fricken huge spiders around!

[irishScott]

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.

Should have eaten it.

 

[Iron Woode]

It's time for some of you to man up and stop being a pansy.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

It's deer season in Georgia, and my family is dealing with these suckers now. They're harmless, but I remember doing quite a little dance when I walked through the woods in darkness one night trying to find a deer I'd gotten with the bow, and plowed straight through its giant web with my face.

 

[MaxDepth]

I had a spider encounter yesterday morning. I was just pulling up on the door handle to my truck when a spider crawled out from underneath the handle. I have an old truck that doesn't have power anything but the latch is so easy I don't have to stick my whole hand into the handle well.

We kinda stared at each other then I jumped in and shut the door. Work is about 10 miles away so when I go there, I got out and stared at the door. I didn't see anything.

When I cam back out at 6, I saw the spider did indeed make the journey but the sun I think fried it. It looked like a wolf spider but I think it was more of a fishing spider. I could be wrong on both counts as arachnids are not my cup of tea.

I do have writing spiders in the yard. It took me a while to get used to them too. It helped that a friend knew what they were and how they help my gardens.

Local Spiders

 

[Oyeve]

Id rather have a spider than a fucking 4" american cockroach crawling on my ceiling at 1am!

 

[irishScott]

Id rather have a spider than a fucking 4" american cockroach crawling on my ceiling at 1am!

Seriously. At least spiders squish easily. I one stomped a 4" roach with my hiking boot and it just kept scurrying along like nothing happened. Had to mash the fucker 2 more times before it stopped moving.

 

[BoomerD]

Waggy should be scared...he remembers what happens to hobbits who mess with spiders.

 

[irishScott]

Waggy should be scared...he remembers what happens to hobbits who mess with spiders.

So that would make you Sam Gamgee?

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Waggy, why are you doing gymnastics? Are you going through some changes?

 

[BoomerD]

So that would make you Sam Gamgee?

Me? Nah...I'd let old Shelob have him for dinner.

 

[Fritzo]

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.

This is why God invented hotels. Screw camping.

 

[marvdmartian]

Waggy, those are to combat the giant Chinese mutant hornets, if they make it over here. Find some toxic or radioactive waste, and put them in there, so they'll mutate too. If you can find radioactive toxic waste, that would be even better! :sneaky:

 

[KidNiki1]

bad pic, but every drive through at every bank ever here in florida looks like this.

 

[marvdmartian]

Yeah, we had these, when I lived on Guam. Leg spread was probably ~3-4 inches across. Looked badass as hell, but only ate flying insects that flew into its web. :awe:

 

[zinfamous]

zerg? spider? other?

You are a bad person

 

[waggy]

Waggy, why are you doing gymnastics? Are you going through some changes?

You should really see me in a leotard! :awe:

 

[irishScott]

This is why God invented hotels. Screw camping.

Not many hotels near the Gauly river. And even if there were, hotels are boring. We evolved to live outside, and it's always awesome to do so. Hell there were people in our group who slept under the stars without anything more than a sleeping pad and sleeping bag that night, and they didn't complain.

 

[iamwiz82]

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

I've NEVER seen so many wolf spiders and so big as this season. I have a couple outside my house which I feed.:twisted: