Damn arachnids.

Aug 13, 2002 12:43

I just walked through the web of this monster:


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fireflit August 13 2002, 12:56:40 UTC
ILL! GROSS!

I'd be SOOO scared to walk around in the house. How big is that thing?! It looks fat and huge in that picture. Dood, I'd be hysterical walking around in the house!

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Re: u_tenjou August 13 2002, 13:38:09 UTC
Actually, they've just surrounded the house, I haven't found any in it yet. The biggest one is staked out right outside my window.

That one is actually an inch and a half long, the picture is a bit big, but I thought I'd let you all see him in full detail. I named him Foofy. I hope he eats the chihuahua.

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bespeckledbabe August 13 2002, 13:36:17 UTC
he looks very fiendish to me...
yuck...
what kind is he?

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Re: u_tenjou August 13 2002, 13:53:10 UTC
I've heard it's a wolf spider or a violin spider, but it's not. They look nothing like these guys. We do have wolf spiders, but I think they're strictly ground spiders and they're smaller. And violin spiders a highly poisonous and much scarier looking, I think. I think my neighbors just like to feel in danger.

Hmm, I think he's a type of garden spider, but I have yet to find a picture of a spider that looks like these guys online.

I'll tell you if I figure it out.

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Re: bespeckledbabe August 13 2002, 14:03:53 UTC
i consulted my audubon society book...
its a garden spider.
pretty one too.
still icky though.

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Re: u_tenjou August 13 2002, 17:36:53 UTC
Does it have a more specific name?

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jaded_dazey August 13 2002, 13:36:34 UTC
*shudders*

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soyfaerie August 13 2002, 13:55:00 UTC
EWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!! I HATE SPIDERS!!!!!!!! And you know that I have a HUGE spider phobia!! It even freaked me out when I seen the pic you posted!!! That looks like a Brown Recluse! Did you kill it!?!?!?!

Ewww eww ewww eww eww ewwww EWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Re: u_tenjou August 13 2002, 14:00:01 UTC
haha, I knew that was exactly what you were going to say.

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soyfaerie August 13 2002, 14:12:49 UTC
I know! Once, a couple of years ago, we went to the zoo in Gulf Breeze, Florida, and I swear they had an epidemic of these HUGE brown and orange spiders. I was walking down this path right by the gorilla exhibit, wondering the whole time why no one else was walking down there. My mom, standing at the top of the hill, goes "Hey Liz! Look up above you!" and there was a HUGE spider's web about 20 ft. long or more (not exagerrating) woven into the trees! It was like a huge canopy, and there were literally HUNDREDS, if not THOUSANDS of them about 3 ft above my head!! I screamed louder than I can ever remember screaming before, and BOLTED out of there. There were a few more of those huge nests in the zoo. The third time I saw one (I wasn't even that close to it), I freaked out and had to leave. It was like this HORRIBLE horror movie!

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Re: u_tenjou August 13 2002, 17:44:11 UTC
Yeah, I hate the way these guys makes webs *everywhere*. I walk into them *all the time*. It makes me angry. A few days ago I almost walked into what I think was a Brown Recluse web, it was hard to tell because it was really sunny, but both I and the spider freaked out.

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rosemarymint August 13 2002, 13:56:41 UTC
Wow - KOOL - I have NO idea what he is - but its so neato looking. Sorry he tried to eat you. Maybe you smell sweet or something. :-D

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Re: u_tenjou August 13 2002, 14:04:11 UTC
I want to take pictures of all the spiders around here and figure out what they all are...because they're so big...and neat...hehe.

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