prokopetz: korrasera: prokopetz: thepockyman: prokopetz: sinceredoubt: prokopetz: kholden83: prokopetz: Concept: an RPG setting where the ruling class consists of talking spiders with a penchant for fancy hats. Not anthropomorphic spiders – just regular-looking spiders, about the size of a largeish dog, that are sapient and capable of speech. The setting isn’t a horrifying arachnid dystopia…

You seem like the right person to ask this question: do spiders have to practice spinning webs to get good at it? Do young spiders fuck up their webs sometimes?

tikkikwami: koryos: This is a really interesting question, and it took a bit of digging to find the right answer, which is… sort of yes and sort of no? The ‘no’ part comes from the fact that spiders are born knowing how to spin webs- there’s no stepwise process of learning. They actually have, encoded…

birdandmoon:

Do the spiders in your house need some Halloween help? Never fear: YourWildCity.com is here!

ryttu3k: You will never realise how good spiders are until you open a blind you never really open (which is right next to your balcony door) and see the web outside – full of stinging, biting insects that have been caught. Thank you, spiders, you’re excellent and can stay.

did-you-kno:

There’s a spider catcher designed for
people who hate killing spiders but can’t
handle moving them outside. The long
handle and squeeze trigger allow you to
gently trap spiders from a safe distance
so you can easily release them into the
wild without getting too close. Source

cthuloops:

reallymadscientist:

quirkybiochemist:

reallymadscientist:

A lot of people are asking why I’m painting spiders. It’s because I’m currently running an experiment where I have two males, one infected and one healthy, courting one female simultaneously (to see whether she will choose the healthy male over the sick one). I have to mark them with paint to keep track of which male is which. You can see the little paint dots on their back.

I really want to know the outcome

Well I’ve run about 10 trials so far, and I can tell you that anecdotally, the males are more interested in courting each other than in courting the female. Definitely not what I was expecting…

THIS JUST IN: gay spiders confirmed by science

fadetouched:

“What about the woman screaming?”

“Yeah sorry, that was me,” he said. “I really, really hate spiders.”

beeishappy:

LSSC | 2015.11.20 No One Confuses Smeagol and Gollum on Stephen’s Watch

nightkunoichi:

rapid-artwork:

fedoraspooky:

sir-p-audax:

bogleech:

did-you-kno:

Giant tarantulas keep tiny frogs as pets. Insects will eat the burrowing tarantulas’ eggs – so the spiders protect the frogs from predators, and in return the frogs eat the insects. Source

This has blown my mind for years. It’s so unreal. It’s almost the same exact reason humans and cats started living together.

Tiny frogs are tarantula housecats. A science fact seldom gets to sound that much like meaningless word salad.

This is legit, guys. And I’m excited about it.

Someone needs to draw a tarantula person with a tiny pet housefrog now. Please let this be a thing.

How is this?

This entire post is magic.  And that is so cool how the Tarantula will protect the frog.  :3

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Video: 3D Spider Drawing