The Excuse spider, named after a track from Jay Chou's 2004 album, shares its title with China's best-selling album this century.
The study concluded that "spiders from Israel were more likely to carry Rhabdochlamydia than those from the US and South Africa."
The blue coloration on the spider's back and legs is exceptionally unique, the color blue otherwise being almost unseen in nature.
They aren’t spiders and don’t bug dromedaries, but a scorpion that existed before the disappearance of dinosaurs.
The REWE-Group also stated that they had brought in a specialist to identify the spider and that the shop would remain closed until the spider had been identified.
Biologist Andrew Legan collected a tarantula that had been paralyzed by a hawk wasp to study the effects of the wasp’s venom on the arachnid.
The research team compared egg sac parasitism in the urban invasive brown widow spider to the desert white widow spider, the latter of which is native to Israel.
The study sheds light on a web of confusion regarding the decline of one of the most infamous types of spiders – and what could be causing it.
The findings of this study contribute to understanding Israel’s evolutionary, biogeographic and climatic processes