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Massassians love spiders #4
2012-03-07, 2:47 AM #1
Apparently it's flooding in Wagga Wagga (real name), so all the spiders are building treehouses and trying to web-balloon out of the place.

Personally I'd want to leave because it's NSW, they've run their economy into the ground and sold off core state infrastructure (hello toll roads).

[http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2012/03/06/RTR2YWP1.jpg]

Fields covered with the stuff:
http://www.theage.com.au/environment/weather/web-wonders-spiders-spin-for-their-lives-as-floodwaters-rise-20120307-1ujov.html
2012-03-07, 3:28 AM #2
nopenopenopenopenopenopenopenopenopenopenope



*cringe*
2012-03-07, 6:04 AM #3
Anyone else never eating cotton candy again?
My blawgh.
2012-03-07, 7:22 AM #4
EXTERMINATE, EXTERMINATE, EXTERMINATE
2012-03-07, 8:02 AM #5
please place your hand on the nest for scale

thanks
2012-03-08, 6:13 AM #6
On the up side, we can harvest all that spider silk and make a mile of violin string.
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2012-03-08, 6:32 AM #7
That's pretty damn awesome.
I've seen single spider gliders (hehe) but nothing like that
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2012-03-08, 8:46 AM #8
It reminds me of Oak Processionary Moth caterpillar tents but on a massive scale and without clouds of urticating hairs.

Ballooning is also how spiders colonise islands in the arse-end of nowhere. I've seen a bit of this effect in the French Alps where the aerial plankton gets slapped into glacier and then freezes to the surface. In bits where there's been no snowfall there's a carpet of butterfly wings, spiders, small beetles and lacewings stuck to the ice.
2012-03-08, 10:15 AM #9
There are a bunch of spiders right by the entrance to our place and Estelore and I refer to them as our spider buddies. We do what we can to make sure they remain undisturbed.
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2012-03-08, 1:10 PM #10
I can't do spiders, no nono onnonononono
2012-03-08, 1:15 PM #11
I want to know how so many spiders can be supported by the ecosystem... how is there enough food to support them all? Crazy.
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2012-03-08, 2:34 PM #12
Originally posted by Ni:
I want to know how so many spiders can be supported by the ecosystem... how is there enough food to support them all? Crazy.


Now think about how many insects you don't see, but are definitely there. That's not just crazy, it's scary.
2012-03-08, 4:19 PM #13
That aint a spider...
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2012-03-08, 4:37 PM #14
GAH!!! that is disturbing on so many levels! blegh... ive got the hebegebes now!
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2012-03-08, 6:01 PM #15
I wonder what Spider Al thinks about this.
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2012-03-09, 8:48 PM #16
:gonk:
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2012-03-09, 10:23 PM #17
Originally posted by Cool Matty:
Now think about how many insects you don't see, but are definitely there. That's not just crazy, it's scary.


I suppose it would be if such things scared you :P
2012-03-09, 11:38 PM #18
HAET
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2012-03-10, 4:16 AM #19
Originally posted by Ni:
I want to know how so many spiders can be supported by the ecosystem... how is there enough food to support them all? Crazy.

There isn't enough food for densities like that; their habitat just shrunk due to flooding. Having said that there is an awful lot more invertebrate life out there than you might think and in late summer spiders seem to always do very well, presumably due to the dying late season insects.

I'm just going to post a picture of a common European spider for all the arachnophobes:

[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/Recusant/dysderacrocataopenfangs.jpg]
2012-03-10, 8:59 AM #20
I see you one tiny spider and raise you this


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2012-03-10, 9:53 AM #21
Originally posted by GHORG:

[http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2012/03/06/RTR2YWP1.jpg]


Originally posted by saberopus:
I suppose it would be if such things scared you :P


I wouldn't say I was afraid of spiders but if I ran face first into that mess, you are definately gonna see me spaz out.
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2012-03-10, 10:50 AM #22
Oh yeah I'd flip my **** too, I just meant that the idea of ****loads of bugs being everywhere and you don't even realize it doesn't bother me. :)
2012-03-10, 12:54 PM #23
Flipping out would probably just get you more bites.
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2012-03-11, 7:40 PM #24
after... i don't know 10 or 15 bites i don't think it matters anymore. i would spaz.
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