Well, my uncle and I killed a nest of killer hornets in Massachusetts, and that was pretty intense. Compared to what I've seen online of camel spiders, that's like teletubbies compared to SAW. So, what is the scariest bug you guys have ever seen?
When i lived in Missouri, a tree in our front yard was infested with wood roaches. They are by far the foulest insect ive ever encountered. Each one is about an inch to an inch-and-ahalf long, they fly, and are attracted to light and body heat. there wasnt a force on earth that could make me go out on to the front porch at night.
I was going to help my step-dad run new wiring and put new siding on his garage...until we discovered it became infested with Brown Recluse spiders over the fall/winter/early spring...one at a time they're not that bad, but when you lift a box and find five or six running around, you will gak bricks. I even saw one that I swear was the size of a half-dollar
We eventually finished our Exterminatus campaign of the foul arachnids, but it was time consuming.
Got a couple of ones that still make me shiver, both when i lived out in the states many years ago. The first was in Colorado I think, at some national park's western centre and they had an old wooden ahem...outhouse and being ten a full of cola decided to give it a go anyway i opened the door to find a toilet full of black widows, well discretion may have slightly been the better part of valour as i ran screaming in terror.
The second also in the states down in the Everglades also at a national park, walking along raised paths looking for gators and stuff. Anyway we walked through a narrower section with trees right up to the path and was leaning with my back against the railing waiting for the parents, turned to my right and my face was literally 4-5 inches from the biggest spider i've ever seen in the middle of its huge web, (like this one http://www.flickr.com/photos/rrusty/4063966289/ ) i didn't scream this time just backed of very slowly and then ran very fast back to mum, then to cap it all at the visitors I nearly stepped on a pygmy rattler ( http://www.uga.edu/srelherp/snakes/sismil.htm ) in the middle of the path, i've had better days. I'm still amazed i didn't get PTSD. Still love the states though.
It was a spider, i don't know what type and i don't want to know.
I do know it doesn't make webs and it can climb rather smooth walls onto the ceiling.
It was HUGE unbelievably huge for what we have in Canada.
When i first saw it in the kitchen ceiling i was calling everyone's cell and asking how long before they can get home.
Failing that i stack together vacuum cleaner extensions and pray it wouldn't run when i try to vac it, or it wouldn't fall on me when it was been sucked in.
The immediate horror as i was pointing the vac near the spider i realized its body was the same size as the vac extension tube.
Well some how it still gets sucked in so phew....
LunaHound wrote:It was a spider, i don't know what type and i don't want to know.
I do know it doesn't make webs and it can climb rather smooth walls onto the ceiling.
It was HUGE unbelievably huge for what we have in Canada.
When i first saw it in the kitchen ceiling i was calling everyone's cell and asking how long before they can get home.
Failing that i stack together vacuum cleaner extensions and pray it wouldn't run when i try to vac it, or it wouldn't fall on me when it was been sucked in.
The immediate horror as i was pointing the vac near the spider i realized its body was the same size as the vac extension tube.
Well some how it still gets sucked in so phew....
I was camping once and woke up to find this thing's pincer's near my nose...I promptly gakked a load of bricks and turned the tent upside down with how I jumped.
btemple0 wrote:In real life, a camel spider, on the internet, once again a camel spider.
Them things chase you if you run too.
Do they screech, too? That's what I heard.
They do screetch and it's fething terrifying. My buddy was so startled he shot at one, which proceeded to chase him down the road.
Seriously, I do not. like. Arachnids.
My former next door neighbour used to have a Goliath Spider. Fething massive. 28cm across legspan. I think it eats live cows. One time it got loose, and sat under my dad's chair for an hour, while we were having dinner.
Saw one on a David Attenborough nature programme. Not particularly deadly to humans but looks like something out of a sci fi movie, or, my deadliest nightmares. I generally like Scorpions, but this thing gives me the heebie jeebies.
I would disagree, good sir. Information has been leaked that the only good defense against the Camel Spider is in fact the CRASSUS ARMOURED ASSAULT TRANSPORT.
Currently, U.S. and Allied armed forces constantly deploy using the CRASSUS ARMOURED ASSAULT TRANSPORT to avoid any "hee-bee gee-bees" obtained in the deserts of the Middle East.
frgsinwntr wrote:Brown recluse spiders... don't believe they are scarey? look up what happens when they bite you.
.... the feth!?!!
I just went on google images... are some of those photoshopped? One of them is a big area of a guy's thigh, and what is that abit further down? The back of someones head? Tissue necrosis it says on Wikipedia.
I'm like a sissy girl when it comes to spiders. It only started after I watched Arachnophobia when I was younger. It literally gave me arachnophobia. The small ones don't bother me so much (less than an inch big maybe), so I can squish those ok, but anything bigger literally sends shivers through me - especially when they scuttle along quickly (Even though I know they couldn't do any damage to me at all - We don't have any poisonous spiders in the UK that I know of).
Looking at those pictures people have posted before, it's just like an instinctive "whoa" whenever I see something with 8 legs. Every fiber of my being tells me it's the enemy, but with scorpions for example I'm not bothered...
I'm so, so glad I live in the UK where the bugs generally aren't so hardcore.
frgsinwntr wrote:Brown recluse spiders... don't believe they are scarey? look up what happens when they bite you.
.... the feth!?!!
I just went on google images... are some of those photoshopped? One of them is a big area of a guy's thigh, and what is that abit further down? The back of someones head? Tissue necrosis it says on Wikipedia.
I'm like a sissy girl when it comes to spiders. It only started after I watched Arachnophobia when I was younger. It literally gave me arachnophobia. The small ones don't bother me so much (less than an inch big maybe), so I can squish those ok, but anything bigger literally sends shivers through me - especially when they scuttle along quickly (Even though I know they couldn't do any damage to me at all - We don't have any poisonous spiders in the UK that I know of).
Looking at those pictures people have posted before, it's just like an instinctive "whoa" whenever I see something with 8 legs. Every fiber of my being tells me it's the enemy, but with scorpions for example I'm not bothered...
I'm so, so glad I live in the UK where the bugs generally aren't so hardcore.
Yeaaaah, their venom causes rapid tissue necrosis. If you get bitten, say goodbye to a whatever chunk of your body you were bitten on.
On a related note, I found one of them in my bathtub the other day, a big inch and a half or so leg to leg. Not pleasant.
Bite by a centipede in Hawaii and the pain from it was worse than the gunshot wound i had the year before. Pretty much made me get nervous anywhere one might be
Face to "face" ....
Spider: Black Widow. Been inches away from one on several occaisions.
Bug: Cockroach... not a single bug, though the Giant Madagascar Hissing ones are creepy, but a full house infestation. Dropped a dozen bug bombs in the place. The floors were a carpet of dead and dying bugs and still didn't kill them all.
There's alll sorts of horrors on the net, but as far as real life encounters go, the worst was when I had a spider crawling on the brim of my hood by my eye...this happened twice.
Another time I was lifting some newspaper off the ground in the area where I paint my models and a huge, fat centipede just darts out.
mega_bassist wrote:I would disagree, good sir. Information has been leaked that the only good defense against the Camel Spider is in fact the CRASSUS ARMOURED ASSAULT TRANSPORT.
Currently, U.S. and Allied armed forces constantly deploy using the CRASSUS ARMOURED ASSAULT TRANSPORT to avoid any "hee-bee gee-bees" obtained in the deserts of the Middle East.
Unfortunately that does not work as camel spiders can bite through armour values of anything less than 25.
And flamethrowers will not kill them, camel spiders must be nuked from orbit.
That wound is probably not from a camel spider considering there bites are non-lethal although there jaws are strong enough to make cuts in the skin and it could get infected.
Botfly.... It lays it eggs under your skin and the next thing you are aware of is the larvae eating their way out.... Some Botfly larvae have been found in people's brains....*shiver*
I gotta second the huntsman! I hate them with a passion! not really an evil spider but they are big, they are fast and they have legs that make them waaaaaay to big to just brush off...oh and they have those beady little eyes that stare right through you, challenging you,...... come on they say....get......close .....enough!
Well as someone who keeps and, when required, handles all manner of scorpions, tailless whip scorpions (ambyglids), birdeater tarantulas, a small selection of Indian Ornamental tarantulas, assassin bugs and mantids, there's no insect that scares me.
...well, except angry centipedes. Sod that for a game of soldiers!
Why did I look at this thread, those camel spiders are nasty and I heard they're tough little buggers too. We gotta nuke them from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
Ok, a quick bit of research has unearthed this little gem:
Jack jumper ants are carnivores and scavengers. They sting their victims with venom that is similar to stings of wasps, bees, and fire ants. Their venom is one of the most powerful in the insect world. Jack jumper ants are proven hunters; even wasps are hunted and devoured. These ants have excellent vision, which aids them in hunting.
The symptoms of the stings of the ants are similar to stings of the fire ants. The reaction is local swelling and reddening, and fever, followed by formation of a blister. The heart rate increases, and blood pressure falls rapidly. In individuals allergic to the venom (about 3% of cases), a sting sometimes causes anaphylactic shock.[1] Although 3% may seem small, jack jumper ants cause more deaths in Tasmania than spiders, snakes, wasps, and sharks combined.[2]
Cheers Wikipedia, yet another reason why I can't understand why people move to Oz out of choice.....
Careful? Careful?! I'd never leave my house and live in a full EVA suit. Even then I might not survive Seriously, I know it's a stunning country and all that, but the Yorkshire dales are amazing and the plus side is you don't run the risk of an agonising spasming death every time you take your dog for walkies!!
Those huntsmen give me the creeps. I know they are 'tolerated' on account of them not being dangerous, and because they get rid of vermin and the like, but boy do those things move fast! I was using an outhouse in Oz in the rainforest, I spotted one of them high up on the wall while I was sat on the throne, which decided to choose that moment to come hurtling towards me. I jumped off and straight outside, with my trousers hanging round my ankles, much to the amusement/disgust of the other hikers I was with
Worst story I have heard: A friend of mine digging a hole in his garden in Sydney. He disturbs a funnel web spiders nest, the mother then jumps out and proceeds to chase him around the garden!
Incidentally, I don't know what it is about spiders that everyone finds so creepy. Anyone an authority on it?
I guess it's because the majority of us are taught from a young age that Spiders are 'bad'....I'm not overly scared of spiders per se, but you could call me wary!
Also, Spiders are quite unlike any other creature on the planet. They are ancient, optimal hunters. Tarantulas have not altered since the Jurrasic period. They have never had too....pretty much top if the tree when it comes to the insect world.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Edit: I meant Arachnid.....
Spiders are cool because they don't need to learn how to spin webs, unlike a bird that needs to learn to fly, or mammal rthat needs to learn how to walk. These are bioth shown how by adults. The spider just does it.
I cannot see how botfly larvae enter the brain though. Sounds like an Urban myth, like the stories of camel spiders chasing HMMVs.
They don't chase HMMVs. . . per se. They are after shade, most of the time. Although a mechanic buddy of mine was "hunted" by a camel spider for about 3 hours... started off, we were changing some suspension on a humvee in iraq and I went to get another wrench or part or something... next thing i know, i hear him yelling like a mad man, jumping up and down (and hes around abouts 200 pounds or so, not a small dude in any case).. I head out to see what the commotion was, bout the time i get there, he's just sitting on the roof of the truck, with this "huge" camel spider sitting in front of the truck, staring back at him, staring at it... we didn't finish the suspension that day, and he was stuck on the truck for about 3 hours.
When I was in Elementary school, we took a trip to the Oregon Zoo for a "sleep over at the zoo" thing, where they showed us all sorts of cool bugs and animals, etc. And the Whip Scorpions were one of the ones that i thought were downright cool, because at least the ones there at the zoo (which had tails) when they "stung" a person, it didn't do much more than any bee sting, but it dyed the skin orange where struck, like an ink blot kind of.
For me, the creepiest bug ive seen was at the Stuttgart Zoo in Germany. In the insect house they have all manner of "creepy crawlies" but to me, the creepiest was the Silk Spider. Not for any particular reason other than how large they were, and the way they were just chillin in their web..To give a size estimate, one of their legs were about as long as the wingspan of my 1/48 scale Corsair... guessing here, and they were mostly leg, but still.. Their coloration was quite fascinating, just the creepy factor crept in because of their size.
Knox wrote:Why did I look at this thread, those camel spiders are nasty and I heard they're tough little buggers too. We gotta nuke them from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
ONLY I CAN REFERENCE ALIENS
Wait, have you even seen the movie?
Knox wrote:Yes, dude it's on the movie channel here every, single thursday.
But is it the ------- DIRECTOR'S CUT? Okay, no it's not because that's only available on dvd or netflix. All you miss is a scene where they kill like 200 aliens with sentry guns. Plus, you get a thorough intro to the crew and you get to see what Ripley's dead daughter looks like.
no, I'm not advertising for James Cameron secretly. Who told you that? No. Wait. Ummmm. I've got to go now.
sarpedons-right-hand wrote:I feel a little jealous (perversely), because living in the wilds of west Oxfordshire, the only creepy things I ever see are the common Garden Spider
Hope to fill my 'Creepy Creature' quotient when I go to the Philippines in March...
Or I could just spend a saturday night in Soho....
As I recall some of the creepiest things in P.I. are some of the "bar girls".....
As long as the ants don't have camel spiders listed in their army list, the CRASSUS ARMOURED ASSAULT TRANSPORT WITH 4 HEAVY FLAMER SPONSONS would be more than a match.
sarpedons-right-hand wrote:I feel a little jealous (perversely), because living in the wilds of west Oxfordshire, the only creepy things I ever see are the common Garden Spider
Hope to fill my 'Creepy Creature' quotient when I go to the Philippines in March...
Or I could just spend a saturday night in Soho....
As I recall some of the creepiest things in P.I. are some of the "bar girls".....
Lol, yes that's more true than you know..... Having been to the Philippines 6 times already (I have family out there) and having spent some 'interesting' nights out in the Manila red light districts with my Brother in law, I can attest to that....
However, they were some of the best nights out I've ever had. Don't know what that says about me......
mega_bassist wrote:Lets use two....just to be safe. Arachnids always have some trick up their sleeves
Why not all 15. There is no such thing as overkill. As I recently posted on Facebook-
The Emperor's Will be done, or he will smite you with large guns and massive swords of awesomely massively massive awesome swords of Holy awesomely awesomeness, and laugh over your dead body while the poor imperial soldiers get pimp slapped into building him a statue.
Is that the one where at the end this entire town is covered with spider webs and some people are trapped inside of their house? Cause it sounds pretty familiar...
I wonder if Mystery Science Theatre made fun of it...
mega_bassist wrote:Is that the one where at the end this entire town is covered with spider webs and some people are trapped inside of their house? Cause it sounds pretty familiar...
I wonder if Mystery Science Theatre made fun of it...
Yup, that's the one...
Haven't seen it on MST3K...but it sure would make excellent fodder for the show.
sarpedons-right-hand wrote:Careful? Careful?! I'd never leave my house and live in a full EVA suit. Even then I might not survive Seriously, I know it's a stunning country and all that, but the Yorkshire dales are amazing and the plus side is you don't run the risk of an agonising spasming death every time you take your dog for walkies!!
Guess again.
Australian spiders live in houses and crawl into suits.
I remember an Oz government snake catcher with tag on film team documentary with this family calling about some huge brown, pissed off and very very toxic snake found nesting under their house for the second time in a week, and they had small kids playing nearby. To the snake catcher team this was routine work.
I guess growing up with, and respecting, creepy crawlies that can kill you is gonna keep you safer than a flat footed whinging pom who does not know the difference between a Black Widow and a hole in the ground!
sarpedons-right-hand wrote:I guess growing up with, and respecting, creepy crawlies that can kill you is gonna keep you safer than a flat footed whinging pom who does not know the difference between a Black Widow and a hole in the ground!
I know the difference, you can stick you fingers in holes in the ground.
We get Stag Beetles about the size of a woman's fist in June and July around here. We also get the big a$$ hornets that were posted earlier in the thread. Now is the time of the giant black and yellow spiders that are everywhere. Japan goes Bug Free between December and February, but then the ticks are out in March. Cats are a necessity here if you don't like bugs. Especially for flying cockroaches. Bug spray does nothing. You pretty much have to light them on fire to kill them, or set the pussy on 'em.
Khornholio wrote:We get Stag Beetles about the size of a woman's fist in June and July around here. We also get the big a$$ hornets that were posted earlier in the thread. Now is the time of the giant black and yellow spiders that are everywhere. Japan goes Bug Free between December and February, but then the ticks are out in March. Cats are a necessity here if you don't like bugs. Especially for flying cockroaches. Bug spray does nothing. You pretty much have to light them on fire to kill them, or set the pussy on 'em.
Oh, boy. Don't forget about the cicadas over there. My mom lived there in her twenties, and said that kids used to poke them with sticks and it sounded like a dying cat on fire. YYEAAAANGGGGEAAAAAAA is pretty close. Saw one of those stag beetles a few years ago at my last visit. Those things are like frigging tank bugs from SST.
Khornholio wrote:We get Stag Beetles about the size of a woman's fist in June and July around here. We also get the big a$$ hornets that were posted earlier in the thread. Now is the time of the giant black and yellow spiders that are everywhere. Japan goes Bug Free between December and February, but then the ticks are out in March. Cats are a necessity here if you don't like bugs. Especially for flying cockroaches. Bug spray does nothing. You pretty much have to light them on fire to kill them, or set the pussy on 'em.
Apparently cockroaches can survive nuclear weapons or something. I doubt that, but if it is terue we are all :blep:ed.
Khornholio wrote:We get Stag Beetles about the size of a woman's fist in June and July around here. We also get the big a$$ hornets that were posted earlier in the thread. Now is the time of the giant black and yellow spiders that are everywhere. Japan goes Bug Free between December and February, but then the ticks are out in March. Cats are a necessity here if you don't like bugs. Especially for flying cockroaches. Bug spray does nothing. You pretty much have to light them on fire to kill them, or set the pussy on 'em.
Apparently cockroaches can survive nuclear weapons or something. I doubt that, but if it is terue we are all :blep:ed.
I have no idea where this myth comes from, but it's just that; a myth.
A cockroach would not survive being in the blast radius of a nuclear weapon.
As far as radiation tolerance goes, they're actually pretty low on the totem pole.
When i was stationed in egypt we used to have Camel spider fights, cut the bottom off a couple of two liters and put em together and shake. Instant fun, if only for a second or two.
corpsesarefun wrote:Sorry why are those popcorn spiders scary? they look harmless to me.
Yeah, I don't understand either...
Well if its not dangerous then whats all the hub bub? I dont like the spiders in my house, and I kill them every chance I get. That doesnt mean Im scared of them. Now if the same spiders could bite me, and make my arm rot off....then ya....scared
corpsesarefun wrote:Sorry why are those popcorn spiders scary? they look harmless to me.
Yeah, I don't understand either...
Well if its not dangerous then whats all the hub bub? I dont like the spiders in my house, and I kill them every chance I get. That doesnt mean Im scared of them. Now if the same spiders could bite me, and make my arm rot off....then ya....scared
Well, it's Karon who hates them, I however am curious if they taste like popcorn.
corpsesarefun wrote:Sorry why are those popcorn spiders scary? they look harmless to me.
Yeah, I don't understand either...
Well if its not dangerous then whats all the hub bub? I dont like the spiders in my house, and I kill them every chance I get. That doesnt mean Im scared of them. Now if the same spiders could bite me, and make my arm rot off....then ya....scared
Well, it's Karon who hates them, I however am curious if they taste like popcorn.
Trust me, they taste like chicken. I did a wilderness survival course for a week, and trust me there are worse things than spiders out there.
The thing it comes down to when I look at a bug is how loud its going to pop if I step on it. I look at a tarantula and I begin to think that if I try to step on it I would end up being carried off. If I step on it and there's a chance I would see its legs after doing so then its also too big for me to step on.
Again, I can see why AK-47s and machetes have proliferated among the third world areas and jungle areas that spawn these things.
+ 1 for Camel Spiders. Back when I was in the reserves, one of the guys that came back from Afghanistan was telling us about a time he found one hiding under his bedroll. It chased him and 2 other guys out of the tent. No thanks.
Also: In regards to Popcorn spiders, my buddy had one living above his back porch, next to the sliding glass door. We named him Colonel Angus, because he survived everything we tried on him. He also fancied the sauce. We'd spray gin or whiskey on a bit of his web and he'd go straight for it. He was a pretty kickass popcorn spider. He'd just sit there, in his whiskey web, and be drunk with us on the back porch. Until he got squished by an errant football toss.
Killed alot of Camel spiders while deployed in afghanistan..hated those things, we called them facehuggers, after one dropped on a soldier's face while he was sleeping...after that we put up our bug nets as sleeping covers to prevent that from happening.
Watched one eat a chunk of sausage...very disturbing.
still gives me hee bee jeebees
Soo'Vah'Cha wrote:Killed alot of Camel spiders while deployed in afghanistan..hated those things, we called them facehuggers, after one dropped on a soldier's face while he was sleeping...after that we put up our bug nets as sleeping covers to prevent that from happening.
Watched one eat a chunk of sausage...very disturbing.
still gives me hee bee jeebees
Facehuggers? wow. Did it lay an egg in him and burst out a few hours later?
Soo'Vah'Cha wrote:Killed alot of Camel spiders while deployed in afghanistan..hated those things, we called them facehuggers, after one dropped on a soldier's face while he was sleeping...after that we put up our bug nets as sleeping covers to prevent that from happening.
Watched one eat a chunk of sausage...very disturbing.
still gives me hee bee jeebees
I think "Headhumpers" would have been a better name.
Camel spiders don't get up to even a 5 inch legspan. There's so much urban mythology surrounding these things I'm surprised people don't think they have wings.
If you want creepy bugs then the cave spider is where it's at!
dogma wrote:Screw that, the Brown Recluse may be small, but that necrosis is...inconvenient.
It's hardly the most dangerous skittery thing to be bitten by though. Black widows make webs in toilet bowls because they prefer moist environments for instance.
Yea, we get Black Widows and Hobo spiders here. Damn Hobo Spiders look -really- close to a Brown Recluse and cause the same necrosis from their bite. I always find them bolting across my bathroom floor in the morning.Almost got bit on the marbles by one, actually. Was towelling off after a shower and one was hiding in the towel. He fell on the floor and promptly became spider butter.
Ah well, at least we're not Osoyoos. They aren't far from us (Same desert valley), but they get bloody scorpions. Only place in Canada that does.
Moths: Hate those things so much, now thats its summer here, there friggen everywhere at night where there is light. When the fly on me I cant help but scream then people...like my girlfriend comes in and has to kill it before I can come back in the room. I also was playing a guy I just met at my club and a moth flew in (Normal size) a second latter I ran into the other room while the whole club tried to kill it so I could come back into the room. The guy who I was playing couldn't play for 15min cause he couldn't stop laughing and at one point had trouble breathing because he was laughing so much
Wetas: Those things are grim (appreantly there endangered so its illegal to kill the little buggers) I killed about three of them so far...
rubiksnoob wrote:Marbled Orb Weaver. I found one sitting on its web an inch from my face while hiking once.
And as of 2 seconds ago I just found one outside my window! Creepy!
Soo cuuuute! was I the only one who thought that?
I hate the spiders here, they infest the place, they are the size of large mini bases and they move like THAT! really, I have to shoot them to kill 'em with a bb gun.
The one that gives me the jeepers is the mighty Jumping Jack Bulldog Ant, can jump 6 inches and once it begins hunting its prey it will not stop, meaning if it has sized you up in the back yard it will go you but if you move to another locale in your back yard it will follow you, via your scent.
metallifan wrote:Yea, we get Black Widows and Hobo spiders here. Damn Hobo Spiders look -really- close to a Brown Recluse and cause the same necrosis from their bite. I always find them bolting across my bathroom floor in the morning.Almost got bit on the marbles by one, actually. Was towelling off after a shower and one was hiding in the towel. He fell on the floor and promptly became spider butter.
Ah well, at least we're not Osoyoos. They aren't far from us (Same desert valley), but they get bloody scorpions. Only place in Canada that does.
I'd probably end up confusing it for a wolf spider they're so similar looking. Also Osoyoos is boring as feth.
Cheesecat wrote:I'd probably end up confusing it for a wolf spider they're so similar looking. Also Osoyoos is boring as feth.
Except they don't - the common species where we are tends to have a much thicker body and shorter leg span, while our local flavour of Hobo Spider has a very elongated body and legs about 1 1/2 times its body length.
However, check out this baby - the Giant House Spider. It's not harmful, but its bite hurts like a bastard, and they can get up to 4-5 inches (leg span incl.). Never seen one of these before, but apparently they're really common in the valley:
Soo'Vah'Cha wrote:Killed alot of Camel spiders while deployed in afghanistan..hated those things, we called them facehuggers, after one dropped on a soldier's face while he was sleeping...after that we put up our bug nets as sleeping covers to prevent that from happening.
Watched one eat a chunk of sausage...very disturbing.
still gives me hee bee jeebees
Cheesecat wrote:I'd probably end up confusing it for a wolf spider they're so similar looking. Also Osoyoos is boring as feth.
Except they don't - the common species where we are tends to have a much thicker body and shorter leg span, while our local flavour of Hobo Spider has a very elongated body and legs about 1 1/2 times its body length.
However, check out this baby - the Giant House Spider. It's not harmful, but its bite hurts like a bastard, and they can get up to 4-5 inches (leg span incl.). Never seen one of these before, but apparently they're really common in the valley:
Comparing 2 different photos instead of a side-by-side is silly. As well, there are a number of obvious and noticable differences.
The hobo spider has a very reddish-brown rust colour to it - similar to the one in that picture. Also, look at the abdomen - Hobo spider has a dark one, wolf spider abdomens are light. Hobo spiders also have much longer mandibles with large, dark brown bulbous tips. Wolf Spiders (At least, our local species) do not.
When you see like 2 or 3 per day running around your house or your basement steps, you tend to have time to take note of details
metallifan wrote:Comparing 2 different photos instead of a side-by-side is silly. As well, there are a number of obvious and noticable differences.
The hobo spider has a very reddish-brown rust colour to it - similar to the one in that picture. Also, look at the abdomen - Hobo spider has a dark one, wolf spider abdomens are light. Hobo spiders also have much longer mandibles with large, dark brown bulbous tips. Wolf Spiders (At least, our local species) do not.
When you see like 2 or 3 per day running around your house or your basement steps, you tend to have time to take note of details
I don't think I'm going to remember the differences. Oh well, at least they're not very aggressive (according to Wikipedia). Is this image better?
metallifan wrote:Comparing 2 different photos instead of a side-by-side is silly. As well, there are a number of obvious and noticable differences.
The hobo spider has a very reddish-brown rust colour to it - similar to the one in that picture. Also, look at the abdomen - Hobo spider has a dark one, wolf spider abdomens are light. Hobo spiders also have much longer mandibles with large, dark brown bulbous tips. Wolf Spiders (At least, our local species) do not.
When you see like 2 or 3 per day running around your house or your basement steps, you tend to have time to take note of details
I don't think I'm going to remember the differences. Oh well, at least they're not very aggressive (according to Wikipedia). Is this image better?
Do you really want to find a spider, then have to run and gran your chart?
metallifan wrote:Comparing 2 different photos instead of a side-by-side is silly. As well, there are a number of obvious and noticable differences.
The hobo spider has a very reddish-brown rust colour to it - similar to the one in that picture. Also, look at the abdomen - Hobo spider has a dark one, wolf spider abdomens are light. Hobo spiders also have much longer mandibles with large, dark brown bulbous tips. Wolf Spiders (At least, our local species) do not.
When you see like 2 or 3 per day running around your house or your basement steps, you tend to have time to take note of details
I don't think I'm going to remember the differences. Oh well, at least they're not very aggressive (according to Wikipedia). Is this image better?
Do you really want to find a spider, then have to run and gran your chart?
"I got bit by I Wolf Spider I think, I'll grab my chart just to be sure oh shi..."
metallifan wrote:Comparing 2 different photos instead of a side-by-side is silly. As well, there are a number of obvious and noticable differences.
The hobo spider has a very reddish-brown rust colour to it - similar to the one in that picture. Also, look at the abdomen - Hobo spider has a dark one, wolf spider abdomens are light. Hobo spiders also have much longer mandibles with large, dark brown bulbous tips. Wolf Spiders (At least, our local species) do not.
When you see like 2 or 3 per day running around your house or your basement steps, you tend to have time to take note of details
I don't think I'm going to remember the differences. Oh well, at least they're not very aggressive (according to Wikipedia). Is this image better?
Spoiler:
Do you really want to find a spider, then have to run and gran your chart?
"I got bit by I Wolf Spider I think, I'll grab my chart just to be sure oh shi-".
corpsesarefun wrote:Wolf and Hobo spiders look pretty similar, that said just avoid anything that looks like them.
But wolf spiders are harmless in fact I rather see them alive that way they can get rid of more annoying bugs in the house, although when there webs start getting in the way that's where I draw the line.
I do too, but that's because if I know they're going to bite me if I do nothing, unlike wolf spiders who aren't very aggressive at all plus mosquito's are my least favourite animal next to wasps and horseflies.
Man I'll celebrate the day I see those insects extinct.
Naw, everyone should just keep a chunk of aluminum downpipe strapped to their belts at all times. When I used to help my buddy gutter houses on his Saturday shifts, we'd carry downpipe in our tool harnesses. There was nothing more satisfying than the loud, hollow *THWACK!* of a wasp just getting -nailed- by a good swing of the downpipe for being an annoying phallus.
metallifan wrote:Naw, everyone should just keep a chunk of aluminum downpipe strapped to their belts at all times. When I used to help my buddy gutter houses on his Saturday shifts, we'd carry downpipe in our tool harnesses. There was nothing more satisfying than the loud, hollow *THWACK!* of a wasp just getting -nailed- by a good swing of the downpipe for being an annoying phallus.
Except for the screams of the one guy with the pipe that misses!
metallifan wrote:Comparing 2 different photos instead of a side-by-side is silly. As well, there are a number of obvious and noticable differences.
The hobo spider has a very reddish-brown rust colour to it - similar to the one in that picture. Also, look at the abdomen - Hobo spider has a dark one, wolf spider abdomens are light. Hobo spiders also have much longer mandibles with large, dark brown bulbous tips. Wolf Spiders (At least, our local species) do not.
When you see like 2 or 3 per day running around your house or your basement steps, you tend to have time to take note of details
I don't think I'm going to remember the differences. Oh well, at least they're not very aggressive (according to Wikipedia). Is this image better?
I once got a hive of Fire Ants drunk on Vodka, then used a trail of it to lead them to another Fire Ant hill, which was already slurping the stuff. The results were hilarious. They were slogging about, falling over, and then battling drunkedly over Smirnoff!
Deadshot wrote:I once got a hive of Fire Ants drunk on Vodka, then used a trail of it to lead them to another Fire Ant hill, which was already slurping the stuff. The results were hilarious. They were slogging about, falling over, and then battling drunkedly over Smirnoff!
Reminds me of the time I was really little and my friends and I sprayed raid into our super soakers and shot it at a migrating ant hive.
Cheesecat wrote:"I got bit by I Wolf Spider I think, I'll grab my chart just to be sure oh shi..."
Good lord, it's not like you're going to keel over and die right away from any spider bite. As I understand it (not ever having been bitten by a dangerously poisonous spider), you often don't even realize you were bitten at the time (big-fanged spiders like the mouse and funnel-web spiders being the obvious exception). What you do notice - over time - is an area that starts swelling painfully and goes downhill from there, usually several hours - or even a day or so - later.
Black Widows aren't always large. The can be quite small and delicate. They can also get pretty fething huge in the right environment, say in an outhouse where flies are plentiful. Your indoor toilet - and therefore your private parts - should be quite safe. They are web dwellers, so as long as you don't go sticking your fingers (or other bits) into their web you'll probably be okay.
Brown Reclues aren't so bad. As their name says, they are quite reclusive and tend to hide in the walls, so you may well not even realize the share your home with you. The ones living in my apartment building are like that. I'm sure there are a ton of them inside the walls, controlling the roach and ant population, and I'm fine with that. Not to say that one venturing into my apartment will not be treated with extreme hostility, mind you...
Down side is they are active hunters, so they tend to wander around a LOT. One morning I put on my bathrobe and sat down at the computer. I ran my hands down my robe over my legs to smooth it out and something that felt quite a bit like a rubber band rolled along underneath my left hand. I wondered how a rubber band got there, so I picked it up to look at it... only to find a brown recluse sitting on my hand. Freaked me out pretty good, that did. I screamed, shook my hand at the far corner of the room to get it off, jumped up and ran to get my steel-toed boots. On the minus, I never did find the booger to turn him into spider pate, on the plus he apparently didn't feel like biting me, thank the gods!
The real fun part for a spider-conserver like me, who doesn't like to just kill spiders on sight because I perfer them to roaches and ants, is another species of spiders that looks just like a brown recluse but isn't poisonous to humans. The only way to tell them apart is to look closely at the cephalothroax. Brown Recluses have a guitar- or violin-shaped mark on their back. The harmless spider, ironically enough, has a mark that looks an awful lot like a human skull.
(Yes, the one that freaked me out had a violin mark. I got a real clear look at if from 6-8 inches or so. )
Vulcan wrote:Brown Reclues aren't so bad. As their name says, they are quite reclusive and tend to hide in the walls, so you may well not even realize the share your home with you. The ones living in my apartment building are like that. I'm sure there are a ton of them inside the walls, controlling the roach and ant population, and I'm fine with that. Not to say that one venturing into my apartment will not be treated with extreme hostility, mind you...
Lucky for us, we don't get Brown Recluse spiders in BC. And the Hobo Spider's necrosis is nowhere near as severe as the Brown Recluse. They are still mean little bastards though.
Round 2 for me! this little sucker's been mentioned briefly but as i see him a bit around my place (stealing beers and stuff) I thought he needs another mention, but you really need to scroll down to see the reason that this guy is one of the creepiest mothers out there in bug land!
http://aroundozwithstunshaz.yolasite.com/the-white-tail-spider.php
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killykavekommando wrote:Dear god! Those spiders are killers!
Ever get bitten near or on the nads by one? Yeah neither have I but I know someone who has...
not a fun experience in the slightest...
Id just tell them, cut it all off, Ill just see what its like to be a woman from now on
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nerdfest09 wrote:Round 2 for me! this little sucker's been mentioned briefly but as i see him a bit around my place (stealing beers and stuff) I thought he needs another mention, but you really need to scroll down to see the reason that this guy is one of the creepiest mothers out there in bug land!
http://aroundozwithstunshaz.yolasite.com/the-white-tail-spider.php
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Holy sweet jesus! Seriously, you Aussies are fething nuts. No way, no FRIGGIN way, you guys can have your crazy, people eating country
The Aboridinal didn't get driven off by Brittish. They were waiting untill they came, aso they coukld leave and fly away into spcae, and leave the Brits behind as fodder for those abominations. Otherwise, that beast would have grown wings and found them on Mars.
I'm not really sure i've ever found any insects scary in any way. More suitabe words for those who've invoked negative feelings in me are either "creepy" or "disgusting". A degree that has given me that "ew"-feeling, or rather "i-wouldn't-wanna-touch-that"-sensation...
This is a marine Isopod, basically an aquatic woodlouse/pillbug/whatever-your-local-name-for-them-is. They come in a variety of sizes and some people keep them in aquaria. The only one i've encountered in real life was pickled and on display at the Liverpool museum of natural history.
I don't know he actually looks kinda cute Look at those glowing red eyes that want to see you die a horrible death! compared to Alma and the White Tailed Spider, that looks angelical!
killykavekommando wrote:Isopods... Just search "the arachnid threat" on Google, and there's an article on how those actually are the precursors to an alien invasion.
We've got those here too. They are harmless. Well, not totally, their bite can raise a bit of a welt, sorta like a mosqitio bite but it's mildly painful instead of itchy. But compared to a Brown Recluse it's no contest.
The centipedes around here look more like tank bugs from SST, and aren't fuzzy like that. Here, you can visibly see their pinchers. Dear God, those things bite like a pair of rusted bolt cutters loaded with poison. Little guys bite the worst. They have the most poison in their bite, because they don't gauge their poison output, just bite with everything.
killykavekommando wrote:The centipedes around here look more like tank bugs from SST, and aren't fuzzy like that. Here, you can visibly see their pinchers. Dear God, those things bite like a pair of rusted bolt cutters loaded with poison. Little guys bite the worst. They have the most poison in their bite, because they don't gauge their poison output, just bite with everything.
Never been bitten by centipedes and know little about them so I'm always wary of them.
We've got those here too. They are harmless. Well, not totally, their bite can raise a bit of a welt, sorta like a mosqitio bite but it's mildly painful instead of itchy. But compared to a Brown Recluse it's no contest.
No, you don't. You wont find this kind of Scutigera in a house. They're found in the Gomantong Caves in Borneo, although they're known to inhabit many dark places along the equator. Their bite/sting is extremely painful, it's a definite hospital visit upon receiving one. The ones you find are tiny and largely harmless, these are MUCH larger, and they're stupid fast, getting a shot of a moving one was nearly impossible. Anyway, this is about the scariest bugs, not necessarily the most deadly. I saw this thing on TV, a show called the Deadly 60. What scared me was the legs and their speed, and the fact that there were hundreds of them. A Recluse bite is a frightening prospect, but it's not something that makes the back of my neck tingle just looking at pictures of the creature itself. Even googling this thing was a psychological challenge. It only ranks behind those giant Golden Orb Spiders and Camel Spiders, but we've been over both.
Black Widows are probably the creapiest things I've seen in real life. They like dark damp places, like where the pool pump and filter is stored as the school in Louisiana I worked in during the summers.
Reaching to pull off the filter lid and seeing one scurry across when your cleaning in the morning will wake you right the hell up!
Snakes will make me jump, too. We have a dock on the Houston Ship Channel where I work. We'll occassionally see some coiled up near the belt motor. They look creepy as hell swimming across the surface of a pond or lake, too.
Great movie, by the way. It's called Starship Troopers. The sequels don't exist in my world, because they suck so much. Read the book by Robert A. Heinlein first, though.
Some crappy kovie about a bug siege, followed by a lot of people dieing to careless and easily avoided mistakes. it sucked. NEXT.
Back on topic, I think the scariest bug I have ever seen, from last night, would be waking up to find a spider, a FOOT wide, sitting on your chest.
I will be scared for life. It may be less intimidating if it was a tarantula, but this was a common house spider. A foot wide. We're getting an Exterminator in next week.
Brain bug from SST. That face has always perplexed me about what Verhoen was thinking (or feeling) when he designed it.
@ Billinator: Agreed about SST 2. Watch the third one, if you haven't already. It's better than the second one, and they use marauder suits that are basically just Thors/ Vikings from Starcraft.
I dont really consider insects or any other arthropod 'scary', I've got 4 tarantulas (and counting) and 2 emperor scorpions, whom the female is soon going to give birth :3
But I think cockroaches freak me out the most, just turning on a light and finding one frantically running along the edge of the bathroom wall or one that bloody flying, making that fluttering noise sends me running...for the aerosol and matches
Vietnamese Centipede. You do Not want this one to bite you. Saw one of these in a pet store I frequented and it was rather cool to watch it eat. Owner tossed a cricket in, centipede didn't move or go after it until the cricket brushed up against the rear of the centipede. In very quick movements, the butt of the `pede flipped over and grabbed the cricket, and it then proceeded to pass the cricket from one pair of legs to the next up the length of it's body to the head end.
Vietnamese Centipede. You do Not want this one to bite you. Saw one of these in a pet store I frequented and it was rather cool to watch it eat. Owner tossed a cricket in, centipede didn't move or go after it until the cricket brushed up against the rear of the centipede. In very quick movements, the butt of the `pede flipped over and grabbed the cricket, and it then proceeded to pass the cricket from one pair of legs to the next up the length of it's body to the head end.
If it is any condolence, all of you people who are afraid of centipedes- it is a natural reaction ingrained into a mammals mind to avoid those things. 65 million years ago, we were still part of their food chain. And evolution hasn't pushed us so far as to be clear of that instinct yet. Of course, now that mammals dominate the Earth, we eat THEM now....we not meaning humans, but alot of mammals that aren't us. Yes, that was supposed to make sense (but you CAN eat centipedes if you want. In fact, before fire was tamed by man, bugs were a part of our main diets.)
LumenPraebeo wrote:If it is any condolence, all of you people who are afraid of centipedes- it is a natural reaction ingrained into a mammals mind to avoid those things. 65 million years ago, we were still part of their food chain. And evolution hasn't pushed us so far as to be clear of that instinct yet. Of course, now that mammals dominate the Earth, we eat THEM now....we not meaning humans, but alot of mammals that aren't us. Yes, that was supposed to make sense (but you CAN eat centipedes if you want. In fact, before fire was tamed by man, bugs were a part of our main diets.)
I hate to break it to you but 65 million years ago dinosaurs were just going extinct, mammals were no larger than weasels and centipedes were around the same size they are now.
You have to go back to quite a bit before mammals to start seeing the giant flesh eating centipedes.
I'm quite glad i live in a country were the incests and spiders are mostly small...
Bigest Spider i have seen, just had long legs, never seen one with a big body.
Slugs I don't like, I remember once on holiday in Derbyshire, walking up some steps to something, and it was wet and these steps (were like carved into a hill, so made out of the earth) were covered with slugs, and some pretty big ones too.
T-rex wasn't a vicious Predator. he actually had small teeth top start with. Then the Necrons wanted to see a lizard, zapped him, and he grew sharp teeth for crunching up Monolithes.
Deadshot wrote:T-rex wasn't a vicious Predator. he actually had small teeth top start with. Then the Necrons wanted to see a lizard, zapped him, and he grew sharp teeth for crunching up Monolithes.
I thought T-rex's teeth were designed for coconuts not monoliths.
Deadshot wrote:Also, 65 Million years ago the Necrons were walking about conquering for lulz.
Think they have something to do with the dinos' extinction?
No, they clearly ran out of coconuts!
Cheesecat wrote:
Deadshot wrote:T-rex wasn't a vicious Predator. he actually had small teeth top start with. Then the Necrons wanted to see a lizard, zapped him, and he grew sharp teeth for crunching up Monolithes.
I thought T-rex's teeth were designed for coconuts not monoliths.
Good job, Milkdog! you were paying attention in class!
Deadshot wrote:T-rex wasn't a vicious Predator. he actually had small teeth top start with. Then the Necrons wanted to see a lizard, zapped him, and he grew sharp teeth for crunching up Monolithes.
I thought T-rex's teeth were designed for coconuts not monoliths.
Deadshot wrote:T-rex wasn't a vicious Predator. he actually had small teeth top start with. Then the Necrons wanted to see a lizard, zapped him, and he grew sharp teeth for crunching up Monolithes.
I thought T-rex's teeth were designed for coconuts not monoliths.
Deadshot wrote:T-rex wasn't a vicious Predator. he actually had small teeth top start with. Then the Necrons wanted to see a lizard, zapped him, and he grew sharp teeth for crunching up Monolithes.
I thought T-rex's teeth were designed for coconuts not monoliths.
Uh oh, its the Banana argument all over again
Well, it IS the OT....
Tends to happen every once in a great Moon.
Agreed, that was pretty respectable. Hell some threads dont even make it to a full 1st page And yea, welcome to the OT my friends, its a cesspool of awesome and anger all wrapped up inside a softshell taco, and deep fried in motor oil
The scariest thing I've ever seen is in Starcraft when my ultralisk started attacking my own base, somehow. All I had were overlords and some drones. That was an epic fail.
Australian bull ants. These things are almost an inch long and have the belligerance of fire ants. You can see their fangs ffs. Routinely, about 3 people a year die to these guys. And they don't kill by poison or anything. They SKELETONIZE you alive. I have seen a sheep, still alive, half skeletal, laying in the middle of a bull ant nest STILL trying to drag itself away. and these guys shift their nest, so they don't have to move that far to eat you.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Justr while we're talking about bugs, a party I was at featured a large spider on a brick wall, tormenting us. Ecvertime a girl tried to go to the en suite toilet, the handle of the door it was sitting on, it would scuury around a bit and frighten them. Eventually it went onto said brick wall.
killykavekommando wrote:That makes the marine corps look really smart!
So you're going to tell a guy that just ATE something i don't want to be on the planet with, he's DUMB?!?!?!
Good luck with that....
Good point, which reminds me of a somewhat nasty comeback that a friend and I made accidentally.
So, my friend (pinoypower knows this guy) is a bit perverted, so I asked him "Where you dropped on your balls as a baby?"
He replies with: "Yes. On a woman."
Back On Topic,
I think that bugs always look bigger in person than in photos, plainly because of how frigging scary some of them are. On 'A Thousand Ways to Die," I was a kind of ant that made a nest inside this sleeping dude's throat, which disturbed me for a week.
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It carries Malaria. Scary... I hate things which spread diseases.
