Spiders

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Just the thought is making my stomach turn


Jen

Arianna Frances

[MagicGuy 0]

Ugh, spiders. I hate them with a passion. Creepy crawly things. Nasty.. If I find a spider in my bed I am more than likely to take the couch for the night. Can't deal with the thought of one (or multiple) crawling on me as I sleep.

I hate bees, too. Actually I'm not really a fan of insects in general. But spiders and bees are insects at their worst.

[christelsabine 1]

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But spiders and bees are insects at their worst.

Spiders are no insects

dudeist skydiver # 3105

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when I was (16ish) younger I was in my mothers living room.

I was sitting on thefloor against the wall with one of my hands propped up under mewhenI felt something roll across that hand.

the sppider was about 6 inches long and fucking ugly as sin! I still dont know what kind it was but It was not a normal looking spider,

(I'm pretty sure it was a brown recluse, which makesitworse becauseit was poisonous)

Were the interior walls painted with a lead-based paint??

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[AggieDave 6]

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A lot of misconceptions about spiders. Especially the stuff about "eating 8 spiders in a year," etc.

Personally, I don't like spiders, don't like being near them, don't want to touch them...Its one of my two phobias. Heights and spiders.

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[Zing 2]

You just need to meet the right scorpions ...real party animals!
And for those of you who don't like spiders ... imagine finding this guy in your bed. Though this is merely a molted skin ... they get bigger when they molt.
And, as someone else already pointed out, spiders are not considered insects, and tarantulas are not true spiders.

Zing Lurks

[Gene03 0]

Scorpions, MMMMMMM, land lobsters. Tastes just like chicken.

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[Dragontail 0]

Someone may have already posted this but my attention span is..... ooooh shiny...

Oh wait, I've heard that daddy longlegs are quite venomous but thier fangs can't penetrate our skin.

Me, I don't like spiders.. especially when you can hear thier feet clicking across the linoleum as they run from my shoe.

If they're outside I leave them alone. That's thier home. One foot in my camper and my cat administers the punishment.

[Froggy 0]

Strange, but I like spiders. Weird, considered by many, I know... But I never kill them, unless stepping on them inadvertently, or something. If I find them in my apartment, I put them on one of the plants, so they can be safe from accidental squishing. I also like watching them climbing up, or rappelling down on their lines, or working on a web -- those litttle things are amazing...

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I called a few exterminators and they require $200 and only guarantee it for 3 months

I used to live in a neighborhood that was nicknamed "Spiderbrook" from the pest control guys. They told us that the problem with spiders is most of the time their legs protect them from coming in to full contact with the poison.

And, even though a taratula isn't considered a "true" spider, I attached a pic of an attack spider on my Big Bend adventure. The other picture is of my friend Justin after a brown recluse bit his arm... Very intriguing.

"I had a dude tip his black cowboy hat to me after I provided him with a condom outside my hotel room at 3-something in the morning." -myself

[kallend 2,105]

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Ugh, spiders. I hate them with a passion. Creepy crawly things. Nasty.. If I find a spider in my bed I am more than likely to take the couch for the night. Can't deal with the thought of one (or multiple) crawling on me as I sleep.

I hate bees, too. Actually I'm not really a fan of insects in general. But spiders and bees are insects at their worst.

Do you really mean honeybees, or the yellowjacket wasps that buzz around your picnic? Honeybees are fine and generally don't bother people. Pics attached.


I didn't mind spiders too much until I lived in California and found we had black widows behind the water heater. Since then I've been rather wary of spiders, but the ones who spin beautiful webs in my garden during the summer nights, they are cool.

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Oh wait, I forgot about this guy too... When I was in Florida, he built himself a new web each night... It was pretty awesome watching him work. Flex his little muscles. Awww...

Spiders are one of the coolest creatures around...

"I had a dude tip his black cowboy hat to me after I provided him with a condom outside my hotel room at 3-something in the morning." -myself

[willard 0]

You can relax, they aren't spiders. They are harvestmen. The difference is in the number of body sections.
They are completely harmless. No known species of harvestmen is venomous...not even to its prey.
Interesting irony about "daddy long-legs" is that the big ones are the females and the small ones are the males. Maybe they should be "mommy long-legs?

Just for shits and giggles I'll relay a bit of trivia about spiders. The combined weight of the prey that all the spiders in the world eat each day is greater than the weight of the entire human race. Sounds like a lot, and it is, but not unreasonable. Humans only inhabit a very small percentage of the land area, where as spiders are almost everywhere. If there are insects, there are spiders to eat 'em.