Lets see who else has spiders...
(http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/203/tarantula1.jpg) (http://img220.imageshack.us/i/tarantula1.jpg/)
(http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/8778/thiding.jpg) (http://img338.imageshack.us/i/thiding.jpg/)
(http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/2069/fangsshot.jpg) (http://img683.imageshack.us/i/fangsshot.jpg/)
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squish
What kind is that? I got some urticating hairs in my hand from a brown tarantula when i was in Puerto Rico a couple years ago, that was not fun.
Pendulum - Tarantula Live @ Brixton Academy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjpGid7sSWs&feature=related#)
^ I saw NIN at that venue, back in 2000. [thumbsup]
Tarantella Napoletana (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-xsosv6uM0#)
Quote from: Bick on April 06, 2010, 06:01:05 PM
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Wow bad memories [puke]
ICK! I will say, they help keep the bug population down. I was stationed in southern New Mexico in the Army. I remember the tarantula migrations. I still shiver when I think about seeing the road moving in front of me and realizing it was a herd (if that is the correct term) of big hairy spiders moving across the road. :o Took three hours in the car wash to get the bits and pieces from the underside of my car [puke]
OH look what a cuddley pet, my what big fangs you have.
Got to list that on me short list of "No way in hell" ;)
One of the coolest things I've ever seen is a Tarantula Hawk Wasp attack a Tarantula. At the time I had no idea what I just saw. But I learned that pregnant THWs will hunt down and sting a tarantula. The sting paralyzes the spider and the THW drags it back to its den and lays her eggs on top of it. Three days later they hatch and feast on the still living still paralyzed spider. Other than to provide their young a first meal they do not prey on tarantulas.
(http://www.sdrp.org/resources/Ecology/Robyn%20Waayer/GIIBA7tarantulahawkandtar.jpg)
Quote from: VisceralReaction on April 07, 2010, 07:33:19 AM
Got to list that on me short list of "No way in hell" ;)
+1
Spiders are creepy. The creepiness increases with their size and hairyness. :-X
Quote from: Triple J on April 07, 2010, 10:15:57 AM
+1
Spiders are creepy. The creepiness increases with their size and hairyness. :-X
again I say
squish
Quote from: ID_DUC_MON on April 07, 2010, 03:46:12 AM
I remember the tarantula migrations. I still shiver when I think about seeing the road moving in front of me and realizing it was a herd (if that is the correct term) of big hairy spiders moving across the road. :o Took three hours in the car wash to get the bits and pieces from the underside of my car [puke]
[puke] [puke] [puke] That's the worst roadkill I could ever imagine! I'd gladly pay a fortune if that's what it took to fully clean out all the legs and gunk.
Quote from: NoisyDante on April 07, 2010, 11:47:18 AM
[puke] [puke] [puke] That's the worst roadkill I could ever imagine! I'd gladly pay a fortune if that's what it took to fully clean out all the legs and gunk.
Probably very similar to a freak mass frog migration I had to drive through on a back road one hot summer night years ago.
Ewwwww. :P
Of course, here in Idaho, we get the annual mormon cricket invasion. Kinda similar to the aforementioned tarantula migration only worse. It's like sliding on snot when you zoom over these greasy little bastages: >:(
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Mormon_cricket_cannibals.jpg/800px-Mormon_cricket_cannibals.jpg)
(http://media.2news.tv/images/080626_Mormon_Crickets.jpg)
the lack of weird bugs is one of the things I like about hawaii
NYC firemen working a burning tenement and Telco/Power/Steam employees working in manholes in NYC get to see vermin/bug migrations and nests that would give a fully matriculated sociopath a case of PTSD
pics or it's a lie
Quote from: Monsterlover on April 09, 2010, 04:00:44 AM
pics or it's a lie
Behold RATKING!
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Quote from: SacDuc on April 07, 2010, 07:48:26 AM
One of the coolest things I've ever seen is a Tarantula Hawk Wasp attack a Tarantula. At the time I had no idea what I just saw.
(http://www.sdrp.org/resources/Ecology/Robyn%20Waayer/GIIBA7tarantulahawkandtar.jpg)
We have lots of them babies here in AZ....Apparently they will also sting humans and Ive been told if you get stung in the hand by one of these little bastards you will prefer to cut your arm off because of the pain.
Also FOR SALE!!! I have several hundred AZ bark scorpions if anyone is interested. Saw the first one of the season in my house tonight..
(http://z.about.com/d/phoenix/1/0/_/q/1/scorpion02mreinbold.jpg)
You get those things in your damn house?!?
That's enough to make me want to carry in my own home.
I checked my bed for them every night before I crawled under the covers, when I lived in AZ.
Never found one, but wouldn't have wanted that stinging surprise.
O
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They get in your bed too?!?!?!
AZ is off the list of places I might live.
Or ever go to.
(http://www.mexfish.com/fish/abscorp/abscorpsnow214a.jpg)
;D
We had scorpions, chiggers and copperheads down in the N. Ga mtns......and all other kinds of jurassic critters crawling and hopping around
I was rapidly becoming a fan of Monsanto and the concept of reintroducing DDT into the environment when I was there
Quote from: Ghostly Pip on April 15, 2010, 03:21:01 AM
(http://www.mexfish.com/fish/abscorp/abscorpsnow214a.jpg)
;D
(http://www.the1foru.co.uk/ekmps/shops/the1foru/images/scorpion-spider-insect-paperweight-148%5Bekm%5D326x300%5Bekm%5D.jpg)
(http://www.martin.chaerilus.co.uk/photogallery/Originals/scorpion/H_swammerdammi.JPG)
Stupid make the beast with two backsing work picture-blocker. I can't see them, ML. [bang] :-\
I regard critters like those as proof that there is a punishing and damning God
that's what im sayin'
I wonder if some of those jumbo scorpions can be prepped like lobster...and if they might taste good...at least like crawfish maybe
Ask Bear Grylls
www.liveleak.com/view?i=dcc_1238406322 (http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=dcc_1238406322)
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Yep,
We get them in our house...Usually about 1 every 2 weeks from now until October. I have been fortunate to never have been stung yet... I have to be especially diligent now that we have a 6 month old daughter that can easily die if stung. The AZ bark scorpion is the most dangerous sucker here in the U.S. since it has a potent neurotoxin. Tonight it was warm enough to hunt....Got 6 of the bastards tonight on the cinder block walls around my house.
Here are my hunting weapons:
Map Gas Torch - Useful for cinder block walls and other non flammable environments
(http://evergreen-rentals.com/images/acetylenetorch.jpg)
and
Needle Nose Pliers - where you don't want to burn the house down
(http://www.eagnas.com/jpgp/np500.jpg)
Black Light
(http://www.micronuv.com/9LED_SM.jpg)
And the good old standby
(http://www.rockymountainsoccer.com/Footwear/Adidas_Samba_Classic.jpeg)
And here is an interesting fact about scorpions.....
Their stingers are made of metal!
About ¼ of the stinger is a blend of zinc, manganese and iron...
Screw me!... armor piercing stingers...