Spider comparison

[urbpan]

Funnel Web Spider (December 2005, Massachusetts)


Wolf Spider (June 2005, Vermont)

Comments

[badnoodles.livejournal.com]

Is that wolf spide carrying an egg sac, or does it just have a really ugly abdomen?

(Spiders - related to, but not actually my field of expertise)

[burning-brain.livejournal.com]

I think spiders and insects came here from another planet. They're just too weird looking.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Egg sac. It's how I made my (tentative) id. Here's what it says in my Golden Guide:

"The female attaches her large egg sac to her spinnerets. if the egg sac is removed, the spider searches, and upon finding the sac attaches it to her spinnerets again. She may substitute bits of cork, paper, or snail shells for the egg sac if lost."

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

I like spider A better because she doesn't have fifty billion spiders in a bag attached to her ass.

[gwodder.livejournal.com]

All Earth life comes from space.

Hell, EARTH comes from space.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Spiders are kind of marginal--only 40,000 species or so.

Insects, on the other hand, are the dominant life form on this planet. (More than half of all known species of life are insects).

[burning-brain.livejournal.com]

Haven't you heard? That's all "just a theory."

[burning-brain.livejournal.com]

Dude. If they ever organize we are DOOMED.

[gwodder.livejournal.com]

hahahaha

the only place there IS is outer space.

[gwodder.livejournal.com]

When life-forms organ(ism)ize it's good for ALL the life.

What we call organization in humans lately is more like mechanization. It's not what spiders do.

[anais2.livejournal.com]

Do you know how bad that looks in writing?

(More than half of all known species of life are insects).

AAARGH!

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Ant supercolony dominates Europe

[burning-brain.livejournal.com]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!
*runs in circles screaming and waving arms*

[richmackin.livejournal.com]

And with all that I know, they still kinda creep me out.

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

i hear that.