It's when I can hear the spider walking that I'm going to freak. This is a Goliath Spider, otherwise known as the "Costa Rica chicken-eating spider."
Posted on 10/14/2016 6:16:48 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Further testing showed jumping spiders are best able to hear frequencies similar to those created by the beating wings of parasitoid wasp enemies.
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And be very quiet!
Who cares? This post is the equivalent to junk mail. Just pollution.
I got a jumping spider in my ear once. Finally got it out using peroxide. All I could think about was that television program about earwigs. Was it Twilight Zone?
Or maybe Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan.
And why did you click on it?
Most odd?
It is just General/Chat. I’d have been more sympathetic to your complaint if the OP posted it under News/Activism.
Buy 11 foot bug spray.
The nasty bugs that only chew in one direction?
Oh my! That would make my brain hurt.
A perfect answer!
Have some twenty foot wasp spray.
Will have to check the fine print as to spiders?
I jumped into my car and drove to the clinic. Yes, we AMERICAN WOMEN were allowed to drive ON-CAMP only. It was a fairly small ARAMCO camp but that was okay. It beat the heck out of trying to take by BICYCLE to the clinic.
My husband was up at Juaymah for the week but I did call him. I said that I was DYING! He drove through a SAND STORM at night to come home. I was still at the clinic when he arrived.
I wasn't dying, especially after a couple of shots of Benadryl, but it was SO nice to see him.
Camel spider bites CAN kill children and the elderly.
Those buggers go down a sand dune by spreading all eight of their legs, stiffening them and ROLLING down the hill. Saw that on "Nature" one time. Amazing.
The native jumping spiders we have here are tiny, colorful and sort of cartoonish to the point of being cute. If they were venomous or could even bite, I’d dispatch them to whatever afterlife spiders might have without a second thought. But, to my knowledge they’re no threat to humans, and they eat insect pests, so I leave them be.
That is the most romantic spider story I've ever heard. :)
You MUST be a male. MOST women loathe spiders. I know that I do. I just killed one on my bedroom wall. I had to sacrifice a handkerchief. Ugh.
I have only the big, white cotton MEN'S handkerchiefs now. I kept my husband's old ones and even BUY new ones when those finally fade away.
Spider dead now.
I KNOW that they eat insect pests...but do they HAVE to be so ugly?
Well, you sorta have to do that to post a comment.
You KNOW it had to be true. NO ONE could make THAT up. :o)
They are the only spider that has free rein in my house.
It's when I can hear the spider walking that I'm going to freak. This is a Goliath Spider, otherwise known as the "Costa Rica chicken-eating spider."
What about barking spiders?
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