This one is titchy, I swear, less than a quarter of inch fang to hairy bot

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Wednesday morning at about 3:10 in the basement while I was on my back on a bench lifting dumbbells a little spider came down a web he was spinning and landed on my arm. It was just tiny. I rubbed myself right after the set and nothing hurts two days later. Apparently he missed the arm or was rolled to death. Occasionally I will have a bite that itches for a day or two, much longer than a mosquito bite.

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I love the global warming change in my climate but these big hairy spiders are getting too daring.

I hate spiders (childhood / genetic fear.) I keep one in the bathroom but they are just too spooky in the rest of my house.

Recently though half the spiders in my home fall off the wall because they are too fat and hairy.

They are so noisey as they run across some papers or a book I left on the floor.

They are like horses with 8 legs.

I love spiders. So do my boys. Which of course means I have to keep an eye on them more...which isn't a bad thing :)

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I love spiders. So do my boys. Which of course means I have to keep an eye on them more...which isn't a bad thing :)

I assume you mean the boys!!! :-)))

I guess both....coz god help the spider when my boys capture it in a cup. Lord only knows the experiments that will be done...so I gotta save that spider too, LOL

Their favorite thing I think is to capture a bug and feed it to the cat. WTF? hehe

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I love spiders. So do my boys. Which of course means I have to keep an eye on them more...which isn't a bad thing :)

I assume you mean the boys!!! :-)))

I guess both....coz god help the spider when my boys capture it in a cup. Lord only knows the experiments that will be done...so I gotta save that spider too, LOL

Their favorite thing I think is to capture a bug and feed it to the cat. WTF? hehe

When I was a kid we had a huge spider in the back yard. He/She was a very well fed spider.

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I love spiders. So do my boys. Which of course means I have to keep an eye on them more...which isn't a bad thing :)

I assume you mean the boys!!! :-)))

I guess both....coz god help the spider when my boys capture it in a cup. Lord only knows the experiments that will be done...so I gotta save that spider too, LOL

Their favorite thing I think is to capture a bug and feed it to the cat. WTF? hehe

When I was a kid we had a huge spider in the back yard. He/She was a very well fed spider.

Talk about kids interest in spiders...a few years ago my boys sat and watched a spider (for an hour!) build a web. They were totally fascinated. I never thought they could sit still that long. of course they promptly went "hunting" and found tiny bugs to throw into the web and wait to see what the spider does.

talk about the Discovery channel right in your own back yard if you look :)

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Their favorite thing I think is to capture a bug and feed it to the cat. WTF? hehe

Yes, well, whatever...

As long as they don't use the Super Secret Nuclear Powered Spitwad Launcher© against them I guess all is well :)

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Personally, I do not like spiders.

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Back in early 1967 shortly before I graduated from college I went into the zoology lab, got out one of the microscopes and got a millimeter ruler. I set the microscope on 400x and found a spiderweb nearby. I put the web filament onto the stage, focused the scope and put the ruler about 25 centimeters from my eyes. The image of the web of one eye of was superimposed onto the ruler. The magnified web appeared to be about 0.6 mm thick. Dividing by 400 determined that the actual thickness of the web was about 1.5 microns. That satisfied one curiosity.

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I know spiders are a part of the ecology, and do much good,
but these little bastards can die...been biten twice by them...

[b]...meet the Brown Recluse.



I'd rather get biten by a Black Widow instead.

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I know spiders are a part of the ecology, and do much good,
but these little bastards can die...been biten twice by them...

[b]...meet the Brown Recluse.



I'd rather get biten by a Black Widow instead.

I'd rather not be bitten by either thank you! 8-{

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What you do today you will have to live with tonight

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daddy long legs spider

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Huntsman Spiders are those long-legged spiders we often surprise crawling around our ceilings at night. They are part of the "modern" spider species which breathe through trachea as well as through "book-lungs". They also have chelicerae which close
side to side. The legs of a huntsman spider fan out sideways and the joints bend forwards. This means these spiders can run sideways as well as forwards - useful under bark and among stones.

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The Golden Orb Weavers build large, semi-permanent orb webs. The strong silk has a golden sheen. These spiders remain in their webs day and night and gain some protection from bird attack by the presence of a 'barrier network' of threads on one or both sides of the orb web. Sometimes their strong webs manage to trap small birds or bats, and the spider will wrap them and feed upon them. Commoner prey items include flies, beetles, locusts, wood moths and cicadas. Golden Silk Orb Weavers are large spiders (body 2-4 cm) with silvery-grey to plum coloured bodies and brown-black, often yellow banded legs. The males are tiny (5 mm) and red-brown to brown in colour. This spider belongs to the Tetragnathidae (longjawed orbweavers) family.
Nephila clavipes is the only species in the Nephila genus that exists in the USA

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Lynx spiders get their name from the way that they sometimes pounce on their prey in a catlike fashion. These spiders spend their time hunting for insects in bushes and low plants. They are fast runners, but can occasionally be seen lying in wait for prey beside flowers.
They build no web for prey capture, but they do release a silk dragline as they hunt among leaves.
While the Green Lynx spider aggressively attacks its insect prey, it very seldom bites humans.

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Spiders!!! Lots of them! Phew! That's only photos... You just can't trust spiders. Ask us, the dwarfs, and ask the hobbits.

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I like siders, but Sheila hates them.

I usually pick them up (never bitten) and chuck them outside!

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It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues

How about having to deal with the Bilbao spider?

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It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues

How about having to deal with the Bilbao spider?

OMG!She's even bigger than the spider my friends the halflings had to deal with, in those days when that cursed ring was to be destroyed!

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