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Jumping spiders can hear sounds from 10 feet away
UPI ^ | 13 Oct 2016 | Brooks Hays

Posted on 10/14/2016 6:16:48 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

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To: faucetman

“NEVER going to Costa Rica ........just sayin.”

And don’t watch the movie Mimic (1997) and its sequels. Those bugs can pass for people, at a distance.


41 posted on 10/14/2016 7:40:54 AM PDT by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen.)
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To: faucetman
Big spider:


42 posted on 10/14/2016 7:44:06 AM PDT by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

And you don’t think in some dark ops lab there are not scientists figuring out how to take spider DNA and mix it with human DNA to get us better hearing.

I for one would applaud such a step. My 94 year old mother in law sits about ten feet from her TV and she has it turned up loud enough to feel it two doors down.


43 posted on 10/14/2016 7:56:05 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Brace. Brace. Brace. Heads down. Do not look up.)
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To: lurk

LOL!


44 posted on 10/14/2016 8:23:57 AM PDT by 444Flyer (How long O LORD?)
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To: PLMerite

Is that a picture of a member of the famous money laundering Tony Theraphosidae crime family?


45 posted on 10/14/2016 8:36:18 AM PDT by 444Flyer (How long O LORD?)
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To: ladyjane

#3 They lay eggs right away and use peroxide to feed the young.
Just a matter of time before they hatch.....


46 posted on 10/14/2016 9:18:10 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: sphinx

Why yes, its exactly as you say.


47 posted on 10/14/2016 9:38:17 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Looks like it's pretty hairy.)
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To: 4yearlurker
barking spider

Being hearing impaired, I have to tell you , they can be detected with other senses too.

48 posted on 10/14/2016 9:42:29 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Looks like it's pretty hairy.)
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To: PLMerite

NOT PHOTOSHOP!!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliath_birdeater

Oh my!


49 posted on 10/14/2016 9:49:32 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Looks like it's pretty hairy.)
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To: Vermont Lt
My 94 year old mother in law sits about ten feet from her TV and she has it turned up loud enough to feel it two doors down.

Please be nice to your mother in law!

Before technology exceeded my impairment,my children would run to tell their mother,'he has the volume set on 40 again!'.
With my newest aids and a Bluetooth adapter on the TV, I can hear almost as well as anyone!

50 posted on 10/14/2016 9:59:38 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Looks like it's pretty hairy.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

They’re called the Costa Rica chicken-eating spider because they’ve been seen dragging off chickens. The chickens may or may not have been pre-deceased.


51 posted on 10/14/2016 10:03:34 AM PDT by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Oops! Forgot the smiley :) Didn’t want that to come across as snarky.


52 posted on 10/14/2016 10:09:29 AM PDT by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

My Mother in law has lived with us since 1993. Trust me...I win the award for being nice to my mother in law.

We also spent about $3,500 on hearing aids. She wore them for a week.

I wear head sets if I am watching in my room down the hall. Most of the time we retire to different ends of the house.

Our recipe for success is that she never offered her opinion. And I never asked.


53 posted on 10/14/2016 10:15:24 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Brace. Brace. Brace. Heads down. Do not look up.)
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To: PLMerite

photoshop - the photo on the right is closer


54 posted on 10/14/2016 10:16:32 AM PDT by Mr. K (Trump is running against EVERYONE. The Democrats, The Media, and the establishment GOP)
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To: Mr. K

Big enough:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwJ8439M4CY

Something for everybody:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZAeEKtrBQc


55 posted on 10/14/2016 10:46:21 AM PDT by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen.)
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To: RegulatorCountry
Those were Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches. Similar, but not the same.

Are cockroaches good for ANYTHING?
Are they, at least, bird food? They are disGUSTing.

56 posted on 10/14/2016 3:23:02 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: W.
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.

I LIKE the way you think.

ONE DAY in my life I would LOVE to crank up a flamethrower and let fly...just for the heck of it. They really are awesome, aren't they?

57 posted on 10/14/2016 3:41:06 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: cloudmountain

Oh yeah, you know it! It’d be a fun toy for sure, but on the battlefield the lifespan of a flamethrower operator is about two minutes. For some strange reason, the enemy concentrates on eliminating them as quickly as possible...but there is always the flamethrower tank.


58 posted on 10/14/2016 5:15:19 PM PDT by W. (The plot of Magnum Force comes to mind...)
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To: W.
Oh yeah, you know it! It’d be a fun toy for sure, but on the battlefield the lifespan of a flamethrower operator is about two minutes. For some strange reason, the enemy concentrates on eliminating them as quickly as possible...but there is always the flamethrower tank.

There is something PARTICULARLY horrible, ghastly and sickening about killing someone with a flamethrower. Probably from our deepest fears of Satan's hell.

Google: The Inferno is the first part of Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy. It is followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso. The Inferno tells the journey of Dante through Hell, guided by the ancient Roman poet Virgil.
In the poem, Hell is depicted as nine circles of suffering located within the Earth; it is the "realm...of those who have rejected spiritual values by yielding to bestial appetites or violence, or by perverting their human intellect to fraud or malice against their fellowmen."
As an allegory, the Divine Comedy represents the journey of the soul toward God, with the Inferno describing the recognition and rejection of sin.

Drawings that accompanied it were usually depictions of fire and suffering.

I remember getting a cup of HOT COFFEE spilled down my little nine-year-old arm at a park. The idiot woman who spilled it then RUBBED my arm with a Kleenex, thus acerbating the pain and damage.
I carry STILL the faint, narrow, nine-inch long remains of that excruciating pain. NOTHING more painful than burns. It was "only" a first degree burn but I remember the pain. It hurt like, well, like hell.

59 posted on 10/15/2016 8:32:07 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: cloudmountain

I meant using it in a civilian role, like burning brush, etc. I’ve seen vids of them people own being demonstrated, just as effective as their military counterparts, which are now obsolete. Cheaper than a Class 3 weapon.


60 posted on 10/15/2016 6:42:25 PM PDT by W. (The plot of Magnum Force comes to mind...)
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