Posted on 10/14/2016 6:16:48 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Jumping spiders and Daddy Longlegs spiders get a pass from me. I’ll usually take Daddy Longlegs spiders outside. I’d do the same with jumping spiders but you’re not going to catch one of those little buggers, so I’ve made peace with cohabitation.
I wouldn’t give them free rein if I could catch them and take them outside, but you can’t catch them. And, it seems wrong to intentionally kill them as they’re harmless to people, as far as I know.
I have the RAID handy. No spider can withstand RAID.
I try to let the Daddy Longlegs live because they EAT the other spiders but...if they get TOO close to me they are dead.
I sound like Al Capone: Ness!! You're DEAD!! DEAD!! YOU'RE DEAD, NESS!!!
Good LORD! That looks like a humoungous tarantula!!
I DID look it up and it IS a tarantula.
Now HERE would be the PERFECT scroll time. Jim, o Jim, wherefore hast thou put the ole SCROLL? I DID love it.
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You ole theraphosid, you.
I did see Mexican tarantulas. Apparently, they are not to be feared. HAH. The poor folks WELCOMED them into their hovels as the spiders DID eat the other yuckies (technical term).
I guess THEY don't have to be destroyed. They are too funny.
Hey, you've been here since 2005. Surely you know the importance of spider reports?!. They're a site tradition. Over time we've probably built the best available database on non-academic, field research on the subject. You can never be too careful about spiders, just like you can never have too much tinfoil and duct tape.
You’d love Palmetto Bugs, lol. Giant, flying cockroaches with a severe attitude. Confront them, they’ll stand up on their hind legs, spread their wings and hiss at you. If you don’t manage to swat them to pulp, at that point they’ll launch themselves straight at your face. Native to the subtropical south, so I don’t have them here but have encountered them on vacations to the SC coast.
Seriously, a great story!
Jumping spiders are harmless, helpful and cute. And incredible athletes.
I use two squares of TP. Capture, wad, flush. I hate bugs...they die on sight. Stinkbugs, we got thanks to the tree out back. Need to borrow that flamethrower mentioned above, for just a minute, will pay cash rental.
We saw the flying cockroaches in India on the train.
We were GOING to have lunch aboard. My husband said that he would investigate the kitchen car.
He returned to our seats and said: "We are NOT eating on this train." 'Nuff said.
LOL!
Love that the palmetto bug video is in youtube category “pets and animals”...it being neither.
Those were Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches. Similar, but not the same.
NEVER going to Costa Rica ........just sayin.
Small hands??????
Big spider
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