Spiders
 

hing = thing (in the poll)

multiple choice (kill them! + in my country they're not a problem).

Serious arachnophobe speaking here.

This is the biggest species of spider to be found in my country.



Luckily enough, I've never met this fella.

spiders don't really bother me anymore unless they're bigger than my shoe. then I break out the docs.

re: small=venomous, I once played with a redback in my hands without having any idea what it was I was dealing with. luckily I wore gloves though.

i'm not too fond of them. don't care about the small ones, unless they're on me (walking into the bathroom, feeling something tickling my shoulder, wiping a spider onto the floor...)

when i see a large one my heart does skip a beat or two.

i once found a big one in my scarf when i wanted to put it back on in a dressing room... don't want to know if it had been in there before i took the scarf of in the first place.

I used to have no fears of spiders when I was a kid, but ever since I was 14/15 it depends on times and occasions.
I'm pretty sure I saw one of these fuckers when I was living in southern France:

now i'm creeped out.

we used to release one of our cats on big hallway spiders and close the door. there would be some running around and then he'd come back in, looking proud with a few legs sticking out of his mouth.

my boyfriend dislikes spiders quite a lot. not a real phobia but he doesn't want to get anywhere near them.

damn dood. I don't know why the fuck you'd have one of those on yer hands. I'm not scared of spiders really...but somethin' liek that I would not want too close to me...

what??? you arent THAT far away...

hey, he's not that big after all... plus, it's very rare and it lives in southern part of the country only.

And he looks quite sympathetic :)

being that dude who's palm is on the picture, I'd already had a symphatetic triple heart attack.

I'm not really bothered by spiders so much. But centipedes horrify me. Seriously. I freeze up if I see one. Like literally I have trouble moving. It's crazy.

centipedes are the worst! even a thousand times more horrible then millipedes. URGH!!!


Nightmare!!!

millipedes don't bother me, because they're slow. Ever see a centipede move? They're waaaaay too fast.

centipedes freak me out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CL2hetqpfg

*shudders*

spiders are alright. i usually just let them out the window if i see one or just leave it alone. i almost never see them, though.

^ omfg yes

exactly. they are like 10 attached spiders plus evil powers! and they look like they got bones

dunno, I usually don't care much for spiders coz they're usually not aggressive with humans, but hell, yesterday I read an article on a type of spider not too uncommon over her, and if it bites you and you're unlucky/have weak defences you can develop an ugly necrotic wound coz some bacteria do nasty stuff to your flesh etc etc and it takes months to heal if not treated properly (lot of time even when treated properly, actually).
AND, since cases of such gravity are actually rare, very few places know how to properly deal with that stuff (hyperbaric chambers, correct "substance" to sterilyze the wound etc), and that creeped me out even more, and the fact that theese fuckers like to hide in sheets and clothes layin' on the floor etc creeped me out even more than more.
Like, I'm tired, go to bed, this thing is under the sheets, I touch it, it feels trapped and bytes me, I say goodbye to half of my calf in the following couple months.
argh.
Bottom line: the more you read, the more you get scared of life.
here's the fucker and his six eyes:

I love my spiders. I let a few live in the corners and by windows because they will eat any other bugs trying to get in . We do have a few poisonous ones here. Widow spiders of all colors




and recluse my friend was bitten by one of these in her back yard


Think I have seen quite a few of these cause I live in swampy woods

Hey, these recluse spiders aren't the ones whose venom does really bad things to your skin?

hahahaha

only the really big ones scare me and i havnt seen any of those in a long time although my last place was infested with them and i was forever having to pluck up the courage to get a glass and a bit of paper and take them into the back yard. as much as i dont like the really big ones i just cant bring myself to kill them. cockroaches on the other hand disgust me beyond belief.

classic:


but it's more ewwwy than scary.
I hate scolopendrae as many others in here.
BTW, we had a thread about scary insects or something a while back, I'd gladly keep this for spiders only.
Just sayin'.

They fuck you up if you do not get immediate medical attention to the bite. Especially young children. I don't care much for these and since there are so many brown spiders around here they are hard to identify.

the venom acts like an acid causing the bite to grow and the flesh around it to be eaten away. many pictures on google.

i wish i didn't google that :(

yep, that's what I mant in my last post, previous page.

we get some huge fucking spiders in Houston TX


These tarantulas (I have run across a few) can grow to 5 inches across

This is in Texas, not too far from my hometown



Lake Tawakoni State Park, n. Wills Point, Hunt Co., Texas
August 15, 2007 (Donna Garde) [pronounced like "guard"]


You know how many of these spiders it must have taken to build that webbing in two weeks?

 

I lived in New Mexico and got bit by a brown recluse. I hate spiders. However, in Minnesota, I simply skoff at their inability to harm me. I lived through a recluse bite with no treatment for 2 weeks. I think I can handle whatever.

Like Gail I enjoy them cause they catch, kill and eat flies.

If they're not the size of say a grain of rice, then I get spooked pretty bad. The bigger, the scarier obviously. It's largely irrational. You know you always read how they're really largely not aggressive and won't bother for the most part. But whenever I see one, I feel like it's staring at me, just waiting for it's chance to get on me and bite me.

Except for daddy longlegs. Don't find those scary at all.

Threads like this remind me of the benefits of living up here in the god forsaken north. I'm a complete pussy when it comes to dealing with bigger insects and other nature's fuckwits such as arachnids. But I don't hate them and demand them all to be killed.

I'd shit myself if I had to step my foot in the amazonian jungle.

You should see the raoches in Florida some are 3-4" long

You may have gotten lucky and been bitten by a spider that had recently bit something else. their venom would not be replenished yet.

i'm terrified of spiders... especially the way they move...

the spiders all in tune...

the evening of the moon..