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Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#90
October 25, 2011, 09:39:13 PM
The thing about the malaria blood is true, sort of, but they misrepresented it (for the funny, I assume). Ludwig is a malaria researcher and she just got back from a conference in Australia where that particular jumping spider's preference for mosquitoes that were laden with malaria-infected blood was discussed. They specifically target those mosquitoes, which means they are beneficial in preventing the spread of malaria. It has nothing to do with mating. Follow the first link and it will lead you to a second link which leads you to a dead end... absolutely no research about the spiders using the smell of malaria-laden blood as an aphrodisiac at all.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Jasper

#92
October 26, 2011, 02:22:17 AM
When people live in sealed biodomes with handpicked flora and fauna, they will marvel at the shit we put up with. 

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#93
October 27, 2011, 06:00:53 AM
I saw a zebra jumping spider on my porch rail the other night

it was SOOOO CUUUUUUUUTE!!!!!
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Epimetheus

#94
October 27, 2011, 06:03:38 AM
Quote from: Nigel on October 27, 2011, 06:00:53 AM
I saw a zebra jumping spider on my porch rail the other night

it was SOOOO CUUUUUUUUTE!!!!!

Jumping bugs are so fun! Its like, WHOA wherethefuck did he get off to- Oh, there you are, little one-OMG hejumpedagain that was almost into my eye or mouth. Shit did he jump in my shirt - oh there you are, you adorable - AH!FUCK ok he hopped in the opposite direction. might as well give him a little boost *flick* bye little friend!
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Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#95
October 27, 2011, 06:05:58 AM
Zebra spiders have the cutest way of noticing that you are looking at them, and craning their teeny necks to watch you watch them. It's hilarious!
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Reginald Ret

#96
October 27, 2011, 09:19:26 PM
Interesting bits in those links:
QuoteAvilés discovered vast differences in colony sizes. Most colonies were just a few dozen spiders, but occasionally a colony population would soar into the thousands, declining to multiple small colonies again within days.

"We have no idea what controls the sizes of these colonies, but what we do know is that they must have unbelievably high reproductive potentials to achieve such large populations so quickly," Avilés told New Scientist.

A further mystery is why the female spiders come in two different sizes. Among social insects, when females differ in size it is due to a division of labour. Bees are a classic example: large females lay eggs and small females search for food. With spiders this has not been observed before - T. nigroannulatum could be the first.
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Luna

#97
November 22, 2011, 03:03:35 AM
Oh!  A HELPFUL spider!

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If Luna was a furry, she'd sex humans and scream "BEASTIALITY!" at the top of her lungs at inopportune times.

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I like the Luna one. She is a good one.

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#98
November 22, 2011, 02:23:43 PM
 :cry:

There would be no containing my freakout of I saw that sitting on my toilet paper.

Suu

#99
November 22, 2011, 02:26:22 PM
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.

I WOULD FUCKING BURN DOWN MY HOUSE.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
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#100
November 22, 2011, 02:27:28 PM
Quote from: Khara on November 22, 2011, 02:23:43 PM
:cry:

There would be no containing my freakout of I saw that sitting on my toilet paper.


consider the freakout if you didn't see it sitting there and, in the middle of the night, absently wiped your ass with it before realizing that something was amiss.

Luna

#101
November 22, 2011, 02:29:42 PM
Quote from: Khara on November 22, 2011, 02:23:43 PM
:cry:

There would be no containing my freakout of I saw that sitting on my toilet paper.



No kidding.  I wouldn't need the phone to call Richter to kill the fucker, he'd hear me screaming.
Quote from: Iptuous on November 22, 2011, 02:27:28 PM
Quote from: Khara on November 22, 2011, 02:23:43 PM
:cry:

There would be no containing my freakout of I saw that sitting on my toilet paper.


consider the freakout if you didn't see it sitting there and, in the middle of the night, absently wiped your ass with it before realizing that something was amiss.
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Pagan-Stomping Valkyrie of the Interbutts™
Rampaging Slayer of Shit-Fountain Habitues

"My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake, and they live in a state of constant, total amazement."

Quote from: The Payne on November 16, 2011, 07:08:55 PM
If Luna was a furry, she'd sex humans and scream "BEASTIALITY!" at the top of her lungs at inopportune times.

Quote from: Nigel on March 24, 2011, 01:54:48 AM
I like the Luna one. She is a good one.

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Suu

#102
November 22, 2011, 02:38:15 PM
I can see this now. I get a phone call at 3am.

"Can I piss in your toilet and sleep on your couch?!"

".......why?"

"There's a spider the size of my cat on my toilet paper! And Richter won't wake up!"
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Our Lady of Perpetual Confusion; 1st Church of Discordia

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Dysfunctional Cunt

#103
November 22, 2011, 02:51:59 PM
Quote from: Iptuous on November 22, 2011, 02:27:28 PM
Quote from: Khara on November 22, 2011, 02:23:43 PM
:cry:

There would be no containing my freakout of I saw that sitting on my toilet paper.


consider the freakout if you didn't see it sitting there and, in the middle of the night, absently wiped your ass with it before realizing that something was amiss.

Oh yeah, THAT won't give me nightmares at all!!!  :argh!:

:cry:

Luna

#104
November 22, 2011, 04:10:21 PM
Quote from: Suu on November 22, 2011, 02:38:15 PM
I can see this now. I get a phone call at 3am.

"Can I piss in your toilet and sleep on your couch?!"

".......why?"

"There's a spider the size of my cat on my toilet paper! And Richter won't wake up!"

Oh, he'd wake up, along with everybody else on the Hill.  You've seen me deal with little spiders, they don't bother me, much, but THAT? 
Death-dealing hormone freak of deliciousness
Pagan-Stomping Valkyrie of the Interbutts™
Rampaging Slayer of Shit-Fountain Habitues

"My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake, and they live in a state of constant, total amazement."

Quote from: The Payne on November 16, 2011, 07:08:55 PM
If Luna was a furry, she'd sex humans and scream "BEASTIALITY!" at the top of her lungs at inopportune times.

Quote from: Nigel on March 24, 2011, 01:54:48 AM
I like the Luna one. She is a good one.

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"Stop talking to yourself.  You don't like you any better than anyone else who knows you."
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