INCREDIBLY, IT DOES NOT LIVE IN AUSTRALIA
It looks like bird dung, but it’s really a predatory spider
(Thanks to Ralph)
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It looks like bird dung, but it’s really a predatory spider
(Thanks to Ralph)
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Once they've been added to your modular food square you'll never even notice.
Posted by: cfjk | August 25, 2021 at 10:16 AM
“They stay there for over 12 hours or more,” Li said. “Sometimes they just stay there for their whole life.”
I guess they're too pooped out to go somewhere else.
Posted by: pharmaross | August 25, 2021 at 10:16 AM
The scientists painted the spiders? Did they hire the services of a professional spider painter or attempt a DIY makeup? No matter, the results will always look like crap.
On the subject of bird dung spiders in Australia, it's very likely the spiders do live there and have evolved to become highly venomous. People who live there and suffered 'problems' while cleaning bird poop off their patios have had pathologists and undertakers blame snakes, duck billed platypuses, venomous parakeets---well, lets just say they have a long list to choose from and missing the bird dung spiders is an understandable oversight.
Posted by: Le Petomane | August 25, 2021 at 10:49 AM
For everyone's benefit, especially nursecindy, here is a handy spider identification chart.
Posted by: wanderer2575 | August 25, 2021 at 11:03 AM
Bird Dung Crab Spider pick-up line:
"Hey, baby, you look like sh*t today."
Posted by: Ralph | August 25, 2021 at 11:08 AM
5-star snork Ralph!
I once used that line with my ex and it didn't go over very well.
Her attorney left me feeling down in the dumps.
Posted by: pharmaross | August 25, 2021 at 11:18 AM
"The findings have opened new questions on how the dung deception evolved."
Don't any of these scientists follow politics ?
Posted by: LeDud | August 25, 2021 at 12:12 PM
Of course, Dung Deception WBAGNFARB.
Posted by: wanderer2575 | August 25, 2021 at 01:43 PM