Actually, I would probably use a legion of robots...Madara XIII said:Looks like someone's trying to build a Legion of Spiders...Rex Dark said:Catch it.
Tame it.
Find one of the other gender as well.
Breed an army of blue spiders.
Take over the world.
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I must admit I would love to see that collection. It's hard to classify species of bugs, so that collection sounds amazing. Oh, and on a side note, insects (including butterflies) are usually pinned through thorax so that's the correct way, beetles through the right cover wing. Millipedes should be stored in in alcohol to preserve colour, shape and size.SckizoBoy said:Ah, that I did not know... thank you. I've only really got a small bit of experience pinning insects, and it's right through the thorax. I'm not as mad as some of my lab colleagues (not by a long shot), but one guy only pins 'perfect specimens' and was pissed at himself for accidentally shaving about 1-2mm off a beetle's antenna (which he promptly freed), while another only pins bees, bee parasites and bee predators... yeah, he's got about six cases full of different species (with complete caste coverage). Damned cool collections, though, got to admit.Yopaz said:You're supposed to put the pin in the area where the cephalothorax and the abdomen are linked to preserve most of the form of the spider. Also this is what I would do too. Ever since I started studying biodiversity I've always started classifying whatever I see as far as I can.
interspark said:so imagine, you're sitting at home, minding your own business, when suddenly you notice, on the wall there is a spider like none you've ever seen, it's bright blue, has long, spindly legs and is the size of a football. do you-
A- KILL THE SUNNOVABITCH!!!
B- get the hell out of there via the nearest door/window/newly created hole in the nearest wall
C- catch it! fame and fortune here i come!
i used to be an arachnaphobic and i think i still am on some level, i think this is the kind of experience that will have me soiling myself and running, in fact i don't even think i'd hesitate to jump out of or even through the window if it were nearest, at least then i'll leave people laughing if i bounce off it and get bitten and killed
no way is that a real spider, for one thing it has no teeth and 2 eyes, and yes, 9 legsBloodwings said:![]()
One question: Why does this spider have 9 legs?
A pillow...?cyrogeist said:kill the fucker!
if it's bright blue it's most likely poisonous
crush it with a damn pillow! then throw it out...
Was the movie eight-legged freaks by any chance? I would love to show that movie to an arachnophobic person >Biosophilogical said:OT: I'd bail. Size of a football!? I think they made a movie like that, and let me tell you, shit hit the fan.
Well I guess it must be quite common but of course they are so small that if you weren't allergic I guess you wouldn't notice. I think that's why it seems strange to everyone else.Ambi said:It's baffling how often some of these people manage to get bitten by things. There was this girl in my grade who was allergic to ant bites, and she seemed to get bitten at least once every two months, which is strange. Is it common to get bitten by house spiders where you are?xXxJessicaxXx said:Id also tell my sister to take my nephew far far away he is allergic to house spider bites and has been in hospital twice.
.......Vuavu said:You know there are some species of spiders that live at deep-sea levels, right? They're pretty fuckin scary-looking tooCpu46 said:You know that scene in the matrix where they summon the rows and rows of guns in the training area. I would use every single one of those and destroy the spider and probably the wall it was sitting on. I would then burn down the house with Napalm to make sure any other spiders of that species died. Then I would move, to the bottom of the ocean.
Not an arachnophobe but any insect or arachnid more than twice the size of what I am used to seeing dies.
well, if you thought the spiders at the bottom of the sea were bad!... >:-D my advice, center of the earthCpu46 said:.......Vuavu said:You know there are some species of spiders that live at deep-sea levels, right? They're pretty fuckin scary-looking tooCpu46 said:You know that scene in the matrix where they summon the rows and rows of guns in the training area. I would use every single one of those and destroy the spider and probably the wall it was sitting on. I would then burn down the house with Napalm to make sure any other spiders of that species died. Then I would move, to the bottom of the ocean.
Not an arachnophobe but any insect or arachnid more than twice the size of what I am used to seeing dies.
*twitch*
well then....
TO SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!
yeeeah, i'm going to need to see some pictures of that pleaseVuavu said:You know there are some species of spiders that live at deep-sea levels, right? They're pretty fuckin scary-looking too