Creepy Crawlies....
 

A few ickies from around my house.....


"Harry" the Huntsman - he lives above my computer in the office.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v34/Bartelby/big.jpg


Dirty Big Red Spider that only comes out at nite and shits me because I walk into the web all the time :worried:
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Well - this one doesnt crawl anymore, but he is icky.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...atural2050.jpg


NFI what these bugs are, but they shit me too, they are everywhere!!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...y/PICT0032.jpg

Holy crap! Do you live in a tree house in the freakin' Amazon?

Do you also have a redback on the toilet seat?

Ickie-Snarlies and flying mouths abound in Australia.

Almost everything out there has the capacity to kill or maime at will.

"Ickie-Snarlies and flying mouths"

What wonderfully descriptive terms! They really mean nothing but I know exactly what you're saying. Straight to the point seems to be an Australian trait. :thumb2:

Well, we certainly have them, but they generally dont live on the dunny seat, under it sure...not on it.

I need to get a pic of a White Tail, thats the only one that scares the be-jesus out of me...that and the Tiger Snakes that live 'round here.

Great pics. I'll wait until I have a good day and see if I can beat cha'. Living in the sub tropics myself I bet I can.

I don't mind having a spider in the house, but two spiders can turn into 200 in one generation, and that is far too many.

"Ickie-Snarlies and flying mouths"

Now THAT is a band name if I EVER heard one !!!

Or a horror film. :D

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!!!

What the fuck is that thing in the first pic?
Does it come with a legless Confederate general?

Awww Ghost, Harry's harmless.

Seriously, they are. They are great because they dont make webs, eat the other nasty spiders and bugs. Apparently, the hair on their legs and body can make you sick if it gets in your mouth or eyes (they have a habit of crawling on you whilst you sleep).

They are HUGE though, they get to 14cms across. Harry is as big as my hand. ...so like about 5 inches.

Bastards give you a nasty fright when you dive your hand into the mailbox and they climb up your arm.

AARRRRGHHH HUNTSMEN!!!!

Huntsmen deserve to die. All of them. Right now. So do their dodgy, supercharged Wolf Spider cousins.

Have you ever heard the little clicking sound their feet make when they walk across a stainless steel sink in the night when everything else is quiet?

Have you ever been takin' a whizz against a tree and had one appear from under the bark?

Have you ever come home (not un-refreshed) in the small hours and in a short sighted, alcohol-contributed, phobic rage beaten your car keys to death with a rolled up newspaper thinking they were a huntsman?

Have you ever seen their eight metallic eyes reflect back at you while you're weged in under the shelf in the shed with a torch looking for something you'd dropped?

I have. All of the above. And more.

Orb weavers are cool. They don't chase you across the room and rip your arms off and whap you with them. They stay put.

It's my problem. I know - and I deal with it... Usually in a battle to the death, me armed with a broom and a can of Baygon - spidey armed with a whole bunch more legs and eyes than I've got.

I hate bugs. I realize it's my issue, so I apologize before I squish them.

Okay, that's done it. I will never visit Australia under my own free will. If I find that I have been brought there against my will, I will spontaneously die of arachnaphobia right on the spot.

:doit: that :turd:

Wow, I'm going to have to agree. The picture alone will give me nightmares!

We have lots of Wolfies here... I like them. They tend to hang in the bathrooms.

YOU LIKE THEM? ARE YOU INSANE?
I am a complete arachnaphobe. There was a black jumpy spider in my house the other day. My guy was gone and I can't get close enough to kill them because they jump all over the freaking place. I felt so cruel, but I sprayed Starch Spray on it to thicken it up then killed it. I felt bad about it, but it was in my house uninvited and was not paying rent, so to heck with it!

What are they going to do? They are just little spiders. I think my Wolves do pay rent by eating roaches. Remember, I live in FL, the roaches take my furniture outside, steal our food and the neighbors beer and have parties.

Ok, Hagar, you're new here, so I'll spell it out for you. Some of us work with expensive computers that we don't own, and that are even more averse to liquids than you are to Huntsmen. So, if you please, as a courtesy to those of us who don't have the means to replace these expensive displays, please, please label posts such as yours with the warning SCF, or Swallow Coffee First. I, for one, thank you. [/public service announcment]

O M G :lol2:

Great image ... :thumbsup: !

Eek, couldn't stand the roaches either.

Come on, spiders BITE!

Do you name your wolfies?

:help:

While doing post-mortem exams, I've had things crawl out.

I don't let them crawl on me while I sleep.

Wolf spiders, camel spiders, tarantulas, ect.
Gimme a blowtorch.

Me too...spray starch and thermonuclear weapons on all of the eight legged vermin. :footpyth:

Spiders dont bother me, but watch me scream like a girl and run if there is a mouse anywhere within 20 feet of me.

Mice are ok.
A little teriyaki sauce makes them better.

:vomit: and to think I named you in my sexy cellarite list ghost.

Aww...
Thank you.

Best visual of the year so far, I agree. I even got little girl screams with it in my melon... sweet!
I don't name my Wolfies... we used to, but after a while there became so many that we gave-up. Plus, this is odd, but most are ladies that come inside, and they look masuline, so they are hard to name properly. Too butch.
Again, what is a mouse going to do to you? Just ignore it.
I can't wait to hear the news-cast... "man mauled to death in his home by mouse...."

Though I was unhappy once when crawling under an orange tree to fix a micro-jet when I fell into an underground rat's warren. Grove rats are BIG... they were upset about my sudden intrusion. I was wearing shorts, a tool-belt and short work boots. We were all pretty startled. But, it was pretty common to have large spiders fall on me, snakes drop out of the trees onto me, or come out from under stuff, or be around the tree I crawled under, rats, roaches, big bugs, all kinds of nutty stuff when the fruit dropped and began to do what it did after about a week or so (especially the big grapefruit)... just part of the job.
A startled bar-hog is no fun, I'll tell ya' that.

It might scurry up the leg of my pants :worried: and they can give you a nasty nip.

LOL... and just why would it do that? You keepin' cheese nips somewhere we should know about?

They are just unpredictable little bastards, I dont know why I am soooo terrified of them, I dont like the scurrying and the ability to jump.

:lol2:

Am I arachnid rascist if I think they all look alike?

Mice are pretty bad. If you have mice in your home, chances are they are nibbling on the insulation on the wires in your wall. Many houses have burned down, killing their occupants, because mice were nibbling on the wires and started fires.

Also, mice can carry diseases.

I live in an older house, and every Fall, when it starts to get cold, the mice find their way into our house. In the past week, my traps have killed four of the bastards.

The worst one was in the eaves by our bedroom the other night. We were sound asleep when we suddenly woke up (The snapping of the trap woke me, but I didn't realize it.) Then I heard a loud squeaking noise, and a *clunk* *drag* as the mouse tried to get out of the trap. The trap should have broken its little neck, but didn't. It's like 3AM, and I'm not very alert. I grab an empty coffee can, and pick up the trap with the live mouse in it, and plop the whole thing into the can. I wanted to kill the mouse, but wasn't sure how. I was tired, and just wanted to get back in bed. So I wandered into the kitchen and put the can into the freezer. As I got back into bed, I warned my wife not to look in the freezer in the morning until I got there first. When I checked on him the next morning, the little guy was a mousecycle.

I can't stand mice in the house. I'd happily poison them if it didn't mean I'd be smelling the rotting bodies for a month or so. Traps are the only way to go.

I had a pet mouse once (bought from a store, so no diseases and you could handle it without it biting you). It got a huge tumor on it's leg so I called the vet and asked him what to do. They charge $50 to put an animal to sleep, even if it is a tiny mouse. I was a kid at the time, so I didn't have the money. He suggested to me to put the little guy in a sealed box in the freezer. They just go to sleep thinking it is time to hibernate and never wake up so he said it was the most humane way to kill them. You did good glatt. (except for the trap, that had to hurt)


Edit: Poison is worse than traps though, so I have to agree with your choice of mouse ridding methods. I personally am a cat person so I never have mouse problems. My kitties kill them all.

That's EXACTLY why I don't like Huntsmen.

Roll me in mice and throw me to the cats, I don't care - Just keep me the hell away from the big spiders.

I guess we've all got our little phobias.

Don't get me wrong... I trap them. Hate to do it, but, it it does not wear diapers or use the toilet, it does not shit in my house.

The Wolf Spider leaps on the back of the grasshopper....well not really on it's back, but straddling it's back. The point is Mr Grasshopper is going nowhere.
Doing it's best Dracula imitation, sinking it's large fangs, injecting love potion, the Wolf immobilizes Mr Grasshopper.

The Wolf needs no silk. He doesn't build a web to catch prey nor does he wrap the insect in silk.....it won't take that long.
Mr Grasshopper dies almost immediately and slowly loses color..... as he dissolves on the inside.
A Grasshopper Slurpee for Mr Wolf.:unsure:

The pic I could handle, but seriously....I feel quite ill after reading that Bruce.

Sorry!:o Just doing a play by play.

Great.
Now I'm in the mood for a milkshake.
Thanks Bruce.

Blech. Why did I have to read that... ugh.

Aw c'mon, it's just like PBS. The wonder and glory of Mother Nature doing her thing. The amazing adaptations of different types of the same critter, to find their niche in the scheme of things. :D

Did you know that on average, a person will EAT 5-6 spiders a night! I know this for a fact. Woke up a couple of times, not hungry and picking spidey legs out of my teeth! :D

I sleep with my mouth closed
My spiders must go up my nose
I'm sure they are tickle-y
As their legs are all wiggle-y
but what I don't know won't hurt me, I suppose

A little misplaced from the limerick thread...but fun to do!

I actually DO sleep with my mouth closed.

How do you know?

I think it's just you, Relli. Maybe if you didn't go to bed with a mouthful of spiders, eh?

Every time I visit this thread, I go:

How do I know I sleep with my mouth closed?

I've had years of orthodontal work and now wear retainers at night. I have formed the (bad) habit of sucking my tongue between my teeth. I don't think I have described that correctly. When I sleep, my tongue fills all the space in my mouth and sort of 'sucks' my cheeks into my molars...can't do that with your mouth open.

Now, if you're asking how do we know we eat spiders when we sleep?
I don't. Not for sure...

I don't have a problem with the size of any of our home-grown spiders, not sure how I'd feel about ones big enough to hear the crunch when you stepped on them.

I get really spindly wispy-looking spiders in my bathroom. I doubt anyone could be scared of them. I was tempted to look them up online, thinking they might be more impressive close-up, then realised cohabiting is probably easier if you don't pry into your flatmates' secret life.

You're a very wise woman. :thumb:

DN, I'm still waiting for a picture of a White Tail and a tiger snake.

We don't have too many creepy crawlies around here, unless you count rattlesnakes. Well, we do get lots of mice/voles/moles/ and packrats in the house.


[This has been another SteveDallas random thread pick.]

Ok, ok....will lift my game this summer

Well thank you so much for reawakening my nightmare. :eyebrow:

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