What happens when you poke, prod and pinch black widow spiders? You might be surprised
What happens when you poke, prod and pinch black widow spiders? You might be surprised:
This is guest post, written by the great Arachnologist & Blogger, Catherine Scott. You can find her blogging over at spiderbytes. People seem to have a particular fear mixed with fascination when it comes to venomous animals, and whenever I talk about my work with black widows I am invariably asked questions like, “have you been bitten yet?” The answer is, of course, no. Spiders alm …
I’ve been working on my own arachnophobia for a long time. Black widows (which live in our woodpile, and occasionally show up when we’re trying to gain ground on the junk in the garage) are kind of my last frontier.
This research should help me relax a bit.
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Tags: insects, insects that anonsally will never see, not actually insects in this case, but with the requisite arthropod limbs to squick her out, so tagging for her to tumblrsavior, i wonder if the people who actually track the insects tag for insects, are annoyed by my doing this.
