Spiders are way cool.

I helped my buddy do a bunch of yard work at his house this summer and I ended up ripping down a bunch of ugly vines growing on his fence. Well I guess there were some spiders living in there, because the very next day there were SIX webs built (by 6 spiders) in the dogwoods lining the fence. It was pretty fucking cool, not only because they had taken up shop so quickly, but also because they all had such prime spots for catching food.

I also saw one of these over the summer:




It's a crab spider. I didn't know anything about it when I first saw it, and I'd never seen one like it before...but I thought it was dangerous because of it's bright colour. I took a couple pics with my cell phone cam, and every time I got close to it, it would spring back on its back legs and raise it's front ones in the air, almost like it was ready to fight, lol.



But yeah, spiders are cool.

I checked her out outside... she looked hungry... pardon the phone cam video quality

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Originally posted by Abercrombie I checked her out outside... she looked hungry... pardon the phone cam video quality

Dude, that was awesome.
Also:

Spiders are sweet when they're catching stuff, but if they're on me, I'd rather be on fire

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Originally posted by Abercrombie I checked her out outside... she looked hungry... pardon the phone cam video quality

did it wrap it? or eat it? either way, thats pretty cool to catch that on video.

We have these in Cuba.





They live in holes they dig in the ground, as a kid we used to fish them :-) . When it rains their homes get all full of water and they crawl into your house. If they bite you it causes fever and pain.

I have a love hate relationship with them, they have the creepiest ways. The second you less imaging you look and there she is, very close, looking at you with all those eyes. Never mind the times I step over them without wearing shoes in the middle of the night.

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Originally posted by neuromancer We have these in Cuba.

Really? I don't remember any of them ever crawling around my grandparents house. Lots of lizards, and cockroaches, but never any big spiders like that though.

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Originally posted by Owen M did it wrap it? or eat it? either way, thats pretty cool to catch that on video.

She wrapped it up, then lets it die. She went after it again later once it settled down in the straightjacket, and ate it. If the captive insect is a fighting/predatorial one, that is when the spider will bite it and inject it with venom which acts as a neurotoxin paralizing their pray, otherwise they let it wiggle tightly until their death or fatigue.

this thread is fucking scary, and i am now afraid of meeting you, lopi!

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Originally posted by fayraree this thread is fucking scary, and i am now afraid of meeting you, lopi!

no way, she just blew the top of the 1-10 hotness scale

I never used to be scared of spiders until I got bit by one....

It happened 3 years ago on my vacation in Montenegro. My family has a cottage there and it's on a hill with a lot of forrest around, as well as a lot of insects. I used to love catching all sorts of insects here when I was little, but can't even think of touching one right now.
I didn't feel the bite or see it.

2 Days later I was on a plane back home and started to get a lot of pain in my left calf. Didn't think anything of it....just thought I was tired...
I went to sleep that night and I was in terrible pain. My whole leg was throbbing all the way up to my hip, but I didn't look much into it...probably should have because the next morning I woke up to a wonderful surprise.
I noticed a big hole in my leg. It was black and about .5 inches in width. ( I have to metion that I am so facinated by gross things) I then went outside with my mom where it was really bright outside and looked at it. It looked like I was shot...and the hole was spreading.
I then proceeded to squeeze it just for the fun of seeing what's in there. I was gonna go back into the kitchen and get some towels but then realized that I couldn't even step on my foot because the pain was just too much to handle.
I squeezed it more and it started to bleed...not drip but gush out of the hole. Then little chunks of rotten mean were coming out, so at this point I decided it's time to go to the hospital.
Got to the hospital, they saw my leg and got me in right away. They were scared that it was going to spread and if any of you know, when a person gets bit and if it spreads a lot it can get to the point where a part of leg could be missing or even death.
Lucky for me though, the spider that bit me wasn't poisonus...so now you're probably wondering why it got so big and why it looked like it could have been dangerous....well....this is the interesting part...
The spider that bit me, was a female who laid eggs inside my leg. So because this was almost a 7 day process, the eggs probably turned into little spiders (god knows how many) who were eating my flesh and digging deeper and deeper into my leg.

I eventually got it cleaned up and was fine. But the whole was so deep that you could put more than half a toothpick into it. I still have a scar and I don't think it will ever go away...

But I still think spiders are incredible creatures but I am so afraid of them!

I found this picture online...my bite looked something like this just not so wide but deeper...

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Originally posted by *TiEsTo*SuX*

Wow thats the most fucked up spider story ever.........Glad your okay and alive still.

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Originally posted by UmmiE Wow thats the most fucked up spider story ever.........Glad your okay and alive still.

Let's just say that I am verrrrrrryyyyyy lucky!!!
It could have been so much worse...but always an interesting story to tell...I just wish that after reading this story you could see my scar...pretty fucked up shit lol...

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Originally posted by *TiEsTo*SuX* Let's just say that I am verrrrrrryyyyyy lucky!!! It could have been so much worse...but always an interesting story to tell...I just wish that after reading this story you could see my scar...pretty fucked up shit lol...

LOL I was scrolling thru the pics and saw the scar first and then read the story.........pretty scary stuff.....I personally like snakes over spiders.......spiders scare me more than anything.....I dont scream or anything just try to keep my eye on them.

There is only one type of spider im a fan of



they are of the giant steal non moving variety


ps. Brutal Scar ... and you were defiantly lucky

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