Rain is already annoying enough when it’s not seemingly made of spiders.
So spare a thought for the people who had to keep an eye on a group of arachnids that appeared to be raining down over rural Brazil, thanks to hot and humid weather.
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Relatable man sets fire to home while attempting to kill spiders with a blowtorch
Insects of any kind in the house can be anyone’s worst nightmare. But to what lengths would you go to get rid of them?
According to a report from ABC 30, a man in Fresno, California almost burned his parents’ house down on Tuesday while trying to kil…
This tiny robotic spider might one day perform surgeries inside your body
A new fabrication method for millimeter-scale soft robots provides them with unprecedented dexterity, opening up the opportunities for medical applications. To demonstrate this new method, researchers from Harvard’s Wyss Institute, the Harvard John A…
View More This tiny robotic spider might one day perform surgeries inside your bodyThe world’s oldest recorded spider built herself a hole, then just stayed there till age 43
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Just how many walking sticks would an elderly spider require?
Researchers in Australia monitored what is most likely the world’s oldest spider on record, who died at age 43, outstripping the previous record-holder, a 28-year-old tarantula.
The lead researcher, Leanda Mason, said of the spider in question, “to our knowledge this is the oldest spider ever recorded, and her significant life has allowed us to further investigate the trapdoor spider’s behaviour and population dynamics,” according to a press release.
A sedentary creature, the female Gaius villosus trapdoor spider builds itself a tunnel in the ground and stays there, seldom wandering too far from its hidey-hole. Sounds pretty ideal to be honest. Read more…
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View More The world’s oldest recorded spider built herself a hole, then just stayed there till age 43Try not to wince at the horrifying sight of this egg sack teeming with tiny spiders
Spiders on their own are disconcerting enough. So how about a sack full of tiny little crawling spiders?
A video of a funnel web egg being cut open to reveal hundreds of the arachnids inside was posted on the Facebook page of the Australian Rep…
Oh nothing, just ‘spider lightning’ dancing across a stormy sky in Australia
“Spider lightning”: It’s a thing.
An especially hard weather phenomenon to catch on film but one savvy videographer managed to capture it illuminating the sky in South Australia.
During an electrical storm illuminating the seaside suburb of Glene…
Massive hairy spider traps woman inside her car for 20 minutes
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GET OUT OF THE CAR.
A woman in — you guessed it — Australia was held hostage in her car for about 20 minutes by a hair spider.
Bianca Merrick of Coffs Harbour, Australia, was driving home from work on Friday when she spotted a large spider hanging out on her visor. She decided the best choice was to keep driving for fear of a spider attack.
“I was on my way home from work when I looked up and saw it staring at me,” Merrick told Storyful. “I considered stopping but I didn’t know how I’d get it out of the car, so I thought the best option for me was to keep driving and pretend it wasn’t there for the longest 20 minutes of my life.” Read more…
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View More Massive hairy spider traps woman inside her car for 20 minutesMeet ‘Lucas the Spider,’ an unexpectedly adorable animated character
I think we all can agree that spiders are nowhere near “cute” or “lovable,” but this tiny talking fella may change your mind.
Animator, Joshua Slice, cured our arachnophobia by turning his adorable nephew Lucas into a precious eight-legged …