New spider species discovered in Baja
OK, I will not include any spidey pictures here but ...
This is based on a picture and film containing article here:
http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Softball-sized-spider-discovered-i...
The article is titled: Baseball-sized spider discovered in Baja California mine.
Everybody got that? If you're arachnophobic, take a pass on the linked article
It appears that scientists from the San Diego Museum of Natural History (a pretty cool museum, btw) were poking around in a mine shaft in Baja California when they came across one big motha spider. It turns out to be a new genus and species, henceforth to be known as Califorctenus cacahilensis. It is big, long legged and has a yellow abdomen. It is also mildly venomous. The bite, however, is described as not all that painful, so don't let it bug you..
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"Big motha" is an entomological term of art, or of
affection, I forget which.
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Spidey has a cute face!
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Doesn't it? Reminds me vaguely of Wolf Spiders.
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@thanatokephaloides
It does! All cute and fuzzy in a pic - although you'd never get me off the roof if one that big showed up in the house, lol.
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best thing I have read in days.
Long live the creatures of this earth.
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We grow them BIG now!
For me, nowhere near CA, that would cause me freakouts worse than baby garter snakes passing over my feet, memorable occurrences here. No problem with wolf spiders.
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Reminds me of the FL banana spiders. They were large
sometimes bigger than a saucer. They hung out in small trees and spun yuge webs. Now they liked the sun, but you had to watch out for the webs. They weren't noted for being venomous, they just scared the crap out of you when you discovered one. Haven't seen any lately but I live in an urban area that they would avoid. Rec'd!!
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Thanks
the post and the picture of the spider made my day.
Its a lot more pleasant than thinking about tribes of humans all slaughtering one another all over the globe. I imagine such cave dwellers will be in a position to best survive the climate change, or nuclear war holocaust that somehow we have not been able to prevent the march towards.
Long live spiders!
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