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4 paź 2021 · Why do we kill them so casually? It's officially arachnicide season in the Northern Hemisphere. Millions of spiders have appeared in our homes – and they'd better be on their guard.
29 mar 2017 · Spiders eat as much meat as all humans combined—no matter how you parse it. Arachnophobes should beware this hair-raisingly hilarious story from The Washington Post, which points out that the world's population of spiders could theoretically eat every human on Earth in just a year.
4 sty 2024 · It’s not possible to read a spider’s mind, but research has uncovered some surprising insights about how they behave around humans. Take the Jorō spider, Trichonephila clavata.
Myth: Spiders do not literally eat the insects they kill; they only suck the "juices" or blood. Fact: You can find this myth in many books; even some scientists, who have never bothered to look for themselves, believe it.
15 mar 2017 · If spiders already freak you out a little, here's a newly discovered scientific tidbit that probably won't help much: these insatiable predators gorge themselves on up to twice the total weight of animals that humans consume each year.
7 cze 2024 · Although large and potentially alarming in appearance, Joro spiders are not aggressive and pose minimal threat to humans and local ecosystems . The venomous invasive species is spreading up...
21 wrz 2020 · Funnel webs are considered one of Australia’s most fearsome spiders, but their ability to kill humans is by accident rather than design, our new research shows.
