The Clock Spider is an internet meme consisting of three photographs of a massive huntsman spider. The Clock Spider is a spider who, according to members of the Web community, "ate" a wall clock. Obviously, it was simply hiding behind the clock, and the photographer removed the clock to take the latter photos. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (752x664, 51 KB) Summary This is a picture of the epic Clock Spider as found across multiple webpages on the internet. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (752x664, 51 KB) Summary This is a picture of the epic Clock Spider as found across multiple webpages on the internet. ... An Internet phenomenon (sometimes called an Internet meme) occurs when something relatively unknown becomes increasingly popular, often quite suddenly, through the mass propagation of media content made feasible by the Internet; however, the popularity of the phenomenon usually wanes as rapidly as it was acquired: the Internets lack of... Genera Delena (Flat huntsman spider) Heteropoda (Brown huntsman spider) Holconia (Banded huntsman spider) Isopeda Isopedella Neosparassus (Shield hunstman spider) Pediana Numerous others, see links Huntsman spiders is a common name given to the family Sparassidae (formerly Heteropodidae). ... A wall clock A clock (from the Latin cloca, bell) is an instrument for measuring time. ...
Three pictures of the spider exist. The first picture shows four of the spider's legs poking out from behind the clock, between 7 and 9 on the clock. The second picture shows the wall from a distance with the clock removed, revealing that the spider is very large and hairy. The third picture is a close-up of the spider itself. Contrary to popular belief, the pictures have not been altered with image editing software and are in fact real pictures of a real spider hidden behind a common wall clock. In computer graphics, graphics software or image editing software is a program or collection of programs that enable a person to manipulate visual images on a computer. ...
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The Clock Spider home page (from archive.org, as the original has been taken down)
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These spiders are found in Australia, New Zealand, S.E. Asia, the Middle East in areas near the Mediterranean Sea, Florida and Hawaii in the U.S., and quite possibly in many other tropical and semi-tropical areas.
The eyesight of these spiders is not nearly as good as that of the Salticidae (jumping spiders).
Males of Heteropoda venatoria, one of the Huntsman spiders that seems to easily find its way around the world, have recently been found to deliberately make a sound when they are given reason to believe that females of their species are nearby.
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