God damn spiders

Uhh I wasn't talking about THAT kind of spiders, I mean, if you're talking about cars, you don't have to start with Ferraris or Lamborghinis either, right?

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Spiders eat other bugs. I hate other bugs. Thus I like spiders*.



* - This is presuming a size one inch or smaller in diameter. At my grandfather's house in Tennessee I've picked up rocks in the back yard and discovered spiders no smaller than five inches in diameters. Scared the shit out of me (but I think I killed them when I threw the rock back down).

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

It really depends on what kind of spiders live in your house, if it's those funnel web spiders that randomly appear in Australian households, you probably wanna avoid it and get rid of it at all costs...

I don't see the fun of keeping tarantulas as people's pets, some of them are mild tempered, but still, if they bite you by accident, it'll REALLY HURT...

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Spiders scare the shit out of me. At least the huge ones do. But I still won't touch a puny one, though...thus my best friend is my rolled-up newspaper.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I've had two large spiders in my bedroom just recently. I generally don't mind small spiders since they're common here, but the larger ones can be bothersome.

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I generally don't mind spiders. But this summer I let one just hang out in my room. Cut to a few weeks later and there were baby spiders flying down all over the place, landing on my stuff. I was pinching baby spiders to death all damn day. So next time I see a spider in my room I'm going to kill it because it might be a female.

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I can see people being afraid of poisonous spiders (well all are poisonous) which are dangerous to humans, but there is only a small number of them out there. Besides if you educate yourself on spiders rather than being a big crybaby about it, I'm sure you could learn all sorts of cool things about them.



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Originally Posted by Yamamanama

I like spiders, mantises, and dragonflies for the same reason everyone else does: They eat other, much more annoying bugs, such as flies and mosquitos.

I hate things with stingers with a passion. With a spider, I can assume that it will just avoid me and carry on with its business.

Have to agree with everything here. Especially the stinging insects part, because I'm allergic to several varieties of bees, wasps, and hornets. Those are the only insects/arachnids that truly terrify me.

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i like spiders, they keep other pests that would bother me and infest my food etc... under control. once when i was going to the bathroom, a spider lowered itself from my hair with a web and landed on the floor. the only time i can remember being freaked out by a spider was when i was waken up by a brown recluse (i got a good look at it so i know it was a brown recluse-very dangerous) crawling over my arm into a fold in the sheet. i freaked out and shoved the sheet to the foot of my bead, got a new one, and went back to bed. that must have been the quickest time i ever woke up :biggrin:

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I can't stand them. I almost NEVER remember my dreams but the last dream I remember having was one where there was this massive spider with an abdomen the size of my fist in the corner of my dining room.

I have this fascination/hate thing with spiders. I like to look at them and watch them, but I sure as hell don't want them on me, or coming towards me.

But anyway I got real close to that one in my dream then just got petrified and scared shitless, so that I was totally paralyzed. The fear of it jumping on my face made me not be able to move. I woke up with those same feelings, and can still remember them vividly, kind of weird. But oh well.

The ones that REALLY bother me are the ones with spherical abdomens, and I'm not sure why. they just gross me out. things like tarantulas/wolf spiders aren't as bad, although I still don't like them.

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How big does a spider have to be to bite you??? You should be pretty concerned cause if you living in a hot reagion chances are big that you got a black widow in the house as well. One bite by one of them and you can say bye bye to motherearth...well I have bunch of spiders in my room (and my roommates always flipping out when they see them)...well I don't but I can get REALLY MEAN and use my small vacum and just suck it in :-) SUCK THE SUCKER IN!!!

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Originally Posted by Elrasiel

How big does a spider have to be to bite you??? You should be pretty concerned cause if you living in a hot reagion chances are big that you got a black widow in the house as well. One bite by one of them and you can say bye bye to motherearth...well I have bunch of spiders in my room (and my roommates always flipping out when they see them)...well I don't but I can get REALLY MEAN and use my small vacum and just suck it in :-) SUCK THE SUCKER IN!!!

A spider can be any size to bite. It's generally the smaller ones that are more venomous since they would be a nice treat for larger carnivores like birds or reptiles or whatever. Unless you're young, elderly or sick, you generally won't die for a poisonous spider, you'll just get real sick. It would also depend on how quick you seek medical attention. So learn up about them in case you cross one!

I was speaking idiomatically.

I have an intense fear of spiders, always have since I was a kid. I have such a deep fear of them, it borders on respect. Rather than kill a spider, I'll actually go out of my way to get them outside (with a few exceptions, i.e. Black Widows, etc...)The ones I fear the most are the Wolf spiders, despite the fact that they're not poisonous and don't bite. They just move too fast, and jump too.
Scratch that. Cat spiders.

Nothing beats these as far as freaky things go.
Ironically enough, I don't mind Daddy Long Legs', even though (so I hear, at least) they're supposedly very poisonous, but their fangs are too small to pierce human skin, or something.. Maybe it's the fact that they don't really look like a spider all that much.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

The daddy long-legs is an urban legend (snopes.com/critters/wild/longlegs.htm). And if they don't look much like spiders - well, they aren't. They aren't a member of the family Araneae. But they're still Arachnids.

As long as I know a given spider doesn't have a dangerous toxicity, I'm not bothered. I still treat them all with respect as spider bites in general aren't fun, regardless of toxicity.

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Any type of spider, or even bug, just seems to give me the creeps. Why that happens, I don't know, but I'm guessing its because of their.... structure. I mean, the eight-legs, the hairs, the jumping on people and for someone of you, biting!

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

I am terrified of spiders. Even dead spiders scare me. I can handle small spiders if they are up in the corner of a room and aren't moving, but as soon as they start moving around I freak out.

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I think spiders are alright... not nearly as bad as cockroaches. I attract this insane amount of silverfish in my bathroom, and I just let this one spider build a web in the bottom corner of my bathroom. It did catch one huge silverfish once, I remember seeing. It's only those poisonous ones that freak me out.

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I don't like spiders, but I wouldn't say I'm afraid of them. More like they just freak me out a little. It's the same for silverfish and other medium sized multi-legged critters that sometimes cross my path. As long as they stay away from me, I'm cool, but if they get too close...well, then it depends on the size. If they're little, I usually try to shoo them away or carry them outside. If they're big, well, I either A) get the hell out of there or B) catch them and flush them down the toilet

I remember one time when I was still in high school, I was unfolding a T-shirt to wear to bed, and just before I started to put it on, out pops a spider. I promptly freaked out, but somehow had enough presence of mind to grab a jar and catch the damn thing. I had it identified later by an expert in the field, and low and behold, it was a brown recluse. Anyone from the midwest probably knows this already, but the brown recluse leaves a pretty nasty bite (and if you think that's bad check out the poor souls on this page, specifically the second case study from the top *shudders*). Thankfully, it's generally not fatal to humans, but it's still not something I ever want to go through. As you can imagine, I was counting my lucky stars that the spider decided to show itself before I put the shirt on.

Also, if you don't like spiders or other creepy-crallies, stay the hell away from Japan. To be fair, you don't see too many house pests (at least not where I stayed in Kyoto and Okayama), but the ones you do see tend to be fucking huge.

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One day I made my self a tea and as always wanted to use some sugar but there was something odd about it... it was walking and it want white anymore... it was full of ants crawling everywhere.

It was horrible cause if it's spider there is only one and you know where he is but in case of ants there are hundreds of them and they are running everywhere... I had to wash everything up and kill those bastards!

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O.o

Thank god I don't live anywhere those things do. I saw a video once where they stuck a branch down a hole and they started to pull the spider out, except it was almost as big as the branch, once it was outside the hole, it jumped back inside the hole, pulled the branch out of the person's hand and then dragged it back down with it.

I was speaking idiomatically.

If I could slay one type of creature on the face of the earth, it would either by mosquitos or spiders. I saw one lurking around my room and failed to catch it. There's no feeling worse than having one on the loose in your room and knowing that statistically, in an average person's lifetime, he or she will consume 57 spiders during their lifetime.















It's a myth, right?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I get a lot of spiders in my bedroom during the winter. The ceiling of my basement is coated with spiderwebs, so I reckon there's a pretty respectable arachnid community going on down there. When the heating ducts are active in the winter, I believe they get blown up into my bedroom.

Usually in the winter I'll actually check my walls and ceiling for spiders before I go to sleep. I'm not especially frightened of them, but I'd prefer that they didn't, you know, crawl on me when I'm sleeping and all.

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Spiders? Please. You want to know what's really nasty. I mean really, really nasty? Millipedes. The little brown ones that come out of nowhere whenever it rains. They breed like bacteria, crawl all over everything, and if you disturb them in any way they will defend themselves by releasing the most utterly foul and noxious stench you will ever smell. My room is in the basement, and I have to deal with these monstrosities every summer.

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I only kill the dangerous spiders, or the ones I don't recognize... because spiders eat others bugs, and I live in a hot humid area... so...

Originally Posted by Retriever II

The daddy long-legs is an urban legend (snopes.com/critters/wild/longlegs.htm). And if they don't look much like spiders - well, they aren't. They aren't a member of the family Araneae. But they're still Arachnids.

Was going to say daddy-long-legs weren't spiders, glad I checked wiki first. We have some sort of bug here thats quite similiar to a Daddy Long-legs, but its body is much smaller, doesnt even appear to have a segmented body, and only has 6 legs. Everyone calls them Daddy long-legs...

The ones on wiki look sort of similiar, but their bodies are different... and they have 8 legs... >.>

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I dont have a "problem" with spiders, but I consider it my prerogative to deal with them as I wish when I discover them in my living area.

People like my fiancee say "you dont have to kill it, its just a living thing.". To them I say, "Yes, but it has encroached on my living space. Do you think for one second that if I stuck my hand into that bastard's nest he wouldnt at least consider me a danger and therefore a candidate for defensive response?"

Whats good for the spider is good for the human. Not my fault that he doesnt comprehend that he's trespassing. The minute the spiders make the distinction between actual threats and, say, a two-year old child reaching under the porch for a toy, and stop giving children toxic shock and necrosis, I'll make the distinction to stop spreading their asses across the wall with a shoe.

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