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Creepy Crawlies

The first post in this thread consists of a healthy combination of win and awesome.

Also, I agree. F*ck these bugs, let's kill them all. When I was staying with my sister in Australia a few years ago, I walked into the kitchen in the middle of the night to find a huuuuuge spider, whose body alone, without the legs, was the size of my palm, right on the ceiling above my head. I am seriously terrified of spiders, so I retreated to the safety of my room and didn't have a drink that night.
 
When I lived in texas there used to be huge swarms of crickets that would descend upon the town for a few days and suddenly all die. Before dying they would swarm nighttime outdoor sporting events, dimming the huge field lights with their numbers, diving into crowds on bleachers. The sour stink of it was horrible. They would pile up around buildings and in parking lots, making a distinctive crunchcrunchcrunchcrunch as you drove over the hundreds of thousands of rotting carapaces. One time I attempted to enter a public bathroom, but there was an intermediary area between the hallway outside and the actual WC which was carpeted in dead crickets. I haven't been there in ten years but crickets still give me the heebie jeebies.
 
Yeah, so the other day a male/immature female black widow walked into the bathroom while I was on the pot. I screamed, as it really is the best way to render the spider defenseless so you can escape before it eats you, and my husband still hasn't stopped making fun of me. I feel you pain, dude, I feel your pain.
 
Centipedes are actually good to have around, they keep roaches out of your house. I would have left it alone. Whenever I see one in my house, I'm grateful. Roaches freak me out. I lived in a crappy apartment in college that was infested with roaches. They would crawl through my hair at night. It was awful.
 
leekohler said:
Centipedes are actually good to have around, they keep roaches out of your house. I would have left it alone. Whenever I see one in my house, I'm grateful. Roaches freak me out. I lived in a crappy apartment in college that was infested with roaches. They would crawl through my hair at night. It was awful.
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And now we know why you shave your head.
 
abijnk said:
Yeah, so the other day a male/immature female black widow walked into the bathroom while I was on the pot. I screamed, as it really is the best way to render the spider defenseless so you can escape before it eats you, and my husband still hasn't stopped making fun of me. I feel you pain, dude, I feel your pain.
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ahahhahahhahahahaaah nice!


Hey Disc Golfer, I heard there are huge... HUGE.. cockroaches in Texas, is this true?
 
I don't like many-legged things, but I try not to kill them when I come across them.

One time, I was walking down my dorm at college and right in front of me a spider rapidly repelled down from the ceiling. I was shocked at first; then I laughed, and I walked around it. It did freak me out at first though.

Another time, I was just leaving my room and some huge thing (larger than my fist) ran out from the door next to mine and sprinted up the wall and down the hall. It looked like the hand-parasite thing from the Alien movies. I did try to kill this one because it freaked me out so much, but it was gone down the hall in a second.

Recently, I was sitting in front of my computer and a spider repelled down the front of my hair. I shook it off and accidentally flung it somewhere in my room.
 
Jason Beck said:
Hey Disc Golfer, I heard there are huge... HUGE.. cockroaches in Texas, is this true?
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Probably. I didn't see any, but there are some unreal amazon type bugs down there so I wouldn't doubt it. Aside from the crickets I remember the june bugs the most. Thwack thwack. Thwackthwackthwackthwack. Better off shaving your head with those nuggets flying around.
 
Jason Beck said:
ahahhahahhahahahaaah nice!


Hey Disc Golfer, I heard there are huge... HUGE.. cockroaches in Texas, is this true?
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HUGE cockroaches. We bomb the house and it still doesn't affect them. Most likely gets them a free high. Bastards.

Disc Golfer said:
Probably. I didn't see any, but there are some unreal amazon type bugs down there so I wouldn't doubt it. Aside from the crickets I remember the june bugs the most. Thwack thwack. Thwackthwackthwackthwack. Better off shaving your head with those nuggets flying around.
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June bugs are everywhere right now; in the pool, on the vehicles, in the house etc..

Love-Bugs are also a big deal here. Black and orange everywhere. It's like an invasion of some sort of orgy bug club.

Probably the most annoying thing here is mosquitos. We have trucks drive up and down the streets nightly spraying for them, every backyard has at least one citronella candle (ours has torches, table candles..) and it would be wise to carry around bug spray in your pocket.

Other than that it's paradise :D
 
Jason Beck said:
For those too lazy, here is the bite.
They look kinda like brown recluses.. Living in the USA.. we got nasty bugs in places. ...
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Well I was just being kind by not posting the images inline. At least you posted a tame one because apparently the bites can be much worse than that. They are indeed a lot like the brown recluse and I think their identities get mixed up sometimes.

I was sitting on this very forum several years ago in the pacific northwest and felt something tickle my foot. I looked down to find a hobo spider running away. Goddamn I probably lost a few months off my life from that startling moment and nearly threw my powerbook.

Bless the UK and its harmless little spiders!
 
iBlue said:
Bless the UK and its harmless little spiders!
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Some of them still bite you know. ;)

Of course, when I was a wee boy growing up in Berkshire... it wasn't the spiders that you had to worry about... it was the snakes. :eek: ;) :)
 
Jason Beck said:
2 years ago here in Cedar City, Utah I was walking into the bedroom of our apartment to talk to my wife and wake her up. She was taking a nap.

"Honey..."
"...Yah *sigh* *yawn*", She said sleepily.
"Don't.... move...", I said while both my hands are outstretched in a calming motion.
"Whats .. on.. me!?" She exclaimed really scary-like and worried.
"A black-widow spider the size of my fist..."


I kid you not guys.. that thing was like 5-6 inches or so with legs outstretched and it was crawling very slowly up the side of her head. We lived in a basement apartment. Nuff' said right? Well after that and the scorpions, we moved out.
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Not that I dont believe you on the size of the spider...but the typical response from anyone when scared of a small spirder is "OMFG ITS A BLACK WIDOW!!!" when more than likely they might not even be indigenous to your locale.

Regardless, they max out about the size of a dime. And unless you clearly can see a shiny black abdomen with unbroken red hourglass, rest easy. Its not a black widow.

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renewed said:
HUGE cockroaches. We bomb the house and it still doesn't affect them. Most likely gets them a free high. Bastards.

June bugs are everywhere right now; in the pool, on the vehicles, in the house etc..

Love-Bugs are also a big deal here. Black and orange everywhere. It's like an invasion of some sort of orgy bug club.
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I was born in central Florida, and I remember the palmetto bugs vividly. Palmetto bugs resemble large cockroaches-- and they fly. Loudly. At night. (shudder)

Love bugs are also common there, too. The two annual love-bug spawning seasons in Florida are a boon for car-wash owners.
 
I hate anything, and i mean ANYTHing that crawls. I spray the outside of our house a couple times a year.

We once had mice living in the ceilings of our basement. WORST time of my life. We had to call an exterminator to get rid of them.

I also once had some animal living in the walls of my bedroom. At night it would start crawling up and down the wood inside the walls, and occasionally it would get on the ceiling and i could hear the footsteps. I called an exterminator.

i kill alllllll bugs on site. No waiting, not calling anyone for help. I just get a pair of slippers and wham! its gone. Thats the only way to do it. If you wait around, or go call someone it might not be there, and thus you'll be freaked out for the longest time wondering where it went and if it will come into your room at night :eek:
 
I had a crawling-scurrying thing in the wall of a rental house once. I also had a rather small house cat. Woke up one day to find a rat dead by the bath door. Fang holes in the sides of it's skull. No playing with the mice she would catch, just raw predatory killing. The rat was the size of the cat. Or the other way around. Anyway, +1 for the cat.

As for insects and spiders, they don't especially bother me. There are a lot of black spiders in the NorthWest. Most of them aren't Black Widows, but I don't taker chances.

My number one vile creature is a raccoon.

OP: My sister went to Mexico after her senior year in HS and found scorpions in the bathtub of her motel room. How does that appeal to you?

Dale
 
Sdashiki said:
Not that I dont believe you on the size of the spider...but the typical response from anyone when scared of a small spirder is "OMFG ITS A BLACK WIDOW!!!" when more than likely they might not even be indigenous to your locale.

Regardless, they max out about the size of a dime. And unless you clearly can see a shiny black abdomen with unbroken red hourglass, rest easy. Its not a black widow.

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My boyfriend works in a grocery store in Canada (where it's to cold for Black Widows), they find one or two a month in shippments of produce *shudder*
 
leekohler said:
Centipedes are actually good to have around, they keep roaches out of your house. I would have left it alone. Whenever I see one in my house, I'm grateful. Roaches freak me out. I lived in a crappy apartment in college that was infested with roaches. They would crawl through my hair at night. It was awful.
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Ugh, I just watched the advertisement for The Human Centipede. Seeing either a centipede or a cockroach grosses me the hell out.
 
That is quite possibly the most eclectic way of naming it the toilet.


Anyways, spiders are the bane of my existence. When ever I have to get things from the basement, I bring a broom and swat at the air in front of me trying to whack any webs out of my way. If i see an item that hasn't seen the day of light in a while, I always keep my distance, poke it, squirt it with water or knock it on the floor, kick it around, and brush off any webs.

I don't know, maybe I'm more afraid of the feeling of spider webs touching my skin, than the actual spiders.
 
Designer Dale said:
OP[/B]: My sister went to Mexico after her senior year in HS and found scorpions in the bathtub of her motel room. How does that appeal to you?

Dale
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I lived in Palestine for seven years of my life, scorpions were the least of my worries there, but yes, I had some adventures with the golden crawlers of Hell. One was crawling on the ceiling and fell right on my younger brother and stung his ear. It terrified my mother more than anything, but luckily our neighbour was a doctor and took care of my bro. After that I've learned to murder all the crawlies I can, even though I'm deathly afraid of them.

About raccoons, well I live in St Louis now, and my mom loves animals. She gets up early every morning to feed the cats, possums, skunks, fox, birds and Raccoons!
There are two of them, she named one Rocky and the other Charlie. She's learned that they love eggs, and feeds them every night at 8:00 PM sharp. They recognize her a mile away and even sit next to her feet when no one is near here. They even pick up the food from her hand. I warned her about rabies, but unfortunatly she doesn't listen to me.
 
Sdashiki said:
Not that I dont believe you on the size of the spider...but the typical response from anyone when scared of a small spirder is "OMFG ITS A BLACK WIDOW!!!" when more than likely they might not even be indigenous to your locale.

Regardless, they max out about the size of a dime. And unless you clearly can see a shiny black abdomen with unbroken red hourglass, rest easy. Its not a black widow.

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Yah we saw it, it was huge. Big red hourglass on it too. With legs outstretched it was humungous. It was probably around 2". It was big enough for me to see it from across the room lol. You can find them all over the southwest United States.

They don't really bug me as much as the scorpions where I live. : (


That is crazy about the Texas bugs. eew!
 
tristangage said:
Regarding the black widow, it's one of the, if not the, most venomous spiders on the planet, is it not? How the hell did you get the courage to even go near that thing?!
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When I lived in Tennessee I went out one day to take out the trash. The garbage can was turned over where the trash man had left it upside down after emptying it. I nonchalantly reach down, grab the handle, flip it over, and set it down. To my surprise there was a huge spider web spun the entire span of the trash can about a foot down from the top. Sitting proudly and without fear in the middle of the web was a plump Black Widow spider. That was the first and only time I've ever seen one in person. My relationship with creepy crawlies ranges from fascination, to fear, to apathetic avoidance depending on the circumstances. Well, seeing this poisonous spider up close was just too cool.I went back inside the house and found an empty jar. I poked some holes in the top, went back outside, and captured the little bugger. We put some flora down inside and actually killed some flies that we stuck in the jar as food. It completely freaked out my roomate and he couldn't handle it. After a few days he just grabbed the jar and violently shook it until the spider was dead. His reasoning was, "I could tell by the way that thing was looking at me that it was going to escape and bite me in my sleep."

It was a cool experiene. :)
 
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