Code001
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dfrattaroli":1689sg7c said:
All spiders have venom. It's just that most don't produce enough to harm humans.
All spiders have venom. It's just that most don't produce enough to harm humans.
VH4_BigRig
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F*ck man, if I saw one of those, you'd hear me scream in another city, I f*ckin HATE spiders. Hate 'em. Where I grew up, all we ever had was a sh*tload of mosquitos, houseflies, and the odd bumblebee or tiny tundra spider- that's it. I hate most bugs, which is why I doubt I'd ever go to south america or africa. You shoulda heard me the first time I saw a junebug...one of my worst nightmares ever was dreaming of a bunch of tarantulas climbing in my bed 
bds9487
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According to termite.com (http://www.termite.com/spider-identification.html#wolfdfrattaroli":1jcyebml said:
Wolf Spiders ...venomous - non-aggressive
Venom toxicity - the bite of the Wolf Spider is poisonous but not lethal. Although non-aggressive, they bite freely if provoked and should be considered dangerous to humans. The bite may be very painful. First aid and medical attention should be sought as soon as possible, particularly as to children or the elderly.
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Spider Identification - an adult is 1/2 inch to more than 1 inch in body length - mottled gray to brown in color, with a distinct Union Jack impression on its back. The female carries it's young on its back.
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Habitat - this spider is a ground dweller, with a burrow retreat. It has a roving nocturnal lifestyle to hunt their prey and can move very rapidly when disturbed. Commonly found around the home, in garden areas with a silk lined burrow, sometimes with a lid or covered by leaf litter or grass woven with silk as a little fence around the rim of the burrow.
bds9487
Member
Here's a picture of a female wolf with her babies on her back:
amiller
New member
When I was a kid I had NO fear of bugs ... including spiders. I used to collect all kinds of insects just for fun.
UNTIL...
One day, when I was about 8 years old, I had a bad experience with my bug collecting. I had just finished collecting a bunch of bugs and was checking them out. I had them in a shoe box and had just picked a bug up with one hand and was looking at it while my other hand was still resting the box. Suddenly, I felt something on the hand that was still on the box. (Queue the jaws music) I looked down to see a huge freaking wolf spider just as the bastid sunk his fangs into my hand. Holy Jesus, it felt like someone had just put out a burning cigarette on my hand. Man, I jumped up and was running through the house screaming like a mad man. When I finally calmed down I could see a small piece of one of the spider’s fangs broken off and still in my hand. I got a pair of tweezers and pulled it out.
Fast forward many years.
I lived in an apartment complex that had private entrances to each apartment. The complex looked like more like a collection of row homes than apartments. My apartment entrance had an overhang at the front door entrance and some tall shrubbery on one side of the entrance. Every evening, when I came home from work, I would see a very large spider building it's web in the shrubbery. I never bothered it because I knew it was keeping the insect population in check. Well, one Friday evening I was in a hurry to go out for the night and I went bombing out the door and...WHAM, I ran right into that DAMN spider. The spider had decided to build it's web between the shrubbery and the door overhang. The web was now right in front of the door entrance. The spider was sitting in the middle of the web right at head level when I came out the door and I ran right into it. Man, I had spider web all over my face and I could feel the weight of the spider as it hit my face and I could feel it running over the side of my check and jumping off...arrrrgh!!! Just thinking about it now gives me the freaking creeps.
To this day...I FREAKING HATE SPIDERS!!! 
UNTIL...
One day, when I was about 8 years old, I had a bad experience with my bug collecting. I had just finished collecting a bunch of bugs and was checking them out. I had them in a shoe box and had just picked a bug up with one hand and was looking at it while my other hand was still resting the box. Suddenly, I felt something on the hand that was still on the box. (Queue the jaws music) I looked down to see a huge freaking wolf spider just as the bastid sunk his fangs into my hand. Holy Jesus, it felt like someone had just put out a burning cigarette on my hand. Man, I jumped up and was running through the house screaming like a mad man. When I finally calmed down I could see a small piece of one of the spider’s fangs broken off and still in my hand. I got a pair of tweezers and pulled it out.
Fast forward many years.
I lived in an apartment complex that had private entrances to each apartment. The complex looked like more like a collection of row homes than apartments. My apartment entrance had an overhang at the front door entrance and some tall shrubbery on one side of the entrance. Every evening, when I came home from work, I would see a very large spider building it's web in the shrubbery. I never bothered it because I knew it was keeping the insect population in check. Well, one Friday evening I was in a hurry to go out for the night and I went bombing out the door and...WHAM, I ran right into that DAMN spider. The spider had decided to build it's web between the shrubbery and the door overhang. The web was now right in front of the door entrance. The spider was sitting in the middle of the web right at head level when I came out the door and I ran right into it. Man, I had spider web all over my face and I could feel the weight of the spider as it hit my face and I could feel it running over the side of my check and jumping off...arrrrgh!!! Just thinking about it now gives me the freaking creeps.
To this day...I FREAKING HATE SPIDERS!!!
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bunghole
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amiller":2waq1l7q said:
they do that shit around here all the time. not really at the door though. they do it in the trees and kinda hang over the walkways. if i have to go out near trees at night to take out the garbage I probably look like a prowler cause I'm always ducking down.
anyone ever kill a pregnant spider? that's always fun
and even though they control the pests, they bother me more, so they are pests to me. i'd rather have retarded junebugs flying everywhere
Speed_Racer71
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after seeing that..id have to go wash my azz 
amiller
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Recluse spider bite picture:
bds9487
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OOOOOHHHHHHHH...FUUUUUUUUCK. I didn't need to see that!!!!!!!amiller":s2dnh431 said:Recluse spider bite picture:
killertone
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Found this son a of a bitch on my front porch last year. My kids thought it was cool so we put him in a terrarium for a few days before we let him go. Went and got some crickets for him...holy shit he destroyed those things!
amiller
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One more bug story...I can't believe I almost forgot this one.
Me and my girlfriend (wife now) are laying out in the sun in shorts on a blanket trying to catch some rays...we're both in our early twenties...who cares about skin cancer at that age.
Anyway, I'm about half asleep when I feel something crawling on my ankle. I remember seeing a few of those big black ants crawling around the blanket just before I lay down. I'm thinking, crap, I got an ant on my leg but I'm too sleepy to bother reaching down and brushing it off. Then I realize that the damn thing is moving up my leg...REALLY FAST. Holy crap, I didn't think they could move that fast. The next thing I know its on my back and before I get a chance to swat at it...SHIT, it just went into my ear. 
I jumped up and went running toward the house all the while screaming "there's an ant in my ear, there's an ant in my ear!" I was terrified that it was going to bite my eardrum and destroy my hearing. I ran into the kitchen with my girlfriend following me. I could feel and HEAR it shuffling around inside my ear...this was scaring the hell out of me. Then, my girlfriend suggested putting some water into my ear to flush it out. I didn't have much confidence that putting water in my ear would have any effect...but, I was willing to try ANYTHING! My girlfriend got a tablespoon of water and while I leaned my head to one side she poured the water into my ear. Suddenly, she let out a loud piercing scream and jumped why back. I'm like, what the hell is the matter with you. She yelled out, "a spider just jumped out of your" ...HOLY CRAP!
No good freaking .... I HATE SPIDERS!!!
Me and my girlfriend (wife now) are laying out in the sun in shorts on a blanket trying to catch some rays...we're both in our early twenties...who cares about skin cancer at that age.
Anyway, I'm about half asleep when I feel something crawling on my ankle. I remember seeing a few of those big black ants crawling around the blanket just before I lay down. I'm thinking, crap, I got an ant on my leg but I'm too sleepy to bother reaching down and brushing it off. Then I realize that the damn thing is moving up my leg...REALLY FAST. Holy crap, I didn't think they could move that fast. The next thing I know its on my back and before I get a chance to swat at it...SHIT, it just went into my ear. I jumped up and went running toward the house all the while screaming "there's an ant in my ear, there's an ant in my ear!" I was terrified that it was going to bite my eardrum and destroy my hearing. I ran into the kitchen with my girlfriend following me. I could feel and HEAR it shuffling around inside my ear...this was scaring the hell out of me. Then, my girlfriend suggested putting some water into my ear to flush it out. I didn't have much confidence that putting water in my ear would have any effect...but, I was willing to try ANYTHING! My girlfriend got a tablespoon of water and while I leaned my head to one side she poured the water into my ear. Suddenly, she let out a loud piercing scream and jumped why back. I'm like, what the hell is the matter with you. She yelled out, "a spider just jumped out of your" ...HOLY CRAP! No good freaking .... I HATE SPIDERS!!!
Jordon
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I wish I hadn't clicked on this thread. I really wish.
We have spiders that look like that that get as big as your hand up around Chicago, especially along the rox and DesPlaines rivers.
We have spiders that look like that that get as big as your hand up around Chicago, especially along the rox and DesPlaines rivers.
Tnjpekar
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wd 40 and a stem lighter fix that sucker right up
that or a wiffle ball bat
last year at summer camp one of the scouts took me to see a spider about the size of my hand in its web-stretched between two saplings.
I avoided it till the next day when the kid took me back to see what was wrapped up in its web
couldn't totally make it out but it had a beak
grabbed a slat of wood and smashed that sucker to bits
birds should eat spiders, not the other way around
that or a wiffle ball bat
last year at summer camp one of the scouts took me to see a spider about the size of my hand in its web-stretched between two saplings.
I avoided it till the next day when the kid took me back to see what was wrapped up in its web
couldn't totally make it out but it had a beak
grabbed a slat of wood and smashed that sucker to bits
birds should eat spiders, not the other way around
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racer_j
Member
Look at a distribution map of brown recluse spiders and you'll see AR right in the middle.
Specifically my house!!! 
I've killed at least 3 of those f*ckers this week. I put 40 lbs of poison on my yard earlier this week. I spray poison inside and outside my house several times a year. I'm ok as long as I come up on them, but damn if it don't creep me out being startled by them.
Don't get me started on fire ants, those bitches never die!
J.
Specifically my house!!!
I've killed at least 3 of those f*ckers this week. I put 40 lbs of poison on my yard earlier this week. I spray poison inside and outside my house several times a year. I'm ok as long as I come up on them, but damn if it don't creep me out being startled by them.
Don't get me started on fire ants, those bitches never die!
J.
nbarts
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bds9487":3evp2kma said:This morning I was bringing in the umbrella I'd left on my front step and decided to open it before I brought it inside. I'm glad I did.
Here's what was inside. I believe this is a Wolf spider and he was nearly as big as my hand. I ran inside and got my camera and got this picture before he got away.
Nice picture!!!
nbarts
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RockNRollBabyHead":25kay2rg said:
bds9487
Member
Thanks. I used the macro setting on my camera which means I had to get pretty damn close to him to take it. It was a little freaky. If he would have jumped I'd have shit my pants.nbarts":hyje5w5s said:bds9487":hyje5w5s said:This morning I was bringing in the umbrella I'd left on my front step and decided to open it before I brought it inside. I'm glad I did.
Here's what was inside. I believe this is a Wolf spider and he was nearly as big as my hand. I ran inside and got my camera and got this picture before he got away.
Nice picture!!!
RedB4Black
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I found these in the first two pics in my house. The centipede was in my kitchen and the scorpion was on the back side of the couch my wife was sitting on at the time. I moved them outside to get better pictures of them before they died. 
I have a much cooler picture of this one, but unfortunately its not in my photobucket account. She was living in the box in my yard where the sprinker system valves are. I opend the box and it nearly got my hand. It was very fast. I'm glad all those babies didn't get a chance to grow up in my yard.
I have a much cooler picture of this one, but unfortunately its not in my photobucket account. She was living in the box in my yard where the sprinker system valves are. I opend the box and it nearly got my hand. It was very fast. I'm glad all those babies didn't get a chance to grow up in my yard.
fredster
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