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hey joe. just read a story on the bbc last week about those. one got in the guys duffle bag and when he got home it came out. bit his family dog and killed it. now they are checking all the duffle bags that come into the country from the wars before they can take them home.
Yeah thanks guys. I was laying on the floor near my merc in the garage yesterday...after reading all of this buggy business. A spider went scampering by me and I yelled like a school girl. My THREE year old boy gave it a side kick out of the garage and couldn't wait to tell mom when she got home. Now my kid will always look upon me as a whimp and my wife, well, she always has to kill the spiders in the house anyway so no harm there. Thanks a lot guys!
I think they made the movie Arachnophobia just to freak the jegeebuz out of me. No eight legged crawly things for me please.
I hate spiders. This is a camel spider found in Iraq, that place is just wrong in too many ways.
In southeast Texas where I was raised we had wood (banana) spiders.
http://animals.timduru.org/dirlist/s...a%20spider.jpg
They build large webs across trails in the woods and if you are not paying attention you would get a face full of web and spider. These suckers about the size if a coffee cup in diameter. :eek:
And I hated the bastards but my old man taught us to respect the creatures because they ate their weight in something even worse – mosquitoes!
http://www.michigan.gov/images/mosquito_65147_7.jpg
if anybody gets a tarantula in their house ill glady take em :D i even pay shipping:D haha alot of people are scared of getting bitten in reality its no worse then a bee sting if its from a tarantula.
Hey Scooter, ain't tarantulas poisonous?
not to humans. like i said it slike a bee sting, if your allergic to bees dont handle a tarantula. of course i know a few people who ahve been handing them for well over 10 years and have never been bitten its mostly common sense you know. when they start rearing up and getting antsy leave em be. there are a few like, the usambar-baboon, king baboon goliath bird eater and cobalt blue that you just dont touch or try to handle they are far to agessive to try that unless you brave and or an expert. not posionus they are jsut very agressive. i have a rosehair she is pretty much harmless to me.
usambar http://farm1.static.flickr.com/113/2...eee76c.jpg?v=0
king baboon http://animal-world.com/encyclo/rept...rWHSp_AP7I.jpg
goliath yes they really are as big as dinner plates. http://thesicilian.net/images/INGA%20R.I.P.%20004.jpg
and the cobalt beautiful but mean http://www.tarantulaguide.com/wp-con...0tarantula.jpg
rosehair http://urbansafarirescue.ca/Rose%20H...Tarantulas.jpg not mine but same species
Neat pics Scooter, but I think I'll just stick with my chocolate lab.
In the late '70's when I lived in NC I pulled up next to a guy who had a mint set of Dodge Lancer hubcaps on his daily driver. After some negotiations I ended up buying them from him. When I got my new find home I started to polish them and was on the second one before I looked at the backside. There was a spider sitting there, all comfy in a nest he had built inside the spinner part. Then I noticed the hourglass on his back and realized it was a Black Widow! :eek:
Needless to say, those hubcaps smelled like Raid for quite some time. :D
Don
Here's one.... my oldest grandson took this picture one day when I took him out Trout fishing. Thought I might as well add some pictures of him too and His BIG fish....... :LOL:
My pictures..... where'd they go?
I'll try again.
Nothing better than a Brookie on a dry fly with a 3x tippet !!
you guys got some neat pics, though I might step on my computer screen soon.:LOL:
:eek: You have got to be kidding?!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by mooneye777
Those things would eat a can of Raid.