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Old April 17th, 2008, 08:42 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Alasdhair View Post
- On average you will eat at least 8 spiders in your life time whilst you sleep.
Urban legend, sorry. No research has ever been done

And just for the record:

- The daddy-long-legs spider is not the most venomous in the world. Nowhere near it in fact.

- Camel spiders aren't spiders, they're Solifugae and more closely related to Harvestmen. They don't have venom glands, don't eat camels and can't run at 25mph.

- Spiders don't lay their eggs in cacti, people or any of the other places you hear stories about

- After recent research, Phoneutria nigriventer/fera (Brazilian Wandering Spider) is now recognised as the most venomous spider in the world rather than the Black Widow.


Spider geek, me?


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Originally Posted by GeigeIstKrieg View Post
Holy shit!

What? You told us to keep it to random bullshit threads
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