SWEET JESUS LOOK AT THIS THING! [FREAKY][PIC]

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I'm pretty sure they are evidence of alien life forms.

EDIT: emp I just picture us both seeing it at the same time and jumping on chairs and screaming, "get it! no you get it! no you..."
 
@turbo.. that is probably exactly how it would happen.

My wife would have to rescue us both.

Yes, she resues me from spiders, I rescue her from moths.

::emp::
 
DruSam said:
how would you like to find this in your basement?

http://ft.mirror.waffleimages.com/files/fc/fce0b3c18ccf229689badec0aad0e4d77a4fdef8.jpg
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it looks pretty much like a brown recluse to me, so better stay away from it. those bites are nasty as the necrosis burns away quite alot of flesh if the bite is not treated instantly and correctly.

could however be a simple huntsman spider (are you in texas?), then nothing to be feared.

anyway, i really like spiders. they are incredibly useful creatures and just fascinating.
 
I was visiting my parents in Arizona years ago. My mom and I were catching up and gabbing in the kitchen when out of the corner of my eye I saw this THING scurrying across the floor. When I looked at it my brain didn't want to comprehend what it was. My first thought was that it was some sort of automatic toy going across the floor. But, Nope, It was a wolf spider. It's abdomen was the size of a Golf ball. My mom and I jumped on chairs screaming. I yelled at her to wake up dad. She said she couldn't do that and have to admit later that she couldn't handle it. So I was like, Find something to smash it! and she said, "ewww no!" So she got some mega spray out and hesitated (she hates to posion things) and then sprayed it. Well here's where I almost completely lost it cause the thing suddenly SHRUNK to 1/3 it's size and ran away. I was like WTF???? After my mom and I had stopped screaming hysterically, we inched up next to where she had sprayed and examined the scene. On the floor there were HUNDREDS of little dead baby spiders. She had been carrying them on her back and dropped them when she was sprayed. EW.
 
turbolapp said:
I was visiting my parents in Arizona years ago. My mom and I were catching up and gabbing in the kitchen when out of the corner of my eye I saw this THING scurrying across the floor. When I looked at it my brain didn't want to comprehend what it was. My first thought was that it was some sort of automatic toy going across the floor. But, Nope, It was a wolf spider. It's abdomen was the size of a Golf ball. My mom and I jumped on chairs screaming. I yelled at her to wake up dad. She said she couldn't do that and have to admit later that she couldn't handle it. So I was like, Find something to smash it! and she said, "ewww no!" So she got some mega spray out and hesitated (she hates to posion things) and then sprayed it. Well here's where I almost completely lost it cause the thing suddenly SHRUNK to 1/3 it's size and ran away. I was like WTF???? After my mom and I had stopped screaming hysterically, we inched up next to where she had sprayed and examined the scene. On the floor there were HUNDREDS of little dead baby spiders. She had been carrying them on her back and dropped them when she was sprayed. EW.
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like this?

http://www.usq.edu.au/spider/find/spiders/images/409C10.jpg
 
Yeah, that first spider looked like a Huntsman to me.
It looks big in the picture, but what's the scale on it?
I mean, you can make anything look huge with a decent zoom in on it.

But Huntsmen are pretty harmless, even if they do get freaky big. They generally try to avoid animals much larger than themselves.
Here in Oz, I've seen some of them get as large as 15cm (6") across.
Scary as all get out when you're dozing off, and one decides to sit on top of your bedside lamp for warmth and casts a shadow over the whole roof.


You want a spider to be afraid of, try a white-tail.
Not only are they out and out aggressive (I've watched them try to chase me until I squish em), they also have necrophying bacteria all over their fangs. You can lose a huge amount of skin and muscle tissue to the bastards...

Gotta love Australia, more deadly species as natives than the rest of the world combined.... even the cute little Platypus is toxic...
 
Reminds me of a childhood experience. Sweeping the classroom with friends in the evening when we uncovered this big spider (brownish) that scurried away. We threw the broom at it and hit it but it kept on going. The thing is, it ran really fast. If it had ran to our direction, it would have caught up to us.

Just did a search on it in google. I believe it was a camel spider. Anyone who hasn't seen a camel spider image before can google it. You won't regret it.
 
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