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Eeeeek !
Eeeeek !
Brad


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Date Uploaded: Jun 20, 2006

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 Shot this hand-held - LOL

Just an Orb spider - harmless.

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 08/24/2007 06:47:41 PM
Originally posted by jhonan:
Originally posted by Brad:
Those aren't fangs! Them's it's front feets.

They look more like pedipalps to me, the second pair of appendages of the cephalothorax in Arachnida, homologous with mandibles in Crustacea, and corresponding to the mandibles of insects.

Although, I can see where the confusion arose... pedipalps of spiders have the same segmentation as the legs, but the tarsus is undivided, and the pretarsus has no lateral claws.

;-D

I knew that
08/24/2007 04:10:38 PM
Originally posted by Brad:
Those aren't fangs! Them's it's front feets.

They look more like pedipalps to me, the second pair of appendages of the cephalothorax in Arachnida, homologous with mandibles in Crustacea, and corresponding to the mandibles of insects.

Although, I can see where the confusion arose... pedipalps of spiders have the same segmentation as the legs, but the tarsus is undivided, and the pretarsus has no lateral claws.

;-D
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 08/24/2007 03:25:06 PM
Those aren't fangs! Them's it's front feets.
 08/24/2007 03:08:30 PM
Harmless? But look at these *fangs* ! :)
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 08/24/2007 03:07:15 PM
Beautiful spider, but your hand looks creepy blown up like that. IMHO
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 07/13/2007 12:49:46 PM
I would rather poke sticks in my eyes, eat worms, die a thousand deaths than have a spider NEAR me, let alone ON me! EWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!
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 07/08/2006 02:19:11 PM
Originally posted by DevonT:
now that is just discusting

Thanks - I think :)
 07/08/2006 01:23:49 PM
now that is just discusting
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 07/05/2006 07:48:19 PM
Originally posted by Bosborne:
Makes me shiver...My husband and I were both bitten by a brown recluse while on vacation in Costa Rica. He had to have surgery. Developed a staph infection. BAAAAAD!! Good shot tho.

I've been bitten by a Brown Recluse too, and was an experience I DO NOT want to duplicate.
This is a common Orb Spider and is harmless.

Message edited by author 2006-07-05 23:48:37.
 07/05/2006 07:41:13 PM
Makes me shiver...My husband and I were both bitten by a brown recluse while on vacation in Costa Rica. He had to have surgery. Developed a staph infection. BAAAAAD!! Good shot tho.
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 06/20/2006 08:24:11 PM
No thanks. I wouldn't do this. ..but good photo though.
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