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Polysorbate80
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Reply #770 on: April 26, 2019, 08:47:10 AM

You still don't want to find that hiding in the animal cracker cookies

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Reply #771 on: July 18, 2019, 10:08:23 PM

Something from Australia that won't kill you stone dead in 3 seconds.

so, how long does it take to kill you?

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Reply #772 on: March 05, 2020, 11:35:29 AM


Hic sunt dracones.
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Reply #773 on: April 18, 2020, 11:20:05 PM


Hic sunt dracones.
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Reply #774 on: March 21, 2021, 04:37:40 PM

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Reply #775 on: April 23, 2021, 02:45:37 PM


Hic sunt dracones.
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Reply #776 on: April 23, 2021, 02:46:37 PM

Never trust a girl with tattoos on her fingers.

 why so serious?

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Reply #777 on: March 09, 2022, 07:45:18 AM



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Reply #778 on: March 09, 2022, 11:24:33 AM

It's been surprisingly difficult trying to find a video of Joro spiders ballooning around.
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Reply #779 on: March 09, 2022, 11:40:25 AM

They're pretty!



Hopefully they aren't an ecological menace.  Apparently they eat some other species of invasive bug that previously didn't have any local predators, so that's cool.

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As of 2020, their impact on their new ecosystem is unknown. They have been observed catching the brown marmorated stink bug, another invasive species that native spiders have not been known to eat,[9] and some researchers reportedly hope these spiders also will consume mosquitoes and flies.[10] (wiki)

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Reply #780 on: March 09, 2022, 01:03:03 PM

Cool. Love orb weaver type spiders because they are creepy as hell compared to the fuzzy tarantula types. Only shitty part is orb weavers spin some huge fucking webs - I have enough problems walking thru regular crab spider webs...  awesome, for real

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Reply #781 on: March 09, 2022, 02:55:08 PM

Say this comment on Hacker News which probably explains why there are no videos of what I was looking for -- i.e. giant spiders floating around in the wind:
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Worth mentioning is that it is very young spiderlings, not adults, who engage in "ballooning" to disperse from their natal web.
You don't need to worry about giant spiders with four-inch legspans falling on your head! Or not more than usually, at least - the spiders drifting out of the sky will be only at most perhaps the size of a matchhead, and even more harmless than they would be when full-sized.
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Edit: link to comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30620446
« Last Edit: March 09, 2022, 03:14:04 PM by Trippy »
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Reply #782 on: March 09, 2022, 08:00:09 PM

Jesus, didn't anybody read Charlotte's Web? Ballooning spiders are teeny-weeny you'd never notice them.
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