How strong is that spider that it can lift a turtle? Will one nuke be enough?
Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club?
Submitted 3 weeks ago by andros_rex@lemmy.world to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Hoimo@ani.social 3 weeks ago
GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Let’s see how strong they are under a blanket of napalm.
Lawnman23@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
BubbaGumpsBackLumps@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“Laughs in australian”
remon@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Lenny@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
“This silk used to lift the prey, it’s very strong, comparable to steel, but it is as elastic as the normal silk you would use to make clothes”
That’s crazy, and awesome.
fubarx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
remon@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Drekaridill@feddit.is 3 weeks ago
What does red mean?
CluckN@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Red is land, white represents where the spiders are.
JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why limit it to the US? Dolomedes is international.
Also yes I will sleep tight, knowing these adorable and accomplished spiders are out there living their best lives.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
there’s the slight alleviating factor of most people not living in lakes
peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
But the spiders is Australia are worse right? Thats how I justify sleeping at night. Tell me its true.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
…and with closed mouth
Geodad@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s gotta be in Australia…
andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nope, southern US. Found in a local group.
JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Great find! There are various members of Dolomedes in other countries. Some specialise in rivers, other lakes.
remon@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Nope, that’s a north American species.
Geodad@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s it, I’m petitioning the Army to let me have my M203 back.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m going pretend this is AI and move along. With climate change we are affecting their eating habits. Soon they may wise up and decide humans will make a better meal then turtles and fish.
remon@ani.social 3 weeks ago
I don’t think it’s a change in their eating habits, these spiders are known to catch, frog, salamanders or basically anything that size you’ll find near water. Just rare to see and snap a picture of one with a turtle.
BubbaGumpsBackLumps@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not us this time… though we doesn’t have spiders that catch fish, snakes, lizards and birds
remon@ani.social 2 weeks ago
Sure you do, you got the same genus of fishing spider as these. In fact, you got 15 of them (the US has 3).
Geobloke@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Mothra@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
I thought golden orb weavers would occasionally trap birds in their webs. I’ve definitely seen skinks caught in redbacks webs too
Not sure on the snakes and fish tho
Zerush@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
In Australia the don’t have so little Spiders
shoo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Fascinating is not the word I would use to describe that
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
How about ‘fucking nuts, dude’?
LeroyJenkins@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I know your age range just from the master of disguise reference
andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Saw that shit in theatres. As well as Baby Geniuses 2 and Meet the Spartans.
Xenny@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You’re my exact age 31. And 32 in a few months
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Neither are humans, but there is always a first
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Turtle, turtle, turtle…
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is basically the pot of IT.
Dagnet@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ofc not, turtles aren’t fish!
Dasus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Don’t spiders actually sort of rather drink their prey than eating it? We digest food inside us, spiders just vomit up shit onto paralysed prey that liquifies it so the spider can just sort of slurp it up.
So I wonder how he’ll do with a turtle. It’s easy enough to imagine on a fish, but…
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I would love to upvote something so fascinating as a sudden change or extreme rarity in ecology, but unfortunately I cannot in good conscience because doing so also promotes animal gore fetishists that exist in unfortunate numbers on general forums, youtube, etc.
forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
That’s…dumb.
It really is
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The line has to be drawn somewhere, no? There is overlap between legitimate curiosities and malice in this case.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I know about the types of communities you are talking about, but there is a difference between people who purposefully put animals together to cause them to kill each other for entertainment and taking striking pictures of natural predation.
I just watched a video of an Australian water rat eat the heart of a toad, as an adaptation to prey on invasive species with mostly toxic organs. That is pretty cool, and the shock value helps with the educational aspect.
There’s a difference between that and “let’s put a snake and a spider in the same confined environment to watch them kill each other for fun.” Or god, the monkey torture people.
Animals eat each other, and learning about them will require confronting this fact. I think this photo is educational, not lurid. Most people know very little about spiders, and I hope that my posting this picture got people to think more about the natural world. It is shocking, it does provoke a visceral reaction, but it also prompts questions. I am probably going to use it as a phenomenon to explore the next time I work with a student on biology.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Remember a couple weeks ago when you noticed people keep downvoting your comments for no reason, and I suggested it was because they recognize your username?
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Cool Cool
pyre@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
where’s the gore
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There is a dead little turtle dangling by its neck.
bottleofchips@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
This is AI right?
Right?!
…it is though - the ripples make no sense, nor does the ant-spider in size or shape.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is not AI.
remon@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Even if that particular picture was AI (I don’t think it is), there is nothing surprising or exaggerated going on here. More like it’s a rare thing. That’s totally within the capabilities of a fishing spider.
bottleofchips@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Yeah I’ve looked a bit harder and I see the spider shape a bit better now (from underneath), the slight motion blur in places would suggest not AI but I’m not totally convinced. From a quick search these spiders aren’t that big so that must be a very baby turtle, and I don’t know what’s going on around the mouth but it doesn’t look right, nor does the interference pattern of the ripples.
Agreeing with me would make a lot of people a lot more comfortable 😅
MightBeAlpharius@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Unfortunately, no… I’ve seen one of those things, and they’re honestly kind of scary to stumble across in the wild. They’re huge, and they can swim.
I do agree that this picture looks weird, but I think it’s just a weird picture. The spider is hanging backwards, with his belly facing upwards (that little nubbin at the back of the abdomen usually angles down), but the way that he’s lifting his head to bite the turtle makes it look like his body is facing the other way. As for the ripples, it looks like he’s lifted the turtle high enough that we’re getting a shot of them without the water directly below them. The ripples look like they’re probably relatively calm water 5-10ft behind the spider, which is why they don’t match up with the action in the photo.
boaratio@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s a guilty pleasure that I love The Matter of Disguise.
Engywuck@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Thanks, I hate it.
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Poor turtle :( he’s just a little fella