Have tons of black widows around here, I love the little fuckers but have to squish them.

I like spiders though and try to get them on their way without harm.

Why did i open this thread ?? :helpme

I hate spiders..once I was bitten by one and my hand swelled up like a ballon...don't know what kind of spider but it was fucking nasty

A brown recluse got me some years ago, made a big hole in my leg. Was back in my drinking days, told the doctor I thought I had a hang over. Thought I was going 2 die. Man it made a big nasty hole in my leg, big as a quarter.:BangBang:

Welcome to Austin. What part of town do you live in?

I'm out in NW Hills and I haven't seen any of what you posted, but not too long ago I killed a HUGE ass tarantula :helpme

:1orglaugh

The best way to tell if it's a brown recluse is to look at it's back.

If it has a black fiddle shaped mark then you've got yourself a brown recluse
http://www.tandjenterprises.com/imag...luse%20big.jpg


http://entomology.unl.edu/charts/recchart.jpg

I have black widows here in Vegas.

Last October, I had 2 big ol' mama's living on each side of my door, and I finally decided I would kill those bitches.

Wouldn't you know it, the day I come home to do so and they disappeared....a cold front moved in the next day.

Dam thats the same place I got bit. Took like 3 months 2 heal.

Just shows how weak humans really are.

A small spider can leave you damaged, scarred and dead within hours.

Life is worthless on this planet.

OMG, when we moved out into the country we started getting these creepy looking spiders in our house, sometimes 2 and three a day, that were about as big as a half dollar. Drove me CRAZY and we had small children in the house that I was constantly worried about.

But nothing can compare to this spider we saw on the front steps of this house we went to look at once when we were looking for a place to rent. I don't know what the HELL this thing was, but it was about 3-4 inches in circumference, it's abdomen was about 1 inch around and bright reddish orange and it's body was grey and it was really hairy. I was up on the porch when my husband noticed it and I actually jumped completely off the porch (past about 5 steps) to avoid the thing and I ran like hell to the car. OMG I was sooooo scared. I've never seen anything even CLOSE to that and I can't imagine where it came from. Anyone ever see a spider like this? It looked almost like a grey and orange tarantula except it had a fatter and more seperated abdomen.

:helpme

50 poisonous spiders crawling on ya naked body

I HATE bugs that first pic reminds me of a vingerroon (spelling?) its like part scorpian and part spider and when it bites it leaves a vingery taste in your mouth hence the name I was introduced to these when I lived in Louisianna and a friend of mine was sitting on a picnic table and got bite by one of those, she had no clue til a few days later when she noticed black skin that was caving in and was rushed to the er because she was extrememly sick..... needless to say all the skin around the bite turned into a hole.


and in la there are some nasty spiders, one time my friend told me NEVER step on a spider... and I thought what the fuck.. well one day I saw this big fat black spider and on impulse slammed my foot on it and screamed when I picked my foot up and there were hundreds of BABY spiders running everywhere..... it was a mother spider that carries 100's of her baby spiders on her back. eww It's always interesting to move all over the US and experience all the nasty different bugs... NOT!

I found something that looks like the spider we saw on this website that you posted, NBDesign. It looks like it may have been the Phidippus johnsoni. Only the one we saw was a little more compact and not quite so darkly colored and it was WAY bigger! WAY, WAY bigger! It may be some member of the phidippus genus.

EWW! One time I found a little ball in a spider web in my back yard (I was like 13 or so at the time) and I thought it might be a bug that a spider had wrapped up and I wanted to see what it looked like. So I took two sticks and I pried the thing open and hundreds of little baby spiders rushed out at me! Needless to say, I never did THAT again! Eek!

Anyone remember these classic pics?
http://www.germantourist.com/spider1.jpg
http://www.germantourist.com/spider2.jpg
http://www.germantourist.com/spider3.jpg

:eek2 :ticking :uhoh :Hollering :eek7

I would be fucking screaming at the sight of that bastard!

hehe, i hate big spider but the small ones are ok.
I got a friend who gets scared as hell when he see a spider.

(bad spelling alert!)
one time I was fixing my motocross in the garage and I saw my friend walking abit down the street, i took a bit of paper and a screw and i put a little long legged spider in the paper with the screw.
And when my friend comes to the garage I tell him to open the paper and give me the screw and he grabes it and starts to open it and then he screaming and starts running around like crazy and take his clothes of and shouting "its inside my t-shirt! its inside my t-shirt!".
Hehe I laughed my ass off.

John, yeah I'm in the NW part, right near the lake. Anyway, youv'e never seen these spiders? Thats just fucking great.

I'm from the northeast (USA) and never seen shit like I've seen out here. Even in vegas there weren't bug 3" long. WTF!!

I think im going to go paranoid and check everything now.

:helpme

Still no word on what kind of spider that was.... DOH

Thanks for the bad dreams tonight guys. I'm going to cry myself to sleep tonight with a shoe and a can of raid next to me.

ayeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Bugs like that are why I own guns. Im not afraid of people but id swiss cheese the fuck out of my wall to get rid of something like that!

I have a pet spider chilling on my back window that is pretty huge and creepy looking. I'll have to get a picture and post it tomorrow.

I think it's a golden orb spider. We feed it beetles whenever we find them... it's fun to watch that big fucker eat.

OMG you almost made me faint:(

I don't get you folks who are scared of spiders. I used to have like 6 pet tarantulas, and ever since then I love em. I always catch them and release them outside, I don't kill them.

I kill them out of lazyness when my wife finds them and runs around screaming. I wouldn't care if they moved in with me personally.

When I was an exchange student in Paraguay, me and my friends would go out and catch tarantuals. We'd get a pice of string, put some chewing gum on the end of it, push it down the holes they live in, and they'd bite on it immediately. Then we'd make them fight and bet on it. That was fun :glugglug

Nastiest insect thing that has happened to me was over there as well. I got infected by some worms in my feet!! Apparently some sort of a fly laid it's eggs on my feet, and then they hatched and went under my skin. After about a week I couldn't walk, at first we thought it was a tarantula bite, and I got some medicine that made me sick as fuck. But when we discovered what it was, my host mother put some poision on my foot, and when the worms were dead, she squeesed them out. That really fucking hurt. And I really wish I would have looked the other way :(

Ironically, "Daddy long legs" have the most virilent venom of any spider-type species in North America. The ironic part of that is that their mouth parts are almost microscopically small, their mouth is simply too small to bite into the flesh of any but the tiniest of creatures.

I was in Somalia from December 1992 to May 1993. I had a camel spider on my netting one night....here is what they look like.

http://home.wi.rr.com/torg/camelspider.jpg

Are there Tarantula's in Houston?????
I'm from Kansas and just moved to Texas...
I think I have seen more spider's this year
than any year! I have already been bitten
in California (I think) been to the doctor's
3 times since it happened! If you are bitten
try to see if you can find the spider that did
it, take it with you to the doctor's!

I hate spider's
:Buck: :Buck:

I keep hearing that's a rumor. But I've also heard that if a cat eats one then it will die in a few minutes. I don't know which to believe... :(

man you people are assholes I still have a day job and it requires me to go in people attics ... :(

:eek7 :waaaaahh :uhoh

http://www.subnovastudios.com/misc/redback1.jpg
http://www.subnovastudios.com/misc/redback2.jpg
http://www.subnovastudios.com/misc/redback3.jpg

A redback we had out the back... they're the aussie equivalent of the black widow spider.

I ate one once (back when I was a weird little kid) and nothing happened :2 cents:

i hate spiders :(