Vegetarian Spider Found

[fishshooter]

I had sent this to Joe earlier, and he said it would be cool to post this. I know a few of you guys like critters, and I found this really, really interesting:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/6315277/Vegetarian-spider-Bagheera-kiplingi-found-in-Central-America.html

Just another example of how much we have left to learn about nature. :thumbup:

 

[baldtaco-II]

Got to wonder at the relationship between being a veggie and the unusual reproductive strategy.

 

[Lycosa]

Too cool. Spiders are the schizz.

 

[KEmSAT-Survival]

Too cool. Spiders are the schizz.

No they most certainly are not.
They are creepy little demonwhores who lie in wait for some unsuspecting panzy like me to see one, just so they can get the pleasure of seeing me flail my arms, whilst screaming like a schoolgirl:

"IT'S IN MY HAIR, IT'S IN MY HAIR!!" :foot:

Actually spiders only scare me because I can't identify a single solitary one of them other than the Grandaddy Longlegs we use play with as kids.

Other than that I couldn't tell you a Jumping Spider from a Jumping Bean.

Okay, I'm stretching it a little...but I can't identify 'em for shit just by their webs. I still ain't gonna pet one or make kissy-wissy faces at it.

 

[haggismonger]

did you happen to notice the caption under the picture int eh article? had me laughing.

 

[moonwilson]

Those spiders are traitors to their order! Several large tarantulas should be dispatched to re-educate those foul plant-suckers as to the true nature of the spider way. Spiders are meant to kick ass and take names- not to meekly lap sap, and certainly not to "nurture".

Thanks for the link! Arthropods are truly fascinating.

 

[lazerboy2000]

hahaha that caption is great. Isn't this actually a real and legit news source though? I wonder if the publisher was either having a really good day or bad day.

 

[Masteroffajitas]

Intresting. I'd rather have those kind of spiders in my house.

 

[phaserrifle]

hahaha that caption is great. Isn't this actually a real and legit news source though?

yes, one of the better british newspapers.
infact, one of the two I read regualy (although this is admittedly mainly because we get them free in the school library)
also the newspaper which broke the story of our MPs rediculous expenses IRRC

 

[fishshooter]

Here is a video on Livescience:

http://www.livescience.com/animals/091012-vegetarian-spider.html

 

[fishshooter]

hahaha that caption is great. Isn't this actually a real and legit news source though? I wonder if the publisher was either having a really good day or bad day.

Yeah, I was wondering if that slipped by the editor. The Telegraph article was the only article I could find when I heard about it yesterday. Googling it now results in thousands of articles. I think this internet thing is catching on.

 

[midnite-penguin]

Vegetarian SPIDERS NOW?!?! This world certainly IS getting too soft =P

 

[Toucan Oasis]

Vegetarian SPIDERS NOW?!?! This world certainly IS getting too soft =P

They first sighted it inside of a Toyota Prius clinging to a bottle of Avian spring water.

 

[hlee]

They first sighted it inside of a Toyota Prius clinging to a bottle of Avian spring water.

I believe it was actually a "Smart Car."

 

[JD Mandrell]

So does it go around to all the other spiders at spider parties, annoying everyone with preaching about the "evils of eating meat"???

 

[Kbrasmodeler]

So does it go around to all the other spiders at spider parties, annoying everyone with preaching about the "evils of eating meat"???

I believe so. In fact I just heard of a grassroots movement among veggie spiders to have all steel and pointy knives outlawed, in favor of round tipped, plastic butter knives. They also thing tofurkey should be the national food of Argentina.

 

[absolutindian]

Haha, definitely the hippie liberals of the arachnid world...

Although... eating ant larvae... that's gotta be some form of involuntary abortion...

 

[BoxANT]

The sandal-wearing, lefty-liberal, tofu-and-mung-bean-eating hippie spider B. kiplingi

That is funny


Honestly, who would you rather have as a neighbor, this little guy, or a Black Widow?

 

[VTguy]

hahaha that caption is great. Isn't this actually a real and legit news source though? I wonder if the publisher was either having a really good day or bad day.

I read an article this week on this very topic in the New York Times science section that is published every Tuesday so I am quite sure it is legit

 

[Shotgun]

I was doing a google image search to get more photos of this guy and look at this Australian spider I found. The first pretty spider I've ever seen.