Theraphosids can lay silk with there feet?

[14pokies]

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/09/060927-tarantula-silk_2.html

It's not a long article and IMO is worth reading.. Enjoy!

 

[sdsnybny]

I have read this before, very interesting. Thanks for posting it again.

 

[14pokies]

I have read this before, very interesting. Thanks for posting it again.

Oh I didn't know it had been posted on the boards.. Lol

I'm sure some of the newer members will find it interesting..

 

[sdsnybny]

Its from 2006 so I'm sure the old thread I read it in is probably buried, good relevant info to post up front for those who missed it.

 

[14pokies]

Its from 2006 so I'm sure the old thread I read it in is probably buried, good relevant info to post up front for those who missed it.

I dont know with all the necromancers we have lately chances are high it will rise again like Lazarus!

 

[Toxoderidae]

I dont know with all the necromancers we have lately chances are high it will rise again like Lazarus!

S T O P R I G H T N O W

 

[cold blood]

I dont know with all the necromancers we have lately chances are high it will rise again like Lazarus!

I suggest re-viving that old thread (I think it was repeated in the last couplr years)......and do it in the name of the hilariously irritable @Toxoderidae

 

[Toxoderidae]

I suggest re-viving that old thread (I think it was repeated in the last couplr years)......and do it in the name of the hilariously irritable @Toxoderidae

I'm not easily irritable, and it's not hilarious! I'm enraged you'd say that

 

[Andrea82]

I'm not easily irritable, and it's not hilarious! I'm enraged you'd say that

Sorry, but it is hilarious
Every time I see you pouncing on a necro thread it's like watching a kid saying 'daaaaadd, quit telling stories from when you were young!'

 

[basin79]

I never knew that thanks for the link. I'm certainly going to repost it in other forums I'm a member of as it's really interesting.

Every day's a school day.

 

[louise f]

Every time I see you pouncing on a necro thread it's like watching a kid saying 'daaaaadd, quit telling stories from when you were young!'

Haha, or he could sound like an old man sitting in his chair, running out of coffee and cigars

 

[Estein]

Here is a study from Rainer Foelix that challenges Gorb's and concludes that the tarsal spigots are actually probably chemoreceptors.