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too hot Cyln

I bet esse

big bug

 

this one i made was pretty wicked

 

Spider did a good job Essen

 

Your bug is what we call a daddylonglegs. They're deadly poison to humans, but their fangs are to small/short to get thru your skin

 

not really inuk was only 1 or 2 cm big,
but i use a macro lens what makes them look huge

 

hayd is still in his home village

 

lol yea cold

I don't think so Cy, i made that shot in my backyard and as far i know we don't have really dangerous spiders in holland, don't think the spider your talking about lives over here

 

just waiting to check the latest weather at home

 

The real long legged one up top?


Misconceptions

There is an urban legend stating that daddy long-legs spiders have the most potent venom of any spider, but that their chelicerae (fangs) are either too small or too weak to puncture human skin; the same legend is also repeated of the harvestman and crane fly, also called "daddy long-legs" in some locales. Indeed, pholcid spiders do have a short fang structure (called uncate). However, brown recluse spiders also have uncate fang structure, but are able to deliver medically significant bites. Either pholcid venom is not toxic to humans or there is a musculature difference between the two arachnids, with recluses, being hunting spiders, possessing stronger muscles for fang penetration.[5]

In 2004, the Discovery Channel show MythBusters set out to test the daddy long-legs myth (Season 1, Episode 13 "Buried in Concrete"). After measuring the spider's fangs at approximately 0.25 mm (average human skin thickness varies from about 0.5mm to 4mm), the show's host was apparently bitten, although the bite produced little more than a mild short-lived burning sensation. This appears to confirm the suspicion that pholcids can penetrate human skin, but that their venom is practically harmless to humans. Additionally, recent research by Alan Van Dyke has shown that pholcid venom is actually relatively weak in its effects on insects as well.[6].

According to the University of California at Riverside, the daddy long-legs spider has never harmed a human and there is no evidence that they are dangerous to humans.[7]

The urban legend ostensibly stems from the fact that the daddy long-legs spider is known to prey upon deadly venomous spiders, such as the redback, a member of the black widow genus Latrodectus.[8] By extrapolation, it was thought that if the daddy long-legs spider could regularly kill a spider capable of delivering fatal bites to humans, then it must be more venomous, and the uncate fangs were accused of prohibiting it from killing people.[9] In reality, it is merely quicker than the redback.[10]

 

yea i made it in my backyard i don't think we've got any real dangrous spiders over here, way to cold for that

 

Amy Adams is so cute

 

They live over here Essen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pholcidae

 

Only thing Inuk has eyes for is the weather

 

now thats fucking hot

 

Here's what we call daddylonglegs



Hell, there are only 40,000,000,000 species of spider, so it could be anything, lol.

 

since u guys seem to know the bugs better then me maybe anyone can tell me wtf this is ?

 

whew, visibility is up to 15 miles, clouds are now 600 foot ceiling 7000 broken.

should be fine to go home now

 

ossum inuk! great news

 

yeah I really want to get home esse

 

You should have captived it Essen