Hi, I'm Micaela. I work at a zoo and read too much. This blog is about things that I find on the internet.
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Brown Recluses live in my state!
That depends, but for most of the U.S, this is false.The range of the brown recluse spider is limited to the green area on this map. If you live outside this area, brown recluse spiders do not live in your state. Period.
see?
(Source: insects.about.com)
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Animal Planet strikes again
I haven’t watched television in a few years now, and was reminded why when I caught an episode of Animal Planet’s “Call of the Wildman” yesterday.
The show - which follows a hillbilly wrangling problematic wildlife - was fair and accurate in its treatment of snakes, but immediately lost me when the protagonist identified a small spider in a web as a “brown recluse,” which the narrator went on to describe as one of the deadliest spiders in America, further referring to its sacs of eggs as “ticking time bombs” before the wildman killed the whole family with a napkin.
First off, recluse spiders do not construct or hang in webs, and aren’t even shaped like the spider we were shown. Second, as I’ve ranted about before, recluse spiders are not significantly dangerous at all. Nobody on record has ever died or come anywhere close to dying from recluse venom, and of thousands of confirmed bites actually studied, the very worst exhibited a tiny area of necrosis (dead tissue) which healed with little to no treatment.
It is a widely accepted *myth* that recluse bites cause any serious tissue damage. Most will even come and go with no discomfort at all, and recluses themselves only bite if trapped against human skin (in clothing or bedding, for example)…they’re called recluses for a reason. They take great pains to avoid us, as do most other spiders.
They also have a very tiny range. They don’t exist at all in most of the US, including Arizona!
(via adorablespiders)
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If you thought baby names in 2011 were something to complain about, wait until you see what the future holds.
Yup I’m naming my firstborn Kraken and who’s gonna stop me?
(via tiersa)
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“Pro-Choice”
Gimme a break,
If you think you’re oh so righteous, use the actual term.
It’s called abortion.
It makes you “Pro-Abortion”.
I hate euphemisms for a reason.
I’m pro-abortion.
You get an abortion.
You get an abortion!
EVERYBODY GETS AN ABORTION!
(via tiersa)
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