A new spider

[NotAllThere]

Apparently this new spider is harmless to humans. So it's added to the "some of the sheep" list then.

[quackhandle]

Stuff of nightmares they are. At least the one in the picture looks like a spider should. The camel spiders are more like summat out of a horror movie or an alien species.

When I first read The Mist, nothing in my mind was as bad as this.



qh

[SueEllen]

Stuff of nightmares they are. At least the one in the picture looks like a spider should. The camel spiders are more like summat out of a horror movie or an alien species.

Interesting read - https://www.burkemuseum.org/collecti...y-camel-spider


Unless someone imports them we won't be seeing any of the spiders mentioned in the UK.

[northernladuk]

Camel Spiders - 'nuff said...

Stuff of nightmares they are. At least the one in the picture looks like a spider should. The camel spiders are more like summat out of a horror movie or an alien species.

[quackhandle]

I watched a vid on YT the other week where specialists in Oz were asking people to catch the highly venomous funnel web spider so they could milk them for anti-venom.

Now I like spiders and have held a few tarantulas in my time (and house spiders, flighty things they are) but I'd have to think twice of catching a Sydney funnel web.

qh

[Zigenare]

Camel Spiders - 'nuff said...

[xoggoth]

Nice lickle spider!

[Largely Ginny]

Hmmm-hmmm - this is the only kind of spider I like

[d000hg]

Beautiful in a way, that way being on a screen or behind a piece of glass

[vetran]

Useless without pics, that is one ugly mother

[ladymuck]

Nope.

[SueEllen]

Lovely colours
https://news.sky.com/story/new-giant...ecies-12839767
A new and "rare" species of giant trapdoor spider has been discovered in Australia.

The large eight-legged arachnid is so big that it has been named "Euoplos dignitas" - meaning dignity or greatness in Latin - in honour of its "impressive" size.

Researchers say the female spiders, which are typically larger than the males, can grow up to five centimetres in body length.

"It's a big, beautiful species," said one of the lead researchers, Dr Michael Rix, who is the curator of arachnology at Queensland Museum.

However, the chance of encountering the spider is fairly low, scientists say.

The spider lives in open woodland habitats and builds its burrows in the black soils of the Brigalow Belt in Central Queensland, which is on the northeastern coast of Australia.

https://news.sky.com/story/new-giant...ecies-12839767