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   walruscarver2000 said, about 4 years ago

   They got some badass spiders down under.
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   Ralph Shibler said, about 4 years ago

   note to self avoid golden orb weaver spiders ….
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   chicken 33 said, about 4 years ago

   @Ralph Shibler

   Note to me. Avoid Australia.
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   Stagger Lee said, about 4 years ago

   I hope that book doesn’t fall over on her.
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   exturk said, about 4 years ago

   No loss with that snake..
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   exturk said, about 4 years ago

   Isn’t that the one accidentally introduced to Okinawa? and totally obliterated all bird species?
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   silvrGrl123 said, about 4 years ago

   @exturk

   Guam, not Okinawa – the Brown Tree snake wiped out all birds and small rodents. Judging by this fact, these snakes are probably pretty skilled predators, and that spider must have been awfully skilled (and lucky) to take out even a small one.

   http://www.fort.usgs.gov/resources/education/bts/invasion/history.asp
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   iced tea said, about 4 years ago

   The rings of Saturan have ice on them the size of Greenland. Is that little woman what one would say is a dwarf? I heard Austrailia is home to many snakes, most of them poisonous.Still it seems like a fascinating country.
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   Tom Flapwell said, about 4 years ago

   I like golden orb weavers. But the really unbelievable part is that someone with an English last name has the first name “Ant.”
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    Zuhlamon said, about 4 years ago

    “If we pull this off, we’ll eat like kings” (Gary Larson: two spiders weaving a web at the bottom of the kiddy slide)
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    silvrGrl123 said, about 4 years ago

    They already have an ecological nightmare because of introduced species, so trying to solve the problem by sticking in even greater nightmare species seems… even more nightmarish. Actually, with the Guam snakes, it appears that the only thing keeping the snakes alive are the presence of rapidly-reproducing lizards, and the larger snakes are looking pretty gaunt. So the predator success of the snakes will be in the end self-limiting and will balance out to an island of many (or few) snakes and lizards. (Maybe not a terrific tourist attraction, though… especially if you throw in some bird-eating spiders to duke it out with the snakes.)
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    exturk said, about 4 years ago

    @silvrGrl123

    OK, Guam. So what are the snakes going to eat now that the birds and rodents are gone, each other?
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    silvrGrl123 said, about 4 years ago

    @exturk

    Lizards! According to this site I mentioned above (http://www.fort.usgs.gov/resources/education/bts/invasion/history.asp), rapidly reproducing lizards keep the snakes alive.
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