Showing posts with label spider. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spider. Show all posts

Tuesday, 27 August 2013

Comedy spider

Jumping spider Salticidae at Jindalba, Queensland
Oh, look: dumb photographer.

Jumping spider Salticidae at Jindalba, Queensland
Wait, who's that?

Jumping spider Salticidae at Jindalba, Queensland
Wow!

Taken at Jindalba, Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia.

Thursday, 12 June 2008

Dr Peter Witt

In the 1950s and 60s Dr. Peter Witt made a number of studies on the effects of various drugs on orb-web spiders, particularly the visible effects that the drugs had on their webs.

I found out about this research when I was at college, but for a long time assumed that it was just an urban myth. However, there is now the following video, which explains what actually happened: