Thread for things that dont deserve threads

[chinaski]

i can't do spiders. or roaches. i can pick up most creepy crawly things with my hand or a piece of paper or something and set them outside. i have to kill spiders and roaches. i won't go near them.

Turns out it was a funnel-web Tarantula which somehow isn't really a Tarantula at all.
But it is super aggressive and enjoys raising up, hissing and Biting!


Dog did good by not eating it or inviting it to bite its face.
Dog prefers investigating woodpiles and fucking with rattlesnakes.

I was recently in NYC, reading a Thai take-out menu from the neighborhood when I noticed a teeny-tiny cockroach on my left shoulder, reading along. Just like in Joe's Apartment. Baby roach likes Thai food too. Gross.

And don't get me started on BEDBUGS.

well. go on then. get started. this is fun.

[girlfromcountyhell]

AHHHHHHHHHH! That thing is horrific. We have these nifty spiders called Hobos here in Montana. They're fairly large and poisonous.

http://www.nps.gov/public_health/inter/ ... female.jpg

I kill all bugs in my house. Does that make me a bad person? DIE BUGS DIE.

[phro37]

AHHHHHHHHHH! That thing is horrific. We have these nifty spiders called Hobos here in Montana. They're fairly large and poisonous.

http://www.nps.gov/public_health/inter/ ... female.jpg

I kill all bugs in my house. Does that make me a bad person? DIE BUGS DIE.

that thing gave me goosebump gfch. i remember once in las cruces some friends and i had our own house we were renting. i went for my morning pee and saw a brown recluse or a wolf spider. something big, brown, and hairy. an no it wasn't my dad. HI-OH! but anyways, it was on the wall by the toilet so i smashed it and flushed it. later in the day i went back in and there was another one no more than an inch from the spot of the original.

[Nice to Mice]

well. go on then. get started. this is fun.

I had a last minute trip to Santa Cruz on a holiday weekend. Had to stay at a Travelodge. Requested a room near the office.
Full of Magners I fell asleep with the lights on, luckily. Woke up at 4AM and saw giant bedbugs crawling all over the headboard, pillows and blanket.

I tried to catch one like I saw on 20/20. But the big ones morph, burrow, fly? away. Something. I did catch a baby one and took it to the desk. The attendant claimed not to know what a bedbug was. As we walked to the room I noticed mattresses piled up in the parking lot. She said they was just remodelin' and some lovely people had occupied my room the night before without complaint. I'm sure I got the infested room due to the request to be close to the office.

Now I read trip advisor religiously. There are lots of bedbug lawsuits in NYC. San Francisco has 'em.

I didn't get bit, think the Magners saved me. A younger brother figured I had but just didn't have much of a reaction. When he saw the bedbug photos on my phone he was shocked. There is no way these things could bite you without your knowing it.

My sister said that if they infest your home you have to go so far as to remove the upholstery from your furniture and scrub the frames with wire brushes. Fun! Mattresses have to be thrown away.

[jennylois]

Poor spiders. They are easy to catch and put outside, even great big hairy poisonous ones.

[DzM]

Poor spiders. They are easy to catch and put outside, even great big hairy poisonous ones.

These guys, who have the best name ever, "Rabid Wolf Spider," live 'round these parts. In June we often find them in the house. When we do we catch them and throw them outside.

Wearing a headlamp outside at this time of year can be a bit unnerving 'cause their eyes reflect the light back. Looking around the front yard is almost like being in a cartoon - all the eyes of scary creatures staring back.

[NewJerseyRich]

Those are some creepy spiders. I don't think I'd be putting them outside if I caught some huge sucker like that in the house, and it bites/stings?! Worst thing we have is mosquitoes and black flies. As for eyes looking back at night thank god it's either deer, rabbit or the occasional owl.

[DzM]

Those are some creepy spiders. I don't think I'd be putting them outside if I caught some huge sucker like that in the house, and it bites/stings?! Worst thing we have is mosquitoes and black flies. As for eyes looking back at night thank god it's either deer, rabbit or the occasional owl.

Meh. They eat bugs. Given a choice between having these buggers outside eating bugs or having to spray a crapload of insecticide in/around the house, I'll take the uneasy truce with the spiders.

[NewJerseyRich]

Those are some creepy spiders. I don't think I'd be putting them outside if I caught some huge sucker like that in the house, and it bites/stings?! Worst thing we have is mosquitoes and black flies. As for eyes looking back at night thank god it's either deer, rabbit or the occasional owl.

Meh. They eat bugs. Given a choice between having these buggers outside eating bugs or having to spray a crapload of insecticide in/around the house, I'll take the uneasy truce with the spiders.

No doubt, love their keeping the other creepies away but they just gross me out.....I'll perpetuate a myth here,

Actually through some research they have found that the average person swallows three spiders while sleeping in a lifetime!





(actually I have no idea)

[DzM]

through some research they have found that the average person swallows three spiders while sleeping in a lifetime!

Oh. Uhm. Asleep? Damn. Well I screwed that one up.

[jennylois]

Wearing a headlamp outside at this time of year can be a bit unnerving

Mmmm, it's unnerving to even wonder why you would be wearing a headlamp ... only a headlamp???
Those are very large spiders, the Rabid Wolf Spiders, but no larger than our Orb spider. Garden Orb spiders make a very large very sticky web in the evenings (sometimes strung out between trees and hard to get off your face if you happen to walk into one while taking out the garbage) then eat it or something during the day (not your face, their web) just to start all over again the next evening. Poor things. The Huntsman spiders run sort of sideways very fast like a crab, and you have to be careful when catching them with a jar so you don't chop their legs off. They don't have a web, just wander about hunting, on the walls, preferably bedrooms for some reason, and it is also very common for them to get into cars, scaring the life out of drivers when they appear on the inside of the windscreen. We also have poisonous Funnel Web spiders which are deadly (I did kill one of those) and Redbacks. Redbacks don't usually come inside, nor do the beautiful St Andrew's Cross spiders which weave very large webs which have a distinctive white X in the centre. There are many common Australian spiders but these are the ones I see the most of the larger kind.

[DzM]

Wearing a headlamp outside at this time of year can be a bit unnerving

Mmmm, it's unnerving to even wonder why you would be wearing a headlamp ... only a headlamp???

Welcome to life in the country.

[LittleCupcakes]

If the spiders encroach on my territory, they're fair game, though often my cat gets to them first.

[girlfromcountyhell]

AHHHHHHHHHH! That thing is horrific. We have these nifty spiders called Hobos here in Montana. They're fairly large and poisonous.

http://www.nps.gov/public_health/inter/ ... female.jpg

I kill all bugs in my house. Does that make me a bad person? DIE BUGS DIE.

that thing gave me goosebump gfch. i remember once in las cruces some friends and i had our own house we were renting. i went for my morning pee and saw a brown recluse or a wolf spider. something big, brown, and hairy. an no it wasn't my dad. HI-OH! but anyways, it was on the wall by the toilet so i smashed it and flushed it. later in the day i went back in and there was another one no more than an inch from the spot of the original.

ZOMBIE SPIDER. Coming back to get revenge.

MT has a Hobo problem (both kinds in some cases ). I worked at a pool in Missoula a few years back and our miserly boss refused to spray for hobo spiders. We kept finding them while we were cleaning, and we eventually managed to trap one. We put it in a Tupperware container and left it on his desk. He sprayed for hobos after that.

[chinaski]

AHHHHHHHHHH! That thing is horrific. We have these nifty spiders called Hobos here in Montana. They're fairly large and poisonous.

http://www.nps.gov/public_health/inter/ ... female.jpg

I kill all bugs in my house. Does that make me a bad person? DIE BUGS DIE.

that thing gave me goosebump gfch. i remember once in las cruces some friends and i had our own house we were renting. i went for my morning pee and saw a brown recluse or a wolf spider. something big, brown, and hairy. an no it wasn't my dad. HI-OH! but anyways, it was on the wall by the toilet so i smashed it and flushed it. later in the day i went back in and there was another one no more than an inch from the spot of the original.

ZOMBIE SPIDER. Coming back to get revenge.

MT has a Hobo problem (both kinds in some cases ). I worked at a pool in Missoula a few years back and our miserly boss refused to spray for hobo spiders. We kept finding them while we were cleaning, and we eventually managed to trap one. We put it in a Tupperware container and left it on his desk. He sprayed for hobos after that.

HA! hahaha! good on ya! exactly what i would have done.

but wait....how was it agian that you got a Hobo to fit into a Tupper?

isn't that...i dunno.."illegal"?

ya know..the whole...death and dismemberment thing...