Tarantulas: The Delicate Cannibal

All of a sudden, these green spiders started popping up on my porch. Not sure what kind they are yet but I will see if I can find anything on them. Not sure if they're common in Pennsylvania because I haven't seen them before. They are pretty active. This one spider moves around a lot and it webbed nearly the whole entire porch. There's plenty of egg sacs on the walls and ceiling. It keeps getting agitated when I open the front door because her web gets destroyed. If anyone knows the species please comment below! I can't seem to drink tea without flies getting to me, so I'd rather keep the egg sacs where they are. Besides, these wonderfully green spiders are pretty interesting. They keep crawling on the floor so I'd always need flip flops when I come out though. When I drink tea, it's funny how the same spider is hanging above a chair next to me on her web like we're chilling next to each other.

Here's the brochure I made for Zoology class. It goes into certain topics I focus on but it's mainly basic so people would know the basics of the species before learning the specifics about it. More details are on the post "Zoology Project". I can use this brochure to reference my blog as well. 

If anyone is wondering if they should de-fang a tarantula so they themselves can be safe from their own pet, I recommend you reconsider my friend. Some beginners think it'd be fine to cut off the fangs because they think fangs are like talon claws but no, like a rhino's horn, they can not grow back. Once de-fanged they need to have care all their lives to be hand-fed which is difficult because you don't know when they're hungry. They are silent creatures, unlike a crying child. There are few ways to know if they are like being out of their burrow, waiting for prey to come by or not moving as much.

Spiders can float in water but it does depend on the species of spider because some species of spider are hairier than others. When spiders float on water, it is called "ballooning" and is thought to have been a migratory strategy. "On October 31, 1832, a young naturalist named Charles Darwin walked onto the deck of the HMS Beagle and realized that the ship had been boarded by thousands of intruders. Tiny red spiders, each a millimeter wide, were everywhere. The ship was 60 miles offshore, so the creatures must have floated over from the Argentinian mainland. “All the ropes were coated and fringed with gossamer web,” Darwin wrote" (Yong). According to the article, some spiders can migrate from place to place. This can be evidence to show how spiders had came to different countries all around the world because spiders are everywhere except Antarctica and that spiders had mysteriously migrated to islands so "ballooning" can be the answer as to how they cam

In this show, it shows clips of creepy animals fighting each other. It's an old, cheesy show, season 1 started in 2011. And to no surprise, spiders along with their long distant cousins are in it a lot. It is interesting when it comes down to who wins but it seems like the people who inform you about each animal is bothersome. It feels like they're stalling since they repeat things over again even though I just want to see them fight. It's also infuriating how they keep adding these sound effects when they're fighting. They add cheesy monster howling noises and it gives me a headache. This makes me feel like the show is trying to get people scared of types of animals. It's so frustrating!  Here is a compilation specifically of spider "bug wars" (even though spiders aren't insects): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MoKmY-jofw

I have been having Zoology class since last month and that we did this project on making some sort of presentation we could do. We could have done a video, slide-show, paper packet, brochure, etc... and I choose to do a brochure on tarantulas. At first, I wanted to do sea scorpions instead of tarantulas because I wanted to learn more about them but we couldn't since they are extinct. But I will upload my brochure on the blog soon, I only have to fix a few things up I noticed while I was presenting. Other than that, I haven't had time to post much these few months since it's my senior year at high school, I started my new job, I had to pick up my grades because my senioritis sickened me and I needed to plan for my future. Because I am graduating in a week, I will surely post more. No more excuses.