Spiders

Bow down to your eight legged overlords...

Sleep well tonight. They'll be watching. They're always watching. And they remember...

Spiders could theoretically eat every human on Earth in one year

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...etically-eat-every-human-on-earth-in-one-year

 

Yeah, and Theoretically, Bumble Bees cannot fly.

I have heard that Artificial Intelligence, is the thing to fear. Somebody ought to make a movie to that effect.

 

I woke up one night with my wife screaming in the bathroom....... bleary eyed I run to here .45 in hand.......

A giant ( bigger than your hand) Wolf spider is on the mirror. When I went to crush him with a big wad of toilet paper he ran so quick that it freaked me out. I finally killed it, it felt like bones breaking... gross. I should have shot the fucker.

 

I woke up one night with my wife screaming in the bathroom....... bleary eyed I run to here .45 in hand.......

A giant ( bigger than your hand) Wolf spider is on the mirror. When I went to crush him with a big wad of toilet paper he ran so quick that it freaked me out. I finally killed it, it felt like bones breaking... gross. I should have shot the fucker.

 

What the hell is the double post? Tron lives.

 

If it was that big couldn't you keep it as a pet?
Also, I would like to think that I would never run into a spider that big in Florida! I'm just getting over having to deal with big roach problems in a South Carolina rental unit a few weeks ago. Never going back to Myrtle Beach!

 

Get yourself a giant wolf spider, he will eat all the roaches. But get rid of him after the roaches are gone...........might want to try your eye lid in the middle of the night.

 

Was listening to a radio segment the other day on problems caused by an introduced species like the explosion of spider numbers in Guam...



" Guam is plagued by alien snakes and deadly spiders For those who fear snakes and/or spiders, do not book your next holiday in Guam.

A new study said that Guam's jungles have 40 times more spiders than its Pacific neighbors as an alien snake is killing the native bird population.

The destruction of the birds, said ScienceBlog, is killing off spiders' natural predators, making them more abundant. "

https://www.pri.org/stories/2012-09-15/guam-plagued-alien-snakes-and-deadly-spiders

 

Banana Spider is bigger, funny how their not all over South FL. I was living about 20 miles away and we had tons of them, its the size of your hand basically. So anyway, I decided to cut a plastic bottle in half to have a way to transport the spider to a new place. I walked up to the web and opened the bottle like a cam shell and nabbed the spider. I taped "it" up and stuck him/her in my tail bag of my bike and rode out to my parents house (about 20 miles away or so.) When I got there, I went out back with my captive spider who was none the worse for wear and tear, and released him/her on a nice coconut palm. I watch this spider for the next couple of days.

Believe it or not, the spider stayed there and built a nice web, it was very nice to see "it" hanging out there. A week went by and it was gone (maybe eaten by a bird?) I tried this a few more times always with the same results. I just chalk it up to some things just are not meant to be. Never saw a Wolf Spider, heard about them though. Never wana run into a Brown Recluse Spider either. I work with a doode named Dave, he goes by "Spider" true story, some chit you cant make up. eace:

 

Thanks for the extremely creepy article Lint - loved the little spidy GIF at the end.

Gator - your story about waking up in the middle of the night with the wife screaming and grabbing for the gun made me LOL - reminded me of the same thing happening to me about 10 years ago when the wife was screaming because a HUGE black bear had clawed its way into the screened porch in the middle of the night and was now standing on its hind legs about 6ft tall at the sliding glass door to get in my kitchen. All I had at the time to grab was a Glock 19 9mm and I don't think I could have stopped the giant bear (600 lbs?) with that had it busted down the door. Fortunately it ran off after causing about a $1,000 damage to my patio and fence. I have since improved my arsenal to include a bear stopper :witless:

Ridervfr - yeah the banana spiders are huge and so are their webs, we have lots of them hanging out at the state parks up in central Florida with webs covering the entire width of bike and walking trails which makes for some rather scary rides and walks.

Some of you may remember I had a bit of a spidey problem with my VFR last year :glee:

[video=youtube;e3lt9GtInk0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3lt9GtInk0[/video]

 

Jesus H Christ AM, please be careful of all those poisonous spiders - that is crazy! Where the hell is the freaking exterminator?!?!

 

Knowing what can happen after being bitten by the Brown Recluse, wouldn't the school board be obligated to do something and failing that, wouldn't the students parents have concerns?

 

AM your hot chit :thumbsup: I deal with ants down here, I have frozen them and mailed them to some entomologist to diagnose what the hell was in my home. They are members of the termite clan, so what works on termites works on ants. As of lately, I am doing bait stations to deal with them (ants.)

Glad I never had to deal with sticky traps regarding spiders, I have for roaches in my early years. I am my own best exterminator, what I learned when I was living in Ft. Lauderdale and the landlord canceled the exterminating service for the building and I took over for my at the time girl friends apartment; sometimes your in over your head, kinda like a one legged man in an arse kicking contest. It was hopeless, the roaches ruled and won the war there :flip: we moved, so its all good, pity the poor sods that continued living there.

Peace out, nice clownie picture, thats how they role in Kansas? ound:

 

Here in the PNW we smoke those roaches.

 

[video=youtube_share;ooWF0PeLWcw]http://youtu.be/ooWF0PeLWcw[/video]

Sydney Funnel Web Spider, possibly the most deadly. Yes, another thing that will kill you in Australia.

 

Nopestralia...

More speeyiders... https://youtu.be/AOYsD2zQPe4

 

I am reporting these bugs to el presidente so he will continue the fight to build that wall around OZ.

 

Thanks fer that Frank
Brazilian wondering Boner spider--- now that's one hell of away to go


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AM--- man oh man
Man size lady balls--- crazy


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