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Showing posts with label spiders. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spiders. Show all posts
Friday, December 9, 2011
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Assassin Bug Uses Ninja Skills To Sneaks Up On #Spiders
How assassin bugs hunt spiders in their webs without alerting the spider to their presence has long been a mystery, but researches have now found the bugs use noise to sneak up on their prey by waiting for the wind to rustle the web. Most web building spiders have poor eyesight & rely on interpreting vibrations on their web. Using a fan in the lab, researchers at Macquarie University in Sydney discovered that when the fan was switched on to simulate a breeze the assassin bugs “stepped more often and walked in a more continuous manner" using the breeze to mask their movements. It is also thought the assassin bugs strange bouncing gait may replicate debris moving in the wind, further confusing the spider.
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Friday, November 18, 2011
Enjoy This #Spider Season With The Guardian
After the dismal weather during Summer this Autumn promises to be a bumper year for spiders in our homes. The Guardian newspaper is running a campaign to get us to engage with our eight-legged friends this year. Apparently the most common house spider is likely to be a lovesick male searching for a mate. Though most spiders are venomous only about 12 species have fangs capable of piercing human skin and the spiders are very effective at keeping down the numbers of other, more damaging creepy crawlies in your home, especially clothes moths. The Guardian are asking readers to catch & photograph their spiders, using a glass & piece of card with a centimetre grid on for sizing purposes, & send the photos in.
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Monday, November 14, 2011
Killer Spiders from Australia invading Britain...
Pest control has just got scarier!
Check out this article about spiders a species of the infamous black widow spider entering the UK.
Check out this article about spiders a species of the infamous black widow spider entering the UK.
Killer spiders from Australia invading Britain
Redback spider ... bite can cause chest pain and has killed 14 in Australia
SCARY spiders from Down Under with a painful bite that can KILL are being found all over Britain.
The Australian redback, a relative of the Black Widow, is one of the deadliest in Oz. Experts warn it is part of a wave of foreign creepy-crawlies invading us — including the German Cockroach and Pharaoh Ant. They arrive in imports and travellers' luggage.
Redbacks were found all over the country, including a dozen at a factory in Preston, Lancs. Pea-sized with a red stripe, their bite causes pain, swelling, nausea, chest pain, fever — and responsible for 14 deaths in Oz.
Others in a pest control poll were: GERMAN COCKROACHES: Over-running world. Stink. Hard to kill.
PHARAOH ANTS: From Africa. Love hospitals. Feed on wounds.
STINK ANTS: From Africa. Smell of rotten coconuts. 100,000 in group.
CRAZY ANTS: From Oz. Named because they zig-zag. Painful bite.
Richard Mosley, of the British Pest Control Association, said: "These insects are on the move."
Found at http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3933099/Killer-spiders-from-Australia-invading-Britain.html
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Monday, October 31, 2011
Unravelling The Secrets Of Spider's Silk
The strength of spider silk exceeds anything we can produce in laboratories, but what gives the threads their strength & how the silk proteins are stored in the spider's silk gland and then assembled in the spinning passage in a split second to form the threads has been largely unknown, until now. Scientists found the silk proteins are stored as highly concentrated droplets with a high salt content which stops the proteins from clumping. In the spinning passage the salt content is lowered, enabling the proteins to align & stick together to form the thread. By regulating both the salt concentration & pH balance the protein strands are formed head to tail into a continuous thread & cross linked for extra strength.
Posted by Astrojenny
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Wasps Make Zombie Spiders Weave Weird Webs
The parasitic wasp Zatypota percontatoria can infect the Neottiura bimaculata spider and change its web weaving behaviour. Usually the spider will build a special protective web with a cupola-like structure in which to overwinter. Instead the wasp makes the zombie spider build this structure in the summer to house and protect the wasp pupa. It is unclear exactly how the wasp controls the spider's behaviour in this way but it is thought to manipulate the nerves or the glands that secrete hormones. Once built the wasp larva kills and eats the spider and builds its cocoon inside the dome.
Posted by Astrojenny
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Hunting For The Devil's Coach Horse
The Open Air Laboratories Project (Opal) are asking the public to go on a bug hunt this autumn. They want to find out what the current state of invertebrates is in the UK. To this end they have published a free guide and an app to help people identify the beetles, slug and spiders they may find.
Posted by Astrojenny
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Spiders!
There are 40,000 species of spider across the world. All but one are carnivorous. They use a variety of techniques to hunt, the most obvious being their use of webs, made from a light, elastic and strong silk that human technicians have long wished to emulate. Spiders range in size from the size of a dinner plate to the size of this full stop. They liquidize their prey before consuming them. Here is the BBC's definitive guide to everything you ever, or never, wanted to know about our eight-legged friends
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How To Survive Sex With A Black Widow
The male black widow spider is not as stupid as you may think. Famously the female eats the male after sex but it appears the males can detect chemical signals on the female's web that tell them which spiders are hungry & which are well fed & so less likely to eat them. A team from Arizona State University devised a cunning series of experiments to determine that the males were able to distinguish the well fed females from the hungry ones by web smell alone.
Read More at Physorg.com
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Venomous Spider's Nest Found In Bletchley
A nest of false black widow spiders has been discovered in a garden in Bletchley Buckinghamshire, with local officers warning that there may be others. The spider's bite is not lethal but can be painful and one person has been hospitalised with chest pains, nausea and vomiting. People have been warned to keep a look out and to take care if they find a nest.
Posted by Astrojenny
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Spider Season Photos
The Guardian newspaper asked its readers to submit their photographs of this year's bumper season for spiders. The readers did not disappoint. An amazing variety and some really superb images.
Posted by Astrojenny
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Thursday, October 13, 2011
Daddy Long Legs?
This video made me laugh. Flula Borg has a You Tube channel where he regularly rants about the absurdities of life. Here he turns his exasperation and unique way with language on the naming of the harvestman (from his description I am guessing he is not referring to the crane fly or the cellar spider, both of which are also confusingly called daddy long legs, but we won't tell him that) I love that he gets SO irritated by it all.
Posted by Astrojenny
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Forget Spiderman, Here Are 7 Real insect Superpowers
Darwin's bark spider produces the strongest natural substance on Earth, spinning silk that is 10 times stronger than Kevlar and 25 times stronger than steel. The fishing spider can walk on water to catch fish. Tiger moth's can jam a bat's sonar. The ironclad beetle lives up to its name with the hardest exoskeleton of any arthropod in existence. The humble fly has 360-degree vision & it takes it just 100 milliseconds to spot a flyswatter and calculate the exact escape route needed to get away (faster than you can blink) By a combination of smell, sight and heat detection, mosquitoes can not only pinpoint your exact location from over 100 feet away, they can also detect your blood type. Nasutitermitinae termite soldiers have a gun in their face that shoots poisonous glue!
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Whip Spiders Picking Up Bad Vibrations
Fearsome looking whip spiders Phrynus marginemaculatus have massive pincers tipped with spikes and their front legs have evolved into long 'whips' which they use to feel for their prey. In confrontations between themselves however the whips are employed differently. The two rivals circle & probe each other with their whips more & more intensely until they are vibrating the whips without touching. One combatant usually retreats at this stage as the vibrations are picked up by sensitive hairs along their legs. When scientists shaved the hairs, the threat displays went on for twice as long and were three or four times more likely to end in fights. The big question is: how do you go about shaving a spider's legs?
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Spider Silk Used To Make Artificial Skin
Skin grafts are essential for treating burns & other injuries. This usually entails using skin from another part of the body. Scientists have long been trying to come up with an artificial alternative, The material needs to be accepted by the body, have skin cells embedded in it to replace the lost tissue & be able to degrade over time as the skin is replaced. It also needs to be strong enough to stand in for our own skin. Spider silk has been used historically to stem bleeding & heal wounds. A team from the Medical School Hanover in Germany have used silk from the golden silk orb-weaver spider to weave a mesh on which, given the proper nutrients, skin cells can flourish and be cultivated to reproduce both the outer epidermis & dermis.
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Monday, October 3, 2011
Black Widow Spiders Invade Factory
I hope black widows can't swim, or afford the bridge toll, because this is just across the Humber river from me! An engineering firm in Barton-upon-Humber have had some surprise visitors. Three of the spiders, including a deadly female & a brown widow were found in a shipment of aircraft engines from America. Workers managed to trap each one & are now keeping them as pets in jam jars until they can be re-homed in a wildlife park. Environmental health officers were informed & have inspected the shipment & declared it now safe.
Rare Ladybird Spider Returned To Dorset
The ladybird spider was once thought extinct but is slowly making a comeback. In 1994 numbers were down to just one colony of 56 individuals but after a project of captive breeding, reintroduction & habitat restoration numbers have now increased to over 1000. To aid the process conservationists are planning to release a new colony of about 30 spiders, at the RSPB's Arne reserve in Dorset in the hope that they will colonise surrounding heathland.
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20 Things You Didn't Know About Spiders
Spider venom as a cure for erectile disfunction. Spider's webs used as synthetic muscle or underwater glue. Strange mating & feeding habits & even using dreadlocks as a treatment for arachnophobia. Here are some weird & wonderful facts about all things spidey
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Thursday, September 29, 2011
The Double Beating Heart Of The Tarantula
The Double Beating Heart Of The Tarantula
An MRI scan of a live tarantula by researchers at Society for Experimental Biology has revealed a distinct type of double beat contraction in the spider's heart
