[Morgana]

Spider and snake ping

[a fool in paradise]

Pleasant dreams

[chris37]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

There is nothing worse than deadly poisonous spiders. NOTHING!

Except for John Boehner.

But besides him, NOTHING!

[CivilWarBrewing]

I was on a tennis court once that wasn’t used often. What did I notice near the undersides the lip of the plastic trash can next to the courts?? TWO black widow spiders, hour glass and all!

[GeronL]

You are never more than 3 feet from a spider, the old saying goes.

[tumblindice]

You have nothing to fear from spiders with Peruvian special shoes.

[UCANSEE2]

[SkyDancer]

Just one reasons I left Australia - nasty critters were everywhere. Never ever poke a small brown round ball in your house. Never.

[lee martell]

I will admit it here and now, the seeing one of those giant furry spiders one twitching leg away from crawling up my arm or down the leg of my pants would frighten the hell out of me, and cause me to completely embarrass myself. If I stayed in such a city for months or maybe years, eventually, I would develop a sight tolerance for them. For some of them anyway. If they touch me, they’re going to be shaken off and promptly smashed with the biggest brick around if I can do it.

[mowowie]

I used to work in a bowling alley as a teen and would spray the shoes down.
Nowadays you couldn’t pay me to put a pair on..

[Clint N. Suhks]

YIKES!

[mass55th]

Them’s what nightmares be made of!!

[naturalman1975]

lying undetected in toilets

There was a red-back on the toilet seat
When I was there last night,
I didn't see him in the dark,
But boy! I felt his bite!
I jumped high up into the air,
And when I hit the ground,
That crafty red-back spider
Wasn't nowhere to be found.

There was a red-back on the toilet seat
When I was there last night,
I didn't see him in the dark,
But boy! I felt his bite!
And now I'm 'ere in hospital,
A sad and sorry plight,
And I curse the red-back spider
On the toilet seat last night.

I rushed in to the missus,
Told her just where I'd been bit,
She grabbed the cut-throat razor blade,
And I nearly took a fit.
I said "Just forget what's on your mind,
And call a doctor please,
'Cause I've got a feeling that your cure
Is worse than the disease."

There was a red-back on the toilet seat
When I was there last night,
I didn't see him in the dark,
But boy! I felt his bite!
And now I'm 'ere in hospital,
A sad and sorry plight,
And I curse the red-back spider
On the toilet seat last night.

I can't lay down, I can't sit up,
And I don't know what to do,
And all the nurses think it's funny,
But that's not my point of view.
I tell you it's embarrassing,
(And that's to say the least)
That I'm too sick to eat a bite,
While that spider had a feast!

There was a red-back on the toilet seat
When I was there last night,
I didn't see him in the dark,
But boy! I felt his bite!
And now I'm 'ere in hospital,
A sad and sorry plight,
And I curse the red-back spider
On the toilet seat last night.

And when I get back home again,
I tell you what I'll do,
I'll make that red-back suffer
For the pain I'm going through.
I've had so many needles
That I'm looking like a sieve,
And I promise you that spider
Hasn't very long to live!

There was a red-back on the toilet seat
When I was there last night,
I didn't see him in the dark,
But boy! I felt his bite!
And now I'm 'ere in hospital,
A sad and sorry plight,
And I curse the red-back spider
On the toilet seat last night.

[ArmyTeach]

My daughter and I were staying at a friends lovely house in a wooded area on Maui. All windows were kept scrupulously closed, and doors were never left open. For this reason. One morning I went back to make my bed only to have a huge spider scurry out of the sheets. I yelled at my daughter to bring the broom and I killed it.

[wjcsux]

Typical in AZ and NM as well.

[melsec]

Never leave shoes outside in Australia. - Also if I have left work gloves or overalls in the shed I always do the Mexican hat dance on top of them before wearing. Have saved myself 2 redback bites doing so.

Under every pot plant rim there will be one or two redbacks so you have to be careful moving them - under every piece of garden furniture as well and you can’t leave kids toys outside or they will end up with them in them as well. - still they don’t come in the house so as long as you are careful they are alright.

[txnativegop]

I have a pretty strong stomach;

those pics were beyond gross.

the person with the brown recluse bit on the thumb — bye, bye thumb.

I have been bitten twice by those little sob’s, once on the hand and once on the neck. Interesting scars.

Have also been bitten by a black widow; I don’t recommend it.

If it weren’t were bad luck, I’d have none at all as the old saying says.

[gop4lyf]

I’m still getting over a brown recluse bite. As bad as it was, I have seen way worse pictures online. I got “lucky.”

[Hot Tabasco]

One thing you’ll never see in footwear is centipedes....they can’t afford them.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Sassenach sissies!