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Old 02-28-2013, 12:34 PM   Topic Starter
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A Break From The Alex Smith Drama: Urbanization Is Supersizing Spiders

City living brings with it a few shifts in lifestyle compared to rural habitation: shorter commutes, accessible shops and, often, an over-reliance on restaurant dining and fast food. Another side effect of the congested, cramped, cement-laded city life is that the temperature tends to be a little warmer year-round, a shift known as the “urban heat island” effect.

As it turns out, these changes aren’t only affecting cities’ human populations. In Australia, where spiders already have a propensity to be terrifyingly large, new research by University of Sydney PhD candidate Lizzy Lowe, says The Age, found that Sydney’s higher temperatures and easier access to food are driving the spiders to grow even bigger.

She studied the golden orb weaver in three types of environments in and around Sydney – urban parks, remnant bushland and continuous bushland. Twenty sites were studied and, for each spider web found, she assessed its proximity to man-made objects and vegetation.

Comparing the sizes of the spiders, she found that the city spiders outpaced the country spiders. And, though her research focused only on Golden orb weaver spiders, she suggests that the same effect can probably be seen in other species.

A female golden orb weaver spider. Photo: Arthur Chapman


http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smar...izing-spiders/
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Old 02-28-2013, 12:36 PM   #2
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Old 02-28-2013, 07:49 PM   #3
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Old 02-28-2013, 12:36 PM   #4
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Here's a pic of the "Clock Spider" linked to the text "terrifyingly large" in the original article:

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Old 02-28-2013, 06:07 PM   #5
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Old 02-28-2013, 12:36 PM   #6
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I like spiders as long as they
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Old 02-28-2013, 02:02 PM   #7
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3. I don't see them
I've never bothered to pay for exterminators or anything and generally I don't mind spiders. However, I went to school with a girl that had a recluse bite on her wrist that scarred into a big medallion shaped scar where a watch would sit; kind odd looking.

I've also seen the necrosis on dogs from recluse bites. So a recluse scares the bejesus out of me, especially since they live in shoes and the bites rarely hurt until your flesh starts to rot.

So I pick up my golf shoes last summer and I see a couple of soft brown spiders no bigger than a penny. I get pretty close to take a look at them..."MOTHER OF GOD!"

Went and looked online again to be sure, yup, a pair of recluses living under my golf shoe.

I called the exterminator and told him to nuke the site from orbit. Fire, floods, whatever it took. He didn't really believe me, but when he was done he confirmed that he found a few in the garage.

Yeah, I'm an irrational pussy when it comes to that one single type of spider.
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Old 02-28-2013, 11:05 PM   #8
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I've never bothered to pay for exterminators or anything and generally I don't mind spiders. However, I went to school with a girl that had a recluse bite on her wrist that scarred into a big medallion shaped scar where a watch would sit; kind odd looking.

I've also seen the necrosis on dogs from recluse bites. So a recluse scares the bejesus out of me, especially since they live in shoes and the bites rarely hurt until your flesh starts to rot.

So I pick up my golf shoes last summer and I see a couple of soft brown spiders no bigger than a penny. I get pretty close to take a look at them..."MOTHER OF GOD!"

Went and looked online again to be sure, yup, a pair of recluses living under my golf shoe.

I called the exterminator and told him to nuke the site from orbit. Fire, floods, whatever it took. He didn't really believe me, but when he was done he confirmed that he found a few in the garage.

Yeah, I'm an irrational pussy when it comes to that one single type of spider.
Yea, shitty thing about exterminating for spiders is they charge out the ass because they claim the only way to kill them is on contact
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I love spiders. Just something about them. They are fun to watch and have some complicated behavior patterns, and such a variety of forms. I really feel bad about it when they surprise me. Because I will, almost without fail, shriek like a little girl and stomp them into goo.
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Old 02-28-2013, 12:52 PM   #11
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I love spiders. Just something about them. They are fun to watch and have some complicated behavior patterns, and such a variety of forms. I really feel bad about it when they surprise me. Because I will, almost without fail, shriek like a little girl and stomp them into goo.
These two posts pretty much describe my feelings towards spiders. They're significantly less annoying than almost all other bugs (which they keep away from me by eating them). There's just something about them, though, that makes my skin crawl. That picture in the OP made me shiver.
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Old 02-28-2013, 12:57 PM   #12
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And spiders are like offensive linemen. The best ones do their job and you never see them.
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Old 02-28-2013, 12:59 PM   #13
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Damn, I killed a few recluses last year, but I'm damn glad none were as big as the ones in listopencil post. uck.
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Old 02-28-2013, 08:09 PM   #14
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Damn, I killed a few recluses last year, but I'm damn glad none were as big as the ones in listopencil post. uck.
I probably killed around 100 of those bastards.

Only 2 were in my basement, and a few in the garage. Thank God.
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