Creepy spider!

They also use those eyes to read a book while they drive your car, which they just stole after they murdered you.

Identified!
Euophrys monadnock
And it's the first one bugguide.net has ever seen! I'm so special.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/659255

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It's named after a hill?

groan wrote:

Identified!
Euophrys monadnock
And it's the first one bugguide.net has ever seen! I'm so special.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/659255

That is really cool! Congrats! And thank you for pointing out that site. I'm going to lose hours there.

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Not so much creepy as goofy, but on the plus side these guys tried to eat Robin Williams.

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Brown widow spiders "taking over" in Southern California

Vetter and his colleagues found brown widows at a rate 20 times greater than the rate at which they found black widows — at least, when they searched around people’s homes.

That’s because unlike black widows, who like to crawl into cracks and under debris for shelter, brown widows like to hide out in people’s things. They gravitate toward the crannies underneath chairs and into those downward-facing recessed handles on garbage cans.

“Cheap patio furniture is great stuff. They love it,” said Vetter, who has upturned a single molded plastic chair and seen five to eight brown widows hanging out in the niches underneath. “They like a solid top,” he added. “If you have a mesh top, or fabric mesh, I don’t know if it’s the air or the light, but they don’t like that.”

The entomologists also frequently found brown widows under the supports on wooden fences, in the nooks beneath plastic playground equipment and in “the curled lips of potted plants.”

They also like to hide under the keyboard trays of computer desks, and behind monitors.

I guess we're going to have to nuke southern California from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

The main thing Homo sapiens will want to know about Latrodectus geometricus? Although it’s venomous, its bite isn’t as dangerous as that of the black widow.

It hurts initially, and then there’s some burning at the site, but that’s usually all, Vetter said.

“Mostly, nothing happens,” he said.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

It hurts initially, and then there’s some burning at the site, but that’s usually all, Vetter said.

“Mostly, nothing happens,” he said.

Story of my sex life.

Quintin_Stone wrote:
The main thing Homo sapiens will want to know about Latrodectus geometricus? Although it’s venomous, its bite isn’t as dangerous as that of the black widow.

It hurts initially, and then there’s some burning at the site, but that’s usually all, Vetter said.

“Mostly, nothing happens,” he said.

...mostly

If by "nothing" you mean me screaming my head off and eventually fainting while running down the street in the general direction of the nearest hospital, then yeah. Nothing.

BadKen wrote:
Quintin_Stone wrote:

It hurts initially, and then there’s some burning at the site, but that’s usually all, Vetter said.

“Mostly, nothing happens,” he said.

Story of my sex life.

Montalban wrote:

If by "nothing" you mean me screaming my head off and eventually fainting while running down the street in the general direction of the nearest hospital, then yeah. Nothing.

Hmmm.

Wink_and_the_Gun wrote:
Quintin_Stone wrote:
The main thing Homo sapiens will want to know about Latrodectus geometricus? Although it’s venomous, its bite isn’t as dangerous as that of the black widow.

It hurts initially, and then there’s some burning at the site, but that’s usually all, Vetter said.

“Mostly, nothing happens,” he said.

...mostly

they mostly come out at night... mostly

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from

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Outside the window of the Skydeck, 103rd floor of the Sears (Willis) Tower.

And here's how/why they can be found so high up!

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I had thought that this thread had tapped into my deepest fears. I was wrong, until now.

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A little something outside the cottage window with the moon looking on.

Spiders is good. They eats the cockroaches.

Mantid wrote:

Not only will I not be able to get to sleep now because that gave me a nice jolt of adrenaline, I also won't be able to put my shoes on in the morning.

Thanks!

BadKen wrote:

Brown widow spiders "taking over" in Southern California

Vetter and his colleagues found brown widows at a rate 20 times greater than the rate at which they found black widows — at least, when they searched around people’s homes.

That’s because unlike black widows, who like to crawl into cracks and under debris for shelter, brown widows like to hide out in people’s things. They gravitate toward the crannies underneath chairs and into those downward-facing recessed handles on garbage cans.

“Cheap patio furniture is great stuff. They love it,” said Vetter, who has upturned a single molded plastic chair and seen five to eight brown widows hanging out in the niches underneath. “They like a solid top,” he added. “If you have a mesh top, or fabric mesh, I don’t know if it’s the air or the light, but they don’t like that.”

The entomologists also frequently found brown widows under the supports on wooden fences, in the nooks beneath plastic playground equipment and in “the curled lips of potted plants.”

It's a good thing I live in Northern California then.

Also, about 10 years ago, a friend of the family was bit by a brown recluse and had to have some facial surgery done to correct the necrotic tissue. Why the face, you ask? Because it bit her. On the face.

Spoiler:

Admittedly, the damage may have come from some other vector, but it was believed at the time to have been from a rare brown recluse bite.

THE FACE!

ALL HAIL HYPNOTOADSPIDER

Katy wrote:
Mantid wrote:

*Spider shoe video*

Not only will I not be able to get to sleep now because that gave me a nice jolt of adrenaline, I also won't be able to put my shoes on in the morning.

Thanks!

S.O.P. in Australia, that's if you're silly enough to leave your shoes anywhere near where the little buggers can get to them.

I have thrown shoes out that I have been silly enough to leave outside for any period of time. Not just shoes either. Everything gets a tap, a knock, or a hit before being put into use.

Shovels, garden equipment, clothes-pegs, kids toys, BBQ utensils, E V E R Y T H I N G!

m0nk3yboy wrote:

Shovels, garden equipment, clothes-pegs, kids, toys, BBQ utensils, E V E R Y T H I N G!

Wait. Haven't we been here before?

Oh god.

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Gawker[/url]]A woman who arrived at China's Changsha Central Hospital with an itchy ear received the worst diagnosis imaginable: A small spider had apparently crawled into her ear canal while she slept, and had been dwelling inside her for the past five days.