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I'm continuing spiderblog here: http://pointsofdeparture.wordpress.com/tag/spiders/

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Moths Elude Spiders by Mimicking Them, Study Says: "The arrival of a jumping spider sends most moths into a flutter trying to escape the predator's lethal pounce.Not so for metalmark moths in the genus Brenthia. These moths stand their ground with hind wings flared and forewings held above the body at a slight angle."

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Some cool photos of spiders

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"To figure out how tarantulas make their way safely up vertical surfaces, Adam Summers of the University of California, Irvine, and colleagues analysed the footprints of Costa Rican zebra tarantulas (Aphonopelma seemanni) as they climbed a glass wall. This revealed that the spiders left fragments of sticky silk a few micrometres in diameter and up to 2.5 centimetres long."

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"True orb weaving spiders found trapped in amber from 121-115 million years ago are the oldest of their type yet found."

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An international Photography exhibition devoted to spiders. Some cool ones in there.

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Cool photographs and descriptions, including a semi transparent Argyrodes: "This is perhaps the most amazing spider I've ever seen. It was the strangely shaped abdomen that first made me take notice, and only when I got home did I notice the transparent window in the abdomen. It took a little bit longer before I noticed what was visible through the window - eggs! This spider had several

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"No one had ever photographed a baby Kauai wolf spider being carried on its mother's interlocking back hairs until two Hawaii scientists caught the shot."

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The photo taken on April 18, 2006 at Liaocheng, a city in east China's Shandong Province, shows a pea-green spider with a human face-like mark on its body.

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"A new study by researchers at the University of Toronto, Canada, has observed the developmental adaptations in male Australian redback spiders and found that they develop faster with more females around them. "

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"The extraordinary properties of spider's thread are like a blessing for researchers working on polymers. However, the amazing twisting properties it displays are still not very well understood. How can one explain the fact that a spider suspended by a thread remains completely motionless, instead of rotating like a climber does at the end of a rope?"

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The leaf curling spider (Phonognatha graeffei, Family Tetragnathidae) is ubiquitous in the Sydney area. They're everywhere, and you can easily pick them out in the undergrowth by their pretty distinctive webs. They build a typical orb web but with a twist- literally. On the upper part of the web, you can usually see a dried leaf that's been curled in to a retreat, and the spider usually pokes its

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Assassin Spiders: "They may be small, but Assassin spiders are among the most dangerous spiders on the planet – if you’re another spider, that is. These tiny arachnids in the Archaeidae family are only about 2 mm (less than 1/8 inch) long, but their bizarre fangs and spider-hunting practices have earned them a reputation as the world’s most grotesque spiders."

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Nemesiario Another spider blog!!! In Spanish. (hola, compadre!)

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The flower crab spider - European Spider of the Year 2006

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Carl Wilhelm Hahn: "Dr. Carl Wilhelm Hahn was a German zoologist and author of the first German monograph on spiders"

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Spiderling :: Mexican Red Knee: "The aim of this BLOG is to give an insight into how I decided to set up and look after a Spiderling. The species I went for was the Mexican Red Knee (also know as Brachypelma Smithi)"

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Spideresque

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Oh god. From here.

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Tarantula spiders from BelizeEg:Brachypelma vagans

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hck66 Originally uploaded by dinrao. Haeckel's illustrations

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a natural history of spiders Originally uploaded by dinrao. A natural history of spiders and other curious insects by Eleazar Albin Tilly, London, 1736!!! Thanks PK

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Harun Yahya - The Miracle In The Spider: "It is clear from this that when one carefully examines the characteristics of the Bolas spider, one gets a better understanding of just how comic the claim of the theory of evolution, completely based on coincidences, is. That coincidences will be unable to bring the spider into possession of the features we have discussed above, that is, intelligence,

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Secret Lives of Spiders poems about spiders

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British Spiders : "The Families of Spiders Represented in the British Isles"

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Spiders (a harp composition): "Spiders was first performed by Sioned Williams in London at the Wigmore Hall in 1985. No doubt when hearing this piece all sorts of images will be conjured up of the enchanting world of the spider. The very sight of the harp strings always reminds me of a spider’s web and perhaps the harpist hands and fingers could be likened to that of the spider weaving a

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This month's Carnival of the Spineless

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A 'LOST WORLD' BATTLE: " Sun scorpion caught in the web of a black widow spider"

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Canadian Arachnologist: Arachnology (spiders, mites, etc) & Arachnologists in Canada"The Canadian Arachnologist is an annual newsletter, freely distributed the first week of May. The goals of this newsletter are to profile Canadian arachnologists, publish feature articles, announce conference details and other news of value, help foster a sense of community and encourage collaboration. Past

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Spiders of North America: "This beautifully illustrated guide to the spider genera of North America, north of Mexico, provides over 1400 illustrations and keys to the genera in 68 spider families. Over 550 genera are included."

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The Exciting Adventures of Spider Man: "Hundreds of glass vials with rubber stoppers sit in boxes on Norman I. Platnick's desk at the American Museum of Natural History, stacked like atoms in a crystal lattice. Inside the vials, magnified and refracted by the glass and the liquid it contains, are creatures ranging from itsy-bitsy to huge and hairy." (NYT article on Platnick, reg. req. via 6th

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Spider fooled into sex by drop-dead male: "Over millions of years of sexual conflict, males of the nursery web spider have evolved their novel mating strategy, not seen before in nature, report Trine Bilde and her colleagues. Ms Bilde called the male's plan - which happened in half the cases observed by the scientists - 'death feigning in the face of sexual cannibalism'."

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African Spider Craves Human Blood: "Scientists have discovered a spider in East Africa with a craving for human blood. They say the spider (Evarcha culicivora- a jumping spider), which hunts blood-sucking female mosquitoes, is the only animal known to select its prey based on what the prey has eaten. The spider is the also first known predator that deliberately feeds on vertebrate blood by eating

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Images from the Los Angeles Spider Survey

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The Fairy Tale World of Henry McCook: " Illustrations of Anthropomorphic Arthropods in the 19th Century" This page is called scalp dance and caudata's cocoons. (via PK) s

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Biologia Centrali-AmericanaA wonderful scanned volume of central american arachnids.

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Spider 'is 20 million years old': "A scientist has described a spider that was trapped and preserved in amber 20 million years ago"

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Middle-Fork: Spiders Archives Lots of nice spider photos

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Ken rinaldo - robotic sculpture, interactive art inspired by natural systems Spider Haus is a transpecies communication artwork constructed of stereo lithography plastic and a common house spider (Theridiidae) in the winter and an orbital web spider in the summer. It is designed to amplify and connect the viewer with the delicate beauty of arachnids.

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Circus of the Spineless: "A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles" i really should write something for this

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The Australasian Arachnological Society - : "The Australasian Arachnological Society aims to promote interest in the ecology, behaviour and taxonomy of arachnids in the Austalasian region, loosely defined as Australia, New Zealand, South-east Asia, Oceania and the Pacific Islands."

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Linda's Brown Recluse Spider Bite Journal : "The most frequently asked BRS questions we get are 'I just got bit. What do I do? Is it a BRS bite? How bad is this bite going to get? Should I go to doctor?'I can't tell you how bad your bite is going to be nor can I confirm the bite as a BRS or give you medical advice, but I can share with you my recent experience along with lots of pictures. My

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Adopt a Hawaiian Happyface Spider: "Would you like to adopt a Hawaiian Happyface Spider? These tiny spiders were discovered in 1973 in the rainforests of Hawaii. Actually their bodies are only 1/4 inch long, but we have drawn them larger so that you can see them better. They are called Happyface Spiders because of the pattern on their abdomen that looks like a smiling face. Each spider has a

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Web construction movie"This Quicktime movie shows an exemplary orb-web construction of Araneus diadematus in the laboratory. The movie is based on recorded moves of the spider, with the threads reconstructed from those moves and from the photograph of the finished web. It is a slightly simplified account of a web construction selected for its simplicity; early stages (exploration phase) are

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The Redback Spider had two penises. And lost them both. - The Scientific Indian: "The male copulates with the female and let's her eat him. This isn't like nibbling at a fingernail. The female injects an organ dissolving fluid into the male spider's body and then drinks the bag of juice that the male spider turns into. "

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Spider evolution timeline

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news @ nature.com - Female spiders exploit double-barrelled sperm storage - Redbacks use cannibalism and conniving to select the best mates.

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Spitting Spiders: "View high-speed video of fang dynamics during an episode of spitting."

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Pub chef bitten by deadly spider: "A chef bitten by a deadly spider in his pub kitchen was saved after experts were able to identify the creature (the Brazilian Wandering Spider, ) from a picture on his mobile phone."

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The money Spider(origami): "The spider requires five bills: four for the legs, and one to wrap the body"

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A few weeks in the life of Natasha, the Golden Silk Spider, Nephila clavipes: "I have had fun watching Natasha and experiencing the excitment of watching her on the Discovery Channel. Here is the photo essay from beginning to end - a way of sharing some of the excitement of watching nature at its best."

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Targeted Jumps by Salticid Spiders: "Jumping spiders (adult female Phidippus princeps) were demonstrated to vary both magnitude and direction of velocity relative to target (position or prey) direction in order to attain the required range. They jumped further above, and faster toward, more distant targets, or targets in a more horizontal direction. These results were produced from a variety of

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Spider Kama Sutra, by Pharyngula

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Anancy Introduction (Jamaica): "The Ashanti handed down to us brilliant folktales about the trickster Anancy, the spider-man, as the hare is the chief character in the Yoruba folktales and the tortoise in the stories of the Ibo people. Songs often accompany the stories and have inspired many Jamaican folksongs. "

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Silflay Hraka: Adventures In Journalism: Redback On The Toilet Seat

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The Wolf Spiders of Australia

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DSCF0439 Originally uploaded by linny. Here's a beautiful frostified spider web, photo taken by Linny

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Female Spiders Love Performers: "Elias noticed that male spiders that both sang and danced were successful in attracting female mates. Those who just danced got little love action, which indicates that the female spider's sensory perception of the singing, along with her visual approval of the male's dance routines, are both important elements within the jumping spider mating ritual."

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Thought Experiments: From today, I will be putting down some thought experiments. These are mostly experiments that I would like to do but can't because 1. it's out of my scope or 2. may be un-doable. Here's the first one. There is a genus called Phonognatha which is called a leaf curling spider, because it places a leaf in the centre of the web and uses the leaf as a retreat. The leaf is

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How do you milk a Funnel Web Spider?: "Jacqui Adam-Maher milks the spiders for a living as the Australian Reptile Park's 'Spider Girl'." More info: here.

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Pachygnatha zappa: "Etymology. Zappa is a noun in apposition. This species epithet is given in honor of the twentieth century composer Frank Zappa (1941-1993), well known for both his serious and commercial music. The dark grey mark on the ventral side of the abdomen of the female of this species strikingly resembles the artist's legendary moustache"

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Spider of the Year 2005 The Zebra Spider (Salticus scenicus)

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Sexual cannibalism: "Gentlemanlike, he courts her. She eats him for his trouble. Most unladylike. Sexual cannibalism is rife among St Andrew's Cross spiders"

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Artificial Spider Silk Could Be Used for Armor, More"Randy Lewis is a professor of molecular biology at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. His team of researchers has successfully sequenced genes related to spider-silk production—uncovering the formula that spiders use to make silk from proteins. In the process the team acquired a better understanding of how the silk's structure is related to

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Spiders Watch Their Diets Too "Spiders and insects that eat other creepy crawlies purposely seek a balanced diet to maintain their health, according to a new study. Scientists found that three predatory invertebrates—all of which use different hunting methods—adjust their feeding to correct nutritional deficiencies. "

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Scanning electron microscope image of a spider

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"The Tarantula King": a short story by Rob Callahan.

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Spider Conservation Home Page

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Spider Myths

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Scientists achieve self-assembly of genertically engineered spider silk fibre in insect cells: "For the first time anywhere, scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and from Germany have succeeded in producing self-assembled spider web fibres under laboratory conditions, outside of the bodies of spiders. This fibre is significantly stronger than the silk fibre made by silkworms." (via

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Rituals: A Fall Festival That Honors the Creepy-Crawly (reg req)

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Play with a Flash-created spider

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Tarantula clock

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Spiders at Ojibway

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Medieval Bestiary : Spider: "The spider is an aerial worm that takes its nourishment from the air"

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Spiders of Australia

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Glass Insects (and a few spiders) by Michael Mangiafico

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Spider myth debunked: "It's a myth that the venom of the whitetail spider eats away the flesh of its victims"

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Spiders of Kaweah River Delta Region

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A recreated(photoshopped) Gary Larson Cartoon about a depressed spider

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Wolf spiders patrol countryside: "A group of 'voracious' wolves of the eight-legged variety is roaming the Scottish countryside looking for food."

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Wikipedia's entry on spiders

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The Find-a-spider Guide - australian spiders

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Man re-enacts spider bite for the cameras

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Spider Animation

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Spinnerets

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Hawaiian Happyface Spider

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"New" Spider Species Weaves Uncommonly Regular Webs"The pieces of the web are regular, but the overall web is not. So these spiders have evolved this very rare trait of being able to measure something out in regular intervals"

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The Spider Recording Scheme

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Photographs of spider webs

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EEK! :)

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Metal Spider Sculpture

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A giant spider: "The Museum of Tropical Queensland is erecting the 6m by 4m arachnid as an attraction for one of its displays "

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New Zealand Spiders

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Arrabella the Arachnid: "In September 1999 a spider took up residence in my driver's wing-mirror. I had returned to the car several times after parking it in town to find a web. Then whilst driving along I noticed the spider hanging on to the web and swaying in the wind...some pictures of this creature who found a home in my wing-mirror, together with some poems by writers inspired by her story"

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Insect Journal: spiders are rare here, but this is such a beautifully designed website and I couldnt resist. (via Reflections in d minor)

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Friday Arachnid blogging: here's an excellent blog with spiders every friday.

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How a spider can defy gravity: Scientists have uncovered the secret of how a spider can defy gravity: its eight feet are covered with minute hairs that generate a tiny electrical force strong enough to hold 173 times the arthropod's weight

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Jake's Tarantulas

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Spider Silk Wear: "To create artificial spider silk, Hammond's team starts with polyurethane, a type of plastic used to make synthetic packaging and fabrics"

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