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scooter1369 said:
When I lived in Daytona Beach, they were everywhere. I was all of 6 yrs old when I had my first encouter with fire ants. That hurt like hell. I had about 15 bites on my legs.

Hey AB, been to Okinawa to see the spiders there yet?

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those spiders are totally harmless... it's just a big garden spider: they eat flies and mosquitos... if they didn't you would be eaten alive by the little winged menaces...

now, Black Widow's (several of which live in my back yard) and Brown Recluses are an entirely different story...

edit: That ain't Okinawa either... it's Texas... look at the sign on the side of the road...
 
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lvbuckeye said:
those spiders are totally harmless... it's just a big garden spider: they eat flies and mosquitos... if they didn't you would be eaten alive by the little winged menaces...

now, Black Widow's (several of which live in my back yard) and Brown Recluses are an entirely different story...

edit: That ain't Okinawa either... it's Texas... look at the sign on the side of the road...
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The site I stole them from said Okinawa. I was sure they were considerably bigger over there anyway.
 
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I hate, hate, hate spiders. Oddly, though, my pea brain seems to register the really huge, hairy ones as rodents or something, and those don't bother me much. Except once... during a field biology class, we came across a gigantic, hairy spider sitting on a broken tree limb crossing a creek. Its body was the size of my hand. I decided to take a picture to show my mother (a bad idea in itself), and waded in. Just as I took the pic, the damn thing JUMPED right at me - JUMPED - nearly hitting my face, and landing who knows where. I do not remember getting out of the water, but my friends were kind enough to recreate the moment for weeks afterwards.

Prof says, "Oh, yes, that was a jumper spider." WELL, GEE, THANKS FOR THE INFO!

{Shudder}
 
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I generally don't have a problem with spiders. They have left me alone, and I return the respect. They're acutally useful too, since they eat other bugs.

Wasps however, are a different story. I have a long-standing feud with wasps, ever since I was attacked repeatedely as a child. Things changed when I leared about aerosol blowtorches though. :evil: I barbecue those motherfuckers the moment I see 'em. I had a wasp problem last spring when I moved into my current apartment. I was blowtorching those cocksuckers left and right. I killed everything I saw - except one of them. I mutilated him, but left him alive so all of his wasp friends could see I meant business. I haven't seen a single wasp this year.
 
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Snakes don't even half way bother me, I actually think they are pretty cool. Funny thing about that Garden Spider, I looked at the picture and thought, 'those things are all over texas' Then i realized that picture is in texas. They are harmless, as was said earlier.
 
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Golferdow01 said:
Whoa Loky now i'm gonna have nightmares tonight about big spiders eating frogs :cry:
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MUTANT frogs... WITH TAILS... :p

just bustin' your chops, but that spider was eating a lizard...

i have been bitten by spiders... i have Black Widows living on my back porch... i feed them roaches and crickets... spiders are cool...

I AIN'T SCARED, YOU BUNCH OF PUSSIES!
 
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lvbuckeye said:
MUTANT frogs... WITH TAILS... :p

just bustin' your chops, but that spider was eating a lizard...

i have been bitten by spiders... i have Black Widows living on my back porch... i feed them roaches and crickets... spiders are cool...

I AIN'T SCARED, YOU BUNCH OF PUSSIES!
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Frogs, lizards, all the same to me... maybe it was a frog from the olentangy? :)
 
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ArtilleryBuck said:
Don't need to go to Okinawa to see those...they are pretty common over here. They like to set up outside of door entrances where there is a firelight...especially like in an outside stairwell. The one that got me tonight wasn't one of those though. I would have actually preferred that it had been. I'm telling you, this was one big, hairy, wickid-looking spider.
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Sounds like a wolf spider...I've seen a few of those. One was making its way across my lab floor, and I almost had a heart attack.

Brown Recluses are serious business...I had 2 in my house in Columbus, and one was hiding under a sock and almost got me. Everyone should be careful when reaching into the back of a closet or anywhere in the basement...especially when moving. I recommend work gloves for those functions.
 
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