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unusual facts about spiders



1891 Cleveland Spiders season

He remained the Spiders manager until his contract was reassigned to the St. Louis Perfectos before the 1899 season.

1896 Cleveland Spiders season

The same two teams had met the previous season, with the second-place Spiders beating the first-place Orioles 4 games to 1, but this year the results were reversed, as the Spiders were swept in four straight.

45 rpm adapter

Commissioned by RCA president David Sarnoff and invented by Thomas Hutchison, spiders were prevalent in the 1960s and sold tens of millions per year.

Agelena consociata

Although these spiders live in colonies consisting of many individuals, each spider acts and breeds individually and there is not any specialization of role as there is with social insects.

Arachnospila trivialis

The only confirmed prey are spiders of the genus Xysticus and it may prey on wolf spiders of the family Lycosidae too.

Ariadna bicolor

He brought the spiders from Ithaca and made them a home that had blocks nailed together that each had a hole.

Banana spider

Golden silk orb-weaver, a widespread homogenus of large but rather harmless spiders that are famous for their large durable webs

Brazilian wandering spider, a South and Central American genus of extremely venomous spiders

Batrachedra stegodyphobius

The larvae have been recorded feeding on decaying animal matter in the web of social spiders of the Stegodyphus genus.

Beltian body

Unique among spiders for its predominantly vegetarian diet, Bagheera kiplingi feeds almost exclusively on Beltian bodies.

Brachypelma

Large spiders used in Hollywood movies (e.g. Indiana Jones, The Mummy Returns) are often Brachypelma smithi or Brachypelma emilia because they are very docile, though the much less expensive and only moderately more aggressive Chilean rose tarantula is frequently used as well.

Brachypsectra fulva

In a research study, larvae in captivity were offered spiders in the genus Metepeira.

Central Oregon Coast Range

Arthropods include various spiders, millipedes, collembolans, beetles, and a variety of centipedes.

Chris Packham

In December 2009, Packham criticised reality TV show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! for mistreating animals, accusing them of plugging up spiders' fangs, needlessly killing insects and tying crocodiles' mouths shut.

Cloaking

In September 2007, Ralph Tegtmeier and Ed Purkiss coined the term "mosaic cloaking" whereby dynamic pages are constructed as tiles of content and only portions of the pages, javascript and CSS are changed, simultaneously decreasing the contrast between the cloaked page and the "friendly" page while increasing the capability for targeted delivery of content to various spiders and human visitors.

Cobweb painting

Web painting is first documented in the 16th century from the Valley of Pustertal in the Austrian Tyrolean Alps, carried out by monks who produced paintings on canvases made entirely of spiders' webs or caterpillars' silk.

Cyrtophora parangexanthematica

The specific name "parangexanthematica" literally means 'like exanthematica' in Filipino, referring to their close resemblance to double-tailed tent spiders (Cyrtophora exanthematica).

Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976

The Act's schedule designates the species covered, such as many primates, carnivores, larger or venomous reptiles, dangerous spiders and scorpions.

Devil Bunny Needs a Ham

Furthermore, there are special spaces on the sides of the buildings that represent "fear" that cannot be moved into (As a show of Cheapass Games' signature humor, these fears included "spiders" and "Wesley Snipes.")

Epipompilus insularis

insularis females hunt, usually in sunshine for retreat-making spiders in the concealed places where female spiders retreat to, such as rolled dead leaves; hollow plant stems; flax bushes; dead rolled fronds of tree-ferns; the abandoned cocoons of the bag-moth Liothula omnivora; deserted galleries of wood-boring beetles; and even the empty hatched galls of the moth Morova subfasciata in Muehlenbeckia australis and beneath loose bark on tree trunks.

Episyron gallicum

It hunts terrestrial spiders which hunt their prey such as Wolf spiders as opposed to web weaving spiders.

Geckos of New Zealand

New Zealand geckos are omnivorous – their diet is primarily insectivorous in nature – flies, spiders, moths etc., but they will supplement it with fruit (i.e.: from mahoe) and nectar (i.e.: from flax flowers) when it is available.

Jba Fofi

British cinematographer Richard Terry travelled to the Amazon to investigate reports of giant spiders in the June 13th episode of Man V Monster.

Kenichi Hagiwara

After The Tempters, he formed the band PYG along with Kenji Sawada, the first true Japanese supergroup, a unit which included members of The Tigers, The Tempters, and The Spiders.

Mexican Sheartail

The tiny cup-shaped nest is made of lichens, spiders webs and the seeds of daisy family plants.

Milichiidae

The "jackal" habit has been widely documented, with many pictures and references to Millichiidae assembling on the prey of spiders (especially Nephilidae, Oxyopidae, and Thomisidae).

Money / Kill Me

Their debut for Gut Records, it is also the first single to be released from their debut album Spiders (though the band consider it to be just a "test" release and prefer the next single "Female of the Species" to be their debut proper), and their second altogether.

Norrard Rocks

On Mincarlo he recorded the following spiders; Trochosa terricola, Oedothorax fuscus, Lepthyphantes tenuis, Dismodicus bifrons, Xysticus kochi and Halorates reprobus which is associated with the nests of seabirds, especially cormorant and shag.

Oparara Basin

The spiders Oparara karamea and Oparara vallus are also endemic to the area, while the caves are home to the protected Nelson cave spider, glowworms, and the New Zealand greater short-tailed bat.

Palfuria helichrysorum

The species name is derived from the rosette bearing Asteraceae Helichrysum, which serves as a retreat for night active spiders.

Pholcus phalangioides

An urban legend states that Pholcidae are the most venomous spiders in the world, but this claim has been proven untrue.

Pinktoe

Pinktoe may refer to one of the following spiders of genus Avicularia

Planet of the Spiders

Kismet Delgado, the widow of Roger Delgado, who had played the Master during the Third Doctor's era, was one of the voices for the Spiders.

Raymond Robert Forster

He researched and classified many of New Zealand's thousands of native spiders, and was responsible for establishing Otago Museum's spider collection.

Red Roman

Solifugae, an order of Arachnida, also known as camel spiders, wind scorpions or sun spiders

Richmond Spiders football, 1881–89

The first Spiders season was in 1881 when they finished 2–0–0, both wins being against Randolph-Macon College of Ashland.

Scarlet Spider

Post-Civil War, the Scarlet Spiders are a group of three unknown people of the Initiative who identify themselves as "Red Team" on the field, first appearing in Avengers: The Initiative #3.

Stenolemus bituberus

It preys upon a variety of spiders, including webs and nests of spiders of Achaearanea, Badumna, Pholcus, and Stiphidion, and the families Salticidae and Uloboridae.

Tasmanian pygmy possum

Tasmanian pygmy possums are omnivorous, feeding on insects, spiders, small lizards, nectar, and pollen, the latter two primarily coming from Banksia and eucalypts.

The Golden Spiders

Other members of the principal cast of The Golden Spiders who would continue in the A&E series A Nero Wolfe Mystery include Bill Smitrovich (Inspector Cramer), Colin Fox (Fritz Brenner), Fulvio Cecere (Fred Durkin), R.D. Reid (Sergeant Purley Stebbins) and Trent McMullen (Orrie Cather).

The Sandman: The Doll's House

As she tries to track their whereabouts, Rose takes up residence in a boarding house full of peculiar characters, including Chantal and Zelda, an ambiguously lesbian couple who always wear bridal garb and own a collection of stuffed spiders; Ken and Barbie, an extremely yuppie-ish couple; the eccentric Gilbert, a self-described "amateur knight errant"; and the landlord Hal, a gay man who performs at nightclubs in drag.

The Spider Bite

Bengt af Klintberg's work in urban legends elaborates and explains that as a consequence of the absence of spiders in the modern urban environment, they have now assumed mythical proportions in our narrative tradition.

There Be Squabbles Ahead

"Filistata" is the name for a genus of spiders native to Eurasia and Northern Africa.

Tomis

Sitticus, a genus of jumping spiders (synonymized with Tomis in 1991)

Tree kingfisher

The Shovel-billed Kookaburra digs through leaf litter for worms and other prey, and the Vanuatu Kingfisher feeds exclusively on insects and spiders.

Willis J. Gertsch

He was the author of hundreds of generic and specific names in a multitude of families and also the author of American Spiders, as well as editor of a later revised printing of John Henry Comstock's Spider Book. During his tenure as Curator of Arachnids at the American Museum of Natural History he was the usual authority quoted when any question on spiders arose.


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