Abacinator
Unholy Blasphemies
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Arachnophobia
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Cycle61
What the shit is this...
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ndirienzo
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You hate spiders, huh? Well then don't look at these.
Seriously though, spiders are awesome... they control a number of harmful pests. Very few are poisonous, and even fewer deadly. The black widow will mess you up, though.
Seriously though, spiders are awesome... they control a number of harmful pests. Very few are poisonous, and even fewer deadly. The black widow will mess you up, though.
wannabe
"Insignificant Other"
I used to have a pet tarantula in college. I named him Dimitri. I fed him well, and he molted one day. I looked in his terrarium, and it totally looked like I had two tarantulas. That was the year that arachnophobia the movie came out. I was very tempted to take his molted shell with me to the movie and just randomly toss it over my shoulder part way through the movie. I'm still bummed that I let my buddy talk me out of it.
GAJ
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Don't mind spiders at all, leave them all alone other than Black Widows.
Do hate these things though.
Do hate these things though.
Abyss
Anhedonia
Just black widows? Two words dude: Brown Recluse. One bite and your arm is looking like this: (Pic linked due to graphic content)
http://0.tqn.com/d/urbanlegends/1/0/z/A/day_9.jpg
They may not live in California though, I can't remember.
ndirienzo
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Yea, no Brown Recluses in CA. The picture you linked is an extreme example... most bites don't have the necrotic effect. They're like widows, and pretty much any other spider, in that they're non-aggressive and only bite when trapped against something.
I spent a summer in Manhattan, Kansas, and killed several Brown Recluses in my room. Just don't leave clothes or shoes on the ground and you're pretty much fine.
Here's a bad picture of one of the ones I caught in my room
ndirienzo
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Why?
yea, I get that a lot. I received a NSF REU fellowship at K-State as an undergrad. Manhattan is pretty meh, but the Konza prairie is freaking gorgeous. It was a fun program. I ate so much ice cream from the creamery on campus. Saw a tornado, too, which was pretty cool (aside from it causing 20 million in damage to the campus). Anyway, I wouldn't want to live there long-term, but it was great for a summer.
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I HATE spiders. When I was a kid, about 6, I had a nightmare about being covered in spiders, woke up screaming bloody murder, been afraid ever since. Used to wake my brother up in the middle of the night to kill a spider in my room.... for years, every once in awhile, I'd wake up in the middle of the night, in the pitch dark, staring at some part of the bedroom... turn on the light, and sure enough, one of those 8-legged abominations would be staring at me.
Then there was the time I woke up in the middle of the night, and there was enough ambient light for me to see the giant spider walking across the sheet across the now ex-husband's chest... holy crap I started screaming and flinging sheets... slept on the sofa for 3 nights afterwards because we never found the fucking spider... :|
Over the years, I've gotten to the point where I kill my own spiders, and I'm less freaked out about them, but I still hate them. If it's stupid enough to come into my house, it's going to die.
Actually, that's not true. They're not native to California, but what with interstate transport, etc., they have indeed made their way here. One of my closest friends' husband did pest control, and over the course of the 5 years or so he spent spraying houses, he came across quite a few.
Then there was the time I woke up in the middle of the night, and there was enough ambient light for me to see the giant spider walking across the sheet across the now ex-husband's chest... holy crap I started screaming and flinging sheets... slept on the sofa for 3 nights afterwards because we never found the fucking spider... :|
Over the years, I've gotten to the point where I kill my own spiders, and I'm less freaked out about them, but I still hate them. If it's stupid enough to come into my house, it's going to die.
Actually, that's not true. They're not native to California, but what with interstate transport, etc., they have indeed made their way here. One of my closest friends' husband did pest control, and over the course of the 5 years or so he spent spraying houses, he came across quite a few.
SNsMoto
Don't be that guy.
wannabe
"Insignificant Other"
Well, I guess we know your answer to this question...
quicksparks
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That looks exactly like the Chilean Rose Hair that I have had since 1994. All I do is catch crickets around the house whenever I see them and throw them in her terrarium. She is still alive and has molted about 5 times. This has been the source for some stress dreams where the tarantula has multiplied 10-fold overnight.
MrIncredible
Is fintastic
Until you roll over onto one that's crawling on your pillow. Explaining why I looked like Gorbachev for several weeks, and still have shaded spots on my forehead 20 yrs later.
