Re: Jim Snarki's "Let's Do Lunch", related photo and comment

Terry <terry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Sun, 20 Nov 2005 07:07:34 -0700

They did a segment on this on "Myth busters" they 
showed that it COULD puncture human skin, and they had the venom tested by an 
expert in spiders, they are about the same as a bee sting as I recall, any way 
the guy on the show did not dye after allowing himself to be bitten by the 
spiders.
Terry L. Mair
Mair's Photography
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Midway, Utah 
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: 
  trevor 
  cunningham 
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  Educators - Professionals - Students 
  Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2005 4:41 
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  Subject: Re: Jim Snarki's "Let's Do 
  Lunch", related photo and comment

  the daddy long legs has the most toxic venom, ounce for 
  ounce, of any animal on the planet (i've heard), though it's unable to 
  puncture human skin and deliver enough to make a difference...doesn't surprise 
  me to see a dead soldier next to it.

Elson Elizaga <elson615943@xxxxxxxxx> 
  wrote: 

    I seem to have found the answers to my curiosity. Looks 
    like that dead spider is a common food of the daddy after 
    all:

http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/spider/pholcus1.html

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.bio.entomology.misc/browse_frm/thread/afe059e3cc772a/6fff76bfbd5fc355?tvc=1&q=what+does+daddy+long+legs+spiders+eat%3F&hl=en#6fff76bfbd5fc355

Thanks, 
    Jim, for the education your photo gave me.

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