Posted on 04/06/2022 7:02:03 PM PDT by FarCenter
Geneva (AFP) – There are now 50,000 known different species of spider crawling the Earth, the World Spider Catalog announced Wednesday -- and there might be another 50,000 out there.
The WSC, based at the Natural History Museum of Bern in the Swiss capital, said the 50,000th spider registered is the Guriurius minuano, which belongs to the Salticidae family of jumping spiders and hunts its prey on shrubs and trees in southern Brazil, Uruguay, and around Buenos Aires.
It was described by the arachnologist Kimberly S. Marta and her colleagues from Brazil and is named after the now-extinct Minuane people who lived in the area.
The first scientific description of a spider was in 1757 and while it has taken 265 years to reach 50,000, the rate of discovery is steadily increasing, and it is thought it could take less than 100 years to discover the same number again.
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unpossible... whitey is destroying the planet
Oh great....
to top off that tidbit of information—a human swallows about eight spiders a year in their sleep. That’s with 50K spiders—does that mean with another 50K that we don’t know about we are eating more?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjsPpRZVrzQ
We’re not gonna make another 100 years. Not how we’re going.
to top off that tidbit of information—a human swallows about eight spiders a year in their sleep.
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I guess I should be so ticked off when I get bitten by one then...It’s just a little payback.
Take the few minutes to watch Paul Joseph Watson tell us that he is not going to eat ****ing bugs....it will be worth the effort and time as only he can put together a video like that...
I wonder if they have discovered the barking spider yet. They are all around my house.
They ride on the backs of low flying geese.
Geez.... I thought the climate alarmists were telling us species were dying out. I guess not at least as far as arachnids are concerned. But if there’s hope for them....
My city is infested with barking moonbats.
Seems like a good argument against Darwinism.... I mean 50K different types of spiders?! Surely natural selection, if correct, would have whittled down that number by now.
When a priest once asked a naturalist about what he had learned about God from decades studying his creation the naturalist replied that creator must have an “inordinate fondness for beetles.”
Maybe spiders too.
Can’t wait for the so-called flying spiders this summer!
I’ve got a couple of ‘daddy long legs’ in my bathroom.
We say ‘Hi’ most mornings.
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