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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Bosco123 on October 24, 2009, 04:59:56 PM
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I have this oversize spider outside of my window, that has made a nest the size of a regular window. So I'm sitting on my porch, just passing time, when I see this baby bird, trying to learn how to fly, he hits out big window, which was kind of funny then he hit's my window, but this time, this big bellybutton spider's nest catches the baby bird! That spider moved so fast, he is not all wraped up and is about to get sucked up. lmao!
So, bird OWNED!
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lol, be careful Bosco.
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Made me think of this...
(http://invasiveinfection.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/health_bar_spider.jpg)
:D
Another...
(http://pics.nexuizninjaz.com/images/zww0qu93j2puivh9bz.jpg)
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Any spider that big needs to DIE!!!!
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I have this oversize spider outside of my window, that has made a nest the size of a regular window. So I'm sitting on my porch, just passing time, when I see this baby bird, trying to learn how to fly, he hits out big window, which was kind of funny then he hit's my window, but this time, this big bellybutton spider's nest catches the baby bird! That spider moved so fast, he is not all wraped up and is about to get sucked up. lmao!
So, bird OWNED!
what???? no pictures??????????????? :mad: :furious
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Made me think of this...
(http://invasiveinfection.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/health_bar_spider.jpg)
:D
Another...
(http://pics.nexuizninjaz.com/images/zww0qu93j2puivh9bz.jpg)
ya know? i'm not afraid of spiders....and i don;t like to kill em, 'cause they eat the annoying creatures.
put one that friggin big near me, and i'm shootin his ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :noid
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put one that friggin big near me, and i'm shootin his ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :noid
Drywall...................... .......$10.00
Joint compound and tape.....$15.00
Watching Cap1 spend the afternoon patching the wall where he went Dirty Harry on the spiders ass..............Priceless :rofl
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put one that friggin big near me, and i'm shootin his ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :noid
Drywall...................... .......$10.00
Joint compound and tape.....$15.00
Watching Cap1 spend the afternoon patching the wall where he went Dirty Harry on the spiders ass..............Priceless :rofl
:aok
i'll have to see if i can find the pictures of the camel spiders a friend of mine took when he was over in the sandbox.......those things are creepy.
besides.....if i was gonna squoosh him......what the hell would i hit him with? a shovel? in the case of the ones pictured, a snoew shovel no less..... :noid :rofl :rofl :bolt:
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put one that friggin big near me, and i'm shootin his ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :noid
CAP, CAP, CAP, haven't you learned anything?
Shooting Mongo only makes him mad.
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Any spider that big needs to DIE!!!!
EVERY spider needs to die. I'm terrified of them
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IM a plumber in NH and Ive seen lots of spiders. And lots together in well houses..all up overhead just hanging there. The biggest Ive ever seen up here was in my dad's old shop. He came up out of the old floor drain,which basically was just a hole in the floor. It was also what I called the gateway to hell, after seeing other large odd bugs crawl out of it.
This spider was the size of a small tarantula. Legs and all about the size of my palm and I have large hands. My bud (we were jammin out at the time) grabbed a sledgehammer and set it on its back. Dead weight of the hammer. It wiggled out from under it and ran across the floor. My bud then chased it(freaked out btw) and squished it with a blow from the hammer. That did the trick.
I hate spiders, but have had to crawl in places where you feel them crawl against you, but you block it out to get the job done. Theres worse jobs I guess. Luckily up here they are harmless.
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CAP, CAP, CAP, haven't you learned anything?
Shooting Mongo only makes him mad.
:noid :rofl :noid :bolt:
ut....mongo like cute litl spider./....
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I hate spiders, but have had to crawl in places where you feel them crawl against you, but you block it out to get the job done. Theres worse jobs I guess. Luckily up here they are harmless.
No spider is harmless for me. My heart is liable to skip a beat if one touches me.
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EVERY spider needs to die. I'm terrified of them
when i was about 13 years old. mom almost killed all three of us..my brother, me and her....because of a spider about the size of a nickel.
see...mom is terrified of them. both my brother and i used to make fun of her because of this.
well, one night, she's driving up gibbsboro rd, and sees a spider on her windshield. she decides to play "cool" and simply hits the wipers, along with the washer.......it all went wonderful, till the wipers swiped twice, and spidey was still there.
now she goes into a panic, as she realized that spidey was on the INSIDE of the windshield. :rofl
she grabbed a note tablet out of the center console, and started trying to swat it. meanwhile, traffic in front of us wasn't moving anymore, and we were still doing around 30 mph. she nearly locked up the brakes trying to miss the car in front. launched me onto the floor in the back, and my brother had to brace on the dashboard.
she hasn't made that mistake again. :noid
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i sat in my garage one night, drinking, and watching a wolf(i think) spider build his web. he was about the size of a silver 1/2 dollar....so not that big.
it's actually REALLY amazing to watch them work. it took him hours to do it. then i fed him. :noid :bolt:
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when i was about 13 years old. mom almost killed all three of us..my brother, me and her....because of a spider about the size of a nickel.
see...mom is terrified of them. both my brother and i used to make fun of her because of this.
well, one night, she's driving up gibbsboro rd, and sees a spider on her windshield. she decides to play "cool" and simply hits the wipers, along with the washer.......it all went wonderful, till the wipers swiped twice, and spidey was still there.
now she goes into a panic, as she realized that spidey was on the INSIDE of the windshield. :rofl
she grabbed a note tablet out of the center console, and started trying to swat it. meanwhile, traffic in front of us wasn't moving anymore, and we were still doing around 30 mph. she nearly locked up the brakes trying to miss the car in front. launched me onto the floor in the back, and my brother had to brace on the dashboard.
she hasn't made that mistake again. :noid
I was riding around the field behind my house on our four wheeler. I made a turn and went through some trees. When I came out there was a spider on the MFD (?) screen. I jumped off the fourwheeler and sprained my ankel real bad. Four wheeler didn't get so lucky...
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I don't think wolf spiders spin webs, those little salamanders dash around on the floor going about 2 miles an hour (thats fast for a spider) and looks like the second picture posted.
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I don't think wolf spiders spin webs, those little salamanders dash around on the floor going about 2 miles an hour (thats fast for a spider) and looks like the second picture posted.
Correct. Wolf Spiders are active hunters. They have a den, but they actively chase down prey.
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When I used to dove hunt at this public place up in Temple Texas (pretty good place, only place I could ever actually hit the damn dove, surprisingly enough, with a .410), and there was brush/weeds/grass(almost like corn, stiff and dry, and pretty tall, so grasshopper heaven) and after a big rain, I'd go down there, and run into garden spiders the size of my hand, there was one place where there were so many, I thought they were gonna drag me away.
Spiders, scorpions, and centipedes are the only creatures I will kill without hesitation, but mostly scorpions and centipedes. I won't go out of my way to kill a spider.
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ya know? i'm not afraid of spiders....and i don;t like to kill em, 'cause they eat the annoying creatures.
put one that friggin big near me, and i'm shootin his ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :noid
Better make it a double-tap. (just to be sure)
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Two years ago we were walking into the garage and found this little fella:
(http://longhornloftbeds.com/spider/thumbnails/DSC00399.jpg)
See all the pictures here: http://longhornloftbeds.com/spider/index.htm (http://longhornloftbeds.com/spider/index.htm)
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LMAO cap1 the spider on inside of windshield has happened to me. Sucks when your doing 60mph and a huge spider is crawling on you. Whats even worse is when you get a bee in your helmet riding down the rode.
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lol, be careful Bosco.
Yea I know, not the instant I post it, I thought there would be someone that will not like this post. So far, it's been good, and hey, that's the cruel world but it happens, just funny to watch how dam fast that spider moved in to kill that thing.
Of course, most people know that I'm not a cruel and sadistic person, but I may have a harsh sense of humor.
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I don't think wolf spiders spin webs, those little salamanders dash around on the floor going about 2 miles an hour (thats fast for a spider) and looks like the second picture posted.
i wasn't sure. i'll try to get a picture of one making a web......they're all over the place in my yard. :aok
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I can't believe there's no pictures still....
I woke up one morning to go to work and put on my shoes halfway to step outside for a minute. I felt a lump in my shoe but I figured a coin had just fallen in there so I walked around temporarily until I started to feel a sickening squish...well I go to the kitchen to empty the shoe and lo and behold is Sheba herself laying in her dying clutches.
(http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/7618/sspx0039.jpg)
I shook my shoes out before putting them on for about 3 weeks after that.
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Better make it a double-tap. (just to be sure)
I'm guessing you saw Zombieland, too :lol
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I can't believe there's no pictures still....
I woke up one morning to go to work and put on my shoes halfway to step outside for a minute. I felt a lump in my shoe but I figured a coin had just fallen in there so I walked around temporarily until I started to feel a sickening squish...well I go to the kitchen to empty the shoe and lo and behold is Sheba herself laying in her dying clutches.
(http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/7618/sspx0039.jpg)
I shook my shoes out before putting them on for about 3 weeks after that.
SheBA or SheLOB?
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I can't believe there's no pictures still....
I woke up one morning to go to work and put on my shoes halfway to step outside for a minute. I felt a lump in my shoe but I figured a coin had just fallen in there so I walked around temporarily until I started to feel a sickening squish...well I go to the kitchen to empty the shoe and lo and behold is Sheba herself laying in her dying clutches.
(http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/7618/sspx0039.jpg)
I shook my shoes out before putting them on for about 3 weeks after that.
I had homecoming, so I just saw it then had to leave. When I came back, the bird was gone lol. I do have a picture of the actual spider though:
(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh198/mniezelski/DSC01008.jpg)
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I'm guessing you saw Zombieland, too :lol
dont be stingy with your bullets or you might end up like that lady :uhoh
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That my friend is a garden spider. Those damn things get huge down in FL. Had a guy that works in the building that I guard come in one night and tell about this big bellybutton spider that was outside. I didn't believe him and went out to look at it. :O Was a damn Texas Brown Tarantula, only species native in AR, that had a leg span of about 6-7 inches.
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The actual name of the spider is the Golden Orb Spider, pretty awsome looking spider, that's why he's not dead yet :)
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Spiders are one of the few things with exoskeletons that are not dead on sight in my home. Insects get squished, spiders I rescue and put outside because they prey on pests.
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Found this doing a search with google.
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CvXEhdXFheY/SQCpdOle3lI/AAAAAAAAEos/LX_DISEjpFs/s400/bird+eating+spider+Giant+golden+orb+spider+eating+bird)
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Spiders are one of the few things with exoskeletons that are not dead on sight in my home. Insects get squished, spiders I rescue and put outside because they prey on pests.
In my house, they only prey on each other. They refuse to eat the friggin' ants.
The very thin ones with the long legs have set up their turf in the downstairs living room and laundry room. The yellow ones, that blend in so well with the yellow walls, stick to the upstairs bathrooms. The tiny black jumpers stay in the first floor family room. The friggin' recluses wage war on all.
As do I.
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In my house, they only prey on each other. They refuse to eat the friggin' ants.
The very thin ones with the long legs have set up their turf in the downstairs living room and laundry room. The yellow ones, that blend in so well with the yellow walls, stick to the upstairs bathrooms. The tiny black jumpers stay in the first floor family room. The friggin' recluses wage war on all.
As do I.
There is a whole in my sheetrock about the size of a baseball where I went postal on a spider with a baseball bat. Spiders and I do NOT get along
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I did something real stupid, i saw a damn spider, not too big, crawling on the wall and i decided to get the massive hammer next to me. I nailed him, and the wall...
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Found this doing a search with google.
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CvXEhdXFheY/SQCpdOle3lI/AAAAAAAAEos/LX_DISEjpFs/s400/bird+eating+spider+Giant+golden+orb+spider+eating+bird)
We had those in TX where I grew up, called them banana spiders, but I think technically they're golden orb weavers. They get pretty damn big, make really strong webs between the trunks of trees. Once, while playing outside with some friends, shooting bb guns at each other, I ran through a web while looking back over my shoulder and got one on my face. I blacked my eye smacking it so hard and fast.
I don't mind spiders at all, I think they're neat and they do eat lots of irritating insects. But, I don't want the ON me.
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We had those in TX where I grew up, called them banana spiders, but I think technically they're golden orb weavers. They get pretty damn big, make really strong webs between the trunks of trees. Once, while playing outside with some friends, shooting bb guns at each other, I ran through a web while looking back over my shoulder and got one on my face. I blacked my eye smacking it so hard and fast.
I don't mind spiders at all, I think they're neat and they do eat lots of irritating insects. But, I don't want the ON me.
I would've hyperventilated, passed out, had a heart attack, or just plain died :uhoh
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I would shoot it with a 12 gauge with buckshot.
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I would shoot it with a 12 gauge with buckshot.
So you would've blown your friends head to bits? You're smart...
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It was too late, the spider already had him. It would have been a mercy.
*This is humor.
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My best spider story:
I got home late one night from work and just wanted to make something to eat before going to bed. I was making something and saw a spider on the counter, it made a dash for my hand so i backed up, it ran to the end of the counter then leaped. I took a step back and looked down to see the spider coming toward my feet. I go to the other side of the room, grab a shoe, walk back and meet the spider halfway (it kept coming toward me). Gotta admit, he was a brave advisory.
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We had those in TX where I grew up, called them banana spiders, but I think technically they're golden orb weavers. They get pretty damn big, make really strong webs between the trunks of trees. Once, while playing outside with some friends, shooting bb guns at each other, I ran through a web while looking back over my shoulder and got one on my face. I blacked my eye smacking it so hard and fast.
I don't mind spiders at all, I think they're neat and they do eat lots of irritating insects. But, I don't want the ON me.
Nope, that photo was taken by an Aussie fellow on another forum I participate in. The photo was taken in Australia. While it might be a banana spider, it is definitely not a golden orb weaver.
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There is a certain time of year that tarantuals migrate around Mt. Diablo outside of Danville N. California. During the fall boys look for girls. Its an arachnaphobes bad acid trip. Tarantual moving carpets can happen some times in really good years on the roads and trails. More often you can hike for a day and see up to a dozen horny male tarantulas. I've met a few cyclers who do the Mt. Diablo circuit who came around the corner of the road into a thick migration over the years. Most just man up and keep going. Splat, splat, splattt. One of them told me about a cycler who freaked and went off the road down the mountain. Not sure what I would do myself. I have a Norwegian Forrest Cat who thinks smashing spiders with his paw makes them taste better. I hear when you BBQ tarantula it tastes like shrimp....... :bolt:
If you want the chance to see multiple tarantulas in a day, it takes place sept-oct on Mt. Diablo. I've heard the wild Turkeys stomp them to mush and gobble em down.
http://www.ibabuzz.com/garybogue/2008/10/15/its-tarantula-time-on-mount-diablo/
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/10/15/MNG9RLPSH11.DTL
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Spend some time in the woods on Ft Benning and you will find yourself some Black Widows.....nasty looking things but the snakes....o the snakes....... :bolt:
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We had one in the range building at the prison I used to work at about 4 years ago that filled most of a paper plate (which is HUGE for upstate New York). I think it was a wolf spider. We walked into the classroom in the morning and there he was just curled up on the floor in front of the door. Guys thought he was dead until they nudged him with their toes, then he uncurled and reared up, then scurried out the door and down the hall.
So they caught him, trapped him between two paper plates and set him (with the plates held together) under a book on the training officers desk. He almost literally dropped dead when he picked up the book and it came running out- he actually ran out of the room and started hyperventilating so bad that we had to postpone the class and make sure he wasn't having a heart attack. If it'd been me, that service revolver he has to carry on the range would have been put to use- both on the monstrous 'nid and the sick pranksters.
He got the ringleader back a few weeks later with a dead rattler on his drivers seat though.
I've also seen those ones that look like giant brown recluses come out of the basement that are so big the cats and dog just back off and stare at it until either I kill it or it gets to where its going (usually out the front door, oddly enough).
Little ones don't bother me too bad, but the big ones scare the living bejesus out of me.
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We had those in TX where I grew up, called them banana spiders, but I think technically they're golden orb weavers. They get pretty damn big, make really strong webs between the trunks of trees. Once, while playing outside with some friends, shooting bb guns at each other, I ran through a web while looking back over my shoulder and got one on my face. I blacked my eye smacking it so hard and fast.
I don't mind spiders at all, I think they're neat and they do eat lots of irritating insects. But, I don't want the ON me.
They dont get as big, Im sure, but we have them in the Mid-Atlantic/Northeast, too. Nowhere near as common as in Florida, though.
I'll spare you the Florida story, where I was first introduced to these wonderful spiders running through the woods at a camp ground outside Disneyworld, but the Pennsylvania story will make Banshee pass out.
Was doing some fly fishing with a buddy in a stream in northeastern Pennsylvania. Current was strong, but not too bad... stream was roughly 100 feet across and probably 7-8 feet deep in the middle with the odd area near the shoreline where one could not stand.
Being the young, advernturous lads that we were, we had chest waders on and were in the stream. How the hell else were we suppose to get dirty and catch fish, etc, etc?
Well, as I stood there, casting, only about 15 feet into the stream (water up to waiste), I lost my footing and the current took me. You see, rocks under the water of streams like this serve as anchors for planetlife and end you being covered in slimy (read: slippery) algae. Well, my boot didnt much care for the "slippery" part and off I went...
Obviously this was slightly troubling as I just happened (yay...) to be, according to my own legs, drifting into an area where I could not stand. More troubling than this was the fact that the water, now over my chest line, was filling my waders, making me rather inefficient at the whole "floating" thing. Still more troubling was that the tree I saw ahead, with a branch that appeared to be strong enough to latch onto, had some strange haze beneath it... covering a couple loose bush branches, etc, etc.
Now about 20 feet away from this low-slung tree on the bank, along with its viney bushes and strange, hazy-film thing, was a rather visible object in the middle of the curious... FORNICATE! MASSIVE FORNICATING SPIDER!
With no ability to stop myself, brace against the current, swim with filled waders, etc, etc, I went straight into this diety-darned spider web and ended up covered in its web with the damned thing, which, so far as I could tell at that moment, was roughly the size of a small car (palm of hand, realisticly) crawling on the back of my neck.
Eventually, the current pushed me into an area where I could stand again, I scrambled onto the muddy shore and, to this day, I dont think that I could disrobe any faster for Jenna Jameson, herself.
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Spiders are one of the few things with exoskeletons that are not dead on sight in my home. Insects get squished, spiders I rescue and put outside because they prey on pests.
+1. In the part of the northeast where I grew up, most spiders don't get very large (or poisonous) so I generally will leave them alone out of habit. If they are eating the skeeters and horseflies, I'm happy. That being said, we used to have a place up in Chaumont bay near Watertown NY and I would wake up with spider bites on my arms/legs. I never once recall one still being on me when I awoke, but that would have bothered me a bit. Of course there are exceptions, and these will usually get whacked with a sandal. I have waged jihad against plenty of other insects in my day (especially in DC!), so I would consider my sandal accuracy to be quite high.
Now snakes on the other hand, snakes I can live without. (http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs12/i/2006/297/8/1/Indiana_Jones_Emote_by_Emoticon_Man.jpg)
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+1. In the part of the northeast where I grew up, most spiders don't get very large (or poisonous) so I generally will leave them alone out of habit. If they are eating the skeeters and horseflies, I'm happy. That being said, we used to have a place up in Chaumont bay near Watertown NY and I would wake up with spider bites on my arms/legs. I never once recall one still being on me when I awoke, but that would have bothered me a bit. Of course there are exceptions, and these will usually get whacked with a sandal. I have waged jihad against plenty of other insects in my day (especially in DC!), so I would consider my sandal accuracy to be quite high.
Now snakes on the other hand, snakes I can live without. (http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs12/i/2006/297/8/1/Indiana_Jones_Emote_by_Emoticon_Man.jpg)
all spiders are poisonous to a point........but they are also defensive, as opposed to offensive.
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all spiders are poisonous to a point........but they are also defensive, as opposed to offensive.
Aye, hence why I said "very poisonous." I agree though for the most part the difference is in behavior -- whether or not they will take on a human, as in Raptor's hilarious story.
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ya know? i'm not afraid of spiders....and i don;t like to kill em, 'cause they eat the annoying creatures.
put one that friggin big near me, and i'm shootin his ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :noid
You brought the argument up, then rejected it handily. Whenever anyone throws out that truth - spiders DO eat bugs, after all - I always say, great, by that token, maybe I'll just bring some Cobras in the house to make sure I never have a mouse or rat problem.
At a certain point, the solution becomes a problem.
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What a bunch of arachnophobs. When I was a kid growing up in Arkansas, we used to catch tarantulas with our hands and let them crawl all over us.
Once when the family was all watching TV in the living room, a tarantula crawled across the floor right in front of us. My dad casually got up and gave it a good smack. Instantly, hundreds of baby tarantulas that had been on her back crawled off and headed in every direction. That’s about the time my mom started freaking out.
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Sorry not really afraid of the common spiders just don't like the very nasty kinds. Central Arkansas is also bad about roaches and black widows in the water meter boxes. Working one day and reached into the lid to remove it from the box, I felt webs, and thought it was not a big deal. Once I had the lid off it turned out to be a very big deal. There were about 15 female and about 3 or 4 male black widows in the box.
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I have/had a pet black widow under one of the A/C units at work up on the roof. Found her by accident since she made her web around the drain spout on the unit. Told everyone she was off limits to be killed. She's very secretive as I only get to see her legs normally...and the unfortunate male hanging in her web. :t
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Nope, that photo was taken by an Aussie fellow on another forum I participate in. The photo was taken in Australia. While it might be a banana spider, it is definitely not a golden orb weaver.
Golden silk orb-weaver
Diversity
27 species
The golden silk orb-weavers (genus Nephila) are a genus of spiders noted for the impressive webs they weave. Nephila consists of numerous individual species found around the world. They are also commonly called golden orb-weavers, giant wood spiders or banana spiders. In North America, the golden silk orb-weavers (see also Nephila clavipes) are sometimes referred to as writing spiders due to occasional zigzag patterns (stabilimenta) built into their webs, though these occur much more frequently in the webs of Argiope, such as the St Andrew's Cross spider.
Distribution
Golden silk orb-weavers are widespread in warmer regions throughout the world, with species in Australia, Asia, Africa (including Madagascar), and the Americas. One species, N. clavipes, occurs in the United States of America, where it ranges throughout the coastal southeast and inland, from North Carolina to Texas.
From Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_silk_orb-weaver#Distribution
See also.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephila_clavipes
Just because you have them in Austrailia doesn't mean that they don't also live here too.
Edited to shorten the length of the Wikipedia quote down to the most relevant bits.
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What a bunch of arachnophobs. When I was a kid growing up in Arkansas, we used to catch tarantulas with our hands and let them crawl all over us.
Once when the family was all watching TV in the living room, a tarantula crawled across the floor right in front of us. My dad casually got up and gave it a good smack. Instantly, hundreds of baby tarantulas that had been on her back crawled off and headed in every direction. That’s about the time my mom started freaking out.
Jesus crimey!
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What a bunch of arachnophobs. When I was a kid growing up in Arkansas, we used to catch tarantulas with our hands and let them crawl all over us.
Once when the family was all watching TV in the living room, a tarantula crawled across the floor right in front of us. My dad casually got up and gave it a good smack. Instantly, hundreds of baby tarantulas that had been on her back crawled off and headed in every direction. That’s about the time my mom started freaking out.
Banshee will never sleep again.
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You brought the argument up, then rejected it handily. Whenever anyone throws out that truth - spiders DO eat bugs, after all - I always say, great, by that token, maybe I'll just bring some Cobras in the house to make sure I never have a mouse or rat problem.
At a certain point, the solution becomes a problem.
funny you choose cobras. don't turn your back on one. they are one of the few snakes that will attack unprovoked.
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The second worst spider related thing that ever happened to me: Some years back, just after I was out of highschool and had dropped out of college, I was visiting my dad back home in Texas. We had gone to the bayhouse for the weekend and were fishing out in Christmas Bay just off of the San Luis pass, between Galveston and the mainland of Texas. It was just after noon and slightly breezy, and just a beautiful spring day.
At some point we started seeing strands of web floating through the air, it was baby spiders, "ballooning." Then there started to be more of them, and more still. Inside of a couple of hours the air was filled with little baby spiders on strands of web, and so was the boat. As we sat there fishing, both just sort of hunkered down and neither of us talking at all, baby spiders just kept landing all over us and crawling all over the place. In a very short while we had to give up smacking and killing them, there even got to be too many to just brush off. We just sort of sat there and took it. Neither of us was willing to be the first one to break and suggest heading back to the dock. No that it would have made any difference anyway though, we weren't far from the bayhouse anyway. I remember at one point looking at my line in the water and there were 4 little spiders on my fishing line. There were probably dozens of them on me, and the same on my dad. The boat was just crawling with them.
It stopped after a while and we ran around the bay at top speed, to get them off and out. Neither of us said a word about it until we got back to the dock later that evening.
I don't mind spiders at all, but like I said, I don't want them ON me. I can still remember that feeling I got with them all over me.