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Title: Maningrida town has been taken over by 25,000 tarantulas
Post by: Dmitry on June 26, 2015, 09:32:38 AM

If you are scared of spiders, this is the stuff of nightmares.

(http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/h/v/2/d/w/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.ghv2ip.png/1435040148998.jpg)

More than 25,000 venomous spiders have descended on a small town in Australia and experts have no idea why.

Maningrida, which is 300 miles east of Darwin, is crawling with the creatures.

However arachnologist, Dr Robert Raven, thinks the takeover could provide information invaluable to medical research.


http://www.smh.com.au/environment/animals/field-of-screams-the-mystery-of-maningridas-25000-tarantulas-20150623-ghv2ip.html (http://www.smh.com.au/environment/animals/field-of-screams-the-mystery-of-maningridas-25000-tarantulas-20150623-ghv2ip.html)

Title: Re: Maningrida town has been taken over by 25,000 tarantulas
Post by: nimrod on June 26, 2015, 11:37:29 AM

Maningrida is an Aboriginal town and I suspect they will eat them, quite tasty actually Ive eaten cooked Tarantula in Thailand  :P

Title: Re: Maningrida town has been taken over by 25,000 tarantulas
Post by: Normandie on June 26, 2015, 09:24:20 PM

Reminds me of that old 70s move "Kingdom of the Spiders" with William Shatner.

Title: Re: Maningrida town has been taken over by 25,000 tarantulas
Post by: Moogmodule on June 26, 2015, 10:01:48 PM

I love how they downplay the threat from the spiders. They're not fatal. Only induce 6 to 8 hours of vomiting.  ha2ha

Title: Re: Maningrida town has been taken over by 25,000 tarantulas
Post by: KelMar on June 27, 2015, 08:55:30 PM

Quote from: Dmitry on June 26, 2015, 09:32:38 AM

If you are scared of spiders, this is the stuff of nightmares.

I don't mind little, non-hairy spiders. I usually put them outside when I find them in the house. But hairy ones of any size are another story!