10mo ago

I'm all for conservation, but I really have mixed feelings on this one

Just a moment...

The Fen Raft Spider is roughly the size of an adult male’s hand, and can spin webs as big as pizzas (25cm).

They are also semi-aquatic and can run across the water’s surface to capture their prey.

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Two spider pictures in the article, but neither depict a Fen Raft Spider. Shameful excuse for journalism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_raft_spider
- I didn't notice until you mentioned it!
  So the top one in a house I don't recognise, and the bottom one on a web ... a black widow or red something ... As you maybe able to tell, I'm not really a spider fan!
  
  I hate spiders, know thine enemy I guess.
  Top one is an Australian huntsmen. Bottom one looks like an orb weaver of some kind.
reintroducing wolves and bears is too radical, but fecking giant spiders is okay?
- Wolves are for level 5 and bears are level 10. We have to start with the giant spiders first or the level 1 noobs won't stand a chance.
  Now go and collect 10 bundles of silk thread. Killing 273 spiders should do it. Drop isn't guaranteed.
As long as they're not inside my house, (and if they were, I would take them outside) I'd say it's fine. They deserve somewhere nice to live (as long as it isn't. inside my house)
If they're calling 25cm the size of a pizza... I'm doubting the rest. Size of an adult male's hand? I'm small, and being generous, the width of my palm is 90cm.
from Wiki:
Adult females can have bodies of slightly over 20mm in length with a span of 70mm including their legs.
That's the size of the largest banana spiders I've seen. In FLORIDA.
- Your palm is nearly a meter wide?!
- Incredible palm game.

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