so yeah biggest brown recluse i've ever seen just now...pic

[zanejohnson]

 

[CrackRabbit]

Why not on fire?

Fire Plz.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I'm glad I don't live in a place where all these poisonous spiders live. Unlike most bugs, these actually have a legit reason to be feared.

Be sure to put lots of fire on it.

 

[Baked]

Can't confirm w/o close up of its torso. I need to see the viola pattern on its torso. Get close OP and take another picture.

 

[AFurryReptile]

 

[Craig234]

Very funny reptile.

 

[SheHateMe]

Ladle of boiling water will do the trick.

 

[ImpulsE69]

That's priceless.

 

[DesiPower]

nuke it from orbit

 

[John Connor]

Smash that bastard! Smash him to hell!

 

[RossMAN]

http://forums.anandtech.com/member.php?u=64240

 

[Attic]

Fuck, I feel like its behind me now. I'm on the couch.

It's behind me isn't it?

 

[Net Prowler]

yes, yes it is....

 

[Attic]

 

[Rumpltzer]

What is that? Dirty sink with dirty pennies in it?

 

[momeNt]

If you eat it would your body create antibodies for the venom and make it safe to be bitten in the future?

IANAD, but science interests me.

 

[Anonemous]

If you eat it would your body create antibodies for the venom and make it safe to be bitten in the future?

IANAD, but science interests me.

Stomach acids would digest and break it all down. Now some sea slugs do eat poisonous anemones and then uses them on its back. Some bugs also eat poisonous leaves so birds and predators don't eat them.

 

[brainhulk]

were you the one that got necrotizing fasciitis?

 

[Red Squirrel]

If you eat it would your body create antibodies for the venom and make it safe to be bitten in the future?

IANAD, but science interests me.

Hmm if you were to inject an extremely small amount of venom in you, perhaps you could slowly build an immunity to it. That's sorta how vaccines work. Though vaccines are more against living things, and use a dead version of said living thing. I don't think the venom is living, it's basically just a chemical. I could be wrong though.

Either way, I'm just glad I don't live where these are. I just have to deal with these:







Looks like a brown recluse but it's a common house spider, I forget the actual name. Wolf spider, grass spider?

Oh and these are pretty crazy looking too, orb weaver I think:






And while were on the subject of bugs, here's two flies having sex:

 

[OBLAMA2009]

im so glad i dont live in an area that has those. we have black widows but luckily they are shy

 

[Red Squirrel]

im so glad i dont live in an area that has those. we have black widows but luckily they are shy

lol those are just as worse, arn't those one of the most poisonous spiders, up there with brown recluse? They can hide under the handles of your garbage can and other places you might stick your fingers. I forget how long you have to live if you get bit but pretty sure it's measured in minutes.

 

[her209]

Can't confirm w/o close up of its torso. I need to see the viola pattern on its torso. Get close OP and take another picture.

I think we need to see it bite OP to confirm whether OP is exaggerating.

 

[DaTT]

lol those are just as worse, arn't those one of the most poisonous spiders, up there with brown recluse? They can hide under the handles of your garbage can and other places you might stick your fingers. I forget how long you have to live if you get bit but pretty sure it's measured in minutes.

Actually, there are black widows in Ontario...just very rare. Also, you have to be pretty young, sick or old to die from a black widow bite.

 

[brainhulk]

 

[OBLAMA2009]

lol those are just as worse, arn't those one of the most poisonous spiders, up there with brown recluse? They can hide under the handles of your garbage can and other places you might stick your fingers. I forget how long you have to live if you get bit but pretty sure it's measured in minutes.

ive read a black widow is about as bad as a bee sting (unless youre allergic), but spiders are so much more scary than bees that the chance of having a heart attack and dying when you see one on your skin is much higher. i think there are relatives of the black widow in places like australia that have much worse bites. brown recluse is supposed to be one of the worse because people often get staph infections with them, very nasty...