Now that's a rare spider! It exists in only one county in the world - that one!

Pfft, plenty of those bastard arachnids in the world. Step on it and get the construction done!

Cool...let's send guys home, potentially without a job, because of a fucking spider.

>> ^rottenseed:

Cool...let's send guys home, potentially without a job, because of a fucking spider.

Oh well, if somebody is going to lose a job then dont let a little thing like the extinction of a species get in the way!

*bugs

How about a rare ant like me?

Adding video to channels (Bugs) - requested by ant.

Now I would have laughed real hard had that reporter while in the spider zone screamed spider and did a little stompy dance..

That spider does shit for the bio diversity. One spider or even 10 spiders dont affect anything. They should just kill it and put it out of its misery.

>> ^Chaucer:

That spider does shit for the bio diversity. One spider or even 10 spiders dont affect anything. They should just kill it and put it out of its misery.


Neither do you. Is that a valid argument to kill you as well?

>> ^zombieater:

>> ^Chaucer:
That spider does shit for the bio diversity. One spider or even 10 spiders dont affect anything. They should just kill it and put it out of its misery.

Neither do you. Is that a valid argument to kill you as well?


Wow. show your ignorance and hate. Here's a helpful suggestion for you.... Kill yourself before your spread.

>> ^Chaucer:

>> ^zombieater:
>> ^Chaucer:
That spider does shit for the bio diversity. One spider or even 10 spiders dont affect anything. They should just kill it and put it out of its misery.

Neither do you. Is that a valid argument to kill you as well?

Wow. show your ignorance and hate. Here's a helpful suggestion for you.... Kill yourself before your spread.


*MY* ignorance and hate? I repeated your OWN statement back at you. If you can't respect other life, why should anyone respect yours?

>> ^zombieater:

>> ^Chaucer:
>> ^zombieater:
>> ^Chaucer:
That spider does shit for the bio diversity. One spider or even 10 spiders dont affect anything. They should just kill it and put it out of its misery.

Neither do you. Is that a valid argument to kill you as well?

Wow. show your ignorance and hate. Here's a helpful suggestion for you.... Kill yourself before your spread.

MY ignorance and hate? I repeated your OWN statement back at you. If you can't respect other life, why should anyone respect yours?


Yes your ignorance and hate... My comments were not about disrespecting life. But you tried to turn it into that and I called you on your hate. You should just off yourself and the world would be rid of one less troll.

Back on topic, I was saying that it doesnt matter what a dozen spiders of this one species will do as there's 100's more of a different type around to do the same function. It isnt like this one spider eats one type of bug that nothing else eats. If it did, then I would say be sure to keep it around. There's likely not even enough of those spiders to keep the gene pool straight.

Now, now Greogory, troll is convenient label for all manner of folk who use the internet like crack cocaine....

I must concur with the spider not playing a pivotal role in the bio-train. If this project were halted by otters, snakes, owls, mice or beavers I could understand the fuss....Hell, even fleas or mosquito threatened would be cause for major alarm but a rare species of fucking arachnid?? Stomp that squishy, worry about the karma later, and build the fucking bypass!

....unless some arachnologist can find a biochemical compound it produces that cures cancer maybe....or maybe repairs livers "I dunno, JUST DON'T SQUASH IT!!"

"started geeking out like a bunch of 15 yr at a comicon" all i took away from that.

Its not just the cute fluffy mammals which are crucial to ecossytems and possible hold the keys to further discovery. I don't feel sorry for the spider, I have no empathy towards it at all but we still have a responsibility to at least study it and its habitat BEFORE we build a road over it and possible extinguish any chance of discovery for good. The road can wait a little longer when concerning an organism that took millions of years to evolve.

Who knows, one day when we're building things out of spider silk you might be glad we took the time to study this rare arachnid

Braken Bat Cave Meshweaver (Cicurina venii)
http://ecos.fws.gov/speciesProfile/profile/speciesProfile.action?spcode=J01D

To find a Braken Bat Cave meshweaver was a discovery of another kind altogether, akin to “stumbling on a new Galapagos Island in terms of the biological significance of the region,” said biologist Jean Krejca, Zara's president.

After the spider was collected in a bottle, it was dissected for it to be identified, Krejca said. Collecting and killing an endangered species is allowed for that purpose if done by someone with a federal permit. No other spiders have been spotted in the hole where the one was found.

Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Tiny-spider-is-a-big-roadblock-3849198.php#ixzz26qYn1CWL

>> ^Jinx:

Its not just the cute fluffy mammals which are crucial to ecossytems and possible hold the keys to further discovery. I don't feel sorry for the spider, I have no empathy towards it at all but we still have a responsibility to at least study it and its habitat BEFORE we build a road over it and possible extinguish any chance of discovery for good. The road can wait a little longer when concerning an organism that took millions of years to evolve.
Who knows, one day when we're building things out of spider silk you might be glad we took the time to study this rare arachnid


Precisely. Let's not assume that a species is useless only a few seconds after realizing that it existed at all. Moreover, one should not make assumptions when one has zero biological background whatsoever.

You don't know what it eats. You don't know what eats it. You don't know its importance to its ecosystem. It could be a keystone species, an indicator species, an endemic species, or one of a hundred other important parts of a complex network of organisms. Do your research and then make conclusions. Not the other way around.

boo hoo...I see a big difference between the extinction of the black rhino and a spider we haven't seen since the 80s.>> ^Jinx:

>> ^rottenseed:
Cool...let's send guys home, potentially without a job, because of a fucking spider.

Oh well, if somebody is going to lose a job then dont let a little thing like the extinction of a species get in the way!

>> ^rottenseed:

boo hoo...I see a big difference between the extinction of the black rhino and a spider we haven't seen since the 80s.>> ^Jinx:
>> ^rottenseed:
Cool...let's send guys home, potentially without a job, because of a fucking spider.

Oh well, if somebody is going to lose a job then dont let a little thing like the extinction of a species get in the way!


Really. Are you going to explain or quantify that difference in any way? I mean, is it a weight thing? Rhino's dont have very big brains so its not about intelligence...perhaps its just our illogical emotional attachment to them? Yes. That seems like the perfect yardstick.