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So we might not know where this urban legend came from, but at least we can sleep without worrying about eating spiders. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement. Holiday Shopping Guides.
Spiders could, theoretically, eat every single human on earth within one year. It gets worse. Those humans consume about 400 million tons of meat and fish each year, so ultimately, the tiny ...
Still, many species, like house spiders and jumping spiders, are found in every state, says Scot Hodges, vice president of professional development and technical services at Arrow Exterminators in ...
The post has inspired a Spiders-Georg–themed blog on Tumblr, [6] and users have reported having dreams about "Spiders Georg" or attempted to calculate how many spiders he would have to eat to make the urban legend true. [5] One calculation suggests that Spiders Georg would need to eat 65 million spiders per day for the global average to be 3. [7]
The widow spiders (genus Latrodectus), such as the black widow, redback spider, and katipÅ are spiders that carry a neurotoxic venom [18] which can cause a set of symptoms known as Latrodectism. Widow spiders are large, shiny house spiders with relatively spindly legs and deep, globular abdomens.
Females eating males: Perhaps the most widely known example of cannibalism in spiders is when females cannibalise males before, during or after copulation. For example, the male Australian redback spider ( Latrodectus hasselti ) is killed by the female after he inserts his second palpus in the female's genital opening; in over 60% of matings ...
With so many kinds of eight-legged bugs running around (nearly 3,000 species in North America alone!), the most common house spiders are bound to pop up in your abode from time to time. And with ...
The LD50 of many poisons is known for humans but not that of spider venom. [citation needed] Serious bites develop symptoms quickly, within the hour. While a serious medical condition may result (see latrodectims and loxocelism) fatalities are exceedingly rare. Appropriate medical treatment can improve speed of recovery.