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10/11/2007 09:38:33 AM · #26 |
Originally posted by TCGuru:
Originally posted by idnic:
They should all be squished if they get within 100 feet of my personal bubble!! :P |
LOL My mom hates them too... she gets paralyzed if they get within 2 feet of her :) |
I start yelling until one of my kids come to deal with it! If I'm home alone, there is a good chance it will get to live because I can't stand to get close enough to hurt it.
I did have one of those HUGE banana spiders in the house once, was alone, sprayed it from across the room with oven cleaner till it suffocated! Still have a greasy spot on the wall there. lol
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10/11/2007 10:12:55 AM · #27 |
Stupidly, since I HATE spiders, John & I travelled to Mexico - never ocurred to me that Tarantulas come from that part of the world!
First trip out in a coach, we were sitting at the front and could actually see one crossing the road in front of us ( we missed it) and there were several squashed ones around.
Then one was found in toilet by the pool - alive! Didn't go in that loo again all holiday!
Loved Mexico - could manage without the spiders!
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10/11/2007 10:17:53 AM · #28 |
What I found in the kitchen at 6 am this morning was definitely NOT small. It was huge and menacing. Granted, I did not have my glasses on, but I could see enough to smack it with my shoe. No - no pix. No time. Emergency.
Small spiders I can live with - except those brown recluse ones that we have here, but this sucker was 3 inches! Yuk
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10/11/2007 10:18:28 AM · #29 |
These are all hanging around my backyard right now ... I've decided not to squish them onaccounta I enjoy taking their pictures! edit to say ... if any of those actually made it inside the house ... the squishing would begin very rapidly ...
Message edited by author 2007-10-11 10:20:42. |
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10/11/2007 11:47:40 AM · #30 |
Rain Spider:
Jumping Spider:
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10/11/2007 11:53:43 AM · #31 |
this lil' feller decided to hitch a ride on the top of my truck...
cute, ain't he? |
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10/11/2007 12:06:29 PM · #32 |
| My son finds them in th basement all the time, now he wants to kill every living thing in the yard to make sure they get the message and leave, he's a big sissy!!! |
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10/11/2007 12:44:14 PM · #33 |
If it looks like a Brown Recluse from 5 feet away. It dies.
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10/11/2007 01:10:40 PM · #34 |
Originally posted by idnic:
They should all be squished if they get within 100 feet om my personal bubble!! :P |
Cindi, I've read that no matter where you are, there is a spider within 15 feet of you. Sleep well, dear :-)
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10/11/2007 01:23:28 PM · #35 |
just sunday afternoon we were all sitting around the house when suddenly my mom-in-law says "what is that going across your kitchen floor?"
Now mind you she is losing her sight and was a good 15 feet away from it and STILL saw it, that's how big it was. Just walking across the floor like no one's business. I couldn't get up fast enough to get a shot before someone had it on the bottom of their shoe...I guess I still could have photographed it.
I have no clue what kind it was but when it bumped into the chair and made it scoot, I knew it was a serious one...lol just kidding but just the site of him made 4 100+ lbs people move like crazy, I'm sure a chair wouldn't have been anything lol. |
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10/11/2007 02:19:28 PM · #36 |
Originally posted by idnic:
Originally posted by TCGuru:
Originally posted by idnic:
They should all be squished if they get within 100 feet of my personal bubble!! :P |
LOL My mom hates them too... she gets paralyzed if they get within 2 feet of her :) |
I start yelling until one of my kids come to deal with it! If I'm home alone, there is a good chance it will get to live because I can't stand to get close enough to hurt it.
I did have one of those HUGE banana spiders in the house once, was alone, sprayed it from across the room with oven cleaner till it suffocated! Still have a greasy spot on the wall there. lol |
Living in Florida I know all about those banana spiders. Where I live we have a lot of wooded area around us and we get them in our house all the time. I have SEVERE arachnaphobia - I cannot bring myself to get close enough to one to squish it - so the can of Raid comes out and gets emptied on any one I find. Or I scream for one of my male roommates to come kill it for me... They laugh at me everytime - but it seriously traumatizes me.
I had one crawl on me the other night while watching TV - I though I was going to have a heart attack - did the "epileptic seizure dance" for about 20minutes! |
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10/11/2007 02:44:13 PM · #37 |
"...did the "epileptic seizure dance" for about 20 minutes!"
LOL! The visual on that is hilarious! Anyway, I find spiders fascinating when they are OUTSIDE my house. But if any of the little suckers gets IN my house, they're dead! This one was cool in the front bushes, but I found a similar one in my house last month and almost had a heart attack.
Luckily in my area of the country they don't get NEAR as big as they do down south. This little guy was in my house, but was so tiny I didn't really care (about the size of my little finger nail). I think my younger son dispatched him by accident. He liked playing with it(!)
We have an awning over my back door, and last summer a large garden spider set up a web underneath it and the side of my house. It was on the opposite side of the door (in other words, you weren't walking into the web when you walked outside), so I let it stay there for the entire summer and fall. My kids thought it was cool, and my wife didn't mind--as long as it stayed outside! Sorry, no pictures of that one.
Those of you that live in tarrantula territory, my hat's off to you. If one of those was in my house, I think I would need therapy. :)
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10/11/2007 02:51:48 PM · #38 |
Originally posted by idnic:
OMG are you people trying to give me nightmares forever?? You can't imagine how hard it was to vote on the Fauna challenge 'cause these things kept popping up and now THIS?!?!?! Aaaaaaaaarrrrrgggggggg! |
You mean my gift to you was unappreciated? I started a thread with YOUR name proudly displayed. sniff sniff....you have hurt my feelings now. :P |
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10/11/2007 02:58:16 PM · #39 |
here's one that softens you up a bit before hitting you with the arachnid :D
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10/11/2007 03:18:07 PM · #40 |
Wait! I have a pretty spider photo too.
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10/11/2007 03:47:03 PM · #41 |
jsut be glad you dont have these crawling around your feet in your office like me :)
 
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10/11/2007 03:55:35 PM · #42 |
I guess I'll add mine to.
Message edited by author 2007-10-11 15:55:53. |
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10/11/2007 04:04:43 PM · #43 |
Sure, why not ...
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10/11/2007 04:05:00 PM · #44 |
So, I check out this thread this morning. I immediately get creeped out. Spiders, me no likey. I can't believe how many are around my house here. Yuck! My husband went on a spider jihad when we first got here and have been fine since. They are fine outside but once they cross that threshold, it's on!
Anyhoo, look at this thread, get all prickly skinned. Close thread. Start stripping sheets off beds for washing. What do I see in my sons bed underneath all his stuffed animals right up by his pillow?? A freakin' spider!!!! And a decently sized one at that, have no idea what kind but lets just say it's in a better place now (by way of the toilet).
Damn you, shutterpug, for the spider jinx!! ;-) |
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10/11/2007 04:06:43 PM · #45 |
Originally posted by Fetor:
jsut be glad you dont have these crawling around your feet in your office like me :)
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And from what I've read and seen on the web, that camel spider looks relatively small, compared to some of the monsters I've seen on Google. And they will try to eat your flesh for real, correct? Good grief... |
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10/11/2007 05:07:28 PM · #46 |
We bought a new house once and the morning after moving in we had a wall covered with tiny black specks (at least 100) so my wife started brushing the wall off with a paper towel only to find out the were tiny black spiders and all she did was get them moving, they went everywhere!!! I got the shop vac and rounded them up and she made sure I did not miss any of them.
I am not afraid of spiders but I refuse to buy a house for them to live in! |
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10/11/2007 05:18:04 PM · #47 |
Originally posted by Pixlmaker:
And from what I've read and seen on the web, that camel spider looks relatively small, compared to some of the monsters I've seen on Google. And they will try to eat your flesh for real, correct? Good grief... |
myth... sorry :) |
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10/11/2007 05:20:20 PM · #48 |
Originally posted by ArpeggioAngel:
Originally posted by idnic:
Originally posted by TCGuru:
Originally posted by idnic:
They should all be squished if they get within 100 feet of my personal bubble!! :P |
LOL My mom hates them too... she gets paralyzed if they get within 2 feet of her :) |
I start yelling until one of my kids come to deal with it! If I'm home alone, there is a good chance it will get to live because I can't stand to get close enough to hurt it.
I did have one of those HUGE banana spiders in the house once, was alone, sprayed it from across the room with oven cleaner till it suffocated! Still have a greasy spot on the wall there. lol |
Living in Florida I know all about those banana spiders. Where I live we have a lot of wooded area around us and we get them in our house all the time. I have SEVERE arachnaphobia - I cannot bring myself to get close enough to one to squish it - so the can of Raid comes out and gets emptied on any one I find. Or I scream for one of my male roommates to come kill it for me... They laugh at me everytime - but it seriously traumatizes me.
I had one crawl on me the other night while watching TV - I though I was going to have a heart attack - did the "epileptic seizure dance" for about 20minutes! |
LOL did you ever see the movie Nothing to Lose??
The spider on your head dance while your feet are flaming?? LOLOLOL |
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10/11/2007 05:20:46 PM · #49 |
Originally posted by idnic:
I did have one of those HUGE banana spiders in the house once, was alone, sprayed it from across the room with oven cleaner till it suffocated! Still have a greasy spot on the wall there. lol |
Use hair spray. My mother swears by it! LOL! |
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10/11/2007 09:05:17 PM · #50 |
Originally posted by banmorn:
Originally posted by idnic:
I did have one of those HUGE banana spiders in the house once, was alone, sprayed it from across the room with oven cleaner till it suffocated! Still have a greasy spot on the wall there. lol |
Use hair spray. My mother swears by it! LOL! |
or add a flame to the front of the can first lol.
We had a version of the banana spider in Okinawa but they weren't supposed to be poisonous...yeah I wasn't checking that. I had taken a really great shot of one wrapping it's food up but lucky for you, I can't find it...sorry...sweet dreams everyone lol
Message edited by author 2007-10-11 21:05:26. |
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