Ew, Spiders!

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Andy Baker

Oddly enough, this movie was on late 2 nights ago... I think on TNT. Maybe the spiders are starting an invasion.

Eight Legged Freaks

Andy B.

That movie was as cheesy as they come....

[JaneYoung]

Fact 2 - camel spiders can destroy breakfast

[Morgan Gillespie]

Not destroy breakfast, just make what your eating, what their eating. They know you wont stop em unless you have a firring weapon.

[Jeremiah Johnson]

My house is infested with these extremely creepy spiders.



They crawl out of every possible nook and cranny. The other day I had one on my desk next to my elbow and I cushed it with my big book. There was probably nearly 100 pounds of force or so crushing it. The splatter went 3 inches every way. I cleaned up the mess with my sister's work shirt. Heh...

[Morgan Gillespie]

You think your house is infested?

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Budda648

My house is infested with these extremely creepy spiders.



They crawl out of every possible nook and cranny. The other day I had one on my desk next to my elbow and I cushed it with my big book. There was probably nearly 100 pounds of force or so crushing it. The splatter went 3 inches every way. I cleaned up the mess with my sister's work shirt. Heh...

Do you know what kind of spider this is?
Here in Central Texas, we have a 'wolf spider' that lives in nooks and crannies of the house. I might add - outside - They are good spiders - their food of choice is mosquitoes so they are natural pest eaters. This thing looks sort of like a cross between a wolf spider and a tarantula. Now there's a lovely thought.

[Jeremiah Johnson]

Originally Posted by Katie Reynolds

Ever see Arachnophobia?

I saw that movie when I was about 4 years old. The significant cause as to why I don't watch horror movies and I slaughter every spider I find.


EDIT/ Sorry Jane, I don't know what kind it is. We have wolf spiders here. They range in ever size immaginable. Here in Coal Valley we also have Brown Recluse spiders. Those are extremely dangerous. A couple of years ago a lady was bitten on the leg and within minutes or hours the skin around her leg was rotting away. She had to have it amputated. The was one in my sleeping bag when I went camping once, I was extremely lucky that it didn't bite me and, of course, I crushed it with my foot.

Brown Recluse Bite
Cause of Nightmares

[Koko Ed]

Basically Camel Spiders have made me take going to the middle East off of my list of places to visit just like these made me not want to go to SOuth AMerica and these make me want to avoid Korea.
There are some scary critters out there!

[Wayne C.]

Originally Posted by Mercury Rising

Just be happy you don't have camel spiders. Now those things are beasts, can move 10mph, no venom but rely on stealth, speed, and their powerful jaws to get their prey. But how can they rely on stealth when they look like this, is beyond me.

This photo shows one camel spider eating another one.

M- those arent real spiders. They are called solfugids- sun scorpions. BTW- we have them in the Southwest- just not so huge. Thye are basically harmless to humans.

WC

[Morgan Gillespie]

I knew they were not actual spiders, yet I couldn't find their actual name, they just got the name Camel Spider from people. The only reason to fear one is just because its a big stinking spider! They don't attack humans, but what your should truly fear is African ants, they eat more accumulative animal flesh than lion or tigers.
The Siafu ants do not care about your size, they are the only recorded insects that eat humans. Granted they eat infants or the infirm but that is still a very scary thought.



The saifu ants with colonies up to 22 million recorded individuals, use the larger ants with the pincers to break open their victims flesh then the smaller ones get inside and eat it from the inside out.

[Wayne C.]

Originally Posted by Budda648

My house is infested with these extremely creepy spiders.



They crawl out of every possible nook and cranny. The other day I had one on my desk next to my elbow and I cushed it with my big book. There was probably nearly 100 pounds of force or so crushing it. The splatter went 3 inches every way. I cleaned up the mess with my sister's work shirt. Heh...

That looks like a jumping spider (Phidippus sp. ?) . They are amazing little spiders that are very vision oriented and dance and signal to each other with their front legs.

All true spiders have fangs with venom glands. But few can bite and penetrate the skin. The ones that do generally sting like a wasp does. But a few (even small ones) inject a venom that liquifies flesh and makes growing necrotic wounds.

Supposedly sleeping people swallow 10-15 small spiders during their lifetime. From personal experience I say they are a little crunchy and taste peppery....


BTW- the spider above with the hand for scale is an "Argiope" (silk spider)- Some like that really common in the US in fields. The tropical one in my attachment is 3x the size and I found it by walking into it at face level on a trail in Brazil.


Spiders- you gotta love em'

WC

[Jeremiah Johnson]

Originally Posted by Wayne C.

That looks like a jumping spider (Phidippus sp. ?) . They are amazing little spiders that are very vision oriented and dance and signal to each other with their fromt legs.
WC

I've never seen them jump but they are EXTREMELY fast and do have great vision. I missed one the other day b/c it saw me coming I was only about 8 inches away but it was gone faster than I could think.

That is a scary thought being attacked by those ants. I would never wanna be eaten from the inside out. I'm going to have nightmares tonight I know it.

[Wayne C.]

Originally Posted by Budda648

That is a scary thought being attacked by those ants. I would never wanna be eaten from the inside out. I'm going to have nightmares tonight I know it.

Safari / army ants are a tropical phenomenon in many tropical forests. In SA they fan out over the forest floor killing everything that doesn't move fast enough. A whole set of bird species follow the ant swarms and eat whatever they stir up.

But the local people in Central America dont worry about them as much as they do Paraponera ants. You can look out for the swarm and avoid it. But Paraponera ants are all over the vegetation and they fall on you. They are 1 inch long and have a sting that is said to feel like being shot with a .22 . They call them Bullet Ants. The pain is excruciating and can cause temporary paralysis.

I remember walking a trail in Costa Rica where the guide showed us a hollow tree with the ants coming out of it. He tapped the trunk and you could hear the thing humming with ants- which came boiling out!!!

For those in the south= picture Fire Ants an inch long. They hurt briefly and itch later. Bullet ants dont stop the initial hurt for at least a day.

WC

(lets talk scorpions next!!)

[Rohith Surampudi]

Now would be a very good time to wake up(if you already haven't) and call the orkin man or any other exterminator...at least they weren't mosquitoes

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Wayne C.

Safari / army ants are a tropical phenomenon in many tropical forests. In SA they fan out over the forest floor killing everything that doesn't move fast enough. A whole set of bird species follow the ant swarms and eat whatever they stir up.

But the local people in Central America dont worry about them as much as they do Paraponera ants. You can look out for the swarm and avoid it. But Paraponera ants are all over the vegetation and they fall on you. They are 1 inch long and have a sting that is said to feel like being shot with a .22 . They call them Bullet Ants. The pain is excruciating and can cause temporary paralysis.

I remember walking a trail in Costa Rica where the guide showed us a hollow tree with the ants coming out of it. He tapped the trunk and you could hear the thing humming with ants- which came boiling out!!!

For those in the south= picture Fire Ants an inch long. They hurt briefly and itch later. Bullet ants dont stop the initial hurt for at least a day.

WC

(lets talk scorpions next!!)

Yeah, when I first heard about them I hoped those awful thing wouldn't end up in the states like another South AMerican import the Killer Bee.
That's all we need...