Awwwwwwwww! Jumping spiders visit me all the time in summer on the back terrace, they are the cutest little critters. They can actually see pretty well! All spiders are not blind, actually none are completely blind AFAIK. They have all kinds of eyes for a reason, and some are more like motion detectors, others for gauging distance...
I'd swear I've had a couple mimic me. Lot of summer days pointing fingers at "bugs" and mantids & jumping spiders often follow your finger with their arms. Hard to tell if it's mimicry or territorial display. Very cool creatures
@@v-sus7647 I watched two jumping spiders on my patio table aa few years ago, both looked very similar, one was quite a bit smaller; the male. He bobbed from side to side in a bouncing fashion to court the larger female. she went for it, and approached and he moved back a few inches, she followed, he bobbed some more and again retreated a bit, this went on a few times and he sneaked through the grid of the table and so did she and they continued upside down. They mated for a few seconds and he got the hell out of there as fast as he could, and I know exactly why!😅 Now whenever I see one, I get a finger close (They are not very shy at all) and bob it side to side, and sure enough spider lady approaches! When I do it to some they run right away: probably males that think "That guy is huge and want's to eat me"! When they approach though I am pretty sure they are female. They are sooooooooooo cute!🥰
I watched a PBS program about these little guys and they showed how they could replay a video of a spider doing a mating display on a video screen. Even though the image was 50 times bigger than him he returned the display!
Thanks Aron. As an arachnophobe living in Australia, i'm very familiar with our vast array of spiders. As much as it's educational to watch your videos, i wish i'd ignored this one.
@@AronRa Ha. for all of the work you do trying to educate the masses, (and the stupidly ignorant right-wingers), i'll happily accept 20 minutes of freaking out.
@@markshepperson3603 no idea. Im not a yank. i'm just so used to Aron posting clips refuting religious right wing creationism claims. its good to see his educational side spending some more time making videos.
I can't imagine how much work these types of videos are. It shows though, as they are my favourites. I can't currently support you regularly, but I hope this helps some. I look forward to your future work. :) Cheers, from BC
A female spiny orb weaver (yellow with black spines - I think you called it a crab spider in this video) just weaved a beautiful web right in front of our back gate. After making sure she’s not venomous, we blocked the path so no one can ruin her web. She’s doing a fabulous job catching our Florida mosquitoes!
Loved the maniacal mad scientist laugh when you talked about the Spider Goats! I live down here in the Houston Suburbs. We get tiny little jumping spiders down here and I even had a HUGE Orb Spider in my back garden one summer many years ago. I've even spotted a tarantula a time or two. They are truly fascinating creatures! However, I'm glad nature limits their size. Because if giant ones did exist, we'd all be well and truly SCREWED!
Thanks for teaching me the name for the jumping spider group, Saltisidae. Since I was a child I imagined what it would be like if they grew to the size of a German Shepherd. No matter how terrifying they would be, someone would come along and tame it. What a watch dog, the burglar would be invenomated and wrapped in silk for the cops to pick up.
I'm currently breeding "false widow" Steatoda Paykullianas, which are probably my favorite spider ever, something's so fascinating about the theriididae family and this one in particular as it resembles Latrodectus spiders so well, but they're just slightly off visualy, beautiful spiders
@@stefanostokatlidis4861 easy to take care of? To me they are, they don't require much, just a good enclosure and food. They're not agressive or dangerous really, worst thing that can happen if they bite you is if you don't clean the spot you might get a bacterial skin infection, but that's it.
I am one of those people that have never been fond of spiders, to put it mildly. But I must say education does tend to change one 's mind. In this video I have learned more about spiders here than I ever knew before. Thank you Aron, for being an excellent teacher. I am happy to say today I learn not just one thing, but many things!
My interest in spiders has drastically increased as of recently in fact I now have a pet brown widow. I love these phylogeny videos keep up the good work!
I absolutely love your breakdowns of modern creatures from their humble origins! There's always so much to learn. And I can't wait to see what you choose to break down next :D I wonder if you'd be interested in speculating (at the end of the breakdown) what features of the species in question: Are being selected for/against, or which current features are in the process of being repurposed, or generally what you think they may look like in 100k years or so. Keep up the great work Aron!
Thanks so much for educating everyone on arachnids Aron. I think once people learn about them and gradually expose themselves to arachnids that their fear or disgust for them would turn into fascination, appreciation, or even love. Jumping spiders are a good start.
I’m terrified of spiders, my partner is the one to take the spiders back outside. This was still very informative and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you Aron. BTW I take care of the snakes 😂 snakes don’t bug me much.
Aaaahhh, such a good episode! The evolution and diversity of spiders is truly staggering. I keep tarantulas as pets, and it's always fascinating comparing the similarities and differences between species. There will be several species with very similar characteristics, but there will be some tiny differences (besides coloration) that stand out as well. Then there's microscopic differences too that we can't see with the naked eye--usually regarding the shapes and sizes of sex organs. It's just a huge, huge world. Spiders are truly some of the most fascinating creatures on the planet.
As a kid, i had a big spider that built a web from the roof, down to the porch railing, right next to the porch light (smart spider). For what seemed like the entire summer, i would catch carpenter ants (as i saw them) and toss them into the web. The spider would make short work of them 🙂
Loving this series! More like this, please! (Though, I would like it better if all the spider episodes, all the snake episodes, etc were each released as one long video instead of several smaller ones… but I get that it’s probably an algorithm thing.)❤️🕷❤️
Thanks, I really enjoyed this series and appreciated the high-level recap at the end of this vid. Have been getting up close and personal with the spiders in my garden over the last couple of weeks while clearing out overgrown areas, the variety is staggering. My favourite kind has a beautiful olive green stripe on its abdomen.
The argument that "we haven't found intermediate forms" always amuses me because to find an intermediate form, all you need to do is find a person with biological parents and children. I guess a lot of people just don't want to accept what that means given enough time.
The way I heard the myth, Arachne challenged Athena in a weaving contest, which she lost of course. She hanged herself out of shame and despair, and Athena said "not so fast, you can't escape me that easy", and turned her into the first spider, forever condemned to hang from a thread and weave her silk as eternal punishment. Variations on a theme I guess.
Thank you Aron. Spiders are one of my favorites topics. They are absolutly beautiful animals. I wonder how the ancient spiner tail would of work at spinning the silk?. Modern spiders use two short legs at the back to help them weeb the silk. It's amazing to see the process and speed of how they do it. Also it is tragic that ancient animal species fossils have been lost due to the animals perishing in a tropical region. So much knowledge of our ancient passed, lost. Anyways I better go to sleep. Thanks for a great video 😊
Thank you for taking the time to study all this and present it to us! If you want to see evolution, look at immune systems. When I took the comparative immunology course during my PhD, evolution became very apparent. Immunoglobulins and the genetic arrangement and rearrangement has clearly evolved.
Sad to see how little views this typ of video gets. Even more reason to thank Aron for still making them. Dedication to the cause not the reward! A true role model.
My children and I have watched pretty much all of your videos. My youngest knows rhinos are the true unicorns but she still asked me to ask you if you would do the evolution of the "unicorn." Have a lovely day and keep making the amazing videos!!! 🙂🙂
Many years ago I sanded and polished our floors. About a week later I was sat in the lounge, with my SO. There was a quiet part in the programme we were watching. I heard a clicking noise, turned around to Marian and asked if she could hear that? She said she could. So I muted the t.v., there it was again. We both had a good look around, and out from under the t.v. cabinet came a Wolf Spider, the biggest one I'd seen outside Central America! About two inches across! I've always encouraged spiders in my homes, they keep the flying insects down.
Yet more brilliant content. As a kid in my early years of paleontological interest (I'm 72 now), I had a book that noted a Devonian spider, Architarbus, it clained was "the first known spider". This was the 1960s.
When I was about 10yr old, we used to live in countryside house for a while and had orbweaver spider in our garden (in our country we call them "Crusader spiders" cus of cross pattern on their backs). For as long as she was there living in partly enclosed vine leaf (she enclosed it with her web), there were practically no flies, wasps, or else pestering around our backyard. She also was the only spider I was not afraid to the point of even allowing her to climb on my hand when she slipped from her leaf during thunderstorm and I helped her to get back there as otherwise i have terrible arachnophobia.
You seem *Very* intelligent! You seem to know and use all these big words properly and in perfect conjunction with each other, and even going so far as to recommend a change to a scientific classification! I hope you're family is proud of you. Great job!
Its a unique and wonderful relationship we have with the spiders that share our homes. I have enjoyed my living arrangement with all of my former house spider roommates.
AronRa... is your least favourite song. 'I don't like spiders and snakes.'? I've seen photos of that goliath spider, but seeing it on an person's shoulder really brings home the size.
As a life-long arachnophobe (I'm 70), this one almost made my skin crawl. I kept telling myself: "It's only on the screen. They are not going to jump on me or bite me." It was highly educational and I thank you for that, as well as the religious stuff you upload.
Great work as always Aron. I think I remember being told at school (Science class) that a huge chunk of extant insects are beetles. Like the group of insects with the most species are the beetles. Also that arthropods are limited in size because of oxgen levels and weight/biomechanics. Which is a good thing tbh.
As a budding arachnologist and paleontology enthusiast, thank you for spreading this specific yet fascinating knownledge Aron, much better than just screaming to kill them.. It's very well researched, really nice job !
G'Day Aron, You may want to take a look at these tiny, harmless & cutely gorgeous arachnids from my neck of the woods. (Read the Wiki, as it's honestly pretty bloody funny in places.) [ en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maratus_volans ] Unlike so much else of *Australian Fauna* (& *Flora* too, for that matter ❶), these adorable little spiders aren't out to kill you (or use your body as a lethal incubator, like those wasps, or that fungus, or whatever), but to make you watch - with bated breath - as they _dance_ for the chance to get their leg over, the one & only time in their life... [ th-cam.com/video/HPh_Gi7PCqs/w-d-xo.html ] (I'll bet you'd never thought that you'd become so emotionally invested in the sex life of a humble Aussie 'rachnid...) ❶ - The Gympie-Gympie tree. _Pray that it never evolves a way to walk, move or..._ *ʜᴜɴᴛ*
I just nominated you for the tubebuddy education creator award ❤😊. I wrote a really long reason why you deserve it. Hopefully you get to read it. If not I have it saved.
Aron Sama, Your taxonomy lectures never fail to amaze and elucidate. As a life-long arachnophobe, and atheist, I plan to watch this several times. I think it was Sun Su who said, "Know thy enemy."
I woke up the other night @03H00 for my usual nocturnal micturation. Having Sleep Apnea, I was glad that I was wearing my mask as a spider with legs the width of a whisky glass was about 18" away on the wall above my head. Still there when I returned to bed but gone by the morning. I live in France where apparently some of them bite. But you can't worry about everything.
In my former exotic pet store we had many beautiful spiders. My personal collection consisted of a Mexican red leg tarantula, a giant (not goliath) bird eating tarantula, and a small colony of pink toe tarantulas.
Snakes are highly specialized lizards without legs and spiders are highly specialized arachnids without tails. I never thought of that. Mygalomorphae doesn’t mean primitive, it is Greek in origin and means shrew-like. Europeans were calling tarantulas shrews for some time. It seems that most derived araneomorphs gained diversity by becoming smaller and specialized. Their lifespan also shortened greatly. They traded a vertebrate-like existence for an insect-like one. Compare the average tarantula with the average cellar spider.
Love this as much as your snake video! I know such videos take waaay more effort and yield less results than click bait, low effort videos BUT please keep these up! Love them
Thank you so much for these fascinating studies on biology and taxonomy. The schematic of the body plan development at the end was an especially dense distillation of the evolutionary history.
Thanks Aron. I love spiders and find them fascinating. Not fond of ticks or mites, but not skeeved our by them. Im even a fan of scorpions. But damn, for some reason the whip scorpions snd solifuges make my skin crawl.
I was an arachnologist for 13 years and my father in law was a world renowned arachnologist. This programme was very well done.
An arachnologist seal of approval! 😊
Totally agree, monkey man, like me, I splash a seed or two 😂
Robin leach?
Shouldn't you still be an arachnologist?
You may not still be employed, but you'll always be what you know.
@@loganlee5875 Yes. You are correct. I'm not working as an arachnologist and went into archival science but I can still identify the spiders.
When spider-goat hybrids is the reasonable solution...
Man, I love this channel.
I'm more of a mad scientist type (I'm not a scientist) so I would tried by giant socialable spiders
The Spiderman metal riff at the end was great.
🤘
We owe a lot to spiders.
They keep new york from being infested with goblins, lizards, rhinos and octopi.
Everything but homeless people
And sand i heard
@@sleepisthecousinofdeath7395 People should never be considered an infestation. Look at history.
I understood that reference.
@@mstalcup but when it comes to pregnancy all of a sudden the fetus is a parasite that must be aborted
Awwwwwwwww! Jumping spiders visit me all the time in summer on the back terrace, they are the cutest little critters. They can actually see pretty well! All spiders are not blind, actually none are completely blind AFAIK. They have all kinds of eyes for a reason, and some are more like motion detectors, others for gauging distance...
I'd swear I've had a couple mimic me.
Lot of summer days pointing fingers at "bugs" and mantids & jumping spiders often follow your finger with their arms.
Hard to tell if it's mimicry or territorial display.
Very cool creatures
@@v-sus7647 I watched two jumping spiders on my patio table aa few years ago, both looked very similar, one was quite a bit smaller; the male. He bobbed from side to side in a bouncing fashion to court the larger female. she went for it, and approached and he moved back a few inches, she followed, he bobbed some more and again retreated a bit, this went on a few times and he sneaked through the grid of the table and so did she and they continued upside down. They mated for a few seconds and he got the hell out of there as fast as he could, and I know exactly why!😅
Now whenever I see one, I get a finger close (They are not very shy at all) and bob it side to side, and sure enough spider lady approaches! When I do it to some they run right away: probably males that think "That guy is huge and want's to eat me"! When they approach though I am pretty sure they are female.
They are sooooooooooo cute!🥰
I watched a PBS program about these little guys and they showed how they could replay a video of a spider doing a mating display on a video screen. Even though the image was 50 times bigger than him he returned the display!
@@thomascanfield8571 No wonder they want to bang me!!!🤣
Such fascinating creatures. Also, mad scientist Aron was very entertaining, thank you.
Thanks Aron.
As an arachnophobe living in Australia, i'm very familiar with our vast array of spiders.
As much as it's educational to watch your videos, i wish i'd ignored this one.
Sorry.
@@AronRa Ha. for all of the work you do trying to educate the masses, (and the stupidly ignorant right-wingers), i'll happily accept 20 minutes of freaking out.
@@davemorris3204 can’t yanks write a post without siting political sides? It’s so dumb.
@@markshepperson3603 no idea. Im not a yank.
i'm just so used to Aron posting clips refuting religious right wing creationism claims.
its good to see his educational side spending some more time making videos.
@@markshepperson3603 the guy literally said he lives in Australia. Not a yank. And I certainly can I assure you that.
Well, i, for one, think that giant spiders are cute. Thank you skitters, for curing my arachnophobia.
Giant spiders like Shelob? 😳
@@drewharrison6433 nah, like tom holland
Jumping spiders... cutest spider.
@@randomconsumer4494 I agree!
@@drewharrison6433 Or Canotypec spiders(Warhammer 40000) Very big... generate swarms of scarabs and might blow up if you kill them.
While I still don't like spiders and don't want them anywhere near me, this video DOES make me appreciate them more.
I absolutely loved working on this. Thank you so much for including me on this project! Let me know when you decide to tackle Eusocial Insects. 🐜🐜
I will do!
I can't imagine how much work these types of videos are. It shows though, as they are my favourites. I can't currently support you regularly, but I hope this helps some. I look forward to your future work. :)
Cheers, from BC
A female spiny orb weaver (yellow with black spines - I think you called it a crab spider in this video) just weaved a beautiful web right in front of our back gate. After making sure she’s not venomous, we blocked the path so no one can ruin her web. She’s doing a fabulous job catching our Florida mosquitoes!
Loved the maniacal mad scientist laugh when you talked about the Spider Goats! I live down here in the Houston Suburbs. We get tiny little jumping spiders down here and I even had a HUGE Orb Spider in my back garden one summer many years ago. I've even spotted a tarantula a time or two. They are truly fascinating creatures! However, I'm glad nature limits their size. Because if giant ones did exist, we'd all be well and truly SCREWED!
He was a bit too good at that.
Google “Earth vs. The Spider!”
Thanks for teaching me the name for the jumping spider group, Saltisidae. Since I was a child I imagined what it would be like if they grew to the size of a German Shepherd. No matter how terrifying they would be, someone would come along and tame it. What a watch dog, the burglar would be invenomated and wrapped in silk for the cops to pick up.
I'm currently breeding "false widow" Steatoda Paykullianas, which are probably my favorite spider ever, something's so fascinating about the theriididae family and this one in particular as it resembles Latrodectus spiders so well, but they're just slightly off visualy, beautiful spiders
We have them native here in Greece.
@@stefanostokatlidis4861 they're awesome
@@tomo2807 I never kept them, although they are plentiful, especially in stony areas. Are they easy?
@@stefanostokatlidis4861 easy to take care of? To me they are, they don't require much, just a good enclosure and food. They're not agressive or dangerous really, worst thing that can happen if they bite you is if you don't clean the spot you might get a bacterial skin infection, but that's it.
the spider eating that whatever is oddly relaxing
The spear jawed Myrmarachne plataleoides spider is insanely cool, check it out guys If you want to see one of the most cheeky mimicry in nature
I love these videos. Thank you for your hard work.
I am one of those people that have never been fond of spiders, to put it mildly. But I must say education does tend to change one 's mind. In this video I have learned more about spiders here than I ever knew before. Thank you Aron, for being an excellent teacher. I am happy to say today I learn not just one thing, but many things!
My interest in spiders has drastically increased as of recently in fact I now have a pet brown widow. I love these phylogeny videos keep up the good work!
I love to learn about evolution. Its so nice to listen to you.
I absolutely love your breakdowns of modern creatures from their humble origins!
There's always so much to learn. And I can't wait to see what you choose to break down next :D
I wonder if you'd be interested in speculating (at the end of the breakdown) what features of the species in question: Are being selected for/against, or which current features are in the process of being repurposed, or generally what you think they may look like in 100k years or so.
Keep up the great work Aron!
Love the spiderman theme at the end
nice touch
Thanks so much for educating everyone on arachnids Aron. I think once people learn about them and gradually expose themselves to arachnids that their fear or disgust for them would turn into fascination, appreciation, or even love. Jumping spiders are a good start.
I about died when you went all MCU Super Villain while talking about spider silk.... >_<
This is so good 😵
I’m terrified of spiders, my partner is the one to take the spiders back outside. This was still very informative and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you Aron.
BTW I take care of the snakes 😂 snakes don’t bug me much.
Spider goat, spider goat, does whatever a spider goat does
Can he swing
From a web?
No he can't
He's a goat
🎵
Beautiful little creatures
Aaaahhh, such a good episode! The evolution and diversity of spiders is truly staggering.
I keep tarantulas as pets, and it's always fascinating comparing the similarities and differences between species. There will be several species with very similar characteristics, but there will be some tiny differences (besides coloration) that stand out as well. Then there's microscopic differences too that we can't see with the naked eye--usually regarding the shapes and sizes of sex organs. It's just a huge, huge world.
Spiders are truly some of the most fascinating creatures on the planet.
Arachnids are my favorite species, this series is now my favorite! I have always wondered what their evolutionary history was. Thank you! 😊
As a kid, i had a big spider that built a web from the roof, down to the porch railing, right next to the porch light (smart spider).
For what seemed like the entire summer, i would catch carpenter ants (as i saw them) and toss them into the web. The spider would make short work of them 🙂
Loving this series! More like this, please! (Though, I would like it better if all the spider episodes, all the snake episodes, etc were each released as one long video instead of several smaller ones… but I get that it’s probably an algorithm thing.)❤️🕷❤️
"The spee-i-der" is such an awesome creature.
Thanks, I really enjoyed this series and appreciated the high-level recap at the end of this vid. Have been getting up close and personal with the spiders in my garden over the last couple of weeks while clearing out overgrown areas, the variety is staggering. My favourite kind has a beautiful olive green stripe on its abdomen.
I can't believe how amazingly informative this person is. Thank you.
The argument that "we haven't found intermediate forms" always amuses me because to find an intermediate form, all you need to do is find a person with biological parents and children.
I guess a lot of people just don't want to accept what that means given enough time.
Very enlightening. Really dig these studies. This is my favorite channel on TH-cam. Rock on 🤘👹🤘
The way I heard the myth, Arachne challenged Athena in a weaving contest, which she lost of course. She hanged herself out of shame and despair, and Athena said "not so fast, you can't escape me that easy", and turned her into the first spider, forever condemned to hang from a thread and weave her silk as eternal punishment. Variations on a theme I guess.
At 4:40 let's call the things that are almost spiders but aren't exactly spiders, pseudo-araneamorphs
Thank you Aron.
Spiders are one of my favorites topics. They are absolutly beautiful animals. I wonder how the ancient spiner tail would of work at spinning the silk?. Modern spiders use two short legs at the back to help them weeb the silk. It's amazing to see the process and speed of how they do it. Also it is tragic that ancient animal species fossils have been lost due to the animals perishing in a tropical region. So much knowledge of our ancient passed, lost. Anyways I better go to sleep. Thanks for a great video 😊
Every Aron Ra videos is informative and entertaining
I treasure them
Proud to be a Patreon supporter
So you're trying to tell me that a magical sky Daddy didn't just poof them all into existence? Huh...
The tail of the spider turned into the tale of the spider
Thank you for taking the time to study all this and present it to us! If you want to see evolution, look at immune systems. When I took the comparative immunology course during my PhD, evolution became very apparent. Immunoglobulins and the genetic arrangement and rearrangement has clearly evolved.
Misothelie are endlesly fascinating, I wish I could hold one
Great episode! Loved the mad scientist laugh, the super good Spider-Man jam session at the end, and all the fascinating facts.
Aron Ra is my new hero!! So beautifully technical !
HI, Aron. Been a fan for years now, but finally got around to reading FFoC. I just want to say I loved your Richard Dawkins impression; spot on, chap😂
Your videos are excellent at conveying information. Well done. Thanks.
Sad to see how little views this typ of video gets.
Even more reason to thank Aron for still making them. Dedication to the cause not the reward!
A true role model.
You're the absolute best...the things I've learned from you over the years has been priceless...thank you Aron
So Spider-Man could use its own silk as a bulletproof vest? New idea for comics, TV shows and movies.
That spiderman Tune ...Seriously. I remember watching those cartoons on VHS back in the 80's and even now everyone still be referencing it.
@1:45 That's an origami model by Petr Stuchly, folded from a single square piece of paper.
Awesome thanks, I was wondering who made those
My children and I have watched pretty much all of your videos. My youngest knows rhinos are the true unicorns but she still asked me to ask you if you would do the evolution of the "unicorn."
Have a lovely day and keep making the amazing videos!!! 🙂🙂
Skittering on in to say I love this video series (and the previous ones) and have shared it with pretty much all my friends.
Aha, so you are soon coming to the insects? We have wingless insects, but than there is another group of arthropods: Entognatha.
Many years ago I sanded and polished our floors. About a week later I was sat in the lounge, with my SO. There was a quiet part in the programme we were watching. I heard a clicking noise, turned around to Marian and asked if she could hear that? She said she could. So I muted the t.v., there it was again. We both had a good look around, and out from under the t.v. cabinet came a Wolf Spider, the biggest one I'd seen outside Central America! About two inches across! I've always encouraged spiders in my homes, they keep the flying insects down.
Yet more brilliant content. As a kid in my early years of paleontological interest (I'm 72 now), I had a book that noted a Devonian spider, Architarbus, it clained was "the first known spider". This was the 1960s.
YES, here we go, Spiders, my favorite animal
Thanks very much!
Mostly for the education, but also for the adorable Spider-Man guitar solo❤
Very Fascinating, a sticky subject but a silky smooth presentation as always. Thanks Aron
The adorable jumping spiders. So cute.
When I was about 10yr old, we used to live in countryside house for a while and had orbweaver spider in our garden (in our country we call them "Crusader spiders" cus of cross pattern on their backs). For as long as she was there living in partly enclosed vine leaf (she enclosed it with her web), there were practically no flies, wasps, or else pestering around our backyard.
She also was the only spider I was not afraid to the point of even allowing her to climb on my hand when she slipped from her leaf during thunderstorm and I helped her to get back there as otherwise i have terrible arachnophobia.
You seem *Very* intelligent! You seem to know and use all these big words properly and in perfect conjunction with each other, and even going so far as to recommend a change to a scientific classification! I hope you're family is proud of you. Great job!
Its a unique and wonderful relationship we have with the spiders that share our homes. I have enjoyed my living arrangement with all of my former house spider roommates.
Great lesson on spiders, thank you for the work it took to make this :)
Aron enjoyed his moment as a mad scientist. XD
AronRa... is your least favourite song. 'I don't like spiders and snakes.'?
I've seen photos of that goliath spider, but seeing it on an person's shoulder really brings home the size.
As a life-long arachnophobe (I'm 70), this one almost made my skin crawl. I kept telling myself: "It's only on the screen. They are not going to jump on me or bite me." It was highly educational and I thank you for that, as well as the religious stuff you upload.
Great work as always Aron. I think I remember being told at school (Science class) that a huge chunk of extant insects are beetles. Like the group of insects with the most species are the beetles.
Also that arthropods are limited in size because of oxgen levels and weight/biomechanics. Which is a good thing tbh.
Fantastic work as ever. Thanks for all the hard work you put in to making these.
As a budding arachnologist and paleontology enthusiast, thank you for spreading this specific yet fascinating knownledge Aron, much better than just screaming to kill them.. It's very well researched, really nice job !
So terrific. Fascinating. Edifying. Awesome production. In other words - typical Aron Ra. Thanks so much, amigo!
G'Day Aron,
You may want to take a look at these tiny, harmless & cutely gorgeous arachnids from my neck of the woods.
(Read the Wiki, as it's honestly pretty bloody funny in places.)
[ en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maratus_volans ]
Unlike so much else of *Australian Fauna* (& *Flora* too, for that matter ❶), these adorable little spiders aren't out to kill you (or use your body as a lethal incubator, like those wasps, or that fungus, or whatever), but to make you watch - with bated breath - as they _dance_ for the chance to get their leg over, the one & only time in their life...
[ th-cam.com/video/HPh_Gi7PCqs/w-d-xo.html ]
(I'll bet you'd never thought that you'd become so emotionally invested in the sex life of a humble Aussie 'rachnid...)
❶ - The Gympie-Gympie tree. _Pray that it never evolves a way to walk, move or..._
*ʜᴜɴᴛ*
I'm proud to be subscribed to a channel that uses the word "myriad" correctly.
Very impressed with your knowledge and your fluid presentation .
I just nominated you for the tubebuddy education creator award ❤😊. I wrote a really long reason why you deserve it. Hopefully you get to read it. If not I have it saved.
Aron ending a video with 331Erock is the best way to start the weekend.
Aron Sama,
Your taxonomy lectures never fail to amaze and elucidate. As a life-long arachnophobe, and atheist, I plan to watch this several times. I think it was Sun Su who said, "Know thy enemy."
Thanks, Aron. I love spiders. I think they're an important ally in the war on house flies.
I woke up the other night @03H00 for my usual nocturnal micturation. Having Sleep Apnea, I was glad that I was wearing my mask as a spider with legs the width of a whisky glass was about 18" away on the wall above my head. Still there when I returned to bed but gone by the morning. I live in France where apparently some of them bite. But you can't worry about everything.
In my former exotic pet store we had many beautiful spiders. My personal collection consisted of a Mexican red leg tarantula, a giant (not goliath) bird eating tarantula, and a small colony of pink toe tarantulas.
A great start to the morning with a new video from Aron Ra. One of the most fascinating spiders is the Portia Spider.
Snakes are highly specialized lizards without legs and spiders are highly specialized arachnids without tails. I never thought of that. Mygalomorphae doesn’t mean primitive, it is Greek in origin and means shrew-like. Europeans were calling tarantulas shrews for some time. It seems that most derived araneomorphs gained diversity by becoming smaller and specialized. Their lifespan also shortened greatly. They traded a vertebrate-like existence for an insect-like one. Compare the average tarantula with the average cellar spider.
Love this as much as your snake video! I know such videos take waaay more effort and yield less results than click bait, low effort videos BUT please keep these up! Love them
7:35 hehee like a villian... and I love it.
Thank you so much for these fascinating studies on biology and taxonomy. The schematic of the body plan development at the end was an especially dense distillation of the evolutionary history.
Spider-morph, spider-morph, found in dark holes like a Tolkein Dwarf.
Has eight legs, lives in pegs. I like the sound of a spider-morph.
Well done Aron. I usually get creeped out by spiders but I enjoyed this educational video.
You’ve really come a long way in your presentation over the years. Congrats.
What a great series this has been...
Beautiful work, thanks Aron.
Another awesome video. My parents garage was inundated with spiders that could jump like grasshoppers. Never seen anything like it.
I'm both fascinated and terrified!
Omg I thought the ending was legit AVGNs Mike playing for the outro 😂 That would've been so sweet!
Great work AronRa!...like usual, just keep doin the good informative work! 👍
The mad scientist laugh can improve, but I think it's a solid 8/10.
Try to add a thunder after.
💗💓💖 fascinating and wonderful! Tysm, Aron
Thanks Aron. I love spiders and find them fascinating.
Not fond of ticks or mites, but not skeeved our by them.
Im even a fan of scorpions.
But damn, for some reason the whip scorpions snd solifuges make my skin crawl.