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Hungry or thirsty horses are more likely to eat poisonous plants, as are those pastured on overgrazed lands. [5] Animals with mineral deficiencies due to poor diets will sometimes seek out poisonous plants. [6] Poisonous plants are more of a danger to livestock after wildfires, as they often regrow more quickly. [7]
Trichonephila clavipes (formerly known as Nephila clavipes), commonly known as the golden silk orb-weaver, golden silk spider, golden orb weaver spider or colloquially banana spider (a name shared with several others), is an orb-weaving spider species which inhabits forests and wooded areas ranging from the southern US to Argentina. [3]
Banana spider may refer to: Cupiennius, a South and Central American genus of spiders; Phoneutria, also known as Brazilian wandering spiders, a related South and Central American genus of extremely venomous spiders; Golden silk orb-weaver (Nephila), a widespread genus of large but rather harmless spiders, noted for their large durable webs
Arachnophobes, beware: a giant invasive spider may make its way to Ohio. But they're not here yet. Trichonephila clavata , known commonly as Joro spiders, are a large, yellow breed of arachnid ...
Female banana spiders can be 3 inches or more across with their legs spread out, while males are rarely more than 0.5 to 0.75 inches across. The black sections on their legs are fuzzy, ...
It is the banana spider’s doppelganger, the Brazilian Wandering Spider, that was named the most venomous animal in 2007 by the Guinness Book of World Records. To tell the two apart, take a ...
The spiders in the genus can grow to have a leg span of 13 to 18 cm (5 to 7 in). Their body length ranges from 17 to 48 mm (43 ⁄ 64 to 1 + 57 ⁄ 64 in). [4] [5] While some other araneomorph spiders have a longer leg span, the largest Phoneutria species have the longest body and the greatest body weight in this group. [6]
Phoneutria fera is a species of spider with medically significant venom in the family Ctenidae found in South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Suriname, and Guyana). [1] It is commonly known as the Brazilian wandering spider and the banana spider, [ 2 ] although these names are applied to other species in the genus Phoneutria ...