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Spiderman: “As a teenager, Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive arachnid, granting him the amazing powers of Spider-Man. Peter has since matured into a young adult, but he hasn't forgotten the lessons of his youth: With great power, there must come great responsibility”. Source: Marvel Comics
To most of the modern world the Scorpion King has been a fictional character, made famous in recent blockbuster films. Even Egyptologists have been uncertain whether the Scorpion King truly existed, or whether he is just a myth. Yet, a remarkable discovery near the Nile River seems to confirm the existence of a heroic king who defeated the armies of chaos long before the earliest known pharaohs-and his name was King Scorpion. Source: Providence Pictures
Arachnophobia (1990): directed by Frank Marshall and starring Jeff Daniels, Harley Jane Kozak and John Goodman. Tagline: Eight legs, two fangs and an attitude. Plot Outline: South American killer spider hitches a lift to the US in a coffin and starts to breed and kill. Source: IMDb
1,560,000,000,000,000,000,000,000: Beginning with one pair of cabbage aphids in April, there would be this number of aphids by the end of the summer if all the descendants of this pair lived and reproduced normally.
191,000,000,000,000,000,000: Beginning with one pair of house flies in April, there would be this number of flies by August if all the descendants of this pair lived and reproduced normally.
Source: Basic Facts: Insect Numbers
Insect Balls (US Patent 4,095,406 / Issued 1990). “Spray a ball with insect attractant, stick that ball on a rod and attach it to your hat with an alligator clip. Presto Chango, you now have a herd of gnats hovering less annoyingly above the back of your head, where you don't have a nose, mouth or eyes” Read more
Boris the Spider by The Who
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Creepy Crawly Spider Cookies
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Huge Scary Spiders
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The Cockroach is an anagram of Cook, Catch Her
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Quick waxy bugs jump the frozen veldt is a pangram (a sentence containing all the letters of the alphabet) with 31 letters.
The spider as an artist
Has never been employed
Though his surpassing merit
Is freely certified
By every broom and Bridget
Throughout a Christian land.
Neglected son of genius,
I take thee by the hand.
Emily Dickinson, Complete Poems, Nature, XCV
Where the girls are there are no spider's webs. (Catalonian)
When spiders unite, they can tie down a lion. (Ethiopian)
The spider and the fly can't make a deal. (Jamaican)
You must kill the spider to get rid of the cobweb. (Maltese)
From Creative Proverbs
1980: the introduction of Sydney funnel web spider antivenine into hospitals. Prior to this, there had been 13 known fatalities associated with bites from this spider. Read more
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