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Monday, October 5, 2009

The real reason they should be cancelling fall festivals.



Forget swine flu, it's nephila clavata (무당거미) season. Those three---two females and a male---were hanging out *cough* near the entrance of Chonnam National University last week, as was this one:



Here are a couple photographs I took in Beolgyo-eup, Boseong county a couple of years ago. You'll find one of the pictures on Wikipedia because it's awesome and terrifying because I put it there.




When they reach maturity their bodies are roughly eight feet long and 600 pounds, and they live in colonies of up to 1,000.
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6 comments:

  1. reijeneOctober 5, 2009 at 3:16 PM

    OH...

    LOL. =)

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  2. AnonymousOctober 5, 2009 at 3:26 PM

    Are they dangerous or what?

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  3. AnonymousOctober 5, 2009 at 3:29 PM

    I love them... very cool colours.

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  4. JacobOctober 5, 2009 at 3:37 PM

    The two I took pictures of for my blog near my house disappeared because it rained this weekend. I'm terrified now because I don't know where they are. Those things are fine by me as long I know where they are and they don't move (which they didn't do for weeks).

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  5. PinkyOctober 5, 2009 at 5:28 PM

    ewwww... i saw one yesterday. as long as they stay away from me and my dog, i'm cool with them.. but dude.. 8 feet... yea right! ;)

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  6. MikeOctober 6, 2009 at 11:34 AM

    No joke? I thought those spiders in "Eight Legged Freaks" and the second Harry Potter movie were totally digital.

    Korea is krazy!

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