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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]
But the book has no section on spiders, and the claim about eating spiders isn't there. And when someone asked asked the Library of Congress to verify if PC Professional existed, it couldn't.
The eggs, larvae, pupae, and adults of certain insects have been eaten by humans from prehistoric times to the present day. [4] Around 3,000 ethnic groups practice entomophagy. [ 5 ] Human insect-eating is common to cultures in most parts of the world, including Central and South America , Africa , Asia , Australia , and New Zealand .
Only male funnel-web spiders are milked as they are about six times more venomous than females. Funnel-webs, whose most dangerous species lives in and around Sydney, are known for their deadly ...
One study estimates that the global average spider density is 131 spiders per square meter. Obviously, habitats like deserts have fewer spiders, but others have spider densities of 1,000 per ...
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 ...
About 15 species of spiders are scientifically described as being edible, with a history of human consumption. [2] These edible spiders include: Thailand zebra leg tarantula (Cyriopagopus albostriatus) which is sold fried as traditional snack in Cambodia and Thailand; Thailand Black (Cyriopagopus minax); Goliath birdeater (Theraphosa blondi);
Females take longer to replace egg sacs lost by infanticide than egg sacs lost due to other reasons. [13] Stegodyphus lineatus eggs are unusual compared to other spiders’ because they have a small number of small eggs relative to the body size of the mother, whereas most other spiders either have a small number of large eggs or a large number ...