Spiders have always been creepy, but now...

seasoned

11 years ago

They left one species off of the great ape list! HUMANS! OH WELL.....

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stoltingmediagroup

11 years ago

Yeah spiders can look creepy, but the more you try to see them as living beings who are simply trying to live their life just as we are, you tend to see things differently.

I have taught my daughter to respect all creatures big and small, so when we do find a spider in the room,
or any other little being crawling around, we make sure not to harm them.

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socialentry

Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by stoltingmediagroup

Yeah spiders can look creepy, but the more you try to see them as living beings who are simply trying to live their life just as we are, you tend to see things differently.when we do find a spider in the room,
or any other little being crawling around, we make sure not to harm them.

but what if you lived in mexico and you came across a black widow

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thunderbird 11 years ago

Originally Posted by socialentry

but what if you lived in mexico and you came across a black widow

One of my earliest childhood memories was reaching for a black widow spider and getting my hand slapped. I would have been 2 or 3 at the time.

(That was before stringent child abuse laws came into play)
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HeySal

11 years ago

Originally Posted by socialentry

but what if you lived in mexico and you came across a black widow

Black widows are all over the place. I live in Central Oregon and have one parked in a web just outside of my bedroom right now. She's staying there for now - it's a very heavy fly season and her presence seems to be deterring the flow of them into my bedroom. I'm not really worried about her being there either. I don't worry so much about spiders that build the dream-catcher webs. They don't run around so much.

Now recluses bother me. If I see one of those, it's outside and a LONG way from the house very quickly.

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Denis Mlad 11 years ago

This face is killing me :p

I caught a spider on my face while I was asleep, a medium sized - black and juicy . It was a "very pleasant surprise"
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MissTerraK

11 years ago

Originally Posted by HeySal

Now recluses bother me. If I see one of those, it's outside and a LONG way from the house very quickly.

Here's a cool trap for recluses.

What you see in this video is a natural brown recluse spider trap. To make this trap, use 1 small size cup and one "Spitting Spider". Place the spitting spider inside the cup and put a lid which will allow air in for the spitting spider. Keep the spider in long enough to let it build a small 4 to 8 strand web and establish it as her home. When night time approaches, place the cup where brown recluses will crawl next to a wall, and remove the lid and make sure you don't agitate the spitting spider in any way, other wise she will leave the cup and find a new spot to set up. When a brown recluse detects her, he will slowly move towards her, and she will detect him also by the strands of her web. She will approach him and spit venomous silk and cause the brown recluse to get stuck to the cups surface. This video will show you that the recluse is stuck. He can't get away no matter how hard he tries. She eventually bites him several times to put him out.

Spitting Spider (Scytode)-Natural Brown Recluse...

It's a little lengthy and I wish it had a fast time option to speed it up and see it all faster, but it is what it is. You can see it start to bite the recluse somewhere in the 12 and 13 minute marker if you wish.

Anyway, I thought it was cool as it is an all natural way to remove the brown recluse from your house.

Terra

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sbucciarel Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by socialentry

but what if you lived in mexico and you came across a black widow

Black Widows are literally everywhere. They pretty much leave you alone if you leave them alone, as do most spiders. We have a shed and some old campers on the property that are packed with Black Widows. I go into the shed daily, as do my chickens. Never been bitten. But then, I leave them alone.

Spider venom is intended to assist spiders in catching food. People are not spider food. They only bite people in self defense.

It's unfortunate that people are so quick to kill a critter that kills the nastiest insects around (animals noted for filth and spreading disease, as in flies and mosquitoes). There's little I hate more than flies contaminating food, roaches, mosquitoes chewing me up when I want to be outdoors, and other common household and outdoor pests that make life miserable.
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stoltingmediagroup 11 years ago

Originally Posted by socialentry

but what if you lived in mexico and you came across a black widow

Then I would build it a little house with a white picket fence, and feed it, and love it, and cuddle with it for all the days of its life.
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thunderbird

11 years ago

We actually discussed how spiders were probably intelligent in another thread. It makes sense considering the complexity of what they have to do. Now I just learned that researchers found jumping spiders show the capacity to learn things and solve problems. Very cool.

It also sheds light on why Spiderman acclimated himself so well to developing spider characteristics after that fateful spider bite. Spiderman was a physics student you know, no dummy to begin with.

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joseph7384

11 years ago

Originally Posted by MissTerraK

What are they thinking when they look at me with those creepy eyes? They're plotting against me, I just know it!!

Terra

Funny you should say that as I just came across this article the other day, I think you will enjoy it and it's a short read.

This quote reminds me of your post.

I still can't go to sleep because it confirmed my fear that sometimes there are spiders waiting in my bed for me.

Hyperbole and a Half: Spiders are Scary. It's Okay to be Afraid of Them. *UPDATED*

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Kay King

11 years ago

Terra -

The spiders are thinking "there's that huge human thing - hope she doesn't spray me with poison or step on me"....

See - it's all in the perspective.

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thunderbird

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Kay King

Terra -

The spiders are thinking "there's that huge human thing - hope she doesn't spray me with poison or step on me"....

See - it's all in the perspective.

The good news is that spiders are smart enough not to want to mess around with humans. Even venomous spiders stay out of humans way and most "spider bite" visits to clinics turn out to be something else entirely. It's not advantageous to a spider to attack a human. A wasp in the web, they'll think ok it can sting me, but I can just avoid the stinger, occasionally bite then back off, eventually get a nice big tasty meal. A human, that is one scary beast but I do like the music she plays, so I'll just hide in the shadows, catch some mosquitoes to get on her good side, and everybody's happy.

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waterotter

11 years ago

Originally Posted by thunderbird

The good news is that spiders are smart enough not to want to mess around with humans. Even venomous spiders stay out of humans way and most "spider bite" visits to clinics turn out to be something else entirely. It's not advantageous to a spider to attack a human. A wasp in the web, they'll think ok it can sting me, but I can just avoid the stinger, occasionally bite then back off, eventually get a nice big tasty meal. A human, that is one scary beast but I do like the music she plays, so I'll just hide in the shadows, catch some mosquitoes to get on her good side, and everybody's happy.

TB, by any chance, do you have multiple personalities?

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thunderbird 11 years ago

Originally Posted by waterotter

TB, by any chance, do you have multiple personalities?

Lol. I'm not as interesting as that. Even my mood doesn't really change much.
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Jason Kanigan

11 years ago

Spiders, I was surprised to learn, do have brains...oversized brains for their bodies.

Though some of them banana spiders 'round here are pretty big...

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...imals-science/

The smaller ones I do try to capture and put outside. The big ones, though, I just can't abide. Too darn alien for my provincial sensibilities.

For anyone interested in some "smart spider" fiction, I remember this series from my teens:

Spider World: The Tower (Spider World: Epic...

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HeySal

11 years ago

I used to be batsh*t terrified of spiders. Over time, though, I'd see them cower or run when they saw someone approaching, and I found that I started to think of them as being like any other animal - scared for their lives when danger approaches. Now if I see one, I put it outside. I can't kill them. They are afraid of me. And when summer is here, they actually do the environment a service.

They aren't all so bad. Some - like those little black and white fuzzy ones are actually even kind of cute in their own little bizarre way.

I still can't believe that some people will keep tarantula's as pets, but the little guys no longer scare me. Live and let live.

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sbucciarel

Banned 11 years ago

When I see spiders in the house, there's always this internal struggle. The spider always wins though. You see, I have a deep respect for living critters (except for fleas and mosquitos). I won't kill a spider. They have a valuable place on earth. But at times, I see one large enough to give me pause and I think, I hope that one doesn't make it's way to my bedroom ... lol.

I name them for the benefit of my grandchildren, trying to teach them respect for living things. Unfortunately, I was not successful at doing that with my children and they smash them every chance they get, so I try to give my grandkids an alternative point of view and if they have an urge to smash a spider in my house, they know it's name (like Harry Spider, etc.

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seasoned

11 years ago

Be careful though. Many spiders are harmless and do more good for us than bad. But SOME ARE dangerous. I knew a guy that was disfigured by a brown recluse.

That said, about the only "bugs" I see here are spiders. Outside of trying to remove some webs, I let them be. Yesterday, though, I thought I saw a cockroach, but I looked before I acted, and it was a cricket. I just left it alone. A ladybug got in my house, so I took it out and let it go there. The cricket was in my garage, and spiders always have a plan, but other insects may have a problem locked in a home that nobody is in.

So the ladybug would likely have been a snack for a spider.

But I am going through some old boxes, including ones in my basement. I haven't seen it yet, but I am still careful. Some dangerous spider may have made a home.

Steve

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sbucciarel

Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by seasoned

Be careful though. Many spiders are harmless and do more good for us than bad. But SOME ARE dangerous. I knew a guy that was disfigured by a brown recluse.

We have a ton of black widows in our old wooden shed. They never bother us and are easily shooed away. Fortunately, brown recluse is not a native Virginian so they are rare here. They are also shy and not easily found. Their bites are horrendous and I've seen terrible pictures of the damage that's done if they bite. I have to admit that if they were around here and I saw one in the house, that I wouldn't let it go.

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MissTerraK

11 years ago

LOL, you guys!

I'm not a spider murdering madwoman, haha! It's just that spiders honestly creep me out! It all started way back when I was a little four year old girl...

Mom had taken us to a flea market and bought me a box of books. I loved to read and she just couldn't keep up with my reading habits with more new books, so decided we'd go and get a huge box of used ones for me from the flea market.

Anyway, on the way home, in the backseat, I was holding the box on my lap admiring all of my books when I noticed a small yellow and beige striped spider peer over the top of the box at me. Before I could even open my mouth to scream, it jumped, yes jumped, not crawled, off the box, onto my shirt, jumped onto my face and then jumped again into my hair.

That scared the heck out me and I started screaming and flailing my arms in complete hysteria. That did it for me. I apparently never got over it, lol! But, I'm sorry, I do not like spiders. I do not want them in my home!

I don't stomp them, that makes a squishy mess of spider guts on the shoe or floor, yuck! I don't spray poison in my home, ever. If I get brave, I'll get some tissue and catch them, no, not to put them outside, I'm sure they'd only come back in the way they did the first time. I gently toss them in the toilet and flush. Bye-bye cruel world!

Sorry, that's just me. Most times, I just back up and try to forget about them but I will not hesitate to get a broom and clean up a web.

Originally Posted by joseph7384

Funny you should say that as I just came across this article the other day, I think you will enjoy it and it's a short read.

This quote reminds me of your post.

Hyperbole and a Half: Spiders are Scary. It's Okay to be Afraid of Them. *UPDATED*

Haha! That was hilarious, Joseph. And you're right, I liked it.

Arnold, your daughter is absolutely adorable!

I also taught my children to respect all creatures as well, I just didn't mention spiders, at all, either way. But we did love caterpillars. Oh, boy did we love caterpillars! One of my daughters did way too much!

One fall, she came up to me and her father saying, "Awww! I found a cocoon and I'm going to keep it and then watch it it turn into a butterfly" and she was kissing it.

Her dad said, let me see that! He scolded her and told her to throw that down, get in the house and wash her hands and mouth.

What she thought was a large cocoon was actually a petrified piece of dog poop!

You know how after it gets old, it gets hard and starts to turn white? Yeah, a cocoon, lol! But when Dad told her what it actually was, she cried. My poor baby.

Terra

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Denis Mlad

11 years ago

It's only logical to be that way. We all are creatures made from the same materials that exist on earth and we have common ancestor with all that is alive. Humans have 50% identical DNA with a banana( google search)

and 80% to 95% identical with the other large mammal. Mammals have a very downgraded version of our brains. Our brain is with a Diamond Premium Upgrade

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seasoned

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Denis Mlad

It's only logical to be that way. We all are creatures made from the same materials that exist on earth and we have common ancestor with all that is alive. Humans have 50% identical DNA with a banana( google search)

and 80% to 95% identical with the other large mammal. Mammals have a very downgraded version of our brains. Our brain is with a Diamond Premium Upgrade

You DO realize that humans are mammals, right?

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MissTerraK 11 years ago

Originally Posted by seasoned

You DO realize that humans are mammals, right?

Steve

Yes, I do agree that humans are mammals, but I do have to disagree with you on this one.

Originally Posted by seasoned

They left one species off of the great ape list! HUMANS! OH WELL.....

Steve

I'm not a great ape! I'm a great human! :p

Terra
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Patrician

11 years ago

Originally Posted by MissTerraK

LOL, you guys!

I'm not a spider murdering madwoman, haha! It's just that spiders honestly creep me out! It all started way back when I was a little four year old girl...

That scared the heck out me and I started screaming and flailing my arms in complete hysteria. That did it for me. I apparently never got over it, lol! But, I'm sorry, I do not like spiders. I do not want them in my home!

I don't stomp them, that makes a squishy mess of spider guts on the shoe or floor, yuck! I don't spray poison in my home, ever. If I get brave, I'll get some tissue and catch them, no, not to put them outside, I'm sure they'd only come back in the way they did the first time. I gently toss them in the toilet and flush. Bye-bye cruel world!

Terra

Terra - I totally hear you - I agree about the absolute horror of spiders and how it never goes away - also about how they are mostly just innocent little beings. OK so I feel guilty when I spray them but take solace in the fact I am probably killing myself with the spray too.

... but what is cracking me up THOUGH is how you are just so 'killing me softly' hahahah - I guess in the end it is always the thought that counts. I can just imagine you in your little pink frock, "I gently toss them in the toilet and flush."

Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly with his song -...

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MissTerraK

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Patrician

Terra - I totally hear you - I agree about the absolute horror of spiders and how it never goes away - also about how they are mostly just innocent little beings. OK so I feel guilty when I spray them but take solace in the fact I am probably killing myself with the spray too.

... but what is cracking me up THOUGH is how you are just so 'killing me softly' hahahah - I guess in the end it is always the thought that counts. I can just imagine you in your little pink frock, "I gently toss them in the toilet and flush."

Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly with his song - YouTube

Haha!

You made me break out in song, imagining a spider sitting on the tissue in the toilet singing,"Killing me softly with her fear, killing me, softly, la la, gurgle gurgle.

I know I'm bad, but I just can't help myself...

Terra

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stoltingmediagroup

11 years ago

Originally Posted by HeySal

Spiders are easy to get rid of. Put a glass over them, then slide a piece of paper under the glass. Then tip the glass right side up and take it outside and walk about 40 or 50 feet, to some bushes or tree or whatever, then take the paper off and tip the glass and shake it. You've been kind and the spider is far enough away to not come back in.

This is exactly what I do, and my daughter is now also automatically responding in this way. As opposed to squashing, or toilet bowls being the first thought after running into a creepy crawly.

Originally Posted by MissTerraK

Arnold, your daughter is absolutely adorable!

Thank you very much

! She is why I breathe!

I also taught my children to respect all creatures as well, I just didn't mention spiders, at all, either way. But we did love caterpillars. Oh, boy did we love caterpillars! One of my daughters did way too much! One fall, she came up to me and her father saying, "Awww! I found a cocoon and I'm going to keep it and then watch it it turn into a butterfly" and she was kissing it. Her dad said, let me see that! He scolded her and told her to throw that down, get in the house and wash her hands and mouth. What she thought was a large cocoon was actually a petrified piece of dog poop!

You know how after it gets old, it gets hard and starts to turn white? Yeah, a cocoon, lol! But when Dad told her what it actually was, she cried. My poor baby.

Terra

That's funny! I can relate to the poop because I find myself frequently saying to my daughter: "time to go wash our hands, because I'm not so sure that was a rock you just picked up."

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Khemosabi

11 years ago

Originally Posted by sbucciarel

We have a ton of black widows in our old wooden shed. They never bother us and are easily shooed away. Fortunately, brown recluse is not a native Virginian so they are rare here. They are also shy and not easily found. Their bites are horrendous and I've seen terrible pictures of the damage that's done if they bite. I have to admit that if they were around here and I saw one in the house, that I wouldn't let it go.

Ugh! I've been bitten by a recluse!! Right on the top of my inner thigh!

I have a pretty nasty scar. Getting on antibiotics right away is the key to it not doing too much damage. Unfortunately people don't recognize it as a bite right away and do nothing. The bites take days to "festur" <--is that spelled right? :confused:

Here in the Northwest we have the Hobo spider. It looks almost exactly like a recluse and it's bite is ALMOST as bad.

I don't kill spiders either, well, most of the time. I catch them and let them out. Scorpions... they're so dead.

Terra, if a spider jumped on me, OMG! I can't even imagine the girly screams echoing through this valley!!!

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Dan Riffle 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Khemosabi

Terra, if a spider jumped on me, OMG! I can't even imagine the girly screams echoing through this valley!!!

Same here.
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  Originally Posted by Dan Riffle
  
  Same here.
  
  Dan,
  
  I've always liked you but now, I'm sure I like you more!
  
  BlvdJeremy,
  
  OMGosh!
  
  You handled that much better than I would have! I probably would have froze on the spot and screamed and screamed working up all the neighborhood dogs into a frenzy, creating quite the ruckus, lol!
  
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BlvdJeremy

11 years ago

A few days ago we found a pretty huge tarantula on the patio walking inside the house, we were all pretty shocked! We covered it in a plastic see-through container so we could check it out, they are pretty amazing creatures !

We had no heart to destroy it and ended up giving it to a friend to keep as a pet. Hope we don't find another one though!

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Kurt

11 years ago

"Help me! Help me!"

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MissTerraK

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Kurt

"Help me! Help me!"

Ending of the 1958 version of The Fly - YouTube

OMGosh Kurt!

That is so freaking creepy!!

My mom loved that movie, she loved anything with Vincent Price in it, and I can't tell you how many times I saw that movie as a kid!

It most likely added to my arachnophobia, lol!

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Kurt

11 years ago

Originally Posted by MissTerraK

Haha!

You made me break out in song, imagining a spider sitting on the tissue in the toilet singing,"Killing me softly with her fear, killing me, softly, la la, gurgle gurgle.

I know I'm bad, but I just can't help myself...

Terra

When I put a spider in the toilet, my thoughts are more along the line of "surf's up!".

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Originally Posted by MissTerraK

OMGosh Kurt!

That is so freaking creepy!!

My mom loved that movie, she loved anything with Vincent Price in it, and I can't tell you how many times I saw that movie as a kid!

It most likely added to my arachnophobia, lol!

Terra

I love the original The Fly. It's so much better than the remake with Jeff Goldblum. The remake was a decent movie, but didn't have the mystery or love story of the original.

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MissTerraK

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Kurt

I love the original The Fly. It's so much better than the remake with Jeff Goldblum. The remake was a decent movie, but didn't have the mystery or love story of the original.

I agree with you wholeheartedly! And the original didn't have a fallen off male body part saved in the medicine cabinet either!

Yuck!

Just one of the scenes that ruined the movie, for me anyway.

Terra

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Patrician

11 years ago

Thank heavens nobody came here to remind us that spiders sneak into your mouth while you are sleeping (so be sure not to eat any late-nite cookies - why attract them.) - or you might tape your mouth shut before bed.

I think it was Sal who brought that up a few years back - I am so in denial about that - it just absolutely cannot be true or I would die right now and/or will never sleep again.

Tell me it just isn't so...

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http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/spiders.asp
http://www.ask.com/question/do-scien...u-are-sleeping

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HeySal

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Patrician

Thank heavens nobody came here to remind us that spiders sneak into your mouth while you are sleeping (so be sure not to eat any late-nite cookies - why attract them.) - or you might tape your mouth shut before bed.

I think it was Sal who brought that up a few years back - I am so in denial about that - it just absolutely cannot be true or I would die right now and/or will never sleep again.

Tell me it just isn't so...

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snopes.com: Spiders Swallowed Per Year
Do Scientists Believe That Spiders Crawl in Your Mouth While You Are Sleeping - Ask.com

LOL - probably was me. We actually eat around 8 of them throughout our lives. All I can say is they have to be LITTLE ones. Those bush spiders that would invade my bedroom and park on the ceiling above my bed when I was a kid weren't gonna go down without waking me up. They were small tarantula size.

Spiders are easy to get rid of. Put a glass over them, then slide a piece of paper under the glass. Then tip the glass right side up and take it outside and walk about 40 or 50 feet, to some bushes or tree or whatever, then take the paper off and tip the glass and shake it. You've been kind and the spider is far enough away to not come back in.

Had a neighbor lady with a definitely great way to keep the kids out of her hair while she was in the kitchen. She'd ask if we wanted to go catch spiders so she could make soup. We stayed way away from her. LMAO. Smart lady.

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Magus of the Dawn

11 years ago

Good evening, everyone.

Mmmm! Spiders!

This is why the spider is your friend .

If all the spiders in the world died and
left one female and one male spider

It would take 250,000 years to repopulate
the world with spiders at todays current level.

If all the flies in the world died leaving only
one female/male fly it would take 8 days to
repopulate the world with flies at todays
current level.

Spiders today consume 95% of the flies.

You need to say "Thank you guys" .

Hey! Do not kill that spider or you will be breathing flies.

Bottom line.

HTH...

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sbucciarel

Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Magus of the Dawn

Good evening, everyone.

Mmmm! Spiders!

This is why the spider is your friend .

If all the spiders in the world died and
left one female and one male spider

It would take 250,000 years to repopulate
the world with spiders at todays current level.

If all the flies in the world died leaving only
one female/male fly it would take 8 days to
repopulate the world with flies at todays
current level.

Spiders today consume 95% of the flies.

You need to say "Thank you guys" .

Hey! Do not kill that spider or you will be breathing flies.

Bottom line.

HTH...

The world would not be a better place without spiders, that's for sure.

Interesting spider facts:

The weight of insects eaten by spiders every year is greater than the total weight of the entire human population.

1. Spiders eat pests. Spiders feed on common indoor pests, such as roaches, earwigs, mosquitoes, flies and clothes moths. If left alone, spiders will consume most of the insects in your home, providing effective home pest control.

2. Spiders kill other spiders. When spiders come into contact with one another, a gladiator-like competition frequently unfolds - and the winner eats the loser. If your basement hosts common long-legged cellar spiders, this is why the population occasionally shifts from numerous smaller spiders to fewer, larger spiders. That long-legged cellar spider, by the way, is known to kill black widow spiders, making it a powerful ally.

3. Spiders help curtail disease spread. Spiders feast on many household pests that can transmit disease to humans -mosquitoes, fleas, flies, cockroaches and a host of other disease-carrying critters.

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Horny Devil

Banned 11 years ago

We never kill spiders in my house.

Did I ever tell you the story about the time I met this genie late one night whilst out strolling, shortly after the wife had spent the whole evening annoying the shit out of me. All I'll say is, wishes do come true . . .

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MissTerraK

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Horny Devil

We never kill spiders in my house.

Did I ever tell you the story about the time I met this genie late one night whilst out strolling, shortly after the wife had spent the whole evening annoying the shit out of me. All I'll say is, wishes do come true . . .

OMGosh!

Now that is more creepy than any spider I've ever seen, lol!

I could say more but I'm going to behave and not say anything about your fly.

Ooops! I went too far!

Terra

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Dan Riffle

11 years ago

Originally Posted by MissTerraK

OMGosh!

Now that is more creepy than any spider I've ever seen, lol!

I could say more but I'm going to behave and not say anything about your fly.

Ooops! I went too far!

Terra

Imagine how popular she'd be at the massage parlor...

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MissTerraK 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Dan Riffle

Imagine how popular she'd be at the massage parlor...

LOL Dan,

But I'd rather not.

Terra
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Horny Devil Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Dan Riffle

Imagine how popular she'd be at the massage parlor...

Kind offer but she's quite happy doing my washing, ironing, cooking, cleaning, and (ahem) other things. All at the same time I might add.
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taskemann

11 years ago

I think you have one in your hair Terra.

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MissTerraK 11 years ago

Originally Posted by taskemann

I think you have one in your hair Terra.

That is giving me chills all up and down my spine and arms! Yikes!

No, no, not in my hair, lol!

Terra
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stoltingmediagroup

11 years ago

What exactly is going on in the pic above? Is there something special on that wall? Temperature? Spidy food? Why are they all congregating there?

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Kurt

11 years ago

Originally Posted by stoltingmediagroup

What exactly is going on in the pic above? Is there something special on that wall? Temperature? Spidy food? Why are they all congregating there?

It's the spiders' version of "Occupy Terra".

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MissTerraK

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Kurt

It's the spiders' version of "Occupy Terra".

Okay, okay already guys!

No more giving Terra the heebie jeebies!

Pretty please?

Terra

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Kurt

11 years ago

Originally Posted by MissTerraK

Okay, okay already guys!

No more giving Terra the heebie jeebies!

Pretty please?

Terra

Hey Terra,

If it makes you feel any better, those are really daddy long legs and aren't actual spiders. Daddy long legs don't have silk and don't spin webs and they only have two eyes.

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MissTerraK

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Kurt

Hey Terra,

If it makes you feel any better, those are really daddy long legs and aren't actual spiders. Daddy long legs don't have silk and don't spin webs and they only have two eyes.

Thanks Kurt.

I guess it makes me feel a little better but I still wouldn't want an army of them on my wall, ceiling and especially not in my hair.

Believe it or not, I've actually had a daddy long legs in my hair before. When I was about 10, I was at my girlfriend's house and she called me over to her mom's flower bed to come and see a praying mantis.

I was bent over checking it out with it's arms together as if in prayer and checking out a black dot on it's inner arm. My long hair was dangling about an inch above the tallest flower when all of a sudden, a daddy long legs ran right up my hair and the praying mantis followed it into my hair too!

Talk about high pitched screams echoing throughout the neighborhood!

Terra

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socialentry

Banned 11 years ago

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MissTerraK 11 years ago

Originally Posted by socialentry

Somebody needs to tell her that her butt's gettin' big! :p

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  Originally Posted by MissTerraK
  
  Somebody needs to tell her that her butt's gettin' big! :p
  
  Terra
  
  i agree but it wont be me cuz i dont want to tell a woman her butt is big let alone a black widow.
  
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  i agree but it wont be me cuz i dont want to tell a woman her butt is big let alone a black widow.
  
  Smart man!
  
  Do black widows even have girlfriends though? :p
  
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thunderbird

11 years ago

Spiders are truly amazing. My son is always seeing spider webs outside. I'm surprised by how well he detects them. I usually have to look carefully to see the webs he points out to me. Spider webs really are everywhere. Here are just a few of the myriad means that nature has devised for spiders to catch their prey:
--Spitting spiders don't spin webs but spit webs at their victims before attacking them.
--Some spiders live underwater breathing from air-bubbles encased in spider-web, then catch fish
--Some spiders live in holes in the ground covered with a camouflaged trap-door with hinges made of spider-web and when they detect a bug nearby, open the door and drag it in to consume it.

National Geographic - Super Spider Documentary -...

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msdobe 11 years ago

I'll never forget the time I was sleeping... felt like there was something watching me so I turned on the light. There was a spider the size of my hand (needless to say it was HUGE!) dangling from a web directly over my head.
I tried to kill it but didn't succeed.

I was terrified and slept the rest of the night with the light on.

I don't like spiders!!
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Mikaedi88

11 years ago

Though not a spider, when I was a youngster, my folks owned a shop and we alllived at the back of it, I was the lucky one? I had my own bach at the back of the house..

To my horror, I woke up early hours of the morning feeling something walking up my chest, turning on my night lamp was a Weta, big, ugly and to a kid, scary..

Been terrified of them ever since..

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thunderbird

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Mikaedi88

Though not a spider, when I was a youngster, my folks owned a shop and we alllived at the back of it, I was the lucky one? I had my own bach at the back of the house..

To my horror, I woke up early hours of the morning feeling something walking up my chest, turning on my night lamp was a Weta, big, ugly and to a kid, scary..

Been terrified of them ever since..

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Patrician

11 years ago

eeewwwww.

i was thinking about you terra and wondered if you would be the one who would understand exactly why i do this compulsive thing -(i walk about 4 miles on sundays over the bridge near here and back).

i have to walk on the streets to get to the bridge and wherever there are street signs - usually metal poles for no parking etc - well i have to walk around those - going as far as to go all the way off the curb into the street, to walk around it without going under where it is hanging.

(because it might connect to something like a fence or etc. and i know how big spiders for a fact do build webs from one place to another. ' right?

and you can see it small scale for the littler versions, between the sign itself and the pole - they build them at like triangles. soooo if we walk into one and they (the spideys) and God knows who else is hung up in the web - well now they could be on us hanging from a web thread .

that is also why i actively knock down all webs on my front porch every day relentlessly - i l have a special stick (branch) and sometimes I'll vandalize one that really goes to town and all my plants are covered, the eves and around the light - i patrol at different times because depending on where the sun is I can see other super artistic spider webs. i don't kill them out there usually but just let them know they can't hang out on my front 'porch'.

but i did let one live inside (i almost never do) but who was too high in my 'cathedral' ceiling to spray without a lot of trouble. NOW I DO NOT KNOW WHERE HE IS. OK? I hop;e he was smart enough to just walk on back outside.

if they lock me up will you testify you can see what i am saying? and if so you agree THE IDEA OF IT could not be more horrific? yechy too. don't you agree?

(yeah if anybody is watching me walk down the blocks and maybe whether or not he figures out why i do that, i am sure they think i am obsessive compulsive). hahahahaha) maybe it's not so ironic, or coincidental. laughing backwards ahahahahhaah. (maybe i am) ;o)