Spiders with water droplet hats are something I really needed to know about.
I have a bad phobia of spiders but this is freaking adorable alright
Did this photoset just make spiders look cute to me?
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Wild Cards by Tony Meeuwissen
Your standard deck of 52 playing cards is typically ordained with fanciful representations of English nobility in the garish court costumes of time’s past, but Tony has given the suits a distinctively darker image, finding the spades, clubs, hearts, and diamonds in the more unusual corners of the imagination.
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Nina Katchadourian - Mended Spiderwebs (1998)
Artist’s statement:
“In the forest and around the house where I was living, I searched for broken spiderwebs which I repaired using red sewing thread. All of the patches were made by inserting segments one at a time directly into the web. I fixed the holes in the web until it was fully repaired, or until it could no longer bear the weight of the thread.
In the process, I often caused further damage when the tweezers got tangled in the web or when my hands brushed up against it by accident.
The morning after the first patch job, I discovered a pile of red threads lying on the ground below the web. At first I assumed the wind had blown them out; on closer inspection it became clear that the spider had repaired the web to perfect condition using its own methods, throwing the threads out in the process.
My repairs were always rejected by the spider and discarded, usually during the course of the night, even in webs which looked abandoned.”
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Possible new species of spider found that builds fake spider decoys
by Bob Yirka
While traveling with a group of researchers in the Amazon rain forest this past September, biologist Phil Torres came upon a type of spider he’d never seen before. Upon closer inspection, it turned out the spider wasn’t a spider at all, but a decoy created by a real spider. He documents the find in a blog post for Rainforest Expeditions.
In consulting with experts in the field, Torres has come to believe that the tiny striped spider is a member of the genus Cyclosa, which are known for adding material to their nests to either attract prey or hide from predators. In this case, it appears the spider has developed a special skill to help it avoid being eating by paper wasps…
(Read more: PhysOrg) (photo: Phil Torres)
The decoy has eight legs!!!!!!!!!!!!
THAT IS REALLY COOL!!!!!!!!
holy shit this is incredible, i love this
Aw, smart lil’ guy c’:
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