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Title: Me and spiders.
Post by: CirclesCenter on August 21, 2006, 12:01:14 PM
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Title: Re: Me and spiders.
Post by: natedawg120 on August 21, 2006, 12:16:45 PM
that is exactly what i would do  :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Title: Re: Me and spiders.
Post by: blue05twin on August 21, 2006, 12:21:41 PM
Why are you guys afraid of spiders?  They make great pets  :thumb:
Title: Re: Me and spiders.
Post by: Kweli-TY GS500 on August 21, 2006, 12:25:39 PM
when i was younger me and my friends use to catch the ones in the woods that were not poisionous and had them fight each other....pretty sick seeing how a spider fights
Title: Re: Me and spiders.
Post by: Codger on August 21, 2006, 12:45:29 PM
I've been bitten by a recluse.
Other than the wolf spiders, I don't leave them hanging around alive.
Title: Re: Me and spiders.
Post by: natedawg120 on August 21, 2006, 01:29:59 PM
Quote from: Kweli-TY GS500 on August 21, 2006, 12:25:39 PM
when i was younger me and my friends use to catch the ones in the woods that were not poisionous and had them fight each other....pretty sick seeing how a spider fights

no such thing, all spiders are poisoness - some just can't bite people, our skin is to thick (ex: daddy long legs)


And to some spiders might make great pets, but if i ever saw a giant hairy spider in my house, let it be in a cage or not i would die.  i don't know why i feel that way it jsut seems that the feeling gets stronger as i get older.
Title: Re: Me and spiders.
Post by: Jenya on August 21, 2006, 03:10:04 PM
In Russia there is the superstition that if one kills a spider in a house it will lead to a death in the family.
Not becasue of that, bu simply because I don't kill things that don't intend to harm me, I simply take a tall glass, cover the spider with it, shake, making sure that the spider falls to the very bottom and can't jump out, take it outside and gently release onto a plant leaf. Spiders do good job of catching flys and mosquitos.
Title: Re: Me and spiders.
Post by: weaselnoze on August 21, 2006, 07:36:41 PM
Quote from: natedawg120 on August 21, 2006, 01:29:59 PM
no such thing, all spiders are poisoness - some just can't bite people, our skin is to thick (ex: daddy long legs)


dont get ur facts mixed up!!!

http://spiders.ucr.edu/daddylonglegs.html
Title: Re: Me and spiders.
Post by: makenzie71 on August 21, 2006, 08:03:18 PM
damn straight weasel!
Title: Re: Me and spiders.
Post by: pandy on August 21, 2006, 08:19:47 PM
ack! I knew I shouldn't click that link ???....I'm going to have nightmares now!  :flipoff:

:laugh:

Title: Re: Me and spiders.
Post by: natedawg120 on August 22, 2006, 12:31:27 PM
Quote from: weaselnoze on August 21, 2006, 07:36:41 PM
Quote from: natedawg120 on August 21, 2006, 01:29:59 PM
no such thing, all spiders are poisoness - some just can't bite people, our skin is to thick (ex: daddy long legs)


dont get ur facts mixed up!!!

http://spiders.ucr.edu/daddylonglegs.html

:laugh: :laugh: Yeah i know of the most poisoness myth.  I just thing that the on i was talking about, the spider

(http://spiders.ucr.edu/images/holplu1.jpeg) Is poisoness to something.  Harmless to humans but poisoness.  I could be wrong but anything that is classified as a spider has venom and is poisoness, just not all are poisoness to humans.   
Title: Re: Me and spiders.
Post by: natedawg120 on August 22, 2006, 12:37:35 PM
oh and as for the some spiders not being able to bite humans i believed that, weather it is or isn't true  :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Title: Re: Me and spiders.
Post by: RVertigo on August 22, 2006, 01:15:03 PM
That myth was on Mythbusters...

The reason people don't get bit by the spiders is because they aren't very aggressive...  They can bite you, but very rarely do.

Their venom is also not very poisonous...  They milked and analyzed it...  It was nowhere near the "Most Poisonous."
Title: Re: Me and spiders.
Post by: weaselnoze on August 22, 2006, 03:09:26 PM
also the term 'daddy long legs' can be applied to several different things.  most of the time people are refering to Harvestman spiders which arent really even spiders.  a spider has a head and cephelothorax (sp) which is a thorax and abdomen fused together.  the harvestman has one body piece. 


someone correct me if i fed false info
Title: Re: Me and spiders.
Post by: makenzie71 on August 22, 2006, 10:33:17 PM
That is essentially correct...you can see the body distinction here (which it's that distinction that removes them from the "spider" family):

(http://www.fcps.edu/StratfordLandingES/Ecology/Arthropods/Harvestman/harvestman.jpg)
Title: Re: Me and spiders.
Post by: MarkusN on August 23, 2006, 01:18:11 AM
Quote from: blue05twin on August 21, 2006, 12:21:41 PM
Why are you guys afraid of spiders? They make great pets :thumb:

Heh! We had a spider grow up on our kitchen Window this year, even fed it with moths.

But it seems the recently acquired young cats took too much of a liking of that crawlie...
Title: Re: Me and spiders.
Post by: natedawg120 on August 23, 2006, 08:15:06 AM
Quote from: RVertigo on August 22, 2006, 01:15:03 PM
That myth was on Mythbusters...

The reason people don't get bit by the spiders is because they aren't very aggressive...  They can bite you, but very rarely do.

Their venom is also not very poisonous...  They milked and analyzed it...  It was nowhere near the "Most Poisonous."

Didn't see that episode but i would have liked to.  I knew that it was a myth but it still would have been cool to see it.  and the fact that they can bite but don't doesn't surprise me because most other venomess critters would rather avoid us than bite, threaten them and that is when they get you.
Title: Re: Me and spiders.
Post by: blue05twin on August 23, 2006, 08:43:45 AM
I think some of you that don't like spiders maybe watched to many old b horror movies like Attack of the Kill Spiders or Attack of the Trantulas  :laugh:

Title: Re: Me and spiders.
Post by: natedawg120 on August 23, 2006, 08:53:35 AM
I wasn't scared of spiders untill i was bitten by and had what the Drs called a 'mild' reaction to a brown recluse when i was spreading multch.  Even after that i was ok with them but it seems as i get older the fear gets worse, don't know why.  I am ok with spiders if i see them but when they surprise me i freak out.  I don't kill them unless they are in my place and even then i will try to release them outside.
Title: Re: Me and spiders.
Post by: Jake D on August 23, 2006, 09:04:13 AM
Poisonous.   Dude.  Poisonous.
Title: Re: Me and spiders.
Post by: weaselnoze on August 26, 2006, 08:50:27 AM
Quote from: blue05twin on August 23, 2006, 08:43:45 AM
I think some of you that don't like spiders maybe watched to many old b horror movies like Attack of the Kill Spiders or Attack of the Trantulas  :laugh:




what about that movie.. Aracnaphobia!
Title: Re: Me and spiders.
Post by: pandy on August 26, 2006, 10:01:48 AM
Quote from: blue05twin on August 23, 2006, 08:43:45 AM
I think some of you that don't like spiders maybe watched to many old b horror movies like Attack of the Kill Spiders or Attack of the Trantulas  :laugh:

Yeah, and I don't want to be eaten by giant spiders like all THOSE folks were! ??? ;)
Title: Re: Me and spiders.
Post by: roguegeek on August 26, 2006, 11:31:11 PM
Ever since moving closer to the mountains (right next to the start of ACH), I've had to deal with way more creepy crawly things. I hate spiders. I hate bugs and insects period. I kill 'em. I kill 'em good.