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My first art of 2025- a digital version from the Andra sketch page! I love my anadi oracle bean so much, and I will make the fluffiest and cutest of spiders, even when they are cursed by time <3

And you can see a bonus blushy version over on my Ko-Fi!

https://ko-fi.com/i/IR5R818BANC

spidersaregood-blog

Beautiful

#spiders are good #love of spiders #arachnology #spiders are beautiful #arachnophilia #spider #arachnid #i like spiders #spiders are the best #spider person #spiderfolk #Anadi #pathfinder

bogleech

More reasons NOT to fear spiders - new study into Black Widow biting behavior

In a recent study, researchers poked, prodded, pinched and grabbed black widow spiders with soft, artificial fingers to test how likely they were to bite.

Out of 43 different spiders, only one reacted to poking by attempting to bite. The rest tried to flee, play dead, or throw silk at their attacker to slow them down.

When the spiders were held between artificial fingers “for extended periods of time” with their fangs pressed against the attacker, they still didn’t bite reliably; only 60% used their fangs at all in this predicament, and half of those, in turn, were “dry” bites, injecting no venom at all.

This supports what experts already knew from experience; that a spider generally must be forced into biting, and tries to conserve venom for use against insects and other small prey.

#spider #love of spiders #arachnology #arachnid #spiders are good #arachnophilia #spiders are beautiful #spiders are the best #spiders are friends #spiders are cool #arachnophobia #spider myth #spider bite #spider bites #misdiagnosis #misdirection #spiders are good people

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bogleech

Wowee

Just got done arguing with someone who complained about my spider posts where I could see it and accused me of “spreading dangerous lies” about them, INSISTING that scientific consensus is all wrong and spiders are super deadly and that they totally know someone who definitely watched as a stranger’s “spider bite” in some waiting room somehow got bigger and more necrotic right as they were watching. And all I said was that’s not physically possible, aaaaaaand they blocked me.

Jeez. Let me just dump some articles as well as original scientific sources for the millionth time on this: http://spiders.ucr.edu/myth.html https://www.wired.com/2013/11/poor-misunderstood-brown-recluse/

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=881751

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1071166/

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170215121051.htm

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=97804&page=1

https://www.livescience.com/48787-worlds-deadliest-spiders-myth.html

ineffectualdemon

Someone shared this on my Facebook

And I get the message yeah spiders eat bad insects but why does the bold print seem to give the secret message:

“Spiders spiders FEED IF SPIDERS FREE”

Which just comes off as ominous

evenmoreuserboxesmoved-blog

Spider MythsBy Rod CrawfordEverything that 'everybody knows' about spiders is wrong!

Spider Myths

#spider myths #myths #misconceptions #misconception #misdiagnosis #misunderstanding #arachnology #arachnophobia #arachnid #spiders are good #spiders are good people

aleckxi

September 2013 - scientific illustration of a brown widow By Xi Dorhofer

everythingstarstuff

https://www.instagram.com/indg0

thescienceturnip

her eyes are dazzling.

doutrinaliberal

Teias de aranha.

bugbbys

Daisy on her daisy 🌼

trunks-kiwi

Fun fact: I completely respect people’s fears, but if I see one more person say something about killing someone’s pet I’m going to LOSE it.

A tarantula and scorpion to us arachnid lovers is just as much part of our family as your dog, cat, horse, etc. is to you. You may not like them, but don’t threaten peoples pets you heathens.

Imagine someone coming up to you and threatening to set your dog on fire. Not nice is it?