Posted by kimback on October 23, 2009
Celebrities have their names attached to anything and everything, from clothing lines, to colognes and perfumes. However, nothing epitomizes the cool of celebrity like having a living creature named after you. Believe it or not, several celebrities have had spider species named in their honor. Check out these 3 spiders named for celebrities.
1. Pachygnatha zappa
This [...]
Categories: Miscellaneous Spiders |
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Posted by admin on August 10, 2009
Not many people go out taking black widow pictures, but for those that do it is important to be safe about it. Black widow pictures are some of the most unique and powerful spider pictures on the planet. The black widow pictures found on this page are all pictures that were available on the net [...]
Categories: Black Widow Spider, Dangerous Spiders, North American Spiders |
Tags: bite, black widow, black widow photos, black widow pics, black widow pictures, Black Widow Spider, black widow spider bite, black widow spider bites, black widow spiders, dangerous spider, Dangerous Spiders, identification, Identifying, information, pain, spider bite treatment, spider story, spider venom, spider world, spiders, tarantula, Tarantulas, toxicity, toxin, United States, variation, venom, venomous, venomous species, venomous spider, venomous spiders | No Comments »
Posted by admin on August 9, 2009
The brown recluse spider bite can be one of the most invasive and destructive venomous bites in the United States. The brown recluse is not especially aggressive, but it will bite if it is cornered or perceives a threat. Most brown recluse spider bites happen when people dig into storage or retrieve items that have [...]
Categories: Brown Recluse, Dangerous Spiders, North American Spiders, Spider Bite First Aid |
Tags: arachnaophobia, bite, blood, Brown, brown recluse, brown recluse bite first aid, brown recluse spider bite, category, death, doctor, fiddleback spider, identification, Identifying, pain, problem, recluse bite, risk, site, spider, spider bite, spider bite treatment, spider venom, spiders, threat, Treatment, United States, venom, venomous, web | 1 Comment »
Posted by admin on July 31, 2009
Ball pythons are notorious for getting out of their cages. For that matter, snakes in general are notorious escape artists. For this reason, it is not a good idea for unexperienced snake keepers to keep dangerous snakes. That said, I learned my lesson the hard way with my pet ball python years [...]
Categories: African Snakes, Ball Python, General Snake Safety |
Tags: Africa, attack, Ball Python, bite, cage, category, Children, creatures, dangerous snake, Dangerous Snakes, escape, escape route, Escaped, food, heart attack, Identifying, irrational fears, mistake, mouse, pain, pet, prey, problem, python, reptile, reputation, scare, six feet, snake, snake bite, snake bites, snakes, snakes are, spiders, stout, strike, system, television | 1 Comment »
Posted by admin on July 28, 2009
Spider movies. Nothing seems to raise the hair on the back of our necks more than a creepy crawly eight legged spider movie. In actuality, spider movies are fairly few and far between. There certainly have been some good spider movies, but far more have been really really bad. Here is [...]
Categories: Black Widow Spider, Brown Recluse, Dangerous Spiders, North American Spiders, Spider Movies, Tarantulas |
Tags: Arachnaphobia, bite, black widow, black widows, category, death, flick, giant, Legged, Movies, scare, spider, Spider Movies, spiders, tarantula, Tarantulas, threat, Trapdoor, web, willies | No Comments »
Posted by admin on July 26, 2009
Snake movies have always been a wonderful release for me. Why? Well, in a snake movie you do not have the restrictions of reality holding you down. A black mamba really can move at about the speed of a cheetah and an anaconda really can grow to the size of a football field in a [...]
Categories: African Snakes, Anaconda, Black Mamba, Dangerous Snakes, Snake Movies |
Tags: Africa, anaconda, anacondas, Black Mamba, capabilities, category, cheetah, Children, human beings, jennifer lopez, john voight, movies about snakes, owen wilson, science, snake, snake movie, Snake Movies, snakes, spider, spiders | No Comments »
Posted by admin on July 25, 2009
The black mamba is without a doubt the most exciting snake in the world. The incredible way these snakes hunt and the speed with which they move is a sight to behold. For all the stories you might read about the black mamba, it is just not the same unless you see it [...]
Categories: African Snakes, Black Mamba, Dangerous Snakes, Snake Videos |
Tags: Africa, african serpent, aggressive fighters, antidote, antivenin, bite, Black Mamba, black mambas, body, category, coloration, conflict, ice, irrational fears, jet black, king cobra, mamba videos, mouths, reptile, safari in africa, site, snake, snake bite, snakes, spider, spiders, venom, venomous, venomous snake, venomous snakes, venomous species | 1 Comment »
Posted by admin on July 9, 2009
Just the name used to send shudders through my entire body. Tarantula….Something about the way the letters are formed seems to perfectly describe this hairy arachnid. As a boy, a tarantula was an orange and black patterned monster that grew to be the size of my face.
(Okay, so we are talking about the Mexican red [...]
Categories: North American Spiders, Tarantulas |
Tags: body, creatures, curiosity, giant, hairy arachnid, irrational fear, monster, spider, spiders, tarantula, Tarantulas, television, willies | No Comments »
Posted by admin on July 7, 2009
There was this guy I know that was on a safari in Africa. He was walking with a bunch of field guides. They came across a deadly black mamba – the most feared snake in all the world. The man backed away slowly and yet the mamba came towards him. He turned and ran and [...]
Categories: African Snakes, Black Mamba, Dangerous Snakes, Gaboon Viper, General Snake Safety, Snake Myths |
Tags: Africa, anaconda, bite, Black Mamba, creatures, escape route, gaboon, heart attack, irrational fears, myths, rat, reptile, reticulated python, safari, safari in africa, scare, self defense, snake, snake bite, snake bites, snakes, spiders, venom, venomous, venomous snake, venomous snakes, viper | No Comments »
Posted by admin on July 5, 2009
The brown recluse, or fiddleback spider, is one of the more dangerous spiders found in the United States. Though the spider has a fearsome reputation, it is actually quite shy and uninterested in human beings. Still, the brown recluse delivers a venomous bite that can cause massive tissue damage, and in extremely rare cases, death. [...]
Categories: Brown Recluse, Dangerous Spiders, North American Spiders |
Tags: bite, black widow, Black Widow Spider, body, Brown, brown recluse, Dangerous Spiders, death, fiddleback, Identifying, Loxosceles, reclusa, recluse, reddish, reputation, spider, spiders, United States, variation, venomous, violen, violin | 1 Comment »
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