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I feel like the main character in that movie, the name of which escapes me, who sets himself up as the target for a bunch of woodland creatures after threatening to develop on a nature preserve.
So far tonight, I've had a moth dive-bomb me, smacking me RIGHT across the head, I've had a mouse knock over my big, Low D whistle (Think two feet of steel pipe machined into a musical instrument ;-)), giving me my second heart attack of the night.
Finally, a grasshopper managed to work his way into my bedroom, and unfortunately for him, he chose the exact moment I was deeply engrossed in reading something to jump right onto my computer monitor.
I left the mouse and the moth alone, but the third time, I had enough. I got a flyswat, and I knocked that little buggar across the entire length of my bedroom. To quote a friend when I told him about it...
GOOOOOOO-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL-LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hopefully the wolf spiders will at least continue to leave me alone. :-P
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Spiders?
EEEEEEEEeeeeeeee!!!!!!!
Sorry, I can handle the ity bity ones but the larger wolf spider sized ones give me the hebe jeebies.
I had one of the local flying thingies fly down my throat last Sunday. Thought I was going to die! Yuck.
luv,
Connie
Wait...there are spiders
Wait...there are spiders named after wolves?!? Creepy!
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
Wolf Spiders
Real wolf spiders are fairly small, an inch or less. They're called that because they hunt by chasing stuff instead of by ambush.
But in Arkansas, there's a large tarantula that's locally called a wolf spider because it's dark grey or brown and hairy like a wolf. Some people keep them as pets and walk them on leashes. Talk about creepy. :)
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Ewwwww!!!!
Ewwwwwww!!! Tarantula's on leashes?!? Seriously creepy!!!
I am however reassured that wolf spiders are fairly small. Not just for myself, as I had visions of large wolf spiders hunting Zoe in packs!
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
Attack Arachnids
As long as they're on the leash you're okay. It's when they let them off the leash + yell "Sic 'em!" that you got problems...
I always had a soft spot for spiders after reading Charlotte's Web. Been releasing them outside for years before I learned that indoor spiders don't fare so well outdoors...
~~hugs, Laika
We now return to our regular programming:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTl00248Z48
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Erin nailed it (Figuratively speaking :-D)
I couldn't remember off-hand the more common name, just that I heard my mom screaming at the top of her lungs about a wolf spider charging after her yesterday, while looking for a mouse ;-)
Shows you live in a healthy environment
At least it's not poisoned and polluted if you have so many insects and spiders. I take it your fly screen doesn't work. Spiders don't hunt humans, though they will bite if disturbed or threatened and some can be poisonous, such as the black widow or funnel web spiders. According to one expert, we probably swallow two or three spiders in the course of a lifetime, usually while sleeping. If it's a tarantula I suspect you'd wake up.
Angharad
Angharad
Bon Appetit
Now that's just nasty.
luv,
Connie
*shrug* I heard it was eight.
Personally, I like spiders. Any insect that kills and eats other insects, therefore keeping me from having to kill them myself (which always makes me upset since I don't believe you should kill something if you don't plan to eat it) is okay in my book. Then again, I also don't mind moths, dirt dobbers, or even ants most of the time. Except when they're all in my cabinets. Like now. Damn ants.
I've always found walking sticks to be kind of gross myself. And cicadas. And earwigs. And blowflies. And most beetles. And antlions. And, worst of all ROACHES, especially the ones with the big batty wings who'll fly at you and be like all "HAHA I'M A DISEASE VECTOR AND I'M IN YOUR FACE WHUT." Flies and roaches are really the only things I tend to not have a problem with killing, actually.
Melanie E.
As a lowly student
As a lowly student, I lived (cheaply) in an apartment that was INFESTED with roaches. I kept malt straws distributed about the apartment, loaded with home made darts (matchsticks with needles in the ends and puffs of cotton glued on the back to fit them into the straw tightly) and made a game out of trying to pin the roaches to the wall for disposal. Got pretty good at it, taking out four or five a night, which was peanuts to the roach population. Tried poisons of various type (borax, roach sprays) nothing really worked. Borax did the most, but their numbers kept replenishing. Then after a summer in the field, I caught a couple of larger hunter spiders we call Wolf Spiders. One took up living under my couch, on in the kitchen and a third in the bathroom. Everymorning there would be roach carapaces scatter about and the spiders were so well fed they molted (grew in size regularly) during the last year I lived there. The roaches kept their population up, but I enjoyed the education in predator/prey relationships. No, I am not afraid of spiders, but I kill every Fiddleback Spider I find after being bitten on the leg in my bed once. Those are the ones that like to hide in the closet and other dark spaces and creep into your clothes for a nasty surprise. Those and the Black Widow are about the only really dangerous spiders in the central part of the country.
CaroL
CaroL
Try the cheap New York solution
and keep a lizard around ( I forgot which breed but yes a small one ( 6 inches or so ) and let it run loose. They LOVE to eat roaches. I hear that you can hear them munching away on them at night in a heavily infested apartment. Only thing though is they grow a bit after eating a lot of them. And yes, they do not bother humans as far as I know. After the problem goes away, keep it as a pet or just let it go.
Non-poisonous solution.
And please, no eeeews about lizards, most pet sized ones are okay.
Kim
movie
It was called Furry Vengeance, and disappointingly was not about someone taking vengeance out on furries.
There's all sorts of nonsense about spiders.
While I accept they're hardly cuddly, and some people find them repulsive, I suspect spiders feel the same about us. They are fascinating in how they've adapted over the millennia to different ways of hunting. They are all killers, some prey on insects some on other spiders, and some even catch small reptiles, mammals and birds. My own favourite is the spitting spider, which projects its web (some gooey threads) at prey and glues them to the floor. I had one for a while, it lived in a test tube. (Yeah, mad scientist Cathy Watts isn't just a figment of my imagination).
As far as size is concerned, those horror movies which show six foot tall spiders are pure nonsense. Spiders that size wouldn't be able to breathe, they have system which uses book-lungs which aren't terribly efficient especially in sustained rapid movement. Insects have similar problems once they start to get large. Giant dragonflies in the Carboniferous period weren't that big and the atmosphere was different to today's.
Angharad
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Angharad
"I don't like spiders and snakes"
Hopefully somebody else besides me knows that song! :-) Any spider or snake around my better be either behind glass or dead. Dead, dead, D-E-A-D DEAD! I won't be sticking around to find out if they are good or bad, I'm going to be running away screaming like a little girl!
I went outside once. The graphics weren' that great.
But that ain't what it takes...
It's bad luck for an Arkansawyer to kill a spider. That's what I always told my brother but since he was born in Missouri, he could do it safely. This is a twelve year old telling a four year old to kill a spider for her. :)
Fifty years later, I still get him to kill bugs and spiders for me when he's around. LOL.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
And who can forget what Trenton looked like in the 60's
Decades before the EPA came in and cleaned up the toxic waste sites in New Jersey?
but grew up for all the right ones
Con grande amore e di affetto, Andrea Lena
Love, Andrea Lena
I don't mind...
[email protected] ...spiders or snakes, as a general rule. However, I will kill black widows any time I see them. I live in northern Ohio so we don't get them that often, but I have had them in the house.
My older sister was 'deathly afraid' of snakes. On more than one occasion my brother and I found opportunities to exploit her fear. We were truly evil. Hey, I was only eight, Please, stop throwing things at me!
Karma being what it is, my brother was bitten by an unknown variety of spider several years ago. They had to cut off his jeans due to the swelling. He spent three days in the hospital.
I'm still waiting for Karma to bite me in the ass, but with what I've been dealing with lately, maybe she already has.
Jonelle
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