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Post by Random Panther on Jun 30, 2012 15:15:18 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2012 15:24:00 GMT -5
Hm, I wonder how much in "research grants" they managed to get out of the gubmint to figure out that Daddy Longlegs eat mosquitoes! Hell, I could have told em that.
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Post by StormInateacup on Jun 30, 2012 15:24:45 GMT -5
I've been telling people for years when they tell me to get exterminators in to deal with my spider "problem" The spiders are NOT a problem. The spiders are a solution to the mosquito problem!! We don't have malarial mosquitoes here. But we do have Ross River fever, Dengue fever and I personally am allergic to everything that bites or stings, so I end up in misery if the buggers get out of control. I am also within 3 kms of a world heritage listed wetlands so you know....mosquitoes look at my tree filled yard as sacred land. I love spiders. I have no patience with people who react badly to them. If you don't like spiders, don't fucking well come visit me.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2012 15:30:12 GMT -5
Did you know that Daddy Longlegs are the most venomous spider in the world? Their mouth parts are so tiny that they can only get them open wide enough to bite tiny insects. though.
{See Storm, you're not the only one with a shit load of useless information in your head.}
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Post by Random Panther on Jun 30, 2012 15:40:48 GMT -5
Useless in that it is,alas,completely wrong Witchy. It's a complete myth.
Pholcids do indeed have short fangs,which in arachnological terms is called "uncate" because they have a secondary tooth which meets the fang like the way the two grabbing parts of a pair of tongs come together. Brown recluse spiders similarly have uncate fang structure and they obviously are able to bite humans. There may be a difference in the musculature that houses the fang such that recluses have stronger muscles for penetration because they are hunting spiders needing to subdue prey whereas pholcid spiders are able to wrap their prey and don't need as strong a musculature. So,again, the myth states as fact something about which there is no scientific basis.
They can bite humans and their venom is harmless. Hells,I've been bitten Pholcids on more than one occasion.
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Post by marisol on Jun 30, 2012 15:41:18 GMT -5
Panther I have a fear of spiders unless they are in a box that can be locked. In Florida we had wolf spiders, the damn things would jump at ya and chase ya around the house. That was when I started killing spiders, not all spiders just the ones that try to get me.I know
spidercide is a crime, I'm afraid of mice too.
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Post by StormInateacup on Jun 30, 2012 15:42:52 GMT -5
He's right you know
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Post by marisol on Jun 30, 2012 16:10:55 GMT -5
Oh I know Daddy Longlegs are harmless for humans, I just put them outside.
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Post by Random Panther on Jun 30, 2012 16:15:22 GMT -5
I have just the article for you,marisol. I'll be back when I find it.
Yeah,even people that should know better spread the Daddy Long Legs myth,including science teachers.
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Post by Random Panther on Jun 30, 2012 17:06:30 GMT -5
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Post by StormInateacup on Jun 30, 2012 18:14:10 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2012 20:26:48 GMT -5
Thanks Panther, for settling that about DLL, I've always had a fondness for them, regardless, but then, you know I AM fond of all spiders, even the "scary" ones, and Brown Recluse are the scariest ones I know of. They're even actually scary looking, and the damage their bites do. *shudder* Grooming in Vet clinics in Tennessee, I saw more than a few Recluse bitten dogs come in. Here I see a lot of Black Widows and of course, my favorites, the Wolf Spiders. I chase the Widows off, knock their nests out enough times and they'll go elsewhere. But the Wolves are the best biting insect control around the place.
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Post by marisol on Jun 30, 2012 20:34:31 GMT -5
'Now Now don't laugh. I have held a tarantula may years ago, of course I was high at the
time. It was very soft and delicate. Nothing to be afraid of. Thank-you for the artical Panther.
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Post by rscott on Jun 30, 2012 20:35:08 GMT -5
I remember thousands of Wolf Spider funnels carpeting the ditches of CO and WY.
Gorgeous after a rain or in the right lighting - eerie looking.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2012 21:06:54 GMT -5
They are prolific around here. They get big too, I've found a couple as big as small Rosefoot Tarantulas.
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