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spiders don't particularly bother me, i try not to disturb their webs if i can help it. bees, wasps and hornets set me running for the hills though.
I hate spiders.
The other night I was at work and walking through this ladies front yard. I had my flashlight in my hand and for some reason I turned my light on in the direction I was walking to and saw a huge web....and a huge white or yellow spider in the middle of it.
Had I not turned my light on- I would have walked right into it, spider and all. I would have freaked!
For some reason, the next 1/2 half hour I kept itching all over.
I hate spiders.
spiders don't particularly bother me, i try not to disturb their webs if i can help it. bees, wasps and hornets set me running for the hills though.
I'm only bothered by spiders I can't see.
Spiders are cool.
Outside the house.
I get those in my yard too they are called "Argiopes" but are more commonly known as Garden Spiders or Writer Spiders.here is what I saw.. It was almost the size of my open hand..
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Partly because the first few posts weren't that bad.
Why the did you even open this thread?
And partly because I'm a nosy er.
Son of a !
August 31, 2007
Got Arachnophobia? Here’s Your Worst Nightmare
By GRETEL C. KOVACH
WILLS POINT, Tex., Aug. 29 — Most spiders are solitary creatures. So the discovery of a vast web crawling with millions of spiders that is spreading across several acres of a North Texas park is causing a stir among scientists, and park visitors.
Sheets of web have encased several mature oak trees and are thick enough in places to block out the sun along a nature trail at Lake Tawakoni State Park, near this town about 50 miles east of Dallas.
The gossamer strands, slowly overtaking a lakefront peninsula, emit a fetid odor, perhaps from the dead insects entwined in the silk. The web whines with the sound of countless mosquitoes and flies trapped in its folds.
Allen Dean, a spider expert at Texas A&M University, has seen a lot of webs, but even he described this one as “rather spooky, kind of like Halloween.”
Mr. Dean and several other scientists said they had never seen a web of this size outside of the tropics, where the relatively few species of “social” spiders that build communal webs are most active.
Norman Horner, emeritus professor of biology at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Tex., was one of a number of spider experts to whom a Texas Parks and Wildlife Department biologist sent online photos of the web. “It is amazing, absolutely amazing,” said Dr. Horner, who at first thought it an e-mail hoax.
The web may be a combined effort of social cobweb spiders. But their large communal webs generally take years to build, experts say, and this web was formed in just a few months.
Or it could be a striking example of what is known as ballooning, in which lightweight spiders throw out silk filaments to ride the air currents. Five years ago, in just that way, a mass dispersal of millions of tiny spiders covered 60 acres of clover field in British Columbia with thick webbing.
Mike Quinn, the state biologist who distributed the online photos, and who runs a Web site about Texas invertebrates, plans to drive to the park from Central Texas on Friday in an effort to get some answers by collecting samples.
Record-breaking rains that flooded Texas earlier this summer inspired outbreaks of crickets and “webworms,” the caterpillar larvae of the white moth. Mr. Quinn said the rains might have something to do with the web, too.
“You’d have to get a lot of spiders together and feed them a whole lot of food to make a web that big,” he said.
Whatever caused the vast web, the sight of it has inspired both awe and revulsion.
“It’s beautiful,” said the park’s superintendent, Donna Garde.
Freddie Gowin disagrees. It was Mr. Gowin, a maintenance worker at the park, who discovered the web this month when, taking advantage of some of the first dry weather, he mowed the area around the nature trail.
“I don’t think there’s anything pretty about it,” he said, though “it’s certainly unusual.”
When Mr. Gowin drives the power mower through the area, webbing wraps across his bare face, causing him to slap at spiders, real or imagined, crawling on his skin.
The park’s staff says that while the web has killed some leaves, it should not hurt the trees.
The spiders are “spreading out for sure,” Mr. Gowin said, pointing out cedars that appeared to have a dusting of snow. “They’re going to take over this whole point.”
The staff expects the web to last until colder weather this fall, when the spiders begin dying off.
For now the concern is to defend this marvel from teenagers who might take a stick and knock it all down, or little boys wanting to push their little sisters into it.
( ing teenagers! useless beings! youth is wasted on the young! )
“We’ll try to protect it, with what little staff we have,” said Ms. Garde, the superintendent. “I’ll use the web-of-life analogy. If you break one part of the web, it affects us all.”
We have those wasps that hunt down and drag tarantulas back to their nest for the kiddies to eat. Pretty cool.
nice....
Was bitten by a spider when I was in the Phillippines back in 93. Sucker got me in the back of the leg. The pocket of infection was large and it hurt to walk and sit, had to sleep on my stomach for a while. At one point, I had about 3 ft of packing gauze in my leg to help with the draining. Had that changed out twice a day of a couple of weeks and then once a day for another two weeks. That whole expierence SUCKED!!! I was lucky, other people on board my ship were bitten MULTIPLE TIMES....It sucked BADLY for them.
Yep, spiders in the Philippines are the ! A spider got me in the ear and my friend had to flick it twice just to take it off away from my skin.
Come take a visit to Australia, where we have 2 of the most deadliest spiders in the world..
The Funnel-web Spider
The Red-back Spider
Imagine if that web was filled with these ers!
all spiders.
Every spider should die.
I must admit, that is a bad ass close up photo. Is the funnel web spider the same as the spider that has a "trap door"? I have seen when the unsuspecting prey just casually strolls by and all of the sudden this patch of dirt, leaves, debris pops open and the spider lurches toward the prey and drags it into its hole. That is a wicked clever spider!Come take a visit to Australia, where we have 2 of the most deadliest spiders in the world..
The Funnel-web Spider
Spiders are fascinating but I still don't like to be anywhere near them. The only ones that don't bother me so much are Daddy Long Legs....
My older brother has a nice little "crevice" on his leg from where he got bit. Spiders on the islands are mean little ers.
that should have been posted under TheTruth. Mandy has no older brothers, and has never been to the Islands.
that looks very similar to the most poisonous spider in america, the black widow:Come take a visit to Australia, where we have 2 of the most deadliest spiders in the world..
The Funnel-web Spider
The Red-back Spider
Imagine if that web was filled with these ers!
I always think that the devil is the devil.
The coolest spider was named Charles Smith.
Living in Texas the only one I'm afraid of is the Brown Recluse. Scared the out of me a few weeks ago I was paintballing and slid into a bunker and there were 3 big ass webs in there with me I don't think they were brown recluse, I didn't have time to see as I bolted to the next one after that haha.
After the game I went and shot them to with my gunI don't like killing spiders but had to be done since there are little kids out there ya know
i work at a pallet repair factory and there are thousands of black widow spiders where I work. I catch them and sell them to anyone who wants a pet black widow. but just for the record, the black widow is not the most venomous spider in america. The brown widow's venom is twice as potent as the black widow and the red widow is by far the most venomous of all widow spiders. Although hard to come in contact with as they only live in south florida in 3 counties. People are buying them over the internet though and breeding them so mabey in 10 years they will become more common in places like arizona, georgia, etc. this is the most venomous spider in america
its kind of funny how humans are just wired to not like these things for the most part.
Spiders aint . Now roaches are different story. Cant stand those bas s. Especially those big ers that can fly.
Truth. Flying roaches freak me out.
By the way, roaches only tend to fly when they're high up on a wall or other structure, so the lower they are, the less people have to worry.
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