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Topic: Spiders are awesome (Read 411950 times)
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NowhereMan
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Erm, thought scorpions were poisonous...
General rule of thumb with scorpions is how poisonous they are is inversely proportional to the size of their pincers v. body i.e. if they've got giant, cut your thumb off pincers their sting probably isn't anything to worry about. |
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Lantyssa
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Tell Dante to eat that roach.
Roaches are on the "it dies now, if I don't completely freak out" list.
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Kitsune
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Erm, thought scorpions were poisonous...
Scorpions are poisonous like bees and wasps are; a painful sting but not actually dangerous unless you're particularly allergic. Same deal with most spiders, you don't really want to be bitten but it won't mess you up if you are. |
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Cyrrex
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Quite apart from being poisonous, scorpions are scary looking motherfuckers and were most certainly created by demons. I HATE them with the fire of a thousand suns.
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Quite apart from being poisonous, scorpions are scary looking motherfuckers and were most certainly created by demons. I HATE them with the fire of a thousand suns.
Somewhat agree. Scorpions are rather interestingly constructed arachnids. Claws are interesting but couple that with a segmented tail with a poisonous stinger at the end and you have an evil creature. I like them in pictures, not so much in person unless they are behind glass. Amazing some smaller mammals actually use them as a food source. If scorpions were the size of a German Shepard, I'd be hard pressed to even consider that an option...maybe option R or S, option A-L being run the fuck away. |
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Kitsune
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Funny thing, scorpions are apparently also pussies. In a series of insane Japanese bug fight videos where various bugs were tossed into a box together to see which would win, the scorpions invariably ran away from the other thing, paused to lash their tail at it a couple of times, then went back to running away. They're apparently lovers rather than fighters.
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Cyrrex
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Funny thing, scorpions are apparently also pussies. In a series of insane Japanese bug fight videos where various bugs were tossed into a box together to see which would win, the scorpions invariably ran away from the other thing, paused to lash their tail at it a couple of times, then went back to running away. They're apparently lovers rather than fighters.
They must have just assumed that all of the other creatures would just pass out from fear. I know I would have. |
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Sir T
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They're apparently lovers rather than fighters.
In reproduction, the male holds apart the females claws, he mildly stings her to make her woozy and then he has his way with her. So, they practice bondage and drug induced date rape  Oh and back to zoids...  |
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Sir T
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Back to spiders, I snapped this on a web on a wall outside my house. Its a garden spider, very common around here. They can get quite large and can build some huge webs. I've seen some webs of these things that are 2 and a half feet across. They sit in the center of the web, which is where I got this close up. Totally harmless to humans and quite colourfull.  |
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Strazos
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WTF Where do you people live? I could not handle that sort of shit walking around me.
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Ingmar
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The *web* is 2 and a half feet across, not the spider.
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Sir T
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And to be honest those are quite rare. That particular spiders web was about a foot across.
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apocrypha
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That's an orb weaver. Our garden is also *full* of them at the moment. They're all preparing to lay eggs. Hanging the washing out on the line at the moment is a slow process because I am compelled to carefully remove all their webs and attempt to gently relocate the spiders themselves. It's also an exercise that only I can do for the next few weeks since my arachnophobic girlfriend can't go near the garden  Fake edit: mistyped arachnophobic and Firefox decided I meant technophobic.  |
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Hawkbit
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Orb Weavers are pretty cool. We had one in my neighbor's garden a few years back that was bright yellow and black. The body was just a little smaller than a ping pong ball... which makes it just about the biggest damn spider that I've seen in Ohio. Pretty common spider though.
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Xuri
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I've decided that spiders are not all that awesome.
I spent yesterday EXTERMINATING about 100 tiny spiders crawling all over my bedroom ceiling (and there are probably a hundred more I didn't see...) I also hit a giant spider - which I presume was their mother - with a newspaper, after which she fell to the ground and.... was not there any longer when I looked away for a second and then looked back. Needless to say, I slept on my couch tonight. Fucking spiders. DIE!
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Hawkbit
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Holy shit its going to be like First Blood. That thing is going to come back with a vengeance.  |
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tgr
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Merusk
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Orb Weavers are pretty cool. We had one in my neighbor's garden a few years back that was bright yellow and black. The body was just a little smaller than a ping pong ball... which makes it just about the biggest damn spider that I've seen in Ohio. Pretty common spider though.
We used to have those all the time in the garden in Cleveland. I haven't seen a single one in Cincinnati, though. I guess the wolf spiders must eat them. I miss having the big webs with the zig-zag in the middle all dewy and sparkling in the morning. |
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Strazos
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I would be relocating all of these spiders if they lived near me.
With napalm.
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Selby
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I would be relocating all of these spiders if they lived near me.
A coworker did that the other day. Relocated a HUGE spider on my module that was carrying her eggs to the outside. She didn't like being helped and kept trying to get away, but he led her outside. I can't stand the creepy crawly thing, so that's not me. |
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tgr
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Cyno's lit, bridge is up, but one pilot won't be jumping home.
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Slyfeind
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Oh man those kids are so well-behaved.
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tgr
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Being able to say "Be quiet back there, or I'll eat you" probably helps there.  |
Cyno's lit, bridge is up, but one pilot won't be jumping home.
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tgr
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Cyno's lit, bridge is up, but one pilot won't be jumping home.
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tgr
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Cyno's lit, bridge is up, but one pilot won't be jumping home.
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tgr
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Cyno's lit, bridge is up, but one pilot won't be jumping home.
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Draegan
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Phase spider.
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Hawkbit
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It's the techno, gets 'em going.
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Cadaverine
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I didn't actually know they could be that quick.
That's what they want you to think. |
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Muffled
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We had quite a few of those around when I lived out in the country. I never (thank God) saw one with the egg sacs all over it, I probably would have screamed like a five year old girl or swooned and shamed my family to the nth generation. Minus egg sac/baby spider nightmare fuel, they are cool as hell, and just as fast in real life.
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voodoolily
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I was just sifting through some site photos from field work I did a month or so ago and remembered this beaut (garden spider, Argiope aurantia):  |
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Trippy
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This is the "Spiders are awesome" thread, not the "1001 ways to kill a spider" thread.
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Typhon
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I was just sifting through some site photos from field work I did a month or so ago and remembered this beaut (garden spider, Argiope aurantia):
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Wow, great picture, beautiful spider. |
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voodoolily
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Finnuh, munnuh, muhfuh, I enjoy creating new written vernacular, s'all.
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I was just sifting through some site photos from field work I did a month or so ago and remembered this beaut (garden spider, Argiope aurantia):
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Wow, great picture, beautiful spider. Thanks, I just set it to my desktop background. Its abdomen was about as big around as a nickel! |
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