66th plate from Kunstformen der Natur by Ernst Haeckel.
This is what you get when you’re a naturalist/biologist and can draw. It’s magnificent. You can find a brief description and wallpaper size here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Haeckel_Arachnida.jpg
So I guess people don’t like spiders… LOL
alternate post title: Spore, the prequel.
No reason to be afraid of spiders.
www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&xml=/earth/2008/10/22/easpider122.xml
One time I found one of the ones in the middle in my house when i went to the bathroom one night. Scary as shit. I beat it with a newspaper and put it under a cup so i could look at it in the morning.
when i woke up it was gone.