fricken huge spiders around!

[waggy]

NO i am not going out to take a picture. so fuck you.

the last few nights coming home from gymnastics we have seen some HUGE spiders around the house. they are about the size of a cotton ball (or smaller then a golf ball). they have HUGE bodies.

WTF! i have never seen them around before.


Waggy being from Chicago does not recognize that Republicans have to transform themselves to survive in that area.

 

[OutHouse]

political spiders, that is news!

lol

 

[shady28]

Those aren't spiders, they're surveillance devices.

 

[waggy]

political spiders, that is news!

lol

LOL they have me so shaken up im posted in the wrong forum! :awe:

 

[werepossum]

Those aren't spiders, they're surveillance devices.

LOL And they're here to help you, citizen.

 

[Engineer]

Those aren't spiders, they're surveillance devices.

 

[WhipperSnapper]

The upcoming 2nd Hobbit movie is going to have lots of frickin huge spiders in it.

 

[Paratus]

I saw a huge spider on my driveway two days ago. I stepped on it and hundreds of little spiders came swarming out!

I'm like, "Fuuuuuucccckk, Zerg Swarm!"

Next time I'll take Ripleys advice and nuke it from orbit.

Shudder

 

[SheHateMe]

I hope they aren't the kind that carry their babies on their back. Kill em before they multiply!

 

[darkswordsman17]

Yeah its the time of year for them to try and get inside.

http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/plantguides/guide_pdfs/390.pdf

 

[SearchMaster]

The spiders have been crazy this year. I guess it's due to all the rain we've had: rain -> insects -> spiders. But they are EVERYWHERE. It has made for a miserable experience mowing the lawn, which is already miserable because everything is so wet, because the webs are ubiquitous.

A lot of them have been the big ones, though they seem to build their webs higher up on the house so they're not in the way as much.

 

[PottedMeat]

zerg? spider? other?

 

[Juddog]

Same here; I've seen a number of humongous spiders around this year, way bigger than the past 10 years.

 

[fjmeat]

zerg? spider? other?

Just spit coffee on my monitor. Thanks.

 

[waggy]

Yeah its the time of year for them to try and get inside.

http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/plantguides/guide_pdfs/390.pdf

thanks!

they are orb weavers. scary look fuckers.

why couldn't it be snakes? snakes i can handle. they don't scare me in the slightest. spiders? fuck them. i'm tempted to burn my house down.

i'm all paid up for insurance..

 

[destrekor]

thanks!

they are orb weavers. scary look fuckers.

why couldn't it be snakes? snakes i can handle. they don't scare me in the slightest. spiders? fuck them. i'm tempted to burn my house down.

i'm all paid up for insurance..

Although, I'd rather have *most* Orb Weavers than a whole bunch of wolf, jumping, and grass spiders (among almost every other variety I'd also not like to see).
Orb Weavers like to make big webs and, as long as said webs aren't destroyed, don't often wander around and tend to stick near said web (though only occasionally actually on the web, they are touching it, out of sight for most).
And they rarely, rarely do anything to humans. They aren't known for biting us, are harmless if they did (if they can? Few spiders can't, but 95% won't even try under the majority of circumstances), and catch a TON of things I'd also rather not see.

A few spiders, though they tend to be ones I'd rather not see up close, are also beneficial in that they actively hunt other spiders, kinds we typically don't want, like the recluse and widows. Can't remember that spider's name... I think it's a type of "cobweb" spider, or at least looks like them (and Widows are in that family/category, btw).

I cannot stand spiders, I'll admit I'm a wimp about the damn things. But they are a beneficial evil. I'd rather see a spider than a centipede, for instance. I don't know how Orb Weavers would stand in the spider vs centipede battle, as I imagine centipedes will dominate some spiders (in a battle to the death, that is... both are fucking terrible and never again do I want to see in my home ).

 

[Jaskalas]

Bonus points if they place a web in the path you walk.

 

[waggy]

Bonus points if they place a web in the path you walk.

my doorway is like a little cave. its in that..across the top.

If i wasn't so short i would have walked into the web!

if it stayed out of where i walk i'm ok. but not in the damn doorway!

 

[darkswordsman17]

Yeah, destrekor, they're good and I'd take them over the fucking wolf and grass spiders, or the all black nasty looking house spiders. Stupid assholes don't abide by the unwritten rules, stay the fuck out of sight (unless you're up in your web out of the way doing your own thing, killing bugs) and I won't smash you.

thanks!

they are orb weavers. scary look fuckers.

why couldn't it be snakes? snakes i can handle. they don't scare me in the slightest. spiders? fuck them. i'm tempted to burn my house down.

i'm all paid up for insurance..

Aww, the orb weavers the good ones. They build awesome webs and don't fuck with people. Did you see them in webs?

It can suck to walk into their webs when one of them builds it right in front a door (we have ones do that here sometimes, although usually they stick to the awning/side of the door, so you can see them but they don't get in the way).

Them being big is probably a good thing for you too, it means they've gotten fat killing flying asshole bugs.

 

[monovillage]

The tarantulas are out this time of year, all the males looking for mates.

 

[mizzou]

when my wife says shit like that, it be a small ass spider

 

[mizzou]

oh and I saw a black widow dangling over this state park convenience store while camping. I was like, heyy look, something that can kill you if you aren't paying attention! then some kids started messing with it.

 

[Fritzo]

We get wolf spiders in our house this time of year. They're big, they're scary, and the bite. I keep a can of Raid on a holster just in case.

http://pestcontrol.about.com/od/diyspidercontrol/a/The-Wolf-Spider-How-Dangerous-Is-It.htm

 

[irishScott]

Meh, spiders are cool so long as they stick to their webs. What's fun is when you go camping in West Virginia, arrive late so you're setting up at night, and one of the hairy, 3" diameter fuckers gets in your tent without you noticing. Then you wake up with it on your sleeping bag and a tick sucking on the top of your hand. That was a fun morning.

 

[Scarpozzi]

May-June is when the biting flies start to come around....eventually Mosquitos go into full swing by June-August... I don't know the lifecycle of a spider, but by September/October...I'm sure they have a few solid months of feasting.

Last year I went to a beach in North Carolina and it must have been just after a bunch of biting flies had hatched. The winds was blowing out to see from inland and it made sitting on the beach impossible. They landed on you within seconds of sitting still if you weren't out in the ocean. I'll take spiders over biting flies/mosquitos any day. (finally after 4 days of misery, the winds changed direction when a low pressure system approached from the south and sucked all the flies back inland)




My only bad spider story is when I went hiking on the Appalachain Trail years ago. I was in a shelter, asleep in my mummy bag....I had my arms in the sleeping bag with nothing exposed but my face (was november). As I was laying there, a spider walked across my face and I couldn't get my arms/hands free to swat it. I just had to hold my breath, keep my mouth closed and wait for him to move on...which he did without biting me or causing any harm except internal fears and feelings that things were in my sleeping bag with me.