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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: EskimoJoe on July 31, 2011, 01:40:01 AM
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This little feller ambushed my tinfoil hat, so I zapped him with the electrified tennis racket lookin' thing.
Can anyone ID the ugly thing? Just out of curiosity.
(http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/6596/sdc14377n.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/846/sdc14377n.jpg/)
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Looks like a brown recluse. It has the "fiddle" behind its eyes.
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Did it have 2 or 3 banks of eyes?
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No idea, I tossed it in the trash after I zapped it.
I'm in Colorado if that helps at all.
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Looks like a brown recluse. It has the "fiddle" behind its eyes.
Wrong.
(http://www.desertusa.com/desert-animals/images/brown_recluse2.jpg)
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Lol at least we know one of a million spiders that it's not.
:bolt:
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Wrong.
Theres a first time for everything :D
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:bolt: KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!1!
In all seriousness it is very ugly now that you mention it, and sorry but I couldnt find it in my grand database of spider species that I keep around.
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It's about the size of a nickel?
It's harmless.
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It's harmless.
of course, its dead.
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It's about the size of a nickel?
It's harmless.
It was also the fastest spider I've ever seen, and smelled great on fire.
Judge based on size, I'll have a chuckle when you experience a bite from a dime sized venomous spider :D
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Judge based on size, I'll have a chuckle when you experience a bite from a dime sized venomous spider :D
Black widows, brown recluse, don't bother me any.
Wife's buddy nearly lost her foot to a brown recluse. But she was a dummy and didn't treat it proper.
I tried to bring a fat wolf spider to the house, Ol woman yelled at me until I took it away. (let it go on the porch, don't rat me out.)
I'm a fan of spiders.
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(http://i650.photobucket.com/albums/uu224/mavala6/meme.jpg)
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Black widows, brown recluse, don't bother me any.
Wife's buddy nearly lost her foot to a brown recluse. But she was a dummy and didn't treat it proper.
I tried to bring a fat wolf spider to the house, Ol woman yelled at me until I took it away. (let it go on the porch, don't rat me out.)
I'm a fan of spiders.
I living in Alaska played with daddy long-legs as a kid, and still do from time to time.
That is as big and 'scary' as they got, almost like puppy dogs.
The ones down here move like killers, I dislike them much. I do like, however, the sound
they make when they're hit with a good snap of electricity :t
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I living in Alaska played with daddy long-legs as a kid, and still do from time to time.
That is as big and 'scary' as they got, almost like puppy dogs.
The ones down here move like killers, I dislike them much. I do like, however, the sound
they make when they're hit with a good snap of electricity :t
I hear ya.
I have some nice pics of some big Wolf spiders, but I be searchin for a bit.
Until then, this'll have to do.
(http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb362/saucie1/Breadhead.jpg)
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"Barn funnel weaver" in america or "brown house spider" in europe.
They do look a bit like a Hobo Spider which is considerably more dangerous.
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(http://i650.photobucket.com/albums/uu224/mavala6/meme.jpg)
This guy :rofl :aok
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Notice the size of the camera in the reflection.
This isn't a good pic really, but it's a pretty large Wolf spider.
Photobucket takeas time and i b tired. :aok
forgot the pic....
It's my Wife's hand, that spider is 5 inches across, fast and pissed.
(http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb362/saucie1/YouthCamp2011015.jpg)
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I'd squish it in a heartbeat :bolt:
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They are more afraid of you than you are of them. :aok
EDIT: Especially with our ridiculous hats. :lol
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They are more afraid of you than you are of them. :aok
Oh, not true, If you have ever been to my house when my wife sees one of them,you would recind that comment :lol
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of course, its dead.
LMAO! :cheers:
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I like spiders, but man that was one ugly one :lol A brown Recluse would have been my first guess too, but lol would have been wrong.
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it's not a fiddle back. I usually squish all spiders beyond recognition.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agelena (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agelena)
We have them all over the place here in KY. Fastest sons a bishes you'll ever see. They have holes in their webs for them to hide in and ambush prey when it gets caught in the silk.
Edit: Wiki says it is only native to the old world and Europe and Africa all the way to Japan... It would be wrong. The genus is world-wide (to my knowledge).
funnel weaver, also called grass spider, any of certain members of the spider family Agelenidae (order Araneida). Agelenids are notable for their funnel-shaped webs; they are a common group with many species that are distributed worldwide. The webs are built in the grass, under boards and rocks, and among debris. Agelena naevia, a common North American species, varies greatly in size and colour. The body of the male may be up to 8 millimetres (about 1/3 inch) long; the female grows to about 19 millimetres (about 3/4 inch). Two wide, dark stripes often extend the length of the body to make the basic pattern of the abdomen.
(http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s240/kcwlf29/grassspider1x.jpg)
(http://www.spiderzrule.com/spider053/spider10905_small.jpg)
Look familiar?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agelena (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agelena)
We have them all over the place here in KY. Fastest sons a bishes you'll ever see. They have holes in their webs for them to hide in and ambush prey when it gets caught in the silk.
Edit: Wiki says it is only native to the old world and Europe and Africa all the way to Japan... It would be wrong. The genus is world-wide (to my knowledge).
funnel weaver, also called grass spider, any of certain members of the spider family Agelenidae (order Araneida). Agelenids are notable for their funnel-shaped webs; they are a common group with many species that are distributed worldwide. The webs are built in the grass, under boards and rocks, and among debris. Agelena naevia, a common North American species, varies greatly in size and colour. The body of the male may be up to 8 millimetres (about 1/3 inch) long; the female grows to about 19 millimetres (about 3/4 inch). Two wide, dark stripes often extend the length of the body to make the basic pattern of the abdomen.
(http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s240/kcwlf29/grassspider1x.jpg)
(http://www.spiderzrule.com/spider053/spider10905_small.jpg)
Look familiar?
:cry Just keep it out of my house!!
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have you guys ever seen a wolf spider? had one of those things in my florida room when i let the dog out. that thing was huge about the size of my hand if i spread my fingers out (mind you im 6'3" so i have pretty large hand lol) as soon as i opened the door the damn thing came charging @ me like it was gunna attack me. Too bad he was no match for my shoe and the 225lbs that came down on top of him.
http://www.rshantz.com/Animals/Spiders/20080330Spider01N.jpg
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I have a lot of wolf spiders up where I live, but they are generally smaller in size. The biggest wolf spider I had seen was about 3 inches across with its legs spread out. I often see them running around on the floor, the patio, or alongside the outside of the house. They almost always try to run away when I see them.
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I love spiders. They are incredible creatures. I find it sad that anyone would kill one just because it was there. Don't you realise that spiders eat all the other insects for you? The biting critters and the annoying buzzing critters that lay maggots in your food and all types of critter. The spider she kills them all for you. I can understand killing or removing one that is a threat to your family, but very few spiders are a threat in most of the world.
I like taking photos of spiders more than killing them
(http://www.freeroleentertainment.com/IMG_9654.JPG)
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Batfinkv wins the "My Heart Bleeds For The Spider" post. Wtg. :D
I will never go out of my way to kill anything as little as an insect in nature, but I also won't go out of my way to save a nasty arachnid that is in my house. They will die. :t
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:D
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agelena (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agelena)
We have them all over the place here in KY. Fastest sons a bishes you'll ever see. They have holes in their webs for them to hide in and ambush prey when it gets caught in the silk.
Edit: Wiki says it is only native to the old world and Europe and Africa all the way to Japan... It would be wrong. The genus is world-wide (to my knowledge).
funnel weaver, also called grass spider, any of certain members of the spider family Agelenidae (order Araneida). Agelenids are notable for their funnel-shaped webs; they are a common group with many species that are distributed worldwide. The webs are built in the grass, under boards and rocks, and among debris. Agelena naevia, a common North American species, varies greatly in size and colour. The body of the male may be up to 8 millimetres (about 1/3 inch) long; the female grows to about 19 millimetres (about 3/4 inch). Two wide, dark stripes often extend the length of the body to make the basic pattern of the abdomen.
(http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s240/kcwlf29/grassspider1x.jpg)
(http://www.spiderzrule.com/spider053/spider10905_small.jpg)
Look familiar?
Grass spiders only creep me out because they are big. You can't kill them with a simple slap of newspaper. Usually takes a shoe or baseball bat. Fiddle backs are tiny and delicate. They don't bit you like a rattle snake, they have to feed while you're sleeping.
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Looks like a brown recluse. It has the "fiddle" behind its eyes.
Which eye, spiders have like 8? :)
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Which eye, spiders have like 8? :)
:rofl :rofl
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It's about the size of a nickel?
It's harmless.
all spiders are poisonous.
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all spiders are poisonous.
Right but different spiders use various forms and amounts of venom thats why only 2 spiders in the US can cause fatality.
On that note I know the widow uses a neural toxin and the recluse some kind of dissolving agent that eats flesh, forget the particular name of it but my friend was bit by a pretty nasty spider (i assume the recluse) because he had a gaping hold in his arm the size of a quarter and it wasn't very pretty to look at. He used some heavy anti biotics (I know if it was a recluse he would need anti venom) and it went away in a few months.
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Right but different spiders use various forms and amounts of venom thats why only 2 spiders in the US can cause fatality.
depending on the person, any spider....hell....any insect or bug that bites, or stings can cause fatalities.
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depending on the person, any spider....hell....any insect or bug that bites, or stings can cause fatalities.
Well I meant most common to cause fatality in humans. Being allergic is a whole nother story and if you get bit by more than one of them at a time. Lots of factors but I was just getting my main point across that there are only 2 known killers.
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Odd little factoid, the daddy long legs has the most potent venom in spider terms - fortunately (unfortunately if your the daddy long legs obviously) it has no teeth lol.........ripped off or what?
Wurz (living in the desert with black widow's and brown recluses - none of which survive a size 9 delivered at 235 pounds per square inch!!)
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Odd little factoid, the daddy long legs has the most potent venom in spider terms - fortunately (unfortunately if your the daddy long legs obviously) it has no teeth lol.........ripped off or what?
Wurz (living in the desert with black widow's and brown recluses - none of which survive a size 9 delivered at 235 pounds per square inch!!)
Not true actually daddy long legs venom couldn't kill a mouse if it was bit 20 times. Mythbusters extracted the venom and injected it into a mouse, they didn't have to use antivenom at all the mouse showed no signs of the poison doing anything.
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be glad we don't have these in the us.
DOH!!!
and now for the link.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solifugae
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Not true actually daddy long legs venom couldn't kill a mouse if it was bit 20 times. Mythbusters extracted the venom and injected it into a mouse, they didn't have to use antivenom at all the mouse showed no signs of the poison doing anything.
Really? bugger ......oh well, back to bed for me then
Wurz
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Really? bugger ......oh well, back to bed for me then
Wurz
Just wait until they mutate... :devil
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Just wait until they mutate... :devil
Even if they do i'ma still tear their legs off and leave em like that :rofl
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Right but different spiders use various forms and amounts of venom thats why only 2 spiders in the US can cause fatality.
On that note I know the widow uses a neural toxin and the recluse some kind of dissolving agent that eats flesh, forget the particular name of it but my friend was bit by a pretty nasty spider (i assume the recluse) because he had a gaping hold in his arm the size of a quarter and it wasn't very pretty to look at. He used some heavy anti biotics (I know if it was a recluse he would need anti venom) and it went away in a few months.
I heard that too. I don't test, I just smash them with a bat.
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I heard that too. I don't test, I just smash them with a bat.
I have a size limit, if the spider is to large I run away screaming. :cry
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thank you all so much for this thread...
I didn't REALLY need to sleep tonight :cry
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I was at my mom's this past June. We had a big family reunion with over a 100 people. Me and a few of my cousins slept on the garage floor (lots of blow up mattress). I was almost a sleep and I hear one of my cousins yell "scorpion!". I just picked up one of my sandles, rolled over, looked in of there shocked to see a scorpion eyes, and nailed the scorpion flat. Then they complained about scorpion guts in there face. It was about 2 feet from my head.
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thank you all so much for this thread...
I didn't REALLY need to sleep tonight :cry
take a cruise in the stang instead....... :aok
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have never liked to kill spiders and still don't. It looks like a Hobo spider to me. As a kid in Arizona we used to like to watch Wolf and Tarantula spiders fight :)
I had the unfortunate experience of getting bit by a cousin of the Brown recluse called the Baja recluse. . I was crawling under a deck in some red apple <ground cover> fixing an old Jacuzzi. I never felt a thing. A couple days later I had an itch on my leg. So I looked at it and it looked like a small pimple.. so I tried to pop it.. of course.
About 3 weeks later and the size of brussel sprout I decided ..okay its time :). So off to the Doc :uhoh. He said "you have a spider bite, a good one". I asked him if it was a Black Widow <we have lots of those> he said "no it is a recluse bite". I asked how he knew..and that I thought we didn't have them here. His answer was "Oh we have them just not the Brown variety. We have the Baja recluse. I can tell by the way its eating your leg. You should have come in sooner" :huh
Its been about six years now and every once in a while I still get the tingling sensation at the spot of the bite and I have about a 3 inch circular scar on my leg.
Little bastards,
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personally I love spiders, owned a bunch of tarantulas, use to let them walk on me, all you "men" who are afraid of a thing that is so small make me laugh my butt off :rofl
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i tend to not kill spiders, as they eat most of the annoying insects and bugs......
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We have some good size tarantulas down here where I live,and I like having them around.
The little spiders are the ones that bug me, I hopped in the shower the other day and there was a spider in there waiting for me. I think I invented a couple new bad words.
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When I was living in Southern Cali, I had a minor Black Widow infestation in my garage. When ever I'd see a fair sized moth or other such critter, the widows in the garage would get a free meal. I did get bitten a couple of times by them, and I was always surprised how minor the bite/pain was. It was really no more painful than a bee sting, and cleared up in a few days.
The creepiest thing they ever did was hide in the shower, usually in an upper corner. Talk about a quick way to wake up, coffee has nothing on them.
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We have the sun spider pictured on the wiki page here in Colorado. Biggest one was about inch and a half across. Guess Arizona couldn't keep them all there.
Your pic looks more like a Huntsman,but I have seen Wolf spiders in Colorado with those markings.
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personally I love spiders, owned a bunch of tarantulas, use to let them walk on me, all you "men" who are afraid of a thing that is so small make me laugh my butt off :rofl
This is me
Giving you
The
(http://petcaregt.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/bird-brown-kure-beach-111904.jpg)
:D
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Cow bird?
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This is me
Giving you
The
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:D
:rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :aok
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its called "A Nasty Lookin Mother Flopper"
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all spiders are poisonous.
I've heard about poisonous frogs, but not spiders. :noid
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i dont midn a spider, long as it isnt in my shoe or in my bed or my drivers seat i could care less about spiders really... my girlfriend on the other hand causes me to kill many. its me or her, and shes one of those that would kill it then feel bad about it after.
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i tend to not kill spiders, as they eat most of the annoying insects and bugs......
I have a short story along these lines:
My wife and i use to rent a farm house prior to buying our home. Nice place, but had those steep circular farmhouse steps. Being the place was about 200yrs old, we use to get those thousand leggers in droves. One day im sitting on the couch downstairs and hear my wife talking to someone on the stairs leading to the 2nd floor. Thinking one of our friends had shown up, I got up to go say hello. Well i open the door to the stairwell, and heres my wife sitting on the stairs, talking to the steps. At this point i figured she had hit her head and was in the process of loosing her mind. Then i looked a little closer and heres this spider (about an inch long) in his web in the corner of the steps surrounded by thousand legger carcasses. There must have been half a dozen or a dozen of dead, drained thousand leggers in, and below his web.
I found out that the wife was having a conversation with the spider, just letting him know that she was not at all happy with him "setting up shop" where he did (she hates spiders), but as long as he keeps killing the thousand leggers, she wont suck him up in the vacume cleaner.
Apparantly in her mind the only thing worse than spiders is these
(http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac82/mbailey166066/centipede.jpg)
Good to her word, she never sucked him up in the vac, and he kept killing the thousand leggers. :lol
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i tend to not kill spiders, as they eat most of the annoying insects and bugs......
So you have a bug infestation in your house?
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Mmmm Spiders nom nom nom
(http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s35/68zoom/spider.jpg)
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I love spiders, as long as they're not lookin' for practice while they're sitting on my arm...
Anyway, for all you other spiders lovers out there: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QEcwNyvKK0
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Caught a scorpion at my brother house (Oklahoma City, OK) the other day. It was the second one they found in two days.
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Caught a scorpion at my brother house (Oklahoma City, OK) the other day. It was the second one they found in two days.
We have scopions, black widows and rattlers here in central oregon, black widow nailed me two years back i was sick for three days.
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So you have a bug infestation in your house?
not in the house, although being as it's about 120 or so years old, and un air conditioned.......some get in.
i did have an issue in the garage a few years back.............
and i seem to have some sort of critters crawling on my ankles from time to time........dicho keeps promising to mail me some repellent for them......... :noid
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Mmmm Spiders nom nom nom
(http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s35/68zoom/spider.jpg)
:huh :bolt:
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Mmmm Spiders nom nom nom
(http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s35/68zoom/spider.jpg)
:cry :cry :cry she's gonna eat meeeee
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They don't bit you like a rattle snake, they have to feed while you're sleeping.
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Not quite=)
Five years ago, the woods around my stepsons house got invaded by brown recluses, which may sound unremarkable, except for the fact that the state of california said, they dont exist in this part of the state. They were REAL dogmatic aboot it, so we set a glue trap in every corner of the house. The first couple of times, EVERY trap was nearly covered with the lil nasties :bolt:
On the way home after that first day we got out of the truck to visit a lil roadside store- WHAM!!! I thought Id been stung by a yellow jacket right above the heart. I instinctively slapped my shirt before I even looked.....One of the little buggers had probably been hitchin a ride on my head, cause he ended up in my shirt, and when I got out of the truck, I guess I nearly smooshed him against me, forcing him to bite.
Next day ,swelling...
NEXT day, woke up STUCK to the sheets from all the disgusting, foul smelling yellow/white/greenish cottage cheese/pus combination lookin stuff draining outta the hole in my chest.
After recieving tons-o-aintibiotics and whatnot, the Doctor announced that he needs to lance the bite by making an "H" shaped shallow incision. I passed, but he insisted. This is the funny part- he handed me a folded hand towel.
When I asked what this is for, he said to BITE on it, cause this "might be rather uncomfortable". I asked him, whats wrong, you outta bullets? He didnt get it=(
Little sweat and towel biting later, he said ALL DONE! Now all we have to do is "EXPRESS it" I didnt know what that meant. I soon found out=( Imagine maniacally popping a 3 inch zit that hurts even to have your shirt rub against it.
That rolled paper that covers the bed for each new patient was SOAKED with sweat. Was odd LETTING someone inflict that kinda pain on you, without letting fight of flight take over.
STILL have a scar, looks like a little 3rd nipple......So DONT think they wont bite unless you are asleep :old:
elfy
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They don't bit you like a rattle snake, they have to feed while you're sleeping.
Not quite=)
Five years ago, the woods around my stepsons house got invaded by brown recluses, which may sound unremarkable, except for the fact that the state of california said, they dont exist in this part of the state. They were REAL dogmatic aboot it, so we set a glue trap in every corner of the house. The first couple of times, EVERY trap was nearly covered with the lil nasties :bolt:
On the way home after that first day we got out of the truck to visit a lil roadside store- WHAM!!! I thought Id been stung by a yellow jacket right above the heart. I instinctively slapped my shirt before I even looked.....One of the little buggers had probably been hitchin a ride on my head, cause he ended up in my shirt, and when I got out of the truck, I guess I nearly smooshed him against me, forcing him to bite.
Next day ,swelling...
NEXT day, woke up STUCK to the sheets from all the disgusting, foul smelling yellow/white/greenish cottage cheese/pus combination lookin stuff draining outta the hole in my chest.
After recieving tons-o-aintibiotics and whatnot, the Doctor announced that he needs to lance the bite by making an "H" shaped shallow incision. I passed, but he insisted. This is the funny part- he handed me a folded hand towel.
When I asked what this is for, he said to BITE on it, cause this "might be rather uncomfortable". I asked him, whats wrong, you outta bullets? He didnt get it=(
Little sweat and towel biting later, he said ALL DONE! Now all we have to do is "EXPRESS it" I didnt know what that meant. I soon found out=( Imagine maniacally popping a 3 inch zit that hurts even to have your shirt rub against it.
That rolled paper that covers the bed for each new patient was SOAKED with sweat. Was odd LETTING someone inflict that kinda pain on you, without letting fight of flight take over.
STILL have a scar, looks like a little 3rd nipple......So DONT think they wont bite unless you are asleep :old:
elfy
that stuff is your dissolved and disease ridden flesh :rofl I've seen pictures of what bites can turn into, gets pretty ugly.
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Wife got bit by the brown recluse when she was a kid. Almost lost her leg still has huge hole in back of her leg. The doc had to dig all the way to the bone.. Her mom would sit on her to hold her down so she could swab out the mess and change the bandage.
Anyway zoom beat me to it.....we eat spiders here in AZ. :bolt:
Bats eat more insects than spiders ever thought of. Ill keep the bats. Also bats eat scorpions. Saw footage of a bat eating a scorpion stung bat in the face 23 times before he could swallow the thing.
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Walked into the bathroom to this little (cough) gem.
(http://i666.photobucket.com/albums/vv23/Jayhawk1/IMG_20110803_201034.jpg)
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That's the before pic, wheres the after pic?
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That's the before pic, wheres the after pic?
Want a picture of my toilet?
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Just a wolf spider. Harmless, but they like to rush out at you which gives a fabulous startle effect.
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Just a wolf spider. Harmless, but they like to rush out at you which gives a fabulous startle effect.
Yeah, but these guys are too big to get free rein on my floors.
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My cat likes them...they are nice and crunchy. But he also catches and eats flies too. Never thought a cat could swipe a fly out of the air....
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My cat likes them...they are nice and crunchy. But he also catches and eats flies too. Never thought a cat could swipe a fly out of the air....
lol i have a Mini Dachshund, Budwig Vondell Bratwurst (Buddy for short) he can spot a fly in mid air and give chase. its a hoot to watch him biting at the air, he'll get one now and them.