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[video] 100% chance of spider showers

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Cool. We have this same spider in my neck of the woods and they are great web spinners. Non-venomous and very spidery. Thanks!
 
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OMG. See, I have this huge phobia, not of spiders... but spider webs! That is the freakiest thing ever. The only good thing about that is that there are spiders in it, so I'd know to stay the hell away! No stick is long enough for me to want to walk through there. And I thought THIS was bad. I used a 10 foot pole for those webs, no joke! Long curtain rod lol.
 
RossMAN said:
Wow it took over a dozen posts? AT has really dropped the ball, if this was 2004-2006-ish it would have been in the first few posts.
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And even worse, I would think that that many spiders would qualify as "bulk."

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destrekor said:
For me, it's not an actual fear of them, just a very very very strong desire to not suffer any bites.

You go blunder into a scene like that, end up with a bajillion spiders crawling all over you, and tell me if you escaped without a single bite.

Same with flies, bees, wasps/hornets especially, fire ants, etc etc. If it can bite, and sometimes leave a lasting annoyance in my life, I despise the damn thing and hope it suffers even greater misery if they so much as look at me wrong.
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Bees and wasps don't bite. Just saying.

And, I've walked through webs with hundreds of baby spiders & ended up with many, many spiders on me. It kind of creeps me out, in the sense that I don't want a lot of things crawling on me. But, they're pretty harmless.
 
DrPizza said:
Bees and wasps don't bite. Just saying.

And, I've walked through webs with hundreds of baby spiders & ended up with many, many spiders on me. It kind of creeps me out, in the sense that I don't want a lot of things crawling on me. But, they're pretty harmless.
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There is your problem. Let's see what happens when you walk through the web in the video, with a bunch of giant hungry adult spiders.. 😛
 
DrPizza said:
Bees and wasps don't bite. Just saying.

And, I've walked through webs with hundreds of baby spiders & ended up with many, many spiders on me. It kind of creeps me out, in the sense that I don't want a lot of things crawling on me. But, they're pretty harmless.
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Well duh 😛 look elsewhere in the same post, and see I noted the stingers.

Also, I reckon most baby spiders can't bite our skin. They usually have to grow a bit.
 
That's pretty cool. It's central or South America I think, but I have no idea as to the species. Baby spiders travel by "ballooning" where they extend silk for the wind to catch and can travel many miles from were they hatched. These are too big for that I think so I'm not sure what's going on.
 
I see that kind of predator biomass, both the spiders and the web, and can't help but visualize the sheer tonnage of insects it takes to create/support it. Most likely those insects are a great deal more annoying and downright dangerous than the spiders are.
 
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