Showing posts with label Arachnida. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arachnida. Show all posts
Monday, April 21, 2025

Kill it before it glows

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  ¨ A motley collection of "cryptid" sightings. Some are barely believable stories about bioluminescent spiders and frogs. Others ...
Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Among necrobots and Joro spiders

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  We wrap up today´s crazy science news with a current story and a 2022 item. The current? Colorful Japanese Joro spiders have gone urban in...
Monday, November 13, 2023

Fire, ice and ugly bovids

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Who´s calling me ugly, boy? Credit: Charles J Sharp "Wild Scandinavia (Fire and Ice)" is a 2023 BBC documentary about wildlife in ...
Thursday, November 2, 2023

Skeleton Coast

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  Credit: BigSugarDaddy "Namib: Skeleton Coast and Beyond" is a BBC nature documentary in the series "Eden: Untamed Planet...
Monday, October 16, 2023

Itsy witsy spider

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  A short but perhaps representative overview of "giant spider" sightings from all over the world, plus a discussion on how plausi...
Friday, September 29, 2023

Real conspiracy?

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  Are the Why Files actually anti-establishment? Some scary facts/speculations about United States bio-weapons research, ditto terrorism, we...
Thursday, August 10, 2023

Welcome to the crisis

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Credit: Dheerav2 Previously posted on July 6, 2020. Reposted due to the extreme weather conditions all over the world (including Sweden) thi...
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Saturday, December 18, 2021

Spindelfobiker i alla land, förenen eder!

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Jag HATAR spindlar, tycker nog att tanten gott kunde ha fått det tredubbla beloppet!  Jagades med spindel, spräckte pannan
Saturday, November 20, 2021

A world of damselflies

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  "David Attenborough´s Dragons and Damsels" is a wittily titled documentary about dragonflies (Anisoptera) and damselflies (Zygop...
Monday, October 4, 2021

Well, actually...

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"The Scorpion King" (2002) is a somewhat frivolous fantasy flick featuring a Schwarzenegger-Van Damme cross-over look-alike, but w...
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Friday, October 1, 2021

The Cosmic Eros hard at work

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  Not sure what the pic above is supposed to be, some kind of creepy wasp attacking an equally creepy spider. Now, how on Earth (pun may be ...
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Saturday, March 13, 2021

My arachnophobia just got worse

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Another link to Karl Shuker´s crypto-zoology website, this time about supposed observations of giant spiders. And I do mean huge - the size ...
Monday, July 6, 2020

Welcome to the crisis

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Erika Bjerström is a Swedish reporter and former environmentalist activist. "Klimatkrisens Sverige" is her recently publishe...
Monday, September 17, 2018

Get ready for the ants

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Weirdly, this came up when I searched for "Ready for Ryan" (i.e. the Speaker of the House Paul Ryan). I know Trump's s...
Friday, September 14, 2018

A kindle in the dark

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Just for fun, I downloaded free samples of three field guides to my Kindle, covering (respectively) butterflies, dragonflies and spide...
Friday, September 7, 2018

Well, I told you DDT was dangerous...

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SPOILER WARNING! SPOILER WARNING! "Kingdom of the Spiders" is the kind of film that probably scared you stiff as a kid...
Friday, August 31, 2018

Stay at home, stay alive

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A review of U.S. postage stamps showing insects and spiders.  A positively creepy collection of insects and spiders, courtesy of...
Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Waiter, there's a Xixuthrus in my soup

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“The Pictorial Encyclopedia of Insects” by Dr V J Stanek is precisely that! I've heard somewhere that the Czech original was pub...
Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Mites, mites, baby

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My faux review of "Mites: Ecology, Evolution and Behavior". Sorry, couldn´t help myself... The authors start off be rail...
Monday, August 13, 2018

Great bird-lice illustrators and their spiders

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Ashtar Command self-portrait  "The Great Bird Illustrators and their art 1730-1930" is a book by Peyton Skipwith. It featu...