Creepy spider!

ColdForged wrote:

I KNOW! Look at the package on that gecko!

o.o
I am deeply disturbed by your comment..

St.Hillary wrote:
ColdForged wrote:

I KNOW! Look at the package on that gecko!

o.o
I am deeply disturbed by your comment..

Have you stopped by the post a picture thread yet? It's almost worth it to start at page 1.

I don't have pictures or anything, but something just happened that I figured needed to be told, and this was the perfect thread for it. Right now, it is 4:45am, I'm super tired after being rudely awoken, but there's no chance of me going back to sleep anytime soon.
I was pleasantly sleeping while Kannon was on the computer. I kind of came back to consciousness when I felt a tickle, I kind of jumped and quickly brushed the feeling off of my arm. I briefly opened my eyes and they immediately focused on the brown blur running across the bed away from me. At first it didn't register what it was then I had a "Holysh*tisthatamotherf**kinspider?!" O.O moment and proceeded to just freak the hell out.
I'm deathly afraid of spiders, and I'm amazed I didn't just completely soil myself.

I couldn't tell how big the thing actually was since I was just losing it at the moment, but all I know is it wasn't small, and it was big enough to matter.

I just entered this thread for the first time. I freaking hate you all

*squirms uncomfortably*

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Who the f*ck makes sh*t like that? Baxter Stockman?

Saw the biggest spider I've ever seen in the wild while I was mowing yesterday. Thing looked like a mini-tarantula, at least 3 inches across (get a ruler, that's bigger than it sounds), and with the big thick hairy legs, not those long spindly legs you see on poser spiders who are just pretending to be big. It was crawling from the grass into the bushes to get away from the mower.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

Saw the biggest spider I've ever seen in the wild while I was mowing yesterday. Thing looked like a mini-tarantula, at least 3 inches across (get a ruler, that's bigger than it sounds), and with the big thick hairy legs, not those long spindly legs you see on poser spiders who are just pretending to be big. It was crawling from the grass into the bushes to get away from the mower.

And was it a successful escape?

Chiggie Von Richthofen wrote:

And was it a successful escape?

No way that mower was big enough for me to consider tangling with a spider that size. The mower has enough trouble with just tall grass. I really need to get my riding mower fixed.

Or carry a gun when you mow.

Chiggie Von Richthofen wrote:

Or carry a gun when you mow.

...or a scorpion.

About a half an hour ago, I was going to take out the garbage and it looked chilly and I didn't have a shirt laying nearby and so I put on a hoodie. This hoodie contained a spider. It is important to know that I am not afraid of spiders. That being said, after quickly realizing that it wasn't an itch but something was crawling on my skin, I proceeded to scream like a little girl... who put on a hoodie with a spider in it... and is afraid of spiders in the first place.

After hitting my head on the ceiling, I threw the hoodie off only to realize that with my frantic jumping and screaming, somewhere in there I punched and slapped myself about 100 times and killed the spider. This spider was brown and had a crotchety old man look about it so I thought it might be a brown recluse. So I scraped it off of my skin around my left rib cage and spent the next 20 minutes on the internet looking up pictures of of spiders. I have determined with a certain amount of "Oh God I hope so!"-ism that it was in fact too small and not the right body type to be a recluse. I also did not see any of the markings of the recluse on it, and do not believe it bit me.

I will now pick up my fallen hall tree which I now see has fallen mere inches away from my 360, take out my garbage, crawl into bed with the lights on and shudder. Then read the slug thread again. Good night and God bless.

And now the perfect capper for this thread.... PLAY WITH SPIDER

Oops nevermind. posting mistake

LiquidMantis wrote:
Irongut wrote:

Oops nevermind. posting mistake

Well there goes the rest of my day.

I apologize and offer this spider-woman as an offering for forgiveness. She creeps me out.

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I'm an idiot and quoted the wrong post. Fiximated.

Pharacon wrote:

And now the perfect capper for this thread.... PLAY WITH SPIDER

Well there goes the rest of my day.

Grenn wrote:

I will now pick up my fallen hall tree which I now see has fallen mere inches away from my 360, take out my garbage, crawl into bed with the lights on and shudder. Then read the slug thread again. Good night and God bless.

So are you considering purchasing some slugs to control that spider infestation? I have a couple of specimens that might fill your needs though it would pain me to part with them... Perhaps 500 silver a piece?

You say:
1. That sounds reasonable. Let me just get the money out.

2. Are you crazy? Slugs make me feel sick!

3. *Pull out your weapons* Give me the slugs and maybe things won't get sticky!

4. I'll trade you this iguana for those slugs...

TempestBlayze wrote:

Creepy

I'm trying to find the link between Creepy Crawlers and Power Rangers, but I just can't... cross promotion was really rampant back in those days, wasn't it...

Arise! Just saw this in today's news. Hooray for Australia!

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Original story.

^ 1) That looks like a mechanical spider 2) How could a web hold a bird that size?

Head spider keeper at the Australian Reptile Park at Gosford on NSW central coast, Joel Shakespeare, said the spider was a Golden Orb Weaver.
Greg Czechura from Queensland Museum said cases of the Golden Orb Weaver eating small birds were "well known but rare".

"It builds a very strong web," he said.

But he said the spider would not have attacked until the bird weakened.

"They blunder into [the webs] and their feathers get entangled," he said.

"The more they struggle, the more tangled up and exhausted they get and they go into stress."

The Golden Orb Weaver spins a strong web high in protein because it depends on it to capture large insects for food, unlike funnel web and wolf spiders that actively hunt their prey.

I'm no arthopologist (is that the word?) but it sounds plausible to me. I'd prefer your explanation though!

93_confirmed wrote:

2) How could a web hold a bird that size?

Have you never held a bird in your hand? A bird that size might not weigh one pound, or even half that. If the spider's web was positioned and made in a way that give it enough strength to hold the dead weight and the bird wasn't moving forward very fast when it hit I can see it holding it perfectly fine.

There was an orb weaver web attached to the apex of our pool enclosure's roof by one strand. That one strand ran over twenty feet to the barn roof on the opposite side of the clearing, over a bunch of bushes. The web itself was just in the corner near the bushes, but that one strand went all the way across. It survived at least one rainstorm and some moderately windy nights just fine.

I walked into the bottom edge of a web in the woods once when I was maybe 12 years old and the web actually took the hat right off my head and held it in the air.

I'd love to see video of the spider wrapping the bird up.

Sonicator wrote:

Arise! Just saw this in today's news. Hooray for Australia!

IMAGE(http://news.ninemsn.com.au/img/2007/national/2210_birdeating_sp_lg.jpg)

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Original story.

Ok If I walked along and got a glimpse of that spider I would run screaming back into my garage for a match and WD40.

Oh that's it. Cross Australia of the 'to visit before I die' list. Now I know another use for a sledgehammer in Australia.

I wonder if that is a slow moving methodical spider, or a fast moving one that darts around with a dark intelligence.

Ah yes, Australia. The place with more natural things that can kill you than anyplace else on Earth.

Semi-related, bugs are awesome:

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[Edit] Here's video of the mantis trying to figure out what to do next: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0CGk....

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Sonicator wrote:

I'm no arthopologist (is that the word?) but it sounds plausible to me. I'd prefer your explanation though!

Entomologist.

Also, f*ck Australia. F*ck them and their censorship and their insanely huge bird-eating spiders. Land down under my... no, that sounds really bad.