By Mindy
Weisberger, Senior Writer | June 27, 2018 05:46pm ET
Spider
eggs come in brilliant colors and look like candy, as was demonstrated by a
striking photo shared to Twitter on June 26.
But
lest you be tempted to "taste the rainbow," please hold back, as some
spider eggs are known to be toxic, according to a study published in August
2017 in the Journal
of Arachnology.
In
the image, two vials hold egg clusters from two Australian spider species: One
clutch is a brilliant green and comes from a huntsman spider in
the Holconia genus, and the other eggs are vibrant yellow and laid
by Cyrtophora, or tent-web spiders.
These
translucent eggs look a lot like a delicious gummy candy, though when the tweet
was circulated around the Live Science newsroom, one of the editors noted that
the eggs would be "THE WORST CANDY EVER." [5 Spooky Spider Myths Busted]
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