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Cause after you see the pics in this thread, you certainly won't anymore.

Shinova wrote:Cause after you see the pics in this thread, you certainly won't anymore.

Cool.
I think I like spiders better now..lol.

That's an Australian Huntsman spider, I do believe. A male, you can tell by the small abdomen, and, HOLY SHIT!

Well, that is big.

Shit, almost as scary as the Spider Mastermind.

Haha. Where did you find that link? I saw it here.

kiss the pretty lolth messenger. . . kiss kiss.

Wow , thats cool....I love spiders and studying them. One of the best classes I've taken at Purdue was a Spider Biology lab course. We got to learn all about how they function , hunt and reproduce and a good deal about their internal anatomy. Amazing creatures, even got to hold a Chilean Roach spider, a member od the Tarantula family, from leg tip to leg tip , about 4" across in the palm of my hand.

Spiders are incredibly beneficial creatures, without them we would quickly be overrun with flies, roaches and grasshoppers, and out of over 100,000 identified species of spider only 10 are dangerous in any way to humans, and out of thoes 10 only two, the Sydney Redback, and Australian Funnel web can kill an adult human(if the bites are not treated swiftly).

In North America the only species you need to worry about are the Brown Recluse and the Black Widow, The Recluse uses tissure necrotic venom to kill and digest tis prey. On a person the bite produces a vicious rotting wound, usually about the size of a half dollar and up to an inch in depth(depending on bite location), that can take, even with treatment six months to a year to heal. Unplesant in the extreme, but rarely life threatening, unless your a moron and let secondary infections seep in. Widow bites are dangeros in tha same way as the common cold, the young and elderly are its most likely victims. Widow venom is a neuro toxin and in humans causes nausea, fever, sever racking abdominal cramps and often mild delusions or heart palpatations. Symptoms usually pass within two to three days. For children the dose of toxin can poassibily be enough to stop resperation or heart function, in the elderly heart failure is the likely result of the toxin.

I'd prefer the company of spiders then I would the flies they would otherwise consume upon entry into the house. Spiders don't get into your food. Your chances of getting sick increase dramatically when flies are around.

This looks like the perfect time to post this again, although this one is smaller, It was on my bedroom window frame, outside thankfully.

You fucken assholes. I fucking hate spiders. HATE. Oh god I'm scared now. Ugh.

I dont much care. I recognize the roll they play in cosstems, so more power to them...Oh and you are never more than three feet away from one

Ewwwwwww....

The one behind the clock I think freaked me out the most. That, and the pic on the second page of that thread, with the super-fuzzy one.....YUCK!! That one gave me chills. Ew ew ewww.

[crocodile dundee]That ain't a spider, mate.Thisis a spider.[/crocodile dundee]

It's Megarachne servinei (well, an artist's touchup. We only have fossils).

A new family, Megarachnidae Araneida, had to be established when this beautfully detailed giant spider was discovered. Found in rocks of the Upper Carboniferous in St. Louis Province, Argentina, it represents the largest known spider ever to have walked on Earth.

Living some 300 million years ago, it had a 15mm (0.5") circular eye containing three pairs of lenses at the centre of its head. The length of this specimen is 34cm (16"): it would have had a leg span of some 50cm (20")!

Flamethrower, I need a flamethrower!!! That's either a baby Spiega or the arachnid version of Meganeura! Either way, I'm buying a blowtorch......

Lagmonster wrote:[crocodile dundee]That ain't a spider, mate.Thisis a spider.[/crocodile dundee]

It's Megarachne servinei (well, an artist's touchup. We only have fossils).

A new family, Megarachnidae Araneida, had to be established when this beautfully detailed giant spider was discovered. Found in rocks of the Upper Carboniferous in St. Louis Province, Argentina, it represents the largest known spider ever to have walked on Earth.

Living some 300 million years ago, it had a 15mm (0.5") circular eye containing three pairs of lenses at the centre of its head. The length of this specimen is 34cm (16"): it would have had a leg span of some 50cm (20")!

First giant dragonflies and huge milipedes, now mammoth spiders and croc-frogs! Was there a radiation spill in the Carboniferous!? Hmmmm, "Walking Before Dinosaurs", ....Discovery Channel is gonna have a ball with this one.......

Not to put too fine a point on it, but a 20 inch spider is only going to have at best half that in body length. And my boot is a convenient 13-or-so inches long.

The only problem to that - and you arachnophobes will love this - is that this monster spider was *armored*. Significantly.

Ladies and gentleman, welcome to Australia, where if it isn't poisonous its venomous and if its neither of those it still has really big teeth.

At least my new house only has lots of daddy-long-legs which I can deal with, hell I don't mind them...

I'd french-kiss a snake sooner than have a spider on me -- I detest spiders.

weemadando wrote:At least my new house only has lots of daddy-long-legs which I can deal with, hell I don't mind them...

I encourage daddy-long-legs to live in my room, because they are supposed to keep away the red backs.

weemadando wrote:Ladies and gentleman, welcome to Australia, where if it isn't poisonous its venomous and if its neither of those it still has really big teeth.

Clearly you've never been to Brazil, where every living thing has some sort of barb, stinger, claw, tooth, venom, pastel coloring, or other natural weaponry. And where the forest floor is clean enough to eat off of, because anything that dies or falls over or gets drowsy for a minute is instantly dinner for something else.*

When I was there, I marvelled not at the wonderous diversity of nature, but rather the wonderous diversity of anti-organism clothes, sprays, and swatters I had to bring with me in order to survive there without leaving parts of me scattered across the countryside, a little Lagmonster feast of blood and skin and other bits passed along the food chain in one form or another.




*(with all due respect to P.J. O'Rourke, who said it first)

Lagmonster wrote:Clearly you've never been to Brazil, where every living thing has some sort of barb, stinger, claw, tooth, venom, pastel coloring, or other natural weaponry. And where the forest floor is clean enough to eat off of, because anything that dies or falls over or gets drowsy for a minute is instantly dinner for something else.*

When I was there, I marvelled not at the wonderous diversity of nature, but rather the wonderous diversity of anti-organism clothes, sprays, and swatters I had to bring with me in order to survive there without leaving parts of me scattered across the countryside, a little Lagmonster feast of blood and skin and other bits passed along the food chain in one form or another.
*(with all due respect to P.J. O'Rourke, who said it first)

I remember as a lieutenant, preparing to don a protective mask while in the field, just in time to see a large, hairy brown spider spanning my breathing apparatus on the inside. My reaction was not good, and the spider did not long enjoy its status among the living.

I like this guys IM chat response to spiders:

"i don't think i could step on that -- i'd be like trying to step on a puppy -- like a 5 month old puppy"

I wonder if you could put a leash on that thing...

Aw, crap...now my skin is crawling all over the place...

Awww, he's all fluffy. That's so cuuuuute. I remember my friend had a tarantula named Rosy, with a big pink spot on her abdomen. All she did was sleep and eat crickets. She was adorable.