Foo - Arachnophobia

Yo, dudes, I saw the hugest #%#$% spider in my new backyard today, I think it was this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_house_spider

It was ghastly, like a small tarantula. *shudder.* Thank goodness it was not INDOORS.


Anyone else arachnophobic?

Yes, I hate the buggers. :eek:

I don't much like 'em either. We get these little black spiders that have some red underneath. Bites are bad news.

That said, spiders do eat bugs. That's good. I just want them outside my house, not inside.

Not fond of them, but I leave them alone.

I don't much like 'em either. We get these little black spiders that have some red underneath. Bites are bad news.

That said, spiders do eat bugs. That's good. I just want them outside my house, not inside.

That sounds suspiciously like a Black Widow spider!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrodectus_hesperus

Was your spider this big?

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t135/eracer1111/banana-spider.jpg

Edit: Not my pic, but I saw these in South Carolina, and they freaked me out... They tend to be seen in webs about eye level.

Was it one of these?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/ce/US_garden_spider.jpg/450px-US_garden_spider.jpg

They're called orb weaver spiders and can get huge, but thankfully they're harmless.

Christ, no, we have spiders that spin huge webs here, some of them can get creepily large but not THAT big. Our big creepy spiders are the kind that run across your floor or up your wall or.....*scream*

I was bit by a radioactive spider once and turned into Batman. Very strange if you ask me.

Sofa King

im full blown arachnophobe

eeeeeeeee <winding up> WAhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!

I grew up with a field and a swamp at hand and lived there basically till my 11th grade when I discovered boys. Yummmm Boyzzzzzzzzzzzz.

I had captured and let go all sorts of snakes, wintered snapping turtles and dobson fly nymphs (nasty arse buggers too) and all sorts of things. Plus I always captured the female praying mantis's at early Fall when pregnant so they could have a safe haven to lay eggs so I could put the egg case in our garden the next year. Even had a couple boxes of spiders.

HOWEVER.

Dear freaking ugly arse puny @3#% yellow sac spider (the ones you see in the corners of your house):

I will stomp your ugly arse butt every time I spot you in the corners of my room. And yeah honey - I looks for you guys all the time. Ever since one of your Long Dead cousins that slid into my night clothes and bit me in three spots for a total of over 30 bites that welted up into miniature oozing volcanoes of puss for 6 freaking weeks .... I hates you. Inside spiders die. Outside spiders are welcomed.

BTW - Texas does grow bigger, my sister (San Antonio) had a couple of spider webs - must have been orb weavers - where one of them spanned a 6 foot area - and the web was tough enough so that my sister could PUSH on it and it would give ---- and not break.

<bows to Texas bugs>

Is there a correct term for snake-o-phobia??

I freaking hate spiders. I've toughened up enough that I will get close enough to kill them- but not happily. we have these here a lot (I hate them the most):

http://tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:sjhqieQIR656FM:http://www.floridabugs.com/images/spiders/wolf_spider_lrg.jpg
wolf spider

Yech, we have Wolf spiders here too.

Not sure what Snake phobia is, but I love reptiles, I love rats, pigeons, some bugs (spiders aren't bugs) I know I'm weird.

Was your spider this big?

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t135/eracer1111/banana-spider.jpg

Edit: Not my pic, but I saw these in South Carolina, and they freaked me out... They tend to be seen in webs about eye level.

We had banana spiders when I lived in Hawaii. The things are friggin HUGE! And harmless...if you don't count heart attacks.

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t135/eracer1111/banana-spider.jpg

Cuddly little bugger. :D

Spiders don't bother me a bit, weird, I know.

I've never have been bothered by spiders but I got sick this Fall. I had a big red spot on my shoulder/back that turned blue/black and I got shivers and was cold. It was a spder bite. It took a few weeks to completely recover. I think it was a brown recluse.

That sounds suspiciously like a Black Widow spider!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrodectus_hesperus

Yup, that's exactly what they are. But I knew that when I posted. +1 for the ID :thumb:

I've never have been bothered by spiders but I got sick this Fall. I had a big red spot on my shoulder/back that turned blue/black and I got shivers and was cold. It was a spder bite. It took a few weeks to completely recover. I think it was a brown recluse.

Be extremely happy as they are the one spider that you should hope never bites you! The wounds from their bites have been known to fester for months! sometimes years! a lot of people have lost fingers, toes, and even hands and feet due to the Brown Recluse bite! :twitchy:
EDIT! Forgot to mention, at one time I had 35 Black Widow spiders as "pets" as I mentioned, I'm a bit weirder than most! :lol:

live and let live as long as it isn't a poisonous spider in your house--but yeah,
they are creepy critters.

live and let live as long as it isn't a poisonous spider in your house--but yeah,
they are creepy critters.

Black Widows are poisonous.

http://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/website/fcpiclib.nsf/LUImagesByFilename/spider.gif/$FILE/spider.gif

I love love love spiders! And snakes. And the dark. And public speaking. And high places. I'm weird eh?

I don't like spiders. I don't mind the ones I can see; I can avoid or squash them. It's the ones that I know that are lurking around here that I don't like.

'orrible, nasty things.

Be extremely happy as they are the one spider that you should hope never bites you! The wounds from their bites have been known to fester for months! sometimes years! a lot of people have lost fingers, toes, and even hands and feet due to the Brown Recluse bite! :twitchy:
EDIT! Forgot to mention, at one time I had 35 Black Widow spiders as "pets" as I mentioned, I'm a bit weirder than most! :lol:

i've been bitten by brown recluses 3 times in the last 4 months. once on my left inner forearm, once on the back of my left hand, and once on my right calf. all 3 of them swelled up to about the size of a golf ball before i could get to the doctor (usually overnight). i would get chills, have a fever, and my back/ joints would hurt like hell, too.

I don't like spiders but I try not to squash them. Catch 'em in a paper cup and toss them outside.

Scorpions though, bleh. No good use for those things, all they do is bite me when I go hiking.

Black Widows are poisonous.

Actually I believe they are only venomous.

Not afraid of spiders, but a few years back we opened our pool in April, only to have >1000 Black Widows in our backyard :eek: The mommas had camped out where our pool cover met our retaining wall and gave birth. The pool store now calls me spiderman!

Luckily, most of the spiders were babies. My dog ate one of them and her mouth swelled up a little and she got lethargic for 1 day. By the time we found the dead spider, she was already recovered. That was real scary!

Do not let them near your java or your stash.

Actually I believe they are only venomous.


blah blah blah blah blah blah venomous!
You know what I meant! :mad: ;) (please dont freak out, just my attempt at humor)

Do not let them near your java or your stash. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc)

Where do you find this stuff?

I search the internet tubes with the googles.

I love love love spiders! And snakes. And the dark. And public speaking. And high places. I'm weird eh?

Theres a spider collecting expedition leaving on a midnight flight to the Amazon, on flight movie is "Snakes on a Plane." wanna go? ;) BTW, no, your not weird, your normal in my world. :twitchy: :lol:

I love love love spiders! And snakes. And the dark. And public speaking. And high places. I'm weird eh?

No, but this is.

google is your friend;Fear of snakes = ophidiophobia or snakephobia

As long as I'm not walking face first into a web they don't bother me much. Although having seen pictures of what a brown recluse bite can do I'll be just fine if I never come across those one of those suckers.

google is your friend;Fear of snakes = ophidiophobia or snakephobia

I was gonna say penis envy.:innocent:

Spiders are cool! They eat flying bugs and insects around the house and many cultures consider them to be good luck.

It's pretty easy to get over the fear, just relax and spend some time watching your spider and what it does (it knows you're looking). You'll notice after a couple of minutes, your HR and body-temp will relax and you'll feel more at ease. You'll also see that the spider will have relaxed as well and it won't seem so scary.

I've worked in nasty places, sometimes literally covered in nasty spiders. The worst job was probably a tunnel with standing water and thousands of brown recluses. Didn't bother me too much since I was wearing about 5 tyvec suits, but still, it was nasty. I've also had my fair share of experiences at work and elsewhere with black widows, scorpions, rattle snakes, and other creepy ****.

I'm generally not afraid of spiders, but I like to give them their space, and smash them when they're in the way or in doors. Even a spider that doesn't have poisonous venom can have an infection which it can give you if it has fangs that can puncture skin. It's like anything else that's potentially dangerous, I'm going to be careful.

Spiders are cool! They eat flying bugs and insects around the house and many cultures consider them to be good luck.

It's pretty easy to get over the fear, just relax and spend some time watching your spider and what it does (it knows you're looking). You'll notice after a couple of minutes, your HR and body-temp will relax and you'll feel more at ease. You'll also see that the spider will have relaxed as well and it won't seem so scary.

Aaaah, exposure therapy...it really does work almost all the time! That's how I got over my fear of roaches btw. Haven't tried it with my fear of clowns, unfortunately.

Hey Neko,

You could get over both phobias with exposure to a clown spiders.

http://www.richard-seaman.com/Wallpaper/Nature/Spiders/ClownSpiderMopsusMormon.jpg

Or this guy

http://hisens.com/Photos/2002/1_Yr_Party/Clown_with_balloon_spider.JPG

I don't mind them. Been bitten by Brown Recluse 3 or 4 times. Do a google search on Brown Recluse and
Stun Gun, yes it works. Works better if you stun the little suckers first.
When I lived in South Africa we had rain spiders very large hairy harmless buggers.

Marty

I'm disappointed.

2 pages and no clock spider (http://www.fazed.org/blog/view/1/clock-spider/) yet?

Or this guy

http://hisens.com/Photos/2002/1_Yr_Party/Clown_with_balloon_spider.JPG

But clowns are even scarier than spiders!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73roYDHkFHQ

we get lots of wolf spiders

http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/hortnews/files/images/wolf%20spider_0.preview.jpg

That's a creepy little MOFO.

They carry their young on their abdomen.
Not uncommon to smoosh one only to see an explosion of hundreds of tiny ones running for cover.
Sweet dreams tonight. :D

Was it one of these?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/ce/US_garden_spider.jpg/450px-US_garden_spider.jpg

They're called orb weaver spiders and can get huge, but thankfully they're harmless.

Oh oh oh!!!! I saw one of those at the barn I used to ride horses at! Easily the biggest spider I've ever seen. I was so creeped out, I had goosebumps, but couldn't stop looking. The web was really unique, too. The weave was perfect. I was disgusted and awed all at the same time.