’

Acceptable Spider?

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Meanwhile, zenicurean alerted me to
Surreal Vegetarian Spider Found — A First by Matt Kaplan at National Geographic

Though the spider does occasionally snack on ant larvæ, the bulk of their diet is plants, Meehan said.

Up-Date (2020:10/06): The original link is no longer valid, but here are articles on the spider in the academic literature:

Shelob

Thursday, 25 September 2008

You know that childhood dread that, lurking behind things and in cracks, are big, black spiders? Some people outgrow that fear; such outgrowth is dementia. Those big, black spiders are really there.

In the course of a renovation, a local business placed a planter in front of their site; to-day, they pulled it away [image of store-front with planter pulled away] exposing one of those big, black spiders [image of big, black spider] [enlarged detail of image of big, black spider]