Wrong link _ Temporary Disinfectant Conversion from Chloramine to Free Chlorine

What?

Your linked article has nothing to do with "... casual spider-murderer..."

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The spider that was adjacent to my jalapeno plants is missing (see its pic posted earlier). There is not enough of its web left to take a picture. I assume a bird made a meal out of it. To bad those goliath bird eating spiders are only in Venezuela. Be nice to have one or two up here.

Wrong link _ Temporary Disinfectant Conversion from Chloramine to Free Chlorine

What?

Your linked article has nothing to do with "... casual spider-murderer..."

Man I hate it when that happens. :-(

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~Sue~

Wrong link _ Temporary Disinfectant Conversion from Chloramine to Free Chlorine

What?

Your linked article has nothing to do with "... casual spider-murderer..."

Man I hate it when that happens. :-(

Why so many of us are casual spider murderers

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~Sue~

Suzie-Q I think the following link/article is what you originally intended for us...
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211004-why-so-many-of-us-are-casual-spider-murderers

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https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211004-why-so-many-of-us-are-casual-spider-murderers

Thanks, that was good! Went directly to my son who is deathly afraid of spiders.

I have never seen such a grub worm infestation!
The Mystery of the Grubs That Ate Welles Park – Even Experts Are Shocked and Awed

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I have never seen such a grub worm infestation!
The Mystery of the Grubs That Ate Welles Park – Even Experts Are Shocked and Awed

Feral hogs and armadillos will take care of grubs.

]Feral hogs and armadillos will take care of grubs

Yes that would be a great idea... but they won't work in big city like Chicago..

The wild hogs would run away and get hit by cars; the armadillos would not survive Chicago's brutal winters if they weren't first also run over by cars.

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]Feral hogs and armadillos will take care of grubs

Yes that would be a great idea... but they won't work in big city like Chicago..

The wild hogs would run away and get hit by cars; the armadillos would not survive Chicago's brutal winters if they weren't first also run over by cars.

That is strictly a first world problem similar to Global Warming. Anywhere else the hogs and dillo's would be in the BBQ pit. Chicago has far bigger problems.

... Anywhere else the hogs and dillo's would be in the BBQ pit. Chicago has far bigger problems.

I am originally from. The Windy City , now in a usualy warmer North Texas climate..

Have to agree on both of the items you mentioned... Smoked / BBQ wild hog is yummy.
Chicago, well, that's a topic for a different forum.

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Megaspider donated to Australian Reptile Park

A member of the public has collected a funnel-web spider with fangs so long they could bite through your fingernail and donated it to a life saving antivenom program.
The arachnid is so big that staff at Australian Reptile Park have named it Megaspider. The park says the female is roughly twice the size of a typical funnel-web spider, more comparable to a tarantula.
The 8cm funnel-web spider's 2cm-long fangs will be milked for venom that can be turned into antivenom.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Megaspider donated to Australian Reptile Park

It looks like something out of a 1950's horror movie that would bite your head off... lol.

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Meanwhile here down under the mozzie plague is well under with all this wet ground about and it shows at the supermarket as I got the 2nd last can of them (30 coils and the can turns into the burner for them) until Thursday.

Cheers.

Introducing the first millipede with more than 1,000 legs

Ladies and gentlemen, introducing a creature that could empty the wardrobe of Imelda Marcos, our new king of limbs, the princess of poda, boasting 1,306 spectacular stilts, the "true thousand foot" Eumillipes persephone.
Until now, the term "millipede" has really been a case of false advertising.
Literally translating from the Latin mille (thousand) and pes (foot), the "millipede" species with the most legs has so far only boasted 750. But a new discovery 60 metres down an exploratory mining drill hole in the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia has finally delivered us a millipede that not only lives up to its name, but walks it out of the park.

Some of the 1,306 legs that E. persephone boasts. (Supplied: Paul Marek et al)

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Grant
Darwin NT

Fossil discovery unfortunately alerts us to 8-feet long millipedes

https://www.avclub.com/fossil-discovery-unfortunately-alerts-us-to-8-feet-long-1848253972

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Although I have nothing to post, I'm posting because I don't want this thread to die.

I did recently read that the decline in number of insects will cause the cost of food to go up. Way up. That sucks because I can barely afford the healthy stuff as it is.

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~Sue~

'Voracious' Jumping Worms Can Leap 1 Foot In The Air, Destroy Soil

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~Sue~

The Surprisingly Sophisticated Mind Of An Insect
"Insects appear to be more intelligent and emotionally complex than we give them credit for. Perhaps, new research suggests, they are even conscious."

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~Sue~

How about human made bugs?

A tiny crabby robot gets its scuttling orders from lasers.

A new army of micro-robots just burst into the scene. One of the stand-out forms is a peekytoe crab-shaped figure (with pincers) that’s less than 1 millimeter across....

Cheers.