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Forgive if I do not have the story straight. I have an interesting oddball
friend named Mark Stowe who studies spiders and lives part time in Mexico. His
specialty is the totally cool Bolas spider of which there are various species
around the world. These are aberrant orb weavers that have no web per se;
instead, they sniff the wind every evening then synthesize the pheromones of
the moth de jour. They place a small snot wad of the fake moth spooge on the
end of a lasso which they handle just like an eight legged cowboy. When the
moth comes near they swing it around and let fly to lasso dinner. Slow motion
films of this are mind boggling. I am proud to say that according to Mark
Weazelworld is the world epicenter for Bolas spiders!
He called from Mexico yesterday to tell me that there is an obscure museum (in
Texas I think?) that is imperiled by a funding cut or some other such problem.
Therein are specimens of an obscure species of Bolas spider from the Galapagos
that were collected by two researchers that he described as "heavy duty Texas
cavers". I think he wants to either rescue the specimens or otherwise
communicate with the discoverers.
Does anybody know these guys?
both formerly worked at the now hobbled Texas Memorial Museum (another victim
of Republicans trying to kill everything FDR related?)
William G Reed
James R Purrell who turns out to be an expert on caves in Mexico and Belize
http://www.mexicancaves.org/other/tmm5.htm
Sleaze
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