Question on Biology!

[Lillen]

Is it true that hempseeds are eggs from certain spiders???

I baught a bucket of five kilos hempseeds (sterilized) and fed the birds and myself with it... i couldnt help myself analyzing these seeds, and i started to wonder if it could be eggs from insects or spiders. And as I wonder i remeber i picture i saw on a huge spider having the same "seeds" carrying it on her back!!!

Can this be confirmed? or am i mislead?

 

[Wedjat]

Hemp seeds as in seeds from a hemp plant?

 

[Jro]

Hemp seeds are seeds from the Cannabis genus. Why would you think they're spider eggs? Certain species of spiders carry their own eggs on their back. These are eggs however, not seeds.

 

[Lillen]

But those egges looked exactly the same way as the five kilo bucket of hempseeds i bought!?

I think i read somewere about a spider that was both a spider and a plant. I read it in a pop science paper called Illustrerad Vetenskap.

Can it be?

 

[jacks]

Maybe they sent you spider eggs by mistake.

 

[Lillen]

No, 10 years ago i bougth the strains, Ice, Black Afghani, and Sheherazade from Netherlands... (i have stopped smoking pot since then). And those seeds looked exactly like in that five kilo bucket, and on that picture of a tarrantella carrying her eggs...


... the only argument i can come up with that speaks against this, is that those "eggs" i bought ten years ago should've hatched but didn't, they could've been some really good marijuana if i werent busted.

But i remeber that article from that pop science paper, and it said either that it existed a spider that was both plant and spider, or it said that those spiders had more genetical similarities with cannabis sativa plants.

As for that article it could've been an april hoax or it could been just another ramblings that only were ment for the readers to catch intress in...

I don't know, but i am sure i read it somewere... Moreover those seeds almost felt creepy to handle - shovel up with my hand from the bucket.

 

[Jro]

...I can't tell if you're joking or not. Superficial similarities between spider eggs and hemp seeds do not indicate any biological relationship. There may be segments of a plant and spider's genome that share similarities, but they are only very, very, VERY distantly related. So distantly that spiders are more closely related to us. Spiders are not plants as they lack chlorophyll, cell walls, etc., etc.

 

[Lillen]

I recall myself reading that in a pop science paper... But i never took any notice on the story until recently when I bought five kilo hempseeds...

The idea that was set forth was that tarrentella eggs become cannabis sativa if they are grown in the soil...

I cannot recall the whole article but thats the impression i get from recalling the little i read in that article.

Parhaps it is just there to frighten young women from smoking pot

 

[Wedjat]

No, there is not a spider that is also a plant. Plant cells have cell walls, animal cells do not.
A plant spider symbiosis could exist.
Heck, it's even feasibly possible (though unlikely in the highest degree) that a spider could develop the same photosynthetic properties that Elysia chlorotica has.
But a spider cannot be a plant, nor it's eggs seeds or vice versa. That is simply impossible.
What you have are seeds from a hemp plant that happen to resemble spider eggs, the similarities end there.

Parhaps it is just there to frighten young women from smoking pot

I'd say it was more likely a result of smoking pot.

 

[Michael]

But a spider cannot be a plant, nor it's eggs seeds or vice versa. That is simply impossible.
What you have are seeds from a hemp plant that happen to resemble spider eggs, the similarities end there.

I'd say it was more likely a result of smoking pot.

I tend to agree with those comments.

 

[Jro]

I'd say it was more likely a result of smoking pot.

I... I mean, my friend has NEVER had this sort of reaction. I think it's just Lillen being Lillen.

 

[Cabal]

Is it true that hempseeds are eggs from certain spiders???

...

No.

Next.

 

[PhoceanCity]

Heck, it's even feasibly possible (though unlikely in the highest degree) that a spider could develop the same photosynthetic properties that Elysia chlorotica has.

I didn't know about that slug capable of photosynthesis. This weird thread wasn't completely a loss of time after all. Many thanks to you kind sir.