OK, here's a nice unthreatening vegetarian spider.
Bagheera kiplingi pretends to be an ant. Obviously that would be easier if it had six legs instead of eight but ants are strangely unperceptive in many ways. As indeed are the acacia trees on which the ants subsist. The tree provides food for the ants, by exuding nutritious little lumps that look to me like chicken nuggets, in return for the ants acting as bodyguards and driving herbivores away. So the clever spider mingles among the ants and eats the nutritious little lumps as well... and the occasional ant larva because they taste so good, who can blame it for succumbing to temptation? They must be the spider equivalent of bacon. Hmmm.No doubt there are also gluten-intolerant spiders out there with their own special diets. Further research is necessary.
The Wackyweedia tells us that "Only the male was described in 1896; the female was first described 100 years later by Wayne Maddison." It is a mystery how the species survived in the meantime.
Knock knock.
Who's there?
Acacia
Acacia who?
Acacia Nelly people laugh at this joke, but usually not.
12 comments:
LOL
Love this post!!
Jennifer, however, might have to keeel you
TWWEEEEEEEE!
Rule violation. Yellow card for Smut. In the penalty box with no beer you go. Well,ok, here, take a couple bottles of old angioplasty.
As you well know, according to the international blogging rules, section 4, presentation, subsection 9, font useage, paragraph 3(a), exceptions, the book clearly states "When using a different font to add a joke, particularly a 'knock knock' joke, to the end of a post to stand alone as an ironic commentary outside the scope of the primary post topic, the font to be used will, without exception, be Comic Sans"
Hey, man, I don't make the rules. I just like to blow the whistle...
I'm consumed by sadness- I now want a nugget-extruding tree of my own.
A nugget-extruding tree is a perfect metaphor for the nanny state.
Kerist, now I want a nanny state.
Nectar-extruding tree sounds more like the wet-nurse state.
Wisely, the Blogger behemoth does not offer Comic Sans as an option as part of this template.
I wanna be described.
biate, eaten twice.
Not surprising that the acacia hasn't caught on to the extra legs - like most flowering trees, they can only count to five.
No doubt there are also gluten-intolerant spiders out there with their own special diets.
Most spiders are Atkins dieters.
Hmm. That perhaps explains why, when I tried to use spider poison on marauding squirrels I was notably unsuccessful.
I suppose I should go back to the .22...
Is that spider wearing Smut's party pajamas?
Last night I shot a spider in my pyjamas.
Is that what they call it now?
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