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That’s pretty darn neat. I love spiders! I just love them at a distance, I can’t stand having them actually crawl on me. I went and read the wikipedia article on those. They’re neat!
*shrieks!* I found one hiding in my keyboard yesterday – body hidden and legs sticking out between the keys. I felt the adrenalin dump into my system and had to calm down before I got rid of it. Something that big would likely kill me from shock alone. 😯 I appreciate all of the good spiders do – I just want them to do it 500 feet or more from my house. lol
KoishiiKitty wrote:that is AWESOME! what a pretty spider!! if you find any other neet bugs,lizerds..anything dead or alive, would you take photos of it?
Errr… sure. I’m not too good at IDing things though. Someone else had t find that article for me.
Google-fu -500 🙁
I’m also from Colorado, so I’m not used to having bugs, spiders, lizards….. the air is too cold and thin for these things to breathe! Muhahaha!
….I still want that clock/huntsman spider back.
Snapdragon wrote:Ah yes, thank you Canada and the -55 winters that kill this junk.
I am SO SERIOUS.
I’ll admit, my one irrational, illogical fear is a fear of spiders. I’m not the type to scream and get hysterical- if there’s one I’ll deal with it and move on- but then curl up in a fetal position and rock back and forth slowly for the next hour. D:
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My art: featherdust.comNambroth wrote:Snapdragon wrote:Ah yes, thank you Canada and the -55 winters that kill this junk.
I am SO SERIOUS.
I’ll admit, my one irrational, illogical fear is a fear of spiders. I’m not the type to scream and get hysterical- if there’s one I’ll deal with it and move on- but then curl up in a fetal position and rock back and forth slowly for the next hour. D:
*JIBBLIES!*
I’m right there with you Nambroth, course some of my fear of spiders comes from being allergic to spider bites. When they bite me I get HUGE welts that I have to keep an eye on to make sure the “venom” doesn’t spread. I haven’t had one bite me in years, probably since the last time I went camping. I never actually saw the spiders that would bite me, the doctor would identify the spots as spider bites when I would go get them checked out.
me too spiders so freak me out….that’s why I have a stock of bug spray under the sink….I spray the whole house every 2 weeks….I hate bugs…
Ok, sorry… nothing against spiders, but that guy would have to go outside. Just picturing those long, hairy legs on my cheeks as I slept is enough to convince me I would rather face the roaches.
DarkLadyPhoenix wrote:KoishiiKitty wrote:that is AWESOME! what a pretty spider!! if you find any other neet bugs,lizerds..anything dead or alive, would you take photos of it?
Errr… sure. I’m not too good at IDing things though. Someone else had t find that article for me.
well if you get a photo of something I can look it up. i got the books for it. OwO
i have no morbid fear of any creature. I used to live in alaska witch is limmeted on the reptiles,bugs just like canada..although even in the north we get our share of creepy things.
when we moved to nevada, my sister and i went strait to looking for black widows and scorpions.
soo i want to get a new and better camera so i can take pictures of all the different creatures i find here(and where ever else i travel). I really love picking them up and looking at them in jars..but for the places i can’t visit i’d be more then happy to do the reserch off any photos posted. ^___^
ugly,creepy,fuzzy,spikey…they all make me happy.
Those are the spiders I was talking about (or maybe I was talking to someone else… or forgot to type it…). I can’t check the site from work, but I believe the Japanese name for them translates to ‘skull of heaven’. The good thing is they aren’t poisonous (just feel like little needles if they do bite) and they eat roaches. It’s the centipedes you have to worry about that (called mukade 😈 ). If they walk across you, they leave marks from their ‘footprints’. If you get bitten by one, GO to the hospital immediately. Same with the giant wasps (giant as in several inches long… you can hear them so you know to avoid them.. they don’t have the best dispositions either). Be glad. Okinawa has bird eaters. They are large enough to catch and eat small birds (think bigger than your hand) and they move fast (unlike a lot of tarantulas you can get for pets – many of them are fuzzy rocks, unless you give them a cricket and they are hungry).
Actually, the Arctic regions, including Mt. Everest, have their own forms of spiders that survive in freezing climates. They really are everywhere 🙁 I like spiders, but they freak me out if I get surprised by one, especially large jumpy ones. *shudder*
http://www.cyberoz.net/city/sekine/zukax.htm
This link gives you an idea of size:
http://enjoyingjapan.com/outdoorsjapan/insects/ashidakagumo.htm
And if you hadn’t seen the other two, here are
Mukade:http://www.flickr.com/photos/41365123@N00/13525967/
Giant Hornet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_giant_hornetThat is one cool spider. She’s huge!
I used to have wild trachulas (sp) walk through my yard when I lived in Calif. I’d pick them up and move them to the other side of the yard, so the dog wouldn’t mess with him.
Usually my dog would notice the large hairy encroacher and start barking like a fool at it, so I’d go outside and find out what the ruckus was about, move the spider, he was probably getting annoyed, and then go about my business.
The one thing I really didn’t like to find in the yard was a rattlesnake, and we ran across a few of those too, trust me, you would rather deal with a spider.
We also had scorpions, mean nasty ones. I really prefer Idaho, I doubt it much if we have many scorpions.
Anyway, I don’t fear much in the animal world, only thing that really freaks me out is sharks, not sure why, but if I’m in the sea and out far enough, I tend to start worrying about sharks, and then I hightail it to shore, then sit in the sand feeling foolish.
But then two years ago, at the beach I usually swam at, we had a fatal white shark attack, so I guess my subconscious was right all along.
So I still kinda freak out about the idea of a shark in the water with me. Thankfully now I am surrounded with only fresh water, and as far as I know, Idaho has no fresh water shark species.
Kyrin
Nambroth wrote:I’m not the type to scream and get hysterical- if there’s one I’ll deal with it and move on- but then curl up in a fetal position and rock back and forth slowly for the next hour. D:
Sounds like me when I come across a real bloody car accident. I can take control, run triage and stabilize, but once it’s over and everyone is gone, then I freak.
I have instilled the “I stay out of your house, stay out of mine” rule. If it’s in my house, it’s fair game for the shoe, book, broom. Outside, I leave bugs alone, spiders too…..
I would have died if that were in my house!! You are very brave to shoo it out of your house! I probably would have called the neighbor!
SPark wrote:That’s pretty darn neat. I love spiders! I just love them at a distance, I can’t stand having them actually crawl on me. I went and read the wikipedia article on those. They’re neat!
We have huge tarantulas out and about everywhere around our house. Every time I see one outside I have to pick him up and have him crawl on my hand and arms 😀
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