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Sounds like a new punch line for your company.
"Our knives are tempered in the blood of spiders"
"Our knives are tempered in the blood of spiders"
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Actually, I cremated it.It went into the furnace and never came out after I started it. Fried at 1800 degrees.
Scott
now we know Gossman's secret;
"Spider-Heat-Treated-Knives!"
Yep. That is how they got that little spider etched on their blades. Wow could this mean that Scott is going to have a Knife with a burn spot that looks like a spider. That would actually be pretty cool.
its a fishing spider named Dolomedes tenebrosus.
The dark fishing spider (Dolomedes tenebrosus) is a large spider, found in the eastern half of the U.S. and Canada, from New England and adjacent portions of southeastern Canada, south to Florida, and west to South Dakota and Texas. It and others in the genus Dolomedes generally live near water, and feed primarily on aquatic insects. However, they will also prey on terrestrial insects and will also capture and feed on small fishes and other small aquatic organisms.
This spider is a member of the Pisauridae family, known as nursery web spiders (they do not build a silk snare, but hunt as in the Lycosidae; the female carries an egg sac under the sternum until just prior to spiderling emergence, whereupon she builds a nursery web around the sac and guards it until the spiderlings have emerged). At least 52 genera, and 328 species are recognized worldwide.
At least five genera are recognized in North America, with Dolomedes occupying a prominent position in the extant literature. This genus includes nine species in North America, including D. scriptus (no recognized common name, but perhaps the light colored fishing spider is most appropriate), D. tenebrosus (the dark fishing spider, being darker than D. scriptus and lacking its prominent white markings, having similar, but subdued markings instead), D. triton, previously known as D. sexpunctatus (the six spotted fishing spider, so named for the two rows of six spots on the lateral margins of the abdomen), and D. vittatus (a fishing spider with no common name and little uniqueness to its markings to commend one, though the pattern of the triangular dark spots forward of the thoracic groove is distinctive, being larger and more prominent than in most Dolomedes) . A close cousin to the Dolomedes is the genus Tinus, which contains one species (Tinus peregrinus). Slightly more removed are the four species of the genus Pisaurina.
As Greg pointed out, the differences between Dolomees scriptus and D. tenebrosus are not easy to distinguish, and my skills are certainly no better than his. I base my suspicion that this is D. tenebrosus on the absence of large white areas on the dorsum, and on the absence of white "W" markings on the dorsal abdomen. In D. scriptus, the white "W" markings are of a uniform albedo throughout, from right to left across the dorsal abdomen, while in D. tenebrosus they are replaced by light-gray chevrons flanked with white spots of a lighter shade of gray. It is possible that additional photos of this same spider, from other angles under different lighting, would lead to another conclusion.
All the fishing spiders are considered beneficial, as they keep insect populations down within their spheres of influence. Their bites are not particularly troublesome.
http://entomology.uark.edu/museum/dolomede.html
http://www.bugsinthenews.com/Texas ...tenebrosus) 3 July 2007 Greg S Porter TX.htm
The dark fishing spider (Dolomedes tenebrosus) is a large spider, found in the eastern half of the U.S. and Canada, from New England and adjacent portions of southeastern Canada, south to Florida, and west to South Dakota and Texas. It and others in the genus Dolomedes generally live near water, and feed primarily on aquatic insects. However, they will also prey on terrestrial insects and will also capture and feed on small fishes and other small aquatic organisms.
This spider is a member of the Pisauridae family, known as nursery web spiders (they do not build a silk snare, but hunt as in the Lycosidae; the female carries an egg sac under the sternum until just prior to spiderling emergence, whereupon she builds a nursery web around the sac and guards it until the spiderlings have emerged). At least 52 genera, and 328 species are recognized worldwide.
At least five genera are recognized in North America, with Dolomedes occupying a prominent position in the extant literature. This genus includes nine species in North America, including D. scriptus (no recognized common name, but perhaps the light colored fishing spider is most appropriate), D. tenebrosus (the dark fishing spider, being darker than D. scriptus and lacking its prominent white markings, having similar, but subdued markings instead), D. triton, previously known as D. sexpunctatus (the six spotted fishing spider, so named for the two rows of six spots on the lateral margins of the abdomen), and D. vittatus (a fishing spider with no common name and little uniqueness to its markings to commend one, though the pattern of the triangular dark spots forward of the thoracic groove is distinctive, being larger and more prominent than in most Dolomedes) . A close cousin to the Dolomedes is the genus Tinus, which contains one species (Tinus peregrinus). Slightly more removed are the four species of the genus Pisaurina.
As Greg pointed out, the differences between Dolomees scriptus and D. tenebrosus are not easy to distinguish, and my skills are certainly no better than his. I base my suspicion that this is D. tenebrosus on the absence of large white areas on the dorsum, and on the absence of white "W" markings on the dorsal abdomen. In D. scriptus, the white "W" markings are of a uniform albedo throughout, from right to left across the dorsal abdomen, while in D. tenebrosus they are replaced by light-gray chevrons flanked with white spots of a lighter shade of gray. It is possible that additional photos of this same spider, from other angles under different lighting, would lead to another conclusion.
All the fishing spiders are considered beneficial, as they keep insect populations down within their spheres of influence. Their bites are not particularly troublesome.
http://entomology.uark.edu/museum/dolomede.html
http://www.bugsinthenews.com/Texas ...tenebrosus) 3 July 2007 Greg S Porter TX.htm
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very informative...Thank you! we used ti have them in scores by the creek where I grew up. We used to call them applespiders because sometimes the circumfrance of there legs reached the span of the apples from the apple tree in the yard...We always guess they where sometype of water spider but it's nice to have some real info thanks again.
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He went fishing in the wrong furnace.
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Trivia: up here we call them Dock Spiders...well, up here but back east. Out here we don't have them as far as I know but they used to get them a lot at my girlfriend's cabin in Ontario. It looks like a wolf spider to me except for the way they hold their front four legs together in sets of two like that...that's a real dock spider thing. Obviously they don't always do that but I have never seen wolf spiders doing it.
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HTed 7 more blades today, no spiders around. Thanks for the detailed explaination ghostguy6.
Scott
Thanks for the detailed explaination ghostguy6.Scott