Comments on: Giant Chicken-Eating Spider Discovered

By: sally

sally — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:18:52 +0000

what the hell are chickens doin in the jungle, wat came 1st chicken or egg, or the spider n ow many legs do they have and do they harm mankind, and is there anything that can kill a chicken eatin spider except a foot write back asap coz mi uncle margret needs 2 no coz her bottom is the size of a walnut xx

By: Anoop

Anoop — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:48:52 +0000

I’m sure a little cinnamon and honey (or was it the other way around?) will keep the damn-dirty-archnos away!!! : )

You might need to mix it with some essence of slug, I’ll post the recipe once I get it from my friend’s aunt who is a real doctor.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:05:37 +0000

Be careful….it’ll have your arm off!

By: Frank the SciencePunk

Frank the SciencePunk — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:04:05 +0000

It’s more a respectful fear and awe than actual hatred…

By: stuart

stuart — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:11:13 +0000

p.s.

Why be so hateful to these spiders… they keep the roaches and flies in check, doing a great service for pest control.

Please try to give them credit.

By: stuart

stuart — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:09:54 +0000

Well… these ones DO live in packs for sure (thanks for the spelling david), which makes them unusal among tarantulas. But, the facts are the facts. As for the communal frog, well also unusual, but other invertebrates are known to live in tarantula burrow (scorpions, whip spiders, millipedes), so why not vertebrate frogs? Frogs often secrete toxins in the skin making them distateful, so i can see why the spiders would not eat the frogs, and furthermore the frogs might eat small parasitic insects like flies and wasps that could harm the spider.

So, to whoever wrote comment 8, open your eyes to the wonder and diversity of nature, the world is full of the unexpected !!!

P.s. I have been a professional biologist for 20+ yrs, and i still get surprised by new discoveries, as do all professionals !!

By: david Brent

david Brent — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:05:39 +0000

it is packs not pacts

By: Frank the SciencePunk

Frank the SciencePunk — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:14:23 +0000

[citation needed]

By: No name

No name — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 18:11:26 +0000

There are no know spiders that hunt in pacts sounds like its been made up. Secondly as far as tarantulas go they eat anything that moves especially if its in there burrow so that takes the frog living in the burrow out of the equation. That documented case must have been a freak thing. For example in the article off the frog living with the tarantula forgot to mention that the tarantula webs the burrow heavily and the frog was block into another half of the burrow the tarantula didn’t use.

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 10 May 2007 10:52:09 +0000

Is it? Presumably when talking about 17 year old boy-racers in ‘hot hatches’ clogging up the roads and causing accidents. I agree, nuke them, but keep the spiders.