Comments on: Urbanization Is Supersizing Spiders

By: moka

moka — Tue, 07 May 2013 10:34:07 +0000

I will burn my house down and start anew if I see one of these.

By: Cody

Cody — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:55:22 +0000

While this is interesting, there should still be an upper limit to how large arthropods can get. The reason we lost the huge insects and spiders from ancient times is because levels of Oxygen in the atmosphere went down.

By: Dave Churchman

Dave Churchman — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 22:25:21 +0000

Super-sized spiders inhabiting “cement-laded” cities? Does the writer mean bags of dehydrated powdered limestone? Or is he/she confusing cement (powder) with concrete (man-made rock made from cement, sand, gravel and water)? …and shouldn’t that “laded” really be “laden” or maybe even “laced?” I would kindly refer this scribe to an excellent article in The Smithsonian Magazine (ca 1994) where all of the secrets of cement/concrete are skillfully exposed.

By: Peter M. Lutterbeck, M.D.

Peter M. Lutterbeck, M.D. — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 15:10:04 +0000

Spiders becoming “Super-Sized” in the City? Of course! They have more junk fund at their disposal. One day in the not too distant future their bulk will increase to a extent that their legs will no longer be able to carry them. This will assuredly result being squashed by “Super-Sized” humans who in all likelihood won’t even notice. Extinction or return to the rural areas again like the “Prepers” are doing!

By: Gail W

Gail W — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:35:36 +0000

Hmm, interesting..and a little scary. Wonder how much bigger the city spiders were to the country ones?