― MarkH, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― DV, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I also like ants. When I was a child my mother would shout at me for feeding all the ants in the back garden sugar and water.
― Anna, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Steve.n., Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Renfield, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― chris, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Is it a true spidey house mate?
The bees here are fucking huuuuge
How huge are huge bees?
although a bloke I was diving with went up on the mountain the other day and saw a spider eating a bird!! (feathered kind)
― Maria, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Sticky spider webs catching fly. Poisonous spider creepy. Insects fly in the shining webs. Delicious spider have spotty. Every spider make big webs. Running around the country. spider! spider! spider!
(Acrostic poem by Hannah aged 6: i found it when googling for a picture of a spider)
― felicity, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mike hanle y, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Paul, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― di, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ducklingmonster, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― MarkH, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― rener, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― hamish, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Matt, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alexi, Wednesday, 2 October 2002 09:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Plinky (Plinky), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 09:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 16:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 30 June 2005 01:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 30 June 2005 01:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: now with 20% less cetacean content (latebloomer), Thursday, 30 June 2005 03:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 30 June 2005 07:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Thursday, 30 June 2005 07:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Thursday, 30 June 2005 07:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Thursday, 30 June 2005 07:20 (eighteen years ago) link
spider! spider! spider!
― robster (robster), Thursday, 30 June 2005 07:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 30 June 2005 07:27 (eighteen years ago) link
It's not nearly as bad as the spiders I'd find coming home from school at UCI just off campus. I'd come home and there would be a monster punk rock spider that's around 2x2 inches that had built a web right in front of my door... hoping to devour one of my roommates or I? It was a Vyvyan spider.. bright red legs, green spotted abdomen and yellow body. Freaky fucking things. They were probably just muscle garden spiders and no more harmless than anything else, but man they looked tough.
― donut e-g (donut), Thursday, 30 June 2005 07:35 (eighteen years ago) link
"Leaving lepidoptra - please, don't touch the display, little boy, aha cute!
Moving to the next aisle we have arachnida, the spiders, our.. finest collection. This friendly little devil is the heptothilidi, unfortunately harmless.
Next to him, the nasty licosa raptoria, his tiny fangs cause CREEPING ulcerations of the skin *laugh*.
And here..... my prize...... the Black Widow.
Isn't she lovely?.. and so deadly. Her kiss is fifteen times as poisonous as that of the rattlesnake. You see her venom is highly neurotoxic, which is to say that it attacks the central nervous system causing *intense pain*, *profuse sweating*, *difficulty in breathing*, *loss of consciousness*, *VIOLENT CONVULSIONS* and, finally.. death.
You know what I think I love the most about her is her inborn need to.... dominate, possess.
In fact, immediately after the consummation of her marriage to the.... smaller and *weaker* male of the specie she kills and eats him - *laugh* oh, she is delicious.. and I hope he was.
Such power and dignity - unhampered by sentiment. If I may put forward a slice of personal philosophy, I feel that MAN HAS RULED THIS WORLD AS A STUMBLING DIMENTED CHILD-KING LONG ENOUGH! AND AS HIS EMPIRE CRUMBLES, MY PRECIOUS BLACK WIDOW SHALL *RISE* AS HIS MOST FITTING SUCCESSOR!"
― donut e- (donut), Thursday, 30 June 2005 07:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 30 June 2005 07:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 30 June 2005 08:00 (eighteen years ago) link
You mean crane flies get called Daddy Long Legs in Great Britain?
― donut e- (donut), Thursday, 30 June 2005 08:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― donut e- (donut), Thursday, 30 June 2005 08:08 (eighteen years ago) link
(xpost to Liz)
― robster (robster), Thursday, 30 June 2005 08:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 30 June 2005 08:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― robster (robster), Thursday, 30 June 2005 08:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 30 June 2005 15:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― robster (robster), Thursday, 30 June 2005 15:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 30 June 2005 15:12 (eighteen years ago) link
Yes, except the spider was twice as big. Also, I threw a grenade.
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 30 June 2005 15:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 30 June 2005 16:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― DR. O. RLY? (eman), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 17:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― melton mowbray (adr), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 17:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― DR. O. RLY? (eman), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 17:57 (eighteen years ago) link
..or not.
I'd, uh, go to an urgent care facility and have that checked out, yo.
― dali madison's nut (donut), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link
i am not jdubz
― DR. O. RLY? (eman), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:41 (eighteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axDpsLPhYSg&feature=popular
― Man or Austro-Hungarian? (Pillbox), Saturday, 27 February 2010 22:03 (fourteen years ago) link
oh god one time i squished a wolf spider outside my bedroom and it turned out to be a mama spider w/babies. so horrifying on so many levels.
― krazee thug nutz (latebloomer), Sunday, 28 February 2010 04:30 (fourteen years ago) link
I remember whacking a big ol horsefly against the window and then baby maggots started crawling out
― Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ (dyao), Sunday, 28 February 2010 04:33 (fourteen years ago) link
GAH
― krazee thug nutz (latebloomer), Sunday, 28 February 2010 04:34 (fourteen years ago) link
That vid is terrifying. Really creeps me out that Nature can get so gnarly at times (I know it's not the spider's fault).
― François de Roobabe (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 28 February 2010 05:46 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWASwBWyUXI
― you never even called me by my display name (iiiijjjj), Thursday, 13 May 2010 20:21 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/03/spiders-flee-australian-flood/100265/
― The Reverend, Monday, 19 March 2012 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/03/pictures/110331-pakistan-flood-spider-trees-webs/
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Monday, 19 March 2012 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
Hurrah for colorful tarantulas:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/11/pictures/121102-new-species-tarantulas-spiders-animals-brazil-science/
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 5 November 2012 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/02/11/meanwhile-in-brazil-spiders-have-taken-over-an-entire-town/
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.
― hot young stalin (Merdeyeux), Monday, 11 February 2013 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
rocking back and forth whimpering to myself
― lex pretend, Monday, 11 February 2013 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
see i feel that my entire life i'll have to avoid warmer climes cuz say what you like about britain but AT LEAST YOU DON'T GET FUCKING SPIDER-CITIES FALLING ON YOUR HEAD.
― hot young stalin (Merdeyeux), Monday, 11 February 2013 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
I think it's a really sweet story!
― 乒乓, Monday, 11 February 2013 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
I'm so arachnophobic that in grade 6, a group of kids would (good-naturedly for them, not so much for me) chase me around with this one National Geographic circa 1972 that had a big layout on deadly spiders. I'm not as bad now, but whenever the guy from the zoo comes to our school and kids let the tarantula walk up their arm, I keep a little distance.
― clemenza, Monday, 11 February 2013 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
I make my wife get rid of spiders for me. u_u
― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Monday, 11 February 2013 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
spiders are cool imo
― 乒乓, Monday, 11 February 2013 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
it's the big heavy bugs that move fast like german cockroaches that one has to be afraid of imo
there is nothing cool about that that looks like a living nightmare
― manti 乒乓 (k3vin k.), Monday, 11 February 2013 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
I guess the plus is less bugs in the area
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Monday, 11 February 2013 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
Correct number of legs for land animals: 2 or 4
Everything else can GTFO.
― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Monday, 11 February 2013 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
I'm neither an arachnophobe nor an arachnophile. I'm very selective about which ones I let live in my house, but I mostly adopt a laissez-faire attitude about outdoor spiders. My wife feels more strongly negative about them than I do.
― Aimless, Monday, 11 February 2013 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p106/kraigd/WTF-1.jpg
― the most promising US ilxor has thrown the TOWEL IN (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 11 July 2013 22:30 (ten years ago) link
no
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4OftWZn5BU
― del griffith, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 19:42 (ten years ago) link
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5485/10982956783_efbe99b049.jpg
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Sunday, 24 November 2013 23:13 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJhTrPDUoxs
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
i thought my long-standing arachnophobia was more or less cured but the other night i found i wasn't quite there yet - spotting a quite large spider crawling over my bedsheets i had the impressive instinctive hardman reaction of SLAPPING IT TO DEATH, but the fact i pretty much leapt out of bed, dropping my laptop on the way, in the process of doing so and had an elevated heartbeat for the next five minutes was less hardmanly. as was my tentative and convoluted procedure for getting its corpse out of the room, which ended with me dropping a mug out of my second floor window.
― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 22:57 (nine years ago) link
as was my tentative and convoluted procedure for getting its corpse out of the room, which ended with me dropping a mug out of my second floor window.
― building a desert (art), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 23:03 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rorJCGF1aM
― 龜, Monday, 20 April 2015 18:00 (eight years ago) link
We have this magnificent spotted orbweaver that spins a massive web in our backyard every night, gone by morning. Many nights it spans 4-6 feet at its longest point and it's extremely intricate. Always in the same spot, between our trash and recycling cans and this one tree. The other night I think I saw her creating her egg sac. I've become sort of obsessed with it and I take videos of it at night
https://www.instagram.com/p/CDu91D2DonJ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 18:38 (three years ago) link
i have been enjoying your spider pics a LOTi love insect photography
reminded me of this!! <3 ken middleham insect photography 4 lyfe <3 https://vimeo.com/358815537
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
Gotta keep yourself busy somehow in suburbia I guess *yawns*
― calstars, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 20:39 (three years ago) link
whoa that’s beautiful<3 spiders, think they’re kinda cute
― brimstead, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 23:12 (three years ago) link
ig_web_copy_link
Hehehe
― stabbing fantaisiste, repellent imagiste (pomenitul), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 23:29 (three years ago) link
Okay, I think I've been bit by a spider twice this month!
One was on my leg.. hurt, itched, and turned dark purple; the skin began to flake in a big circle and it hurt like hell. It still hurts, almost three weeks later!
Then this morning I woke up with what feels like a tetanus shot on my left shoulder, hurts like hell with a pink circle the size of a quarter. So I got home from exercise this morning and tore my bed apart and swept under there, there were some spider webs. Finally I saw a shiny black little spider crawling across the floor, not a black widow but smaller, but definitely on the move (black widows move very awkwardly when they're not in their web)... so I smashed him, hopefully this ordeal is over
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 18 July 2023 17:35 (eight months ago) link
12:30am, my 18yo daughter wakes me to ask for help with a "huge" spider crossing the floor of her room, reluctantly I drag myself to investigate what I expect will be an inch long house-spider as it usually is. To my terrified surprise it is a full-on 2-inch, potentially lethal funnel-web spider, which as soon as it realises I am there, rears up and extends its fangs. Certainly clears the head quickly. Rather than bash at it and risk it bolting for cover, I got a jar and managed to trap it alive. Now I have a jar of funnel web spider and no idea what to do with it.
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 27 January 2024 02:02 (two months ago) link
Name it, feed it, tell it your secrets.
― Cow_Art, Saturday, 27 January 2024 02:47 (two months ago) link
interesting concept but this is the first spider I have been actually afraid of!
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 27 January 2024 02:54 (two months ago) link
The Australian Reptile Park accepts public donations of funnel-web spiders for our spider venom program. Learn how to catch a funnel-web and find a drop-off point near you.
(Had no idea this was a thing)
― visiting, Saturday, 27 January 2024 03:02 (two months ago) link
Yeah - same with snake antivenom, they milk the spiders, inject minute quantities of venom into e.g. a horse or a goat, it then makes antibodies to the venom proteins, filter off the antibodies from blood, and you can use them to bind and inactivate venom in someone who's been bitten.Alas the Aus Reptile Park is on the mainland about 1500 miles from here so they can't take donations locally.
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 27 January 2024 03:24 (two months ago) link