Studying Communal "Family oriented" Spiders

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Giant Spiders' Communal and Cannibal Lifestyle

Linda Rayor, an entomologist at Cornell University, describes her work with giant Australian huntsman spiders that live in large family groups in a strange lifestyle involving shared prey and cannibalism.

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bronobo's picture

fuck spiders. get outa mah house!

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Apparently, these spiders have been accidentally introduced to the United States and have established populations in states like Texas and Florida where it doesn't get cold in the winter. 

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They're on to us, ABORT!

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