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Mr Kino · Sep 23, 2005, 11:36 AM

I have noticed a lot of bug threads lately. shoot, even tooki had a bug he wanted tagged. well i guess ill take a shot at it.

this guy is easily the size of a half dollar coin. Pretty scary critter. If i am not mistaken they make those funnel webs.

thank you,

xi_hyperon · Sep 23, 2005, 11:49 AM

I believe that is a wolf spider. Fairly harmless to humans.

Lateralus · Sep 23, 2005, 12:00 PM

A few weeks back, I had just gotten to work at around 6:30am, still half asleep. I walked into the bathroom and looking down I saw a very large wolf spider run across the floor right in front of my feet.

Woke me up.

The thing was probably 4 or 5-inches long.

We killed it real good.

olePigeon · Sep 23, 2005, 01:25 PM

Originally Posted by Lateralus

We killed it real good.

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RAzaRazor · Sep 23, 2005, 01:38 PM

Originally Posted by olePigeon

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??? You're sad?

How about this? Next time I come across a really frighteningly large spider, I'll keep it alive and scoop it in an envelope and mail it to you for proper care. PM me your address. K, Thanks.

teknopimp · Sep 23, 2005, 01:49 PM

Originally Posted by RAzaRazor

??? You're sad?

How about this? Next time I come across a really frighteningly large spider, I'll keep it alive and scoop it in an envelope and mail it to you for proper care. PM me your address. K, Thanks.

don't be scared, be human and let it back outside. sheesh.

Tyre MacAdmin · Sep 23, 2005, 01:53 PM

Originally Posted by Lateralus

A few weeks back, I had just gotten to work at around 6:30am, still half asleep. I walked into the bathroom and looking down I saw a very large wolf spider run across the floor right in front of my feet.

Woke me up.

The thing was probably 4 or 5-inches long.

We killed it real good.

The same thing happened to my roommate a few week back... huge wolf spire trapped in the tub... scared the hell out of him!

RAzaRazor · Sep 23, 2005, 01:57 PM

Originally Posted by teknopimp

don't be scared, be human and let it back outside. sheesh.

Eh. The only spiders I ever come across are Hobo Spiders which are poisonous. They get smashed quickly with a shoe. I'm not going to kindly shuffle it back outside because it will just come back knocked up by some other spider and leave 1000 eggs somewhere.

(The Hobo is the western state's variant of the Brown Recluse. Nasty little shits.)

teknopimp · Sep 23, 2005, 02:03 PM

Originally Posted by RAzaRazor

Eh. The only spiders I ever come across are Hobo Spiders which are poisonous. They get smashed quickly with a shoe. I'm not going to kindly shuffle it back outside because it will just come back knocked up by some other spider and leave 1000 eggs somewhere.

(The Hobo is the western state's variant of the Brown Recluse. Nasty little shits.)

ok you get a pass this time

btw that does look like a wolf spider. you can tell it's one is by the way they move, they are fast.

Tyre MacAdmin · Sep 23, 2005, 03:01 PM

Originally Posted by Lateralus

A few weeks back, I had just gotten to work at around 6:30am, still half asleep. I walked into the bathroom and looking down I saw a very large wolf spider run across the floor right in front of my feet.

Woke me up.

The thing was probably 4 or 5-inches long.

We killed it real good.

The same thing happened to my roommate a few week back... huge wolf spider ttrapped in the tub... scared the hell out of him!

Paco500 · Sep 23, 2005, 03:28 PM

The same thing happened to Tyler McAdam's roommate a few week back... huge wolf spider ttrapped in the tub... scared the hell out of him!

King Bob On The Cob · Sep 23, 2005, 03:51 PM

You know what? I'm going to clean my room this weekend and come back with a picture of 20 brown recluses in my hand and I'll let you guys freak out over them. They are pretty much everywhere around my house.

Y3a · Sep 23, 2005, 04:18 PM

If it weren't for spiders, Praying mantis, birds and Bats you'd be hip deep in bugs! Spiders like the Wolf Spider eat the crickets and other ground crawling bugs. Keep killing Spiders and end up with a ton of bugs in your house! Let them stay and they will have eaten the rest of teh bugs by December and die themselves.

andreas_g4 · Sep 23, 2005, 04:21 PM

Wow. It is impossible for me to imagine living in an area where spiders are common. In all seriousness: I envy you guys who can live there. If I see a spider larger than 1 or 2 cm, I start crying. I wake up one time multiple times a year due to some nasty spider-hunting-me-dream, wet as if I swam in water. It really makes my life complicated, since I can't go into some houses at night where the entrance is not illuminated. I can't go in there. I hate this, but I am in fear of facing this issue.

xi_hyperon · Sep 23, 2005, 04:59 PM

Originally Posted by andreas_g4

Wow. It is impossible for me to imagine living in an area where spiders are common. In all seriousness: I envy you guys who can live there. If I see a spider larger than 1 or 2 cm, I start crying. I wake up one time multiple times a year due to some nasty spider-hunting-me-dream, wet as if I swam in water. It really makes my life complicated, since I can't go into some houses at night where the entrance is not illuminated. I can't go in there. I hate this, but I am in fear of facing this issue.

You would have loved my tarantula.

^ (Not actually my tarantula. Had her when I was a kid, and never took a photo of her.)

Tyre MacAdmin · Sep 23, 2005, 05:08 PM

Did it ever bite you?

xi_hyperon · Sep 23, 2005, 05:14 PM

No, she was very docile, actually. Unless you happened to be a cricket.

I picked her up all the time and let her sit in my hand, similar to the way the one in the photo is being held.

Tyre MacAdmin · Sep 23, 2005, 05:22 PM

I Say Ring Match Between Your Pet And The Wolf Spider!!!

teknopimp · Sep 23, 2005, 07:10 PM

check out this wolf spider pic:

(taken in japan and not by me.)

andreas_g4 · Sep 23, 2005, 07:24 PM

OMFG. This creeps me out. Really.

Fyre4ce · Sep 23, 2005, 09:24 PM

Originally Posted by Y3a

If it weren't for spiders, Praying mantis, birds and Bats you'd be hip deep in bugs! Spiders like the Wolf Spider eat the crickets and other ground crawling bugs. Keep killing Spiders and end up with a ton of bugs in your house! Let them stay and they will have eaten the rest of teh bugs by December and die themselves.

I don't buy this argument at face value. The higher up the food chain you go, the generally larger and more dangerous to humans the creatures become. I'd much rather have crickets than black widow spiders, even if the crickets were in larger numbers. If my apartment had a rat problem, my solution wouldn't be to keep african crocodiles around. Of course, if the spiders aren't hazardous, it might be OK, but it shouldn't be automatic.

While I'm on the topic, twice in the past couple months I have woken up to a fairly large spider trapped in my tub. I am not irrationally afraid of spiders but it always gives me a startle. The problem is, every time I find a spider, it's bigger than the last one I found. The most recent one was 1.5-2 inches long including the legs, and its body was about 5/8 in long and 3/8 in wide. That's a pretty ****ing big spider to wake up to! I considered killing it but decided not to. Besides, that's getting to the size where it's no longer a simple step-on-it procedure. This thing would have made a big mess and it was easier to scoop it up and toss it outside than to kill it and then clean up. I really wanted to take a picture of it but I have no camera. I have tried to identify them based on pictures on the internet and I think they are non-poisonous but I am not sure. All the ones I've caught can run really fast (in one case, alarmingly fast, like a face-hugger from Aliens) so they fit the description of the wolf spider.

Fyre4ce · Sep 23, 2005, 09:26 PM

Originally Posted by King Bob On The Cob

You know what? I'm going to clean my room this weekend and come back with a picture of 20 brown recluses in my hand and I'll let you guys freak out over them. They are pretty much everywhere around my house.

Brown recluse bites are dangerous. I would have them exterminated if I knew there were poisonous spiders living in my house.

teknopimp · Sep 23, 2005, 09:53 PM

Originally Posted by Fyre4ce

The higher up the food chain you go, the generally larger and more dangerous to humans the creatures become.

where is *that* written? here is the food chain:

some large and dangerous animals on the top tier there

storer · Sep 23, 2005, 11:38 PM

I hate spiders.

I'll kill the mother fuxers if there gunna come in my house. They'd kill me if I went in their house.

I'll leave them alone if they're outside where they're meant to be, but if they're in my house, I kill them.

ThinkInsane · Sep 24, 2005, 12:10 AM

Originally Posted by Mr Kino

I have noticed a lot of bug threads lately. shoot, even tooki had a bug he wanted tagged. well i guess ill take a shot at it.

this guy is easily the size of a half dollar coin. Pretty scary critter. If i am not mistaken they make those funnel webs.

thank you,

That's a heinous ****ing monster, that's what that is. If I found that thing in my house, I would shoot it.

ThinkInsane don't dig spiders! *shudders*

You should have seen the results when I saw a camel spider.

JoshuaZ · Sep 24, 2005, 12:51 AM

Thursday another giant dragonfly attacked my students in class. Buzzes them for a while. Maybe I should collect spider to build giant webs around the school to keep the dragonflys out.

King Bob On The Cob · Sep 24, 2005, 01:44 AM

Originally Posted by Fyre4ce

Brown recluse bites are dangerous. I would have them exterminated if I knew there were poisonous spiders living in my house.

Because of where I live, you can't really exterminate them. They'll just come back. Anyways, they're not as dangerous as people make them out to be if you're healthy. A healthy average adult may not even notice getting bit.

Fyre4ce · Sep 24, 2005, 05:06 AM

Originally Posted by King Bob On The Cob

Because of where I live, you can't really exterminate them. They'll just come back. Anyways, they're not as dangerous as people make them out to be if you're healthy. A healthy average adult may not even notice getting bit.

Move.