Fourth one this week...not for the squeamish.

[Brian41]

I've never cared for spiders or snakes either but let snakes go but will kill spiders especially in the house.
Years ago my brother had a couple tarantulas as pets for some reason beyond me except it was his exotic pet era. At least he had no snakes. He insisted one day that I let a tarantula sit in the palm of my hand and for some stupid reason I finally agreed to it. It was an uncomfortable couple minutes expecting to get bit and would never do that again.

 

[walkin jack]

I don't know the reason for it but we have had very few bugs around here this year. Just a couple of grass snakes and no spiders except those cute little "water spout" kind. even the June bugs and love bugs were very few in number.

All that is okay with me...........

 

[the ringo kid]

There are hundreds of eyes shining when I walk in the backyard at night with my led headlamp on. Most are wolf spiders, the females are bigger than the males on average. A funny thing I noticed, the bigger spiders eyes reflect the led with a yellow glow, the smaller males all reflect blue.

The bigger females stay in the same areas. I take my walking stick with me, put it in front of a small male and he climbs right on. Take him to about a foot from a female and tap him onto the ground and the female attacks and starts her feeding. The females carry their young on their backs by the dozens.

Funny the things you notice walking at night when you really pay attention.

After reading this, im no longer walking at night--ill use a treadmill instead.

 

[the ringo kid]

I don't know the reason for it but we have had very few bugs around here this year. Just a couple of grass snakes and no spiders except those cute little "water spout" kind. even the June bugs and love bugs were very few in number.

All that is okay with me...........

Love bugs are another that I dont see.I was riding a bus sometime last year and one crawled on me. The bus driver saw it and said idhave to pay its fare too. But seriously, I had it with me till I got homeand pacedit on a bush.I saw it the next day,but after--nope.I guess some spider ate it? I was depressed a bit about it thinking I did the insect a favor rescuing it from a certain death in a bus, only to probably die elsewhere.

 

[Comrad]

Little Miss Muffet wouldn't like that. Can you bread it and fry that thing?

 

[walkin jack]

I've never cared for spiders or snakes either but let snakes go but will kill spiders especially in the house.
Years ago my brother had a couple tarantulas as pets for some reason beyond me except it was his exotic pet era. At least he had no snakes. He insisted one day that I let a tarantula sit in the palm of my hand and for some stupid reason I finally agreed to it. It was an uncomfortable couple minutes expecting to get bit and would never do that again.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vudA72hibg[/ame]

 

[MudMarine]

A spider gets too big when you can hear it when it moves.

 

[williamlayton]

If it takes putting a spider in my hands to rove I am a man---well---find me a pink TuTu.
Blessings

 

[rwsmith]

It's strange that....

Some populations, like frogs and butterflies are becoming scarce while some species have population explosions. It's always been this way, but lately seems to be more extreme. Everything seems more extreme. Storms, earthquakes, the weather in general, you name it.

 

[ACORN]

When my dad was a boy his father would get severe migraines. His dad would close the drapes and his bedroom door and lie down when he had them. Everyone in the house had to be quiet. My dad decided one day to cheer up my Pap when he was having a migraine by showing him all the spiders he had cought that day. He had them all in a glass jar. He went in to Paps room to show him but all the spiders were just sitting there not moving. Well dad decided to shake the jar to get them moving around and when he did the lid popped off and the spiders went all over him his dad and his dad's bed. I'd have loved to have seen the looks on their faces. I don't know how my dad survived.

 

[ParadiseRoad]

...my wife sent me on an assignment one night to clear a good size spider from a wall ornament above our bed...stood on a little stool and reached up with a paper towel to grab him...he jumped square in the middle of my face...I backed off the stool and hit my head on the corner of the night table...forgot all about the spider as I felt around the massive divot in my head which was bleeding fairly aggressively...made sure I remembered my name...where I was...what day it was...then wrapped my head in a towel and headed for emergency which was twelve miles away...doctor took a look...said "I see your skull in there...looks like it's still in one piece...gave me two stitches deep down..and three more to close it...not to thrilled with spiders...

 

[Bahamaroot]

If that thing is anything like the ones in the movies my wife watches it's going to eat the next city it comes too.

 

[tattooo]

I'm having nightmares thinking of those nasty things.....lol

 

[rwsmith]

I have also noticed....

...my wife sent me on an assignment one night to clear a good size spider from a wall ornament above our bed...stood on a little stool and reached up with a paper towel to grab him...he jumped square in the middle of my face...I backed off the stool and hit my head on the corner of the night table...forgot all about the spider as I felt around the massive divot in my head which was bleeding fairly aggressively...made sure I remembered my name...where I was...what day it was...then wrapped my head in a towel and headed for emergency which was twelve miles away...doctor took a look...said "I see your skull in there...looks like it's still in one piece...gave me two stitches deep down..and three more to close it...not to thrilled with spiders...

I have also noticed that many small animals go for broke in ferociousness when confronted by something bigger. A little lizard jumped at me and bit me on the finger and my first reaction was to run out of there. It was just such a SURPRISE. I pointed and said, "Hey, look at that little........AHHHHHHHHHH!!!"