From a promo for Resident Evil 6:
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From a promo for Resident Evil 6:
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And with eggs even.![]()
And there is anywhere from 100-400 eggs per sack!
Found a dying one of those,(and a big one at that),outside the house last week. I put it out of its misery.
I actually killed one of those big ass brown web weaving spiders yesterday. It spun a web big enough for a small child to get caught in. One of the biggest webs I've ever seen
Yeah, there was one more sack under the lip of that green plastic bin. You can barely see it peeking out over the leftmost egg sack.
Thank god I found it before they hatched! I sprayed so much insecticide in that area I got a lung full and almost threw up. It was worth it.
3 spiders I don't ever wan tto run into inside a house:
Black Widow
Brown Recluse
Wolf Spider
I have no problem handling anything else reasonably, and free of extreme paranoia, but if I find one of those, I'd probably end up accidentally setting the house on fire.
"I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice." - Charles Darwin.
Like the Icneumonidae wasp family that troubled Darwin's already-shaken faith, the Sphex "digger wasp" genus has some extremely grisly reproduction habits. First digger wasps excavate a burrow where their larvae will mature. These larvae will need food, so the wasp finds prey (such as locusts) and stings it with a paralysing neurotoxin. Stung locusts are taken back to the burrow, eggs are laid and the burrow is covered up. The eggs hatch and the larvae devour the paralysed - but still alive - locusts.
As if this didn't seem bad enough, digger wasps have a special preference - they like to sting locusts while they're copulating. In one study, mating locusts accounted for 3% of locusts in the area
but amounted to a massive 30% of wasp victims. The odds of a solo female locusts being stung were around 1 in 200 and nearly zero for males. But when they were copulating, the odds went up to 1 in 10 for both sexes.
Another strange fact about digger wasps is their fixed action pattern when dragging locusts into the nest. It drags the locust to the burrow edge, checks the burrow and then drags the locust in. But if this sequence is interrupted (say, by a scientist moving the locust away from the burrow edge), the wasp has to start again - dragging the locust to the edge, checking the burrow and coming out for the locust. In the words of the French naturalist J. Henri Fabré, "This goes on as long as my patience is not exhausted."
"Imagination was given to man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is." - Sir Bacon
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.-Jimi Hendrix
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