arugughgush so cute
a friend that i just made!
anyone know what he is? i’m thinkin american dagger moth he flew in through my window!
i love the way moths hang on to you for dear life
I haven’t watched television in a few years now, and was reminded why when I caught an episode of Animal Planet’s “Call of the Wildman” yesterday.
The show - which follows a hillbilly wrangling problematic wildlife - was fair and accurate in its treatment of snakes, but immediately lost me when the protagonist identified a small spider in a web as a “brown recluse,” which the narrator went on to describe as one of the deadliest spiders in America, further referring to its sacs of eggs as “ticking time bombs” before the wildman killed the whole family with a napkin.
First off, recluse spiders do not construct or hang in webs, and aren’t even shaped like the spider we were shown. Second, as I’ve ranted about before, recluse spiders are not significantly dangerous at all. Nobody on record has ever died or come anywhere close to dying from recluse venom, and of thousands of confirmed bites actually studied, the very worst exhibited a tiny area of necrosis (dead tissue) which healed with little to no treatment.
It is a widely accepted *myth* that recluse bites cause any serious tissue damage. Most will even come and go with no discomfort at all, and recluses themselves only bite if trapped against human skin (in clothing or bedding, for example)…they’re called recluses for a reason. They take great pains to avoid us, as do most other spiders.
lol dang
animal planet isnt very good anymore
and i’m not talking about my blog
some illustrations demonstrating the unique shapes of spermathecae that vary among the different species of tarantulas
Reblog if you own a tarantula!
How many do you own?
What’s your favorite T?
What’s your favorite genus?
i have 7 right now!
my favorite T is… this is a hard question! i like h. maculata, b.albiceps, and g. pulchra.
my favorite genus?? this is hard too. i like avicularia and brachypelma
Tigers have very powerful back legs that enable them to leap up to 13ft in the air. A keeper at Dreamworld, Australia demonstrates this on Sultan, a near 230kg Bengal Tiger.
(by milaswk)
