Totally fun and awesome fact

binary_jester
binary_jester Posts: 3,311 Member
edited September 26 in Chit-Chat
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...and it is probably one of these

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Now please excuse me while I go and hyperventilate.
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  • just4peachy
    just4peachy Posts: 594 Member
    I'm pretty sure I hate you right now.
  • Heather75
    Heather75 Posts: 3,386 Member
    At least a spider that size would have a harder time sneaking up on you unexpectedly. I'm a bright side kind of girl.
  • Thomasm198
    Thomasm198 Posts: 3,189 Member
    eeek.gif
  • dlaplume2
    dlaplume2 Posts: 1,658 Member
    I'm pretty sure I hate you right now.

    Ditto
  • binary_jester
    binary_jester Posts: 3,311 Member
    At least a spider that size would have a harder time sneaking up on you unexpectedly. I'm a bright side kind of girl.
    I think they jump feet at a time, so a sneak attack is entirely possible.
  • chevysarah
    chevysarah Posts: 188
    I'm pretty sure I hate you right now.

    Yep, me too... a lot.
  • mishelnkiki
    mishelnkiki Posts: 775 Member
    ugh! thanks alot! those thinkgs are beyond creepy! fortunately... i dont mind killing them. as long as they arent the jumping kind!
  • binary_jester
    binary_jester Posts: 3,311 Member
    Oh another fun fact...that spider eats birds.
  • curlgirl_03
    curlgirl_03 Posts: 49
    :frown: so much for sleeping peacefully tonight...
  • NZblue
    NZblue Posts: 147 Member
    Lol! You gave me the heebie jeebies, and I keep checking under my chair, now.

    What text book is that? It looks very similar in format to one of my text books. Yours looks like it's more of a math or science type one. Mine's reading - I'm going to be a primary (elementary) teacher. =)
  • ScatteredWriter
    ScatteredWriter Posts: 43
    My cousin (an evolutionary biologist) keeps big spiders as pets. If this is an average, he's probably got several of us covered.... :)
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    At least a spider that size would have a harder time sneaking up on you unexpectedly. I'm a bright side kind of girl.

    *snarf*

    I agree. I think the dog or the cats would try to play with it. I love my critters, but I'd gladly sacrifice one if it means that thing not getting to me. :laugh:
  • Jentorres8814
    Jentorres8814 Posts: 121 Member
    is this the same spider that's in the starburst commercials who just kicks butt? If so...I'm MOVING lol
  • binary_jester
    binary_jester Posts: 3,311 Member
    Lol! You gave me the heebie jeebies, and I keep checking under my chair, now.

    What text book is that? It looks very similar in format to one of my text books. Yours looks like it's more of a math or science type one. Mine's reading - I'm going to be a primary (elementary) teacher. =)
    Give them that book and their parents will wonder why they have to pay for continual therapy.
  • robin52077
    robin52077 Posts: 4,383 Member
    OMG RJ, I am now creepy crawly itchy all over creeped out. I so hate you. UGH!
  • binary_jester
    binary_jester Posts: 3,311 Member
    At least a spider that size would have a harder time sneaking up on you unexpectedly. I'm a bright side kind of girl.

    *snarf*

    I agree. I think the dog or the cats would try to play with it. I love my critters, but I'd gladly sacrifice one if it means that thing not getting to me. :laugh:
    BWHAHAHAHAHA I am picturing you throwing a Pomeranian at the spider.
  • UpToAnyCool
    UpToAnyCool Posts: 1,673
    WOW!
    EEK! :noway: Still not as frightening as the rat I saw that was the same diameter as MY THIGH!

    ETA: Are you kidding me? Any spider would eat a Pomeranian alive! <== aren't those those smiley dogs?
  • poustotah
    poustotah Posts: 1,121 Member
    OMG! I'm a totally bug-a-phobe! If I saw something like this I'd probably just go into labor right there on the spot.
  • shanolap
    shanolap Posts: 1,204 Member
    :noway: I flippin' hate spiders! Uughhhhh...gotta change my panties! :sad:
  • Atlantique
    Atlantique Posts: 2,484 Member
    I involuntarily sort of scream when I see bugs--always have.

    The dog knows this and immediately goes flying off the sofa, on the hunt for the bug!

    So while I kind of hate you atm, the dog is so happy on her hunt! LOL
  • NZblue
    NZblue Posts: 147 Member
    Lol! You gave me the heebie jeebies, and I keep checking under my chair, now.

    What text book is that? It looks very similar in format to one of my text books. Yours looks like it's more of a math or science type one. Mine's reading - I'm going to be a primary (elementary) teacher. =)
    Give them that book and their parents will wonder why they have to pay for continual therapy.

    Lol lol lol!
    Thankfully, in New Zealand, our spiders tend to stick to being little. Lol.
  • Heather75
    Heather75 Posts: 3,386 Member
    I'm just glad it wasn't a centipede. Those guys are *kitten*.
  • b00b0084
    b00b0084 Posts: 729 Member
    At least a spider that size would have a harder time sneaking up on you unexpectedly. I'm a bright side kind of girl.
    I think they jump feet at a time, so a sneak attack is entirely possible.
    I HATE spiders, for a girl i have a very lon, paniced, high pitched scream when I see a spider, even small ones you can barely see.. where I lived in HS we had wolf spiders ALL OVER the damned place. I remember chasing one with a lawnmower... they scream when they get ran over!
    http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3325/3499361571_977b3626ff.jpg
    check these out! I have seen some twice this size!!!!
  • ceebs9
    ceebs9 Posts: 511 Member
    I'm just glad it wasn't a centipede. Those guys are *kitten*.

    Yes! One bit my daughter in Hawaii. Looked like a vampire got her and it hurt her soooo bad.

    We get tarantulas occasionally in our back yard. I'll take them over the billion black widows around, any day.
  • b00b0084
    b00b0084 Posts: 729 Member
    When my son was 2 or 2 1/2 he was bit TEN TIMES between the both of his legs by a Brown Recluse!
    Brown Recluse Spider. Below is information I looked up from http://crisistimes.com/survival_spiders.php
    He was sleeping in bed and it must have been in his bed with him and he rolled on top of it. He woke up screaming his head off.

    The brown recluse spider, also known as the violin spider, is most commonly found in the Midwestern and southern states of the United States. It is brown in color with a characteristic dark violin-shaped (or fiddle-shaped) marking on its head and has six equal-sized eyes (most spiders have eight eyes). Brown recluse spiders are usually found in places with secluded, dry, sheltered areas such as underneath structures logs, or in piles of rocks or leaves. If a brown recluse spider wanders indoors, they may be found in dark closets, shoes, or attics.

    The brown recluse spider cannot bite humans without some form of counter pressure, for example, through unintentional contact that traps the spider against the skin. Bites may cause a stinging sensation with localized pain. A small white blister usually develops at the site of the bite. The venom of a brown recluse can cause a severe lesion by destroying skin tissue (skin necrosis). This skin lesion will require professional medical attention.
  • funkyspunky871
    funkyspunky871 Posts: 1,675 Member
    When my son was 2 or 2 1/2 he was bit TEN TIMES between the both of his legs by a Brown Recluse!
    Brown Recluse Spider. Below is information I looked up from http://crisistimes.com/survival_spiders.php
    He was sleeping in bed and it must have been in his bed with him and he rolled on top of it. He woke up screaming his head off.

    The brown recluse spider, also known as the violin spider, is most commonly found in the Midwestern and southern states of the United States. It is brown in color with a characteristic dark violin-shaped (or fiddle-shaped) marking on its head and has six equal-sized eyes (most spiders have eight eyes). Brown recluse spiders are usually found in places with secluded, dry, sheltered areas such as underneath structures logs, or in piles of rocks or leaves. If a brown recluse spider wanders indoors, they may be found in dark closets, shoes, or attics.

    The brown recluse spider cannot bite humans without some form of counter pressure, for example, through unintentional contact that traps the spider against the skin. Bites may cause a stinging sensation with localized pain. A small white blister usually develops at the site of the bite. The venom of a brown recluse can cause a severe lesion by destroying skin tissue (skin necrosis). This skin lesion will require professional medical attention.

    Holy ****. What happened to your son's leg?
  • sarglava
    sarglava Posts: 206 Member
    Gonna be annoying and say... there are way more harmless spiders then scary ones. There are only two poisonous spiders in the United States. ONLY TWO! And they're pretty much whimpy and rare. All the other thousands (yeah, I said thousands) of spiders just do their thing and eat mosquitoes and lady beetles and wasps and flies... spiders are good! Of course they're scary and we don't want them in our house, but they aren't evil. I promise all they want is to survive just like the rest of us.

    For the woman whose son got bit that's a terrifying story. But it's like those stories about shark attacks. You only hear the bad stuff.
  • jkestens63
    jkestens63 Posts: 1,164 Member
    I am the odd man out. I like spiders, have one tatooed on the top of my left foot. Not a tiny one either, about4.5 inches long. Strangely, I am scared of crickets, nothing else like grasshoppers or anything, just the crickets. Ewww!
  • b00b0084
    b00b0084 Posts: 729 Member
    We thought it was a mosquito bite or something. So later the nest day while I was at school my mom took him to the DR. She said the bites kept getting bigger and browner so she knew something was wrong, he had 5 bites on each leg. The dr said we were lucky we caught it when we did. They gave him a shot of benadryl and said he would be fine. Over the next week 9 of the bites started getting smaller and more of a flesh color, but ONE decided to get darker and it got those white blisters all over the brown spot. It looked NASTY. So I took him BACK to the dr and they gave me a medicated ointment to run on it twice a day and the blisters went away after another week,. For almost 9 months you could still see where the spot was but now you cant even tell. He got lucky. A friend of my moms knows someone who got bit by one on the head and they had to surgically remove the dead flesh and skin, you can stick your fist in that spot now. NASTY spiders in Ohio
  • b00b0084
    b00b0084 Posts: 729 Member
    Gonna be annoying and say... there are way more harmless spiders then scary ones. There are only two poisonous spiders in the United States. ONLY TWO! And they're pretty much whimpy and rare. All the other thousands (yeah, I said thousands) of spiders just do their thing and eat mosquitoes and lady beetles and wasps and flies... spiders are good! Of course they're scary and we don't want them in our house, but they aren't evil. I promise all they want is to survive just like the rest of us.

    For the woman whose son got bit that's a terrifying story. But it's like those stories about shark attacks. You only hear the bad stuff.
    true, the black widow and brown recluse, my son was unfortunantly bit by the brown recluse, and honestly they stay away from humans as much as possible unless they are disturbed. In my sons case he rolled over on one that was in his bed while he was asleep.
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