Monday 13 October 2014

Most Dreadful Spiders in Africa

http://normalbiology.blogspot.com/2012/03/adventures-in-entomology-taiwanese.html

Ogre-Faced Spider (Deinopidae)  is the most beautiful among, the nigga is actually smiling with eyes that peer into your soul.  the Ogre carries an amount of venom which can kill an insect or small bird, but not a human.

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Darwin’s Bark Spider (Caerostris darwini) you think this is not scary check this out...
the silk from this spider found in Madagascar is the toughest biological material ever studied. It also spins the largest web in the world, stretching anchor lines across rivers up to 82 feet in length. Darwini chooses to catch her prey above bodies of water because it’s exceptional to where all other spiders spin their webs. Though she loves to munch on mayflies, not humans, it would still be the stuff of nightmares to row your canoe into one of her webs.

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Jumping Spider (Evarcha culicivora)wow! this nigga is ugly
its mainly found in Uganda and Kenya this multi-eyed terror prefers to stalk its prey than spin a web and bide its time. This is some serial killer-style stuff. To increase your affinity towards this creepster: it craves human blood! scared right? well she doesn't actually suck your blood from your vain, instead it hunts down female mosquitos which have feed on human blood.

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 the females can get aggressive when defending their eggs. An interesting experiment was done in 1959 to test how lethal the Huntsman’s poison was: scientists allowed one to bite an adult guinea pig on the nose, and seven minutes later the pig died. It was later ruled out that the venom didn’t kill it…but the shock of seeing the spider did!

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Violin Spider (Loxosceles) The smaller the scarier: though only less than an inch in size, the poison this musician packs can create a skin infection which can blister out into a very lethal secondary infection for humans if left untreated. Africa hosts 15 species all over the land, and their webs are normally spun under rock or logs. Their name comes from not the sweet music fiddled over your grave after they bite you, but from the violin-shaped marking on their thorax

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Button Spiders (Latrodectus) I bet you know the nick name for this creature (black spider) Black Widow!! Antidotes are in every South Africa hospital, as a bite from the Button constitutes a medical emergency. While it’s rare that grown humans die from these fangs, the intense muscular pain and paralysis as a result of their venom entering the bloodstream is of high concern, and old folks and kids are at a great risk of death

see more of this  at: http://afkinsider.com

 

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