can a spider build a nest in your ear?
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No, a spider can not build a nest in your ear. There are many problems with that myth. First, a spider would not have any reason to go in your ear. You move to much, even if it's just breathing, they don't like it. Second, a spider can not build a "nest" fast enough for you not to realize it's there. It takes several hours to build some webs, and a long time to build the egg sack that would be refered to as a "nest." Spiders have no reason to live in your ear. So while it would be physically and theoretically possible (spelling?), it's probably more likely to get struck by lightning or win the lotery.
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a catterpillar going inside the ears
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Arachnophobia.  My mom would tape plastic spiders on the cabinets when I was a toddler to keep me out of them.  It worked!
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uhh...its probably like spider sences...
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Invertebrates can manage this apparent degree of complexity because so much of their behaviour is instinctive. It is preprogrammed into their brains before hatching and is largely unchanging.  That method of storage is highly efficient because the macroscopic brain structure itself can be tailored to support it. This allows for very complex behaviours with relatively little brain mass. The downside is that the animals have little ability to learn and even less ability to respond to change.\n\nIn contrast mammals have very few preprogrammed behaviours, instead they learn most of what they need to know through experience. That makes mammals extremely flexible animals compared to most invertebrates because they can tailor all their behaviour to circumstances. The downside is that it requires a large brain to allow for all the possible circumstances the animal might meet.\n\nTo illustrate this, consider something like the ;structures’ that a spider builds. some species of spiders build complex silk baskets for their eggs. The basket consists of a ‘floor’ and a domed roof, complete with an escape hole for the hatchlings. They are very complex and very impressive without a doubt, but the spider makes them according to an inbuilt program. If that program is disrupted or indeed can not be initiated the spider simply can not cope. If a spider is disturbed just after it has constructed the floor of the basket it can’t simply start again. It has to complete the program cycle. It will spin the domed roof, then lay the eggs in there, and because there is no floor the eggs fall onto the ground an all die. \n\nCan you imagine a bird or squirrel that is disturbed hen it begins making its nest trying to build the sides of the nest on nothing? Nope, that’s because mammals and birds are flexible. The basic of nest building may be inbuilt, but the specifics are the result of learning and adaptations. \n\nAnd that is true of all invertebrate behaviour. An caterpillar will starve to death in a room full of food simply because the food doesn’t have any smell, or a spider that is prevented form spinning a web will starve even when given unlimited amounts of disabled but living insects because it can ONLY hunt when food is caught in a web. Bees will fight to the death to keep other insects out of their hive, but once they are inside the hive and acquire the right smell they will let other insects kill them and take no action at all.\n\nAnd the list of examples goes on and on. Bugs simply are not very adaptable creatures. If they experience something new they simply can not do anything about it at all. And although spiders, ants and so forth can learn their ability is extremely limited. They can exhibit complex behaviour in one limited way, but they can’t readily alter that behaviour. \n\nAnd that is why they can exhibit apparently complex behaviour with a small brain. The complexity is wired in, with no ‘waste’ space. But that comes at the expense of adaptability. In contrast mammals exhibit les complex behaviours but are infinitely more adaptable. Horses for courses.
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I've heard of attacks by mockingbirds and bluejays and have seen both of these birds swoop on other potential predators such as cats. They only do it when they feel their nest (with eggs or nestlings) is threatened. The solution is just to stay away from the nest.
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Yes, believe it or not.  A Canadian firm has gene spliced goats to produce spider web threads in their milk.\n\nLink is attached.  If you want more of them, just use the search term\n\nspider web goat milk
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Not all of them do. Many spiders don't have a web to hang in, because they have other types of webs ("platform" webs) or they live in the ground, etc. But the spiders who hang in a web don't all hang the same way. In fact, the way they hang in the web is often helpful for identification. Some hang head down, others head up. It depends on the species. Some also just hang out on the outskirts of the web and don't usually sit on the web itself. It just depends.
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Depends on the spider.\n\nI'd go see a doctor just so you know what this is for sure. At least it will put you at ease, and it will rule out any possibility that it's something else.
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The one thing a spider is afriad of is attack form overhead (primarily wasps looking to lay eggs) You could see if your spider is more of less likely to treact to different colours/shapes suspended overhead.  Or even how it would react to a mirror.
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Yes, insects can survive under water for a very long time.  One way is by trapping air in their body hair.  Most insects and arachnids are covered with fine hairs.  When under water, air becomes trapped among them.  This air can support the bug for a long time.\n\nThe waste pipes in your home are mostly empty.  Beyond the bowl the pipes are not full of water.  They are full of air.  Therefore once the water flows away the bug has an empty pipe upon which it can attach itself.\n\nSo the question of surviving underwater becomes moot.  There is no water to worry about.\n\nFlushing an insect or an arachnid (spiders are not insects they are arachnids) is not absolute or certain death.
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Any spider with a "fat round body" as you put it, is most likely a garden spider family Aranaeidae. These are the very commonly spiders that build large round "typical" webs between bushes, trees and on people's front porches. They are very effective at catching and killing large flying insects, so let it be, it'll do more good than evil. None of these spiders are venomous to people, most (even the big ones) arent even able to deliver a bite, so no worries, hope this helps!
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If you are asking about the Sydney Funnel Web spider, found in Australia, yes, it is a kind of tarantula. Its appearance more closely resembles a trap door spider, with it's hard carapace and shiny black/brown exterior, but the similarities lay in the orientation of its fangs. "True spiders" have fangs that contract from the side on a horizontal axis. A tarantula's fangs thrust downward in a vertical motion, as do the Sydney funnel Web's. The Sydney Funnel Web spider (Atrax Robustus), is only found in Australia, especially distributed in the city of Sydney and areas of close proximity. Like a trap door spider, the Funnel web builds a lair in the ground and lines it with silk, catching prey as it ventures by. This is true of the females, who are larger than the males and spend most of their lives under ground. People often mistakenly dig them up in gardens. The males are more apt to wander, searching for prey and a mate, and are especially active after a rainfall. Both the male and female funnel webs are very aggressive spiders, and the male is more dangerous both in potentcy and because it often wanders into human habitats. The Funnel webs have huge fangs that are capable of piercing a fingernail. When threatened or provoked (not a hard thing to do to a funnel web), it will rear up and expose its fangs, often letting drops of venom form at the tips as a warning. Their venom is a neurotoxin, which affects the nervous system, and depending on the dose of venom, age of victim and their health conditions at the time of bite, the resulting symptoms vary. Death caused by a bite is rare in this day and age, thanks to an anti-venom, developed in 1980. Hope this helps.
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"won't you come into my parlor?",said the spider to the fly. the tricky spider is pretty clever,isn't he? he knows the fly will be caught and he'll be able to scamper along and have himself a nice meal!\n       but if the sticky web clings to the fly and traps him,why doesn't it cling to the spider? the answer to this will surprise you. it does! a spider can be caught just as easily in his own web as a fly is.\n       the reason this doesn't happen is that the spider is "at home" in his own web. he knows his way around. and when the web was spun originally, the spider made sure that there would be "safe" threads to use, threads he could touch without sticking to them.\n      there are many kinds of silk that a spider produces. the sticky kind is used in the web to catch its prey. but there is also a non-sticky kind, and this is used to make the strong, supporting spokes of the web. the spider knows which is which, and he simply avoids the sticky ones! he can do this because he has a remarkable sense of touch.
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I'm pretty sure on a web only some of the web is sticky. The spider just knows where to put its feet. I think... Or maybe its just the opposite of how a fly lands unside down on the ceiling.
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It sounds like spiders. \n\nspray it with water & vinegar to wash it away.
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Yes, but it is so slow we won't register it. We only live a second, compared to the lifespan of the earth and it's evolving creatures. \nAs far as the spiders and other creatures are concerned, this is more of a fact of 'finding' and discovering new creatures, not necessarily that they just evolved.