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KingCracker wrote:

corpsesarefun wrote:Google says no...

Cheesecat wrote:

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.

Cheesecat wrote:

KingCracker wrote:

corpsesarefun wrote:Google says no...

Cheesecat wrote:

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.

Look upon it and despair!

YOU FOOLS!

Those are CAT SPIDERS!

http://coopext.colostate.edu/4dmg/Pests/catspid.htm

Harmless to humans my ass...

Karon wrote:YOU FOOLS!

Those are CAT SPIDERS!

http://coopext.colostate.edu/4dmg/Pests/catspid.htm

Harmless to humans my ass...

We always called em' "Popcorn Spider's" aroun' these parts of town. You foreigners 'ave a strange name for em' though.

Cheesecat wrote:

Karon wrote:YOU FOOLS!

Those are CAT SPIDERS!

http://coopext.colostate.edu/4dmg/Pests/catspid.htm

Harmless to humans my ass...

We always called em' "Popcorn Spider's" around these parts of town. You foreigners have a strange name for em' though.

Don't get your panties in an uproar, he's just not from around these parts.

Ma55ter_fett wrote:Look upon it and despair!

much much worse

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!

Screw that, the Brown Recluse may be small, but that necrosis is...inconvenient.

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.

Scariest bugs I ever saw came out of a hornets nest, which was attached to a flourescent light fixture I was working on at the time.

two things.

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...

I agree with rogue, moths are evil.

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:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_house_spider


And yea, Osoyoos is boring, but what do you expect from a town inhabited by 2000 old people?

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

This wins!!!!

metallifan wrote:

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:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_house_spider


And yea, Osoyoos is boring, but what do you expect from a town inhabited by 2000 old people?

They look similar to me.

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: And yea, Osoyoos is boring, but what do you expect from a town inhabited by 2000 old people?

Lots of people "up in your business" and a possible, sudden population decrease?!

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?

Cheesecat wrote:

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?

alarmingrick wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:

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..."