Spider Expert vs Halloween Spiders
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Spider Expert vs Halloween Spiders
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What do you do with a giant house spider?
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What do you do with a giant house spider?
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Is it unsafe to hold a Brown Recluse?
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Is it unsafe to hold a Brown Recluse?
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Rod Crawford is the leading spider expert in Washington state and the curator of arachnids here at the Burke. He has more than 50 years of experience handling spiders in the field. "I don't like spiders being used to scare. Spiders are essentially harmless to humans. There is no species on the whole planet whose bite regularly kills people. For 99% of our planet's 50,000 plus spiders species, if it did bite you, which is extremely rare, it would be just a little pinprick, maybe a little itchy bu
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Rod Crawford is the leading spider expert in Washington state and the curator of arachnids here at the Burke. He has more than 50 years of experience handling spiders in the field. "I don't like spiders being used to scare. Spiders are essentially harmless to humans. There is no species on the whole planet whose bite regularly kills people. For 99% of our planet's 50,000 plus spiders species, if it did bite you, which is extremely rare, it would be just a little pinprick, maybe a little itchy bu
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Spider Expert vs. "World's Largest Spiderweb"
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Spider Expert vs. "World's Largest Spiderweb"
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It took 54 years to find this spider.
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It took 54 years to find this spider.
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Meet Rod Crawford: Washington's Leading Spider Expert
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Meet Rod Crawford: Washington's Leading Spider Expert
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Spider Population Density Explained by Expert Rod Crawford
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Spider Expert Debunks Brown Recluse Myths
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Underwater spiderweb? Expert reacts.
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Rod Crawford is the leading spider expert in Washington state and our curator of arachnids. Want to see more Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture experts weigh in on viral videos or news stories? Tag us in a video or DM us to submit something! Additional info from Rod: “Note how the original video shows a lot of these spiders in a rather small area. They’re not ‘gathering’ together, they just have a high population density. Such densities are seen even among our local, diurnal wolf spider
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Rod Crawford has spent decades debunking popular myths about spiders. In this video we pit his expertise against some of Hollywood’s best arachnophobia-inducing movie scenes. Want to see more full length content like this on our TikTok? Let us know in the comments! Know a great spider scene or viral spider video you want to get Rod's take on? Let us know in the comments!
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Meet The Real Spider-Man
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Rod Crawford: Spider Expert Unveils Halloween Myths
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The Truth About Swallowing Spiders in Your Sleep #didyouknow #10000whys
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Last month you met our arachnologist (spider expert), Rod Crawford. Now meet Burke Research Associate Laurel Ramseyer. They’ve been spider hunting partners for 17 years. She’s discovered 13 new species, collected thousands of museum specimens, and just published a paper on the range of an introduced species of crab spider. The credit for discovering the spider in this video goes to R. E. Nelson, but Laurel was the first to discover that it can be reliably found in grave vases, leading to its inf
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Why you suddenly see spiders in September
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Rod Crawford, our curator of arachnids, can be seen most afternoons identifying spiders and replying to emails in his office on the second floor of the Burke. Large windows let visitors watch our scientists and collections managers as they go about their work. Rod has decorated his window with spider specimens and his living map of spider collections across the state. Note: Harvestmen (also known as Daddy Long Legs) are not spiders but are shown in this video. Rod collects them, too. #spiders #e
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Spider expert explains “Spider Season”
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Do you swallow spiders in your sleep?
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