Heck yeah can't wait to watch, love spiders. We get big - but harmless - spiders here in South Africa called rain spiders and they are awesome to handle.
In case everyone should know, arthropods (phylum Arthropoda) are currently split into two major groups, which are the subphyla Myriochelata (Myriochelates) and Pancrustacea (Pancrustaceans) with the former being split into the superclasses Myriapoda (Myriapods) and Chelicerata (Chelicerates) and the latter being split into the superclasses Crustacea (Crustaceans) and Hexapods (Hexapods).
But Myriapods are descendants of Euthycarcinoids, which I thought were linked to Crustaceans. Am I missing something? Or is the arthropod family tree still ambiguous?
@@havinfun7265, myriapods are more closely related to chelicerates than to pancrustaceans, therefore the two subphyla of arthropods are Myriochelata and Pancrustacea.
@@havinfun7265 Taxonomy is always changing, it all depends on who you ask. There are so many animals and so many new discoveries it'll be a long while before we get a clear picture.
@samsonsoturian6013 xenophobia, the fear of the different, is a significant problem in most societies and cultures. The instinctive aspect is less powerful than the learned aspect, but many people are either too ignorant, or too invested in their identity politics, or too keen to blame their problems on outside groups to avoid accountability to work to overcome xenophobia in themselves or their kids.
Years ago there was someone on Flikr taking macros of jumping spiders and photoshopping speakers in place of their eyes, making some race of rave monsters from space. It was brilliant.
I get flak for letting spiders make webs in my house...but those little guys eat all the bugs that i don't like (i've watched them do it!), so why destroy their homes? :P
I will let a spider chill in a corner of the room, but the if I ever see one one the floor/lower wall they're immediately gone. They can do their own thing so long as it's decently away from me. I am enforcing my own evolutionary pressure on them
They’re cute, and it’s not their fault they look creepy and give me the shivers when I think about them 🥺. I will never kill one and I won’t allow others to.
for real dude, i love spiders! ive been trying to teach people not to be scared of them, and i even got my younger brother to hold one recently, so theres some progress!
Almost 300 years later, in this same area, people again turned against their neighbours and as a result millions of people died with no dignity. As a species, we can be very cruel to each other when we act on beliefs that are fed by fear. This was a beautiful presentation. Thank you.
It's refreshing to watch a spider video made by someone who also seems to be arachnophobic 😭. I feel like spider lovers do not understand that phobia is not blind hatred and I'm kind of tired of that narrative in every arachnid video.
There's the idea that the unique properties of spiders, such as their eyes and means of walking, conform to a pre-existing notion of creepiness, but maybe also they helped to create that notion of creepiness in our psychologies. (Like maybe the causality goes in both directions.)
Seeing such beautifully preserved arachnid fossils is so incredible, because of their exoskeleton it looks like they just looked at Medusa and got turned to stone
spiders actually have 'real' blood, as they breathe with lungs. Might be the reason how they can get so big whereas insects are quite limited by their circulatory system. Though, there is an idea that the insect size might be limited not by just gas exchange but also by their ability to shed heat (both are transferred by diffusion in them), whereas large spiders tend to be very metabolically quiescent, or have large surface to mass area.
@@viktorm3840 I would imagine that spiders don't use oxygen-carrying molecules like hemoglobin or hemocyanin which is what I would define as real "blood". Instead, that the free molecular oxygen dissolves into the hemolymph "naked".
Interesting. I remember in The Hobbit Bilbo insults the spiders attacking the dwarves by yelling "Attercop". I guess this is supposed to make them feel primitive or something
@@amogusenjoyeryeah Spiders arent even pests. They dont destroy the house, eats cables/clothes, eats human food and so on. If anything spiders in your hold significantly decreases pests in your household
I love spiders. I let them live on my ceiling (or anywhere else really but they like the ceiling). If I lived in a country with venemous spiders it might be a bit different though.
I think most spiders are pretty cute. Not bunny cute, but more like, bird cute. They're not the kinda cute you wanna cuddle while you're falling asleep, but they're the kinda cute you wanna make faces at and boop on the nose. All those legs aren't doing them any favors, but it does mean that the stubbier and baby-er the legs, the cuter they are. They'd be much creepier if they had a tail instead of a fuzzy little spider butt, that's for dang sure.
Hey, Little Jaws, did you know we are more closely related to humans, than spiders are to insects? Little Jaws: No I did not, but I do now, neat! Where'd you learn that, Shark Nancy? Shark Nancy: One of them human leaning websites, with documentaries, good stuff! Little Jaws: You mean that one that starts with, let me think Nancy... Nancy: You're a moron, Little Jaws, how do sharks even use electricity? Jaws: Carefully? Nancy: Shut up, no, I bit this surfer in the spine, and melded with his mind, and now I have his thoughts. Jaws: Shark life Nancy, Shark life.
A little disconcerted about how often you refer to spiders being 'creepy'. Not the usual scientifically descriptive information we have come to expect from this channel. I'd like to see a video on spider intelligence and behaviour.
The largest ever spider fossil ever found, had a leg span of 20 inches and a body length of 13 and some change inches. It would have been massive for a spider. About the size of a small dog.
