Hunting Spiders

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1. I was one of those who knew about the ‘hair blast’ attack that some spiders use when threatened. i saw a nature documentary a few years ago about spiders and one of the tarantulas felt threatened by the camera; it turned and began scraping it’s butt at the lense. the narrator commented that the hair fibres can be almost as fine as asbestos and extremely irritating.

2. There’s a good video about ‘hunting spiders’ from the Human Planet series. That’s how I knew about the hairs.

3. I swear the intro music is familiar but I can’t place it. It makes me think of King Solomon’s Mines.

   1. Every single piece of music in both Spider episodes were taken from a single source.

4. Australian peacock spiders, a sort of jumping spider, very relevant to the subject at hand:

   (Feels like a thing you might have mentioned before, idk. anyways keep up the good work)

5. Kevin’s getting funnier… just saying.

6. Were there any spiders in Kiss of the Spiderwoman?

7. Ooh, sweet! Big Ass Spider is on tv tonight. I wouldn’t have noticed it but for your podcast.

8. Well that was funny Toren. I was listening to this in my car on my way to work at just shy of 8:50. You were so close man.

9. Well, I don’t care that this thing only has six legs, I’m putting it in the “robotic hunting spider with snake legs bucket”: http://www.sciencealert.com/watch-this-creepy-hexapod-has-robot-snakes-for-legs

10. MST3K riffed Giant Spider Invasion- it was fantastically funny. I’d recommend watching it with the riffs, not on its own.

11. YouTube has a video called scientifically correct spiderman, its animated, funny and maybe a bit unorthodox.

12. Funny that you guys mentioned Spiderman not bring “spidery” enough, because one of my favourite webcomics (no pun intended) is Spinerette – a female homage to Spiderman where the heroine grows 4 extra arms after exposure to radiation. It’s very silly and is a great parody (one of the main heroes is an African-American superhero people constantly introduce as “Black Tiger”…even though he corrects them each time with “it’s just Tiger”). Well worth a look!

13. Not that I condone needless violence against animals, but this is a pretty amusing video. A guy attempted to squish a wolf spider only to find it exploded into hundreds of baby wolf spiders.

    http://gu.com/p/47y3m

14. This seems like the sort of question you guys would want to consider: http://biomedicalephemera.tumblr.com/post/115493150860/can-spiders-fart

    Too bad the answer is so wishy-washy. I’d be interested to hear Gavin’s take on it.