famalyguy66642069:
astronomy-to-zoology:
Pelican Spiders (Family Archaeidae)
Also known as assassin spiders or spidsnuck, pelican spiders are a unique family of spiders native to Madagascar, southern Africa and parts of Australia. These spiders get the name pelican from their uniquely long necks and elongated jaws. The spider uses these two weird features to prey exclusively on other spiders, which earns them the name assassin. With a long neck and jaws this spider specialist can safely avoid its opponents venomous jaws, and kill/eat it with ease.
Phylogeny
Animalia-Arthropoda-Arachnida-Araneae-Araneomorphae-Arachaeoidea-Arachaeidae
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what the FUCK
HAY GUYS HAAAY
(i actually hate these fuckers they terrify me)
(these and wanderers both of which happen to be my faves to draw whoops)
Fact Seagull Says…
factseagull:
The Banana Spider, found in South America and some parts of Central America, has a potent venom that induces painful, deathly erections in Male Humans.
“Banana Spider” is another name for the Brazilian Wandering Spider. It comes from the tendency to hide in bananas/banana plants, unfortunately for grocery shoppers~
asphaltvalkyrie:
archiemcphee:
This beautiful yellow cape is an awesome work of art and patience. It was woven out of spider silk, specifically, the silk from more than one million Golden silk orb-weaver spiders:
“Textile expert Simon Peers and fashion designer Nicholas Godley [Godley & Peers] collaborated to create this stunning embroidered cape out of golden spider silk. Both residing in Madagascar, the two paired up to achieve a process that hadn’t been attempted for more than 100 years—they wanted to successfully harvest golden orb spider silk for weaving, and they were quite successful.
Working with a large team of more than 80 people, including spider handlers, they spent three years regularly searching the country’s landscape for golden orb spiders. When an individual spider was captured, it would be harnessed, and then milked to produce anywhere from 100-160 feet—sometimes even up to 400 yards—of thread, and then released back into nature. Peers and Godley estimate having milked approximately 1.2 million of these fascinating creatures.”
[via My Modern Metropolis]
They didn’t even have to dye it; the silk was naturally a rich golden yellow, and its softer and lighter than traditional silk.
Now I have another reason to cite when I tell people why I don’t kill spiders.
WOW GET IT ORBS
pprrfrfftt
vtoroifront:
i didn’t know what to draw so i drew pider eyes cause i’m dumb
the last three are more general i guess since it’s a whole group
also i didn’t know there were multiple species of brazilian wandering spiders that’s horrifying
i came across this again and its still funny
there’s a reason traps doesn’t go out of the city much for his work
piders go here dont mind me
i don’t know what i’m doing anymore just take everything. 8|
have some more crap yeaaahhh haha what a midget.
i should prob stop tryin to draw erryone from memory i think im messing up wupsss.
