Scientists discover spider milk

[king_tubby]

I bet you would, you dirty old bollocks. I bet you fucking would.

[Queneau]

How long before your child is drinking this at school?

[biggytitbo]

It must come in very small bottles.

[Queneau]

Direct from the spider, ya tit.

[biggytitbo]

Sounds like fun, bet you could squeeze a fair bit out of a tarantula.


Its no weirder than eating honey really is it?

[Queneau]

It's all fucked up. But the moment I try to suck a new mother's tits, I'm the weirdo.

[ZoyzaSorris]

Further links saying the same thing:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2186972-some-spiders-produce-milk-and-its-more-nutritious-than-cows-milk/

And from Sciencemag, the magazine affiliate to the Science journal:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/spider-moms-spotted-nursing-their-offspring-milk


Not dumbed down Guardian journalism.

Well I'd say firstly a sensationalised initial report from the scientists knowing that that's how you get coverage, and then further mangling of the science by the Guardian, whether willfuly or just through the complete ignorance of what passes for journalists at that rag these days.

Simple fact is that this is no more 'milk' thank the many other already widely documented examples of analagous body secretions already known about across the animal kingdom, including amongst invertebrates (from pigeons, flamingos and penguins to various bees and the discus fish, amongst numerous others). It's an interesting find, in terms of spiders and parental care, but that's about it.

[im barry bethel]

Apparently they suckle from the same place the eggs came from...

..."So Chen and his colleagues put mother spiders under the microscope and gently squeezed their abdomens. A few droplets of a creamy white fluid came out."

It might be creamy it might be white it might dribble from the same place as the eggs but round here we call that something else

[greenman]

Has this got anything to do with that massive cow? Seems a bit of a coincidence.

Katie Hopkins? she does have an arachnidian personality.

[momatt]

It's a cownspiracy. Silk and milk. Smilk.

Thanks spiders.
Thiders.

[ZoyzaSorris]

Here's even the bbc being more informative on the preponderance of fake milk across the animal kingdom a few years ago. http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20151016-five-animals-you-never-knew-make-milk-for-their-babies

[NoSleep]

The Guardian & the BBC talking bollocks?

[Golden E. Pump]

My milkshake brings all the flies to the web.

[seepage]

I think 'epigastric furrow' will be my next username

[king_tubby]

They're all 'epigastric furrows' etc etc.

[Dex Sawash]

Rejected Flubber2 concept

[bgmnts]

Game changer.