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A Break From The Alex Smith Drama: Urbanization Is Supersizing Spiders
City living brings with it a few shifts in lifestyle compared to rural habitation: shorter commutes, accessible shops and, often, an over-reliance on restaurant dining and fast food. Another side effect of the congested, cramped, cement-laded city life is that the temperature tends to be a little warmer year-round, a shift known as the “urban heat island” effect.
As it turns out, these changes aren’t only affecting cities’ human populations. In Australia, where spiders already have a propensity to be terrifyingly large, new research by University of Sydney PhD candidate Lizzy Lowe, says The Age, found that Sydney’s higher temperatures and easier access to food are driving the spiders to grow even bigger. She studied the golden orb weaver in three types of environments in and around Sydney – urban parks, remnant bushland and continuous bushland. Twenty sites were studied and, for each spider web found, she assessed its proximity to man-made objects and vegetation. Comparing the sizes of the spiders, she found that the city spiders outpaced the country spiders. And, though her research focused only on Golden orb weaver spiders, she suggests that the same effect can probably be seen in other species. A female golden orb weaver spider. Photo: Arthur Chapman http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smar...izing-spiders/ |
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02-28-2013, 09:57 PM | #61 |
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I think it is damn near impossible to squat and poop while looking behind you. And I am pretty sure a spider can hide in a pile of broken ceramic.
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I have no idea why i keep coming back into this dam spider thread.
yuck
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02-28-2013, 11:36 PM | #70 |
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Again, spiders are the ultimate ****s.
I do not **** around with spiders.
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What no love for this link....thought it was hillarious
Nice lil PSA on spiders. Quite educational. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=sHzdsFiBbFc Gotta love crack cocaine spiders!!!!!!!!!!! |
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worst. thread. ever.
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Damn, I think a few of those a big enough to use RAID as cologone.
That would call for a 12 gauge. Here spider...............BOOM....BOOM....BOOM!!!
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