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“The point that she opens the egg sac is the point that she stops feeding,” says Mor Salomon, a biologist at the Israel Cohen Institute for Biological Control. “We have tried giving them food in the lab, but it just doesn’t work—they just don’t feed.” -- Absurd Creature of the Week: The Spider Mother That Barfs Up Her Guts to Feed Her Kids, by Matt Simon for Wired.
Oh, fuck I just pictured a spider feeding her young at her breasts.
Even with 8 legs, that wouldn't be practical, and, anyway, how is that more upsetting than the actual article!?
posted by GenjiandProust at 4:40 PM on May 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
Even with 8 legs, that wouldn't be practical, and, anyway, how is that more upsetting than the actual article!?
posted by GenjiandProust at 4:40 PM on May 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
Willies: Activated!
posted by slkinsey at 4:42 PM on May 8, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by slkinsey at 4:42 PM on May 8, 2015 [2 favorites]
I can't unsee it!
Have you ever thought about a really big spider?
posted by curious nu at 4:53 PM on May 8, 2015 [3 favorites]
Have you ever thought about a really big spider?
posted by curious nu at 4:53 PM on May 8, 2015 [3 favorites]
This post is fully awesome.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 5:13 PM on May 8, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 5:13 PM on May 8, 2015 [4 favorites]
Mor was my labmate during my masters! Good to see her work here. That said, S. lineatus is not the only spider that shows matriphagy; there's also Amaurobius ferox. Also there's another social spider Anelosimus vierae where adult females regurgitate to feed juveniles.
posted by dhruva at 5:39 PM on May 8, 2015 [7 favorites]
posted by dhruva at 5:39 PM on May 8, 2015 [7 favorites]
There's also another social spider Anelosimus vierae where adult females regurgitate to feed juveniles.
posted by dhruva at 5:44 PM on May 8, 2015
posted by dhruva at 5:44 PM on May 8, 2015
Willies: Activated!
You might want to be clarify exactly what you mean by this.
posted by Wolfdog at 5:47 PM on May 8, 2015 [17 favorites]
You might want to be clarify exactly what you mean by this.
posted by Wolfdog at 5:47 PM on May 8, 2015 [17 favorites]
Well, I just pictured spider breasts being dissolved.
I'm about to eat crab!
posted by halifix at 6:25 PM on May 8, 2015
I'm about to eat crab!
posted by halifix at 6:25 PM on May 8, 2015
Well that really kicks the shit out of Silverstein's tree metaphor.
posted by looli at 7:05 PM on May 8, 2015 [6 favorites]
posted by looli at 7:05 PM on May 8, 2015 [6 favorites]
The point that she opens the egg sac is the point that she stops feeding
SOUNDS A LOT LIKE MY EX WIFE LOL, I THINK ALL THE GUYS HERE KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING BOUT
NEVER SHOULD HAVE MARRIED A STEGODYPHUS
posted by threeants at 7:09 PM on May 8, 2015 [7 favorites]
SOUNDS A LOT LIKE MY EX WIFE LOL, I THINK ALL THE GUYS HERE KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING BOUT
NEVER SHOULD HAVE MARRIED A STEGODYPHUS
posted by threeants at 7:09 PM on May 8, 2015 [7 favorites]
threeants: "The point that she opens the egg sac is the point that she stops feeding
SOUNDS A LOT LIKE MY EX WIFE LOL, I THINK ALL THE GUYS HERE KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING BOUT
NEVER SHOULD HAVE MARRIED A STEGODYPHUS"
Same here, although mine never stopped feeding...
posted by Samizdata at 7:17 PM on May 8, 2015
SOUNDS A LOT LIKE MY EX WIFE LOL, I THINK ALL THE GUYS HERE KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING BOUT
NEVER SHOULD HAVE MARRIED A STEGODYPHUS"
Same here, although mine never stopped feeding...
posted by Samizdata at 7:17 PM on May 8, 2015
btw, joseph conrad... that's a very nice jumping spider in the title :)
posted by dhruva at 8:00 PM on May 8, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by dhruva at 8:00 PM on May 8, 2015 [4 favorites]
(Thanks - I modified it from elgilito's previous post, which I quite liked.)
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 9:14 PM on May 8, 2015
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 9:14 PM on May 8, 2015
Malicious design.
posted by five fresh fish at 3:16 AM on May 9, 2015
posted by five fresh fish at 3:16 AM on May 9, 2015
Willies: Activated!
You might want to be clarify exactly what you mean by this.
I rather enjoy the ambiguity, myself.
posted by louche mustachio at 3:38 AM on May 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
You might want to be clarify exactly what you mean by this.
I rather enjoy the ambiguity, myself.
posted by louche mustachio at 3:38 AM on May 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
It takes guts to be a spider mom.
posted by kinnakeet at 5:07 PM on May 9, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by kinnakeet at 5:07 PM on May 9, 2015 [2 favorites]
YOU KIDS MAKE ME PUKE! LITERALLY! WOULD IT BE TOO MUCH TO CALL YOUR POOR MOTHER?!
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 8:07 PM on May 9, 2015
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 8:07 PM on May 9, 2015
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