BEHOLD!!! The “Sparklemuffin”, a variety of peacock spider.
It is about 5 mm long, and dances a distinctive dance involving wildly flailing legs and rump shaking.
@HighRollerHydra
Nah. Nothing that preys on spider-sized creatures are afraid of them (when it comes to defending themselves, spiders are actually kind of weak). Pretty much every horrific aspect of a spider’s appearance serves a specific and highly useful function. The many, itchy legs that can grip nearly any surface (that keep twitching after they’re pulled off), the hyper-sensitive hairs, the many eyes, the carapace… the hollow, poisonous, fluid-sucking fangs…
They’re enormously successful predators, you know. But they don’t eat humans. Yet.
There are no poisonous spiders in great Britain but I read Take a Break (reality mag) and someone said they had to have their arm amputated cos of a common house spider.
@Perteks
I find spiders fascinating, but I have to it they are the most freakishly alien-looking creatures on the planet.
And then there are, you know, the fangs.
BEHOLD!!! The “Sparklemuffin”, a variety of peacock spider.
It is about 5 mm long, and dances a distinctive dance involving wildly flailing legs and rump shaking.
Tavi: Itsy bitsy my flank!
Nah. Nothing that preys on spider-sized creatures are afraid of them (when it comes to defending themselves, spiders are actually kind of weak). Pretty much every horrific aspect of a spider’s appearance serves a specific and highly useful function. The many, itchy legs that can grip nearly any surface (that keep twitching after they’re pulled off), the hyper-sensitive hairs, the many eyes, the carapace… the hollow, poisonous, fluid-sucking fangs…
They’re enormously successful predators, you know. But they don’t eat humans. Yet.
Oooooor, they look like that to frighten off predators?
It’s not their fault they were born like that.
x_x Nope.avi.
That face just begs, “ I can has spider thread?”
Eyup.