Back in the day I came home with my 2 kids and there were 5 tarantulas in my bedroom. I killed them all by throwing shoes at them. I feel bad now, they aren’t bad.
in other news, boy bitten by mosquito. film at 11.
Parents, label your cupboards! You know, “Plates, dishes, saucers,” “sponges, cleaning fluid,” “potato chips, tarantula.” It would save this needless anxiety.
No legs, you die
Two legs uninvited, you will probably die
Four legs, depends on attitude but probably get released
More than four legs, you die
Outside the house it's live and let live; unless your attitude demands that you die.
Snake, spider, and other reptile/insect 'aficionados' may find this a little stern, but my house, my rules.
no tarantulas here in WNY but i did kill a bigass Wolf spider the other day in the bathroom...Lord have mercy twice!!!
According to the story, the tarantula was very cooperative about being captured, probably because all the screaming was scaring him LOL.
July, and August are the months each year we see Tarantulas. Some years we get eight to ten such visitors here at the ranch. They are fun.
Did he use a pitcher of Helen Thomas to turn it to stone?
Probably a three inch male that boasts of being four inches.
...The tarantula is described as being a three to four inch male.
So it wasn't really a giant tarantula, it was just a normal tarantula.
In other words, a teenage girl sees a spider in her kitchen, screams, and Fox News runs a story about it. Did I miss something?
Thats a very black one. Around here we got grey ones and all.
You all might know that a black widow will, and can kill them.
They are also prime prey for the famous tarantula hawk. Wich has one of the top most painful stings in the world if messed with.
I usually pick the tarantulas up and put them outside after I stick my foot out at them to see if they are ornery or not. They got these hairs on their belly they kick at you and those hairs are like burn nettles. I guess the bite isnt that bad, dont care to find out though.
Check out these incredible spider pics from a Google Images search. You will not believe the number of color variations.
San Diego is crawling with tarantulas. I saw one once walking right down the sidewalk just east of downtown SD.
From Mark Twain’s “Roughing It”:
“The surveyors brought back more tarantulas with them, and so we had quite a menagerie arranged along the shelves of the room. Some of these spiders could straddle over a common saucer with their hairy, muscular legs, and when their feelings were hurt, or their dignity offended, they were the wickedest-looking desperadoes the animal world can furnish.
If their glass prison-houses were touched ever so lightly they were up and spoiling for a fight in a minute. Starchy?—proud? Indeed, they would take up a straw and pick their teeth like a member of Congress.
There was as usual a furious “zephyr” blowing the first night of the brigade’s return, and about midnight the roof of an adjoining stable blew off, and a corner of it came crashing through the side of our ranch. There was a simultaneous awakening, and a tumultuous muster of the brigade in the dark, and a general tumbling and sprawling over each other in the narrow aisle between the bedrows. In the midst of the turmoil, Bob H—— sprung up out of a sound sleep, and knocked down a shelf with his head. Instantly he shouted:
‘Turn out, boys—the tarantulas is loose!’ “
I love that part. How would you like to hear that in the middle of the night? :-)
