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Ugh, the article was so hard to understand, I actually had to read certain parts twice to get if he was talking what is a recluse or what isn't in that line or paragraph. I think it is a bad idea to interleave those definitions, and same with pictures. I have no objections about hard to understand objects, but this was probably intended as a quick emergency guide for a commoners.

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Completely agreed. This is a common type of page associated with extension units. They are written by, and for those who are doing pest-control style work, for example. There is much room for improvement, including better diagnostic tools, clear choice-based keys, etc. There are actually very few people who can accurate diagnose these critters down to species, let alone "recluse". Those people depend on tools (6 eyes are very small), morphological knowledge, etc. There is a real need for new, purpose-built page whose content is provided for specific reasons (this is here to answer question X to audience Y via information I, if you use it for other things YRMV). Getting scientists to understand these needs is tough, they are almost always talking to other scientists, which is completly fine and necessary, but branching out is hard. A classic UI/UX problem.

This clearly needs a SaaS startup (spiders as a service) and we can certainly use some blockchain somehow.

I'm targeting $100m investments by Dec, with an IPO or ICO in early May at a $1b+ valuation.

And by blockchain you mean its true evolution, which is totally and completely not a blockchain/nft/loot box, at all, really, the "silken highway". Once you touch it, you're stuck, vibrations you give off as you struggle to unsubscribe transmit to all suckers^d others, also alerting the central spider-mother (from which the highway grows, may she never falter) who grows the inescapable network of sticky threads via a 5% take of your offering through her bit-rotting venom.

This idea has legs.

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