who else hates spiders?

[piku]

what's happening?!!

[lambo]

I used to have a "pet" black widow when I was in school. My roommates and I didn't have TV at the time so it provided some entertainment. I had some very unpleasant dreams for the first week or so.

What if, you woke up one morning...

[grantlacey11]

Saw this badboy in Thailand. HUGE! Scary as shit.

[DEV0 E30]

What if, you woke up one morning...

+ 1 million. There is no fucking way I could live with a pet black widow. All spiders living near or god forbid in my house must die. I'll unleash a shit load of geckos to take care of the bugs like mosquitoes thank you very much.

Saw this badboy in Thailand. HUGE! Scary as shit.

^^^ I have a similar one (dead) in a glass display case, fully stretched out - it's legs must be 7 inches long, body is at least 6. My mom got it as a house warming gift. I told her if it was displayed on the wall then someone (maybe even me) would smash it with a hammer.

[dirtysix]

Randomly came across this story on a this website:

http://www.animalseatinganimals.com/2010_05_01_archive.html

Check out this story of how a Katipo spider took on a trouser snake!

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A venomous katipo spider bite on his penis was the high price a tourist paid for a skinny-dip at a Northland beach. The 22-year-old Canadian left his clothes in the sand dunes while he went for his nude swim and slept on his return, according to a report on the case in today's online NZ Medical Journal.
"He woke to find his penis swollen and painful with a red mark on the shaft suggestive of a bite. He rapidly developed generalised muscle pains, fever, headache, photophobia [light sensitivity] and vomiting," wrote Dr Nigel Harrison and colleagues who treated him at Dargaville and Whangarei hospitals.

By the time the man reached Dargaville Hospital, his penis was severely swollen, his blood pressure was up and his heart beat racing.

Chest pain and other symptoms developed the next morning and it was presumed he had been bitten by a katipo. He was treated with anti-venom medicine and rapidly improved.
However, heart problems persisted and he was treated at Whangarei Hospital and Auckland Hospital before returning to Canada.

Katipo spiders are known to have a highly specialised habitat in New Zealand sand dunes and will bite only rarely, and in defence.

This was the first known case of myocarditis, or heart inflammation, caused by a bite, Dr Harrison said. A prompt diagnosis and the use of anti-venom resulted in a good outcome for the tourist, he said.

Talk about unlucky ha. You'd be pushing shit uphill to find one if you looked hard.

[Jand3rson]

Found this bitch inside of a cable pedestal today on an install. She was about 1-1.5" tip-to-tip (legs).

[cale]

i used to be fine with them, go out as a kid turning over logs looking for big ass ones to catch. Am a certified bitch with them now though, I've seen some of the shit my buddy deals with as a gas fitter under old houses and I'd probably shit myself if I had to go under there.

[Eecen]

What do y'all think a this thing?

[StrokedSix]

What if, you woke up one morning...

Haha... for the first week or two it would be the first thing i checked in the morning. We did find an egg sac one day. We decided to get rid of it soon after that.

[N2MYE30]

I didnt even have a sip of my morning coffee and this thing crawls up my cubical wall! FAK!!! I didnt need much coffee to wake up this morning. He was no match for my calculator. FAK!

[piku]

that looks like a male mosquito not a spider..harmless

[LowR3V'in]

If mosquitos get that big pray to god :x
You're thinking of a crane fly.

[AbeSonic]

Found this bitch inside of a cable pedestal today on an install. She was about 1-1.5" tip-to-tip (legs).

JustJu killed one of those mother fuckers the other day in reno with a butane torch.

[mrsleeve]

If mosquitos get that big pray to god :x
You're thinking of a crane fly.

You have never been to the U.P. of MI, Northern MN or Alaska then have you. In those places the skeeters are the size of medium sized song birds.


Josh I hope you killed that widow. I hate those damm things

[xAZxE30x]

last night i got into my car to head home.. felt a web like thing on my ear so i quickly brushed it off and didn't even think twice about it. About 30 minutes later i got home and walked inside and went into my bathroom. When i looked in the mirror there was a fucking yellow spider, with a huge ass/butt/whatever those things are called, on top of my head and appeared to be making a web of some sort because it was not touching my hair but it was on my head when i moved.

lets just say i freaked the fuck out cuz that thing was on my head the whole way home! :p