Author Topic: Damn spiders (Read 18293 times)

BridgeRunner · « **Reply #25 on:** June 23, 2010, 06:31:24 PM »

My kiddo saw that while I was scrolling down the page and asked what it was. I was thinking on other things and absentmindedly stated what it was. My kid is now horrified beyond words. I don't think I will ever hear the end of this one.

AmbulanceDriver · « **Reply #26 on:** June 23, 2010, 06:31:37 PM »

Pardon me. I just gonna be over in the corner having a serious case of the heebie-jeebies. Maybe a case and a half even.

280plus · « **Reply #27 on:** June 23, 2010, 06:46:05 PM »

I saw one recently where a praying mantis had taken a humming bird. Equally as not cool...

RevDisk · « **Reply #28 on:** June 23, 2010, 08:06:17 PM »

Quote from: BrokenPaw on June 23, 2010, 01:45:44 PM

I just thought I would tell you that I hate you so much right now.

INSERT INTO Table_Blackmail (Name, Category, Description, Severity)
VALUES ('BP', 'Fear', 'Spiders, lots of or large', 'Extreme')

heh heh heh...

Scout26 · « **Reply #29 on:** June 23, 2010, 08:38:15 PM »

Quote from: BridgeWalker on June 23, 2010, 06:31:24 PM

My kiddo saw that while I was scrolling down the page and asked what it was. I was thinking on other things and absentmindedly stated what it was. My kid is now horrified beyond words. I don't think I will ever hear the end of this one.

I believe the correct term you are looking for is "Emotionally Scarred for Life."

Scout26 · « **Reply #30 on:** June 23, 2010, 08:48:36 PM »

Quote from: RevDisk on June 23, 2010, 08:06:17 PM

INSERT INTO Table_Blackmail (Name, Category, Description, Severity)
VALUES ('BP', 'Fear', 'Spiders, lots of or large', 'Extreme')

heh heh heh...

You can also add me to that list.......

never_retreat · « **Reply #31 on:** June 23, 2010, 10:42:09 PM »

I hate to start a caliber war here but, Holly crap I'm thinking 12 ga buckshot minimum.

Quote from: Cromlech on June 23, 2010, 01:51:54 PM

What's that you say, you want some more?
How about this fine Australian specimen, the Golden Orb Weaver:

RocketMan · « **Reply #32 on:** June 23, 2010, 11:40:28 PM »

Thanks for the info, BridgeWalker and 280Plus. I'm going to remember those tips. Still having some occasional "running" problems, so I may give them a try.

Ron, I used to kill those things by the bucket load when I lived in AZ and CO. Nighttime hunts in the yard and around the house a couple times a week, flashlight and bug spray in hand. I really wanted to keep them away from the kiddos.
Some juveniles are even a mottled black and white, btw. What a surprise when I found that out.

Balog · « **Reply #33 on:** June 24, 2010, 04:12:20 AM »

Quote from: makattak on June 23, 2010, 02:08:09 PM

The national zoo has a couple of those. No glass seperating the people from them as the spiders can't really move except on their web.

My wife wasn't sure they were real until I blew on the web and they moved. (The zoo workers nearby were not too pleased by that, btw.)

I'm amazed no idiot has tried to pet them. I guess jumping into the bear enclosure seems more fun...

On another note, are those things legal to own? Seems like a really neat pet. I wonder though, what form does spider feces assume? Be awkward trying to move the bugger around to clean the cage.

280plus · « **Reply #34 on:** June 24, 2010, 07:20:02 AM »

Quote

flashlight and bug spray in hand.

Bugspray? Wow, you're brave!

The other thing is to keep yourself hydrated. Drink a lot of water.

Hutch · « **Reply #35 on:** June 24, 2010, 07:34:33 PM »

I believe that paleo-humans were preyed upon by gy-normous spiders, way back when. That's why we have such fear of spiders. We're the survivors of those who reacted fastest. IMHO, these giant man-eating spiders made a sound like that of a Remington 870 being shucked. That's why someone who has never seen or heard such a thing knows that sound means impending death. Go to the rainforest of darkest nowhere, sneak up behind someone who's never heard a pump shotgun, and rack it. It will cause them to foul their loincloth.

dm1333 · « **Reply #36 on:** June 24, 2010, 10:36:32 PM »

Someone should collect as much of that Golden Orb Weaver web as possible and send it to the Gulf of Mexico. If a thin little web will catch and hold that bird imagine what a few thousand pounds would do to the leaking well head!

Bigjake · « **Reply #37 on:** June 24, 2010, 11:15:25 PM »

Quote from: kgbsquirrel on June 23, 2010, 02:39:54 PM

When faced with the spider hordes.....

Flame tank. Accept no substitute.

Image courtesy of: USMC Vietnam Tankers Association

My good Tree-Rat Comrade, you beat me to it.

Kill it. With Fire.

BridgeRunner · « **Reply #38 on:** June 24, 2010, 11:21:42 PM »

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/spider-silk/

Golden orb spiders are cool.

RocketMan · « **Reply #39 on:** June 24, 2010, 11:22:11 PM »

Quote from: Bigjake on June 24, 2010, 11:15:25 PM

Kill it. With Fire.

Normally, I would have been tempted. I'd have even thrown a rocket motor or two in the mix to be sure. But, it was my folk's condo at the beach, and I didn't want to earn Dad's wrath by destroying all of the excellent remodelling he had done to the place. He's 80 years old, owner of his very own quad-bypass, and he'd still kick my butt.

kgbsquirrel · « **Reply #40 on:** June 24, 2010, 11:42:32 PM »

Quote from: BridgeWalker on June 24, 2010, 11:21:42 PM

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/spider-silk/

Golden orb spiders are cool.

I'm no fan of spiders but that's just so darned cool.

RocketMan · « **Reply #41 on:** June 25, 2010, 04:00:02 AM »

Quote from: BridgeWalker on June 24, 2010, 11:21:42 PM

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/spider-silk/

Golden orb spiders are cool.

Those golden orb spiders really are cool. I'm partial to the average, colorful garden spiders we find around here. It's especially interesting to see them building (weaving?) a web.
The large wolf spiders that show up in my garage from time to time are neat looking, too, but I tend to hustle them back outside so as not to scare the bejeebers out of SWMBO.

Ryan in Maine · « **Reply #42 on:** June 25, 2010, 09:50:59 PM »

erictank · « **Reply #43 on:** June 26, 2010, 03:21:37 AM »

Quote from: Cromlech on June 23, 2010, 01:29:33 PM

I'll just leave this here.

KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ETA - use KGBSquirrel's flametank.

Or just take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

erictank · « **Reply #44 on:** June 26, 2010, 03:23:34 AM »

Quote from: never_retreat on June 23, 2010, 10:42:09 PM

I hate to start a caliber war here but, Holly crap I'm thinking 12 ga buckshot minimum.

5.56mmNATO should do the trick just fine, but as always, shot placement is critical.

And watch your backstop.

Battle Monkey of Zardoz · « **Reply #45 on:** June 26, 2010, 03:57:50 AM »

Spiders ad snakes I hate. But if you want to see Battle Monkey lift upmhis skirt, and run screaming like a little girl, scorpions will do just that n

Cromlech · « **Reply #46 on:** June 26, 2010, 07:10:58 AM »

I'm a wuss when it comes to flying insects that sting. No, posting pictures of them does not scare me (see below), but I really hate them.
The funny thing is that I am more bothered by the thought of being stung than being stung itself. I've been stung before, and while it is not pleasant I just suck it up like I do a workplace injury.

What I hate is them buzzing around my head, in fact I hate even harmless things buzzing around my head. I have VERY sensitive peripheral vision, and I go into freakout mode when things try to sneak up on me (intentionally or not).

Big-ass Japanese Hornet:

What I do is get all 'flappy' - which I know is not what you should do - and I try to dodge them, which means that from a distance people do not see the little buggers and think I'm some idiot having a seizure.

The reason why I figure it's a lot to do with my peripheral vision, is that I will happily hunt them down, and go after them with either a plastic cup to release them outside (or blow them apart with my gas 6mm BB Mac 10). I like being the Predator, not the Prey (duh).

Oh, I also hate these things with a passion:

Bloody Craneflies, drunkenly bumbling about around my head while I am at the computer...

280plus · « **Reply #47 on:** June 26, 2010, 07:31:30 AM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vudA72hibg&feature=related

Stetson · « **Reply #48 on:** June 26, 2010, 06:08:44 PM »

I dont go into crawlspaces without a dustbuster. I don't freak out around spiders, I just destroy all I see. Weedeater, vacuum, flyswatter, hot horseshoe, whatever is handy.

I. DO. NOT. LIKE. Spiders.

Stand_watie · « **Reply #49 on:** June 26, 2010, 06:39:48 PM »

Quote from: Stetson on June 26, 2010, 06:08:44 PM

I dont go into crawlspaces without a dustbuster. I don't freak out around spiders, I just destroy all I see. Weedeater, vacuum, flyswatter, hot horseshoe, whatever is handy.

I. DO. NOT. LIKE. Spiders.

Stetson in full on combat mode...

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Author Topic: Damn spiders (Read 18293 times)