Be afraid, be very afraid
Posted on 03/29/2017 1:47:33 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
When I moved to my farm in KY, I would notice, when shining my bright LED flashlight on a field in the summer, I saw hundreds of sparkling lights. I thought it was dew reflecting back, but then I realized there was no dew. They all had a very slight turquois tint.
So I kept the flashlight on one of them as I walked up to it. It was a spider.
All those sparkling lights are spider eyes. And yes, there were hundreds. It’s fun to show people when we have guests over.
The spiders are gray striped things and completely harmless.
I used to hate jumping spiders, simply because I was bitten by one back in 1966, in sixth grade. Recently I found out they are the only natural enemy to the brown recluse.
I love ‘em now. :)
I used to see a black widow here and there in eastern washington. I thought they were a desert spider.
Nope. I’m in very wooded and damp Kentucky now and I can just throw a blanket over our bench by our fire pit and come back in a couple of weeks and there will be two or three of them setting up camp under the blanket. I even saw one with a weird row of red dots instead of the hourglass. Turns out it was the equivalent of a “teenager”.
Interestingly, they are actually very pretty.
Spiders eat mosquitoes, so I don’t kill them. Also, I believe this is fake news....
I think I married one of them. No it’s not me she is eating—it’s my bank account!
Be afraid, be very afraid
They can do it in 11 months if you don’t count Michael Moore as human.
We have these big hairy looking spiders in the house (near Cleveland). Get about 1/4 the size of my hand. I think they are called wolf spiders. Anyway I keep naming them...my wife and daughters think that is just wrong. But I know they keep the other insects and stuff down. Usually only see 1-2 at any given time frame.
Still I didn’t appreciate the one that was in bed with me last week. I didn’t screech, but I moved just a bit faster than normal as I didn’t expect it. LOL
Everything they eat is worse, so I’m cool with them.
If the spiders ally with the ants it will only take six months.
Jeez. And I thought that was the NSA.
It’s far more likely that we’ll end up as slaves working in the evil squirrels’ nut mines.
Well, half of us could, while the other half jumped up on chairs and screeched at us until we did it.
The Dragonflies would get them first
My mother-in-law’s grave has one of those built-in flower vases that can be recessed into the ground. The hole where the vase goes is home to a Black Widow family.
Very appropriate.
The only thing worse than spiders are palmetto bugs. I hate them.
I am afraid. They are basically just land octopi, and octopi may be the most intelligent creature on the planet.
Ever seen an octopus vote Democratic?
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