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Terrified neighbours call police to 'domestic dispute' - but find man alone screaming at SPIDER
Mirror [UK] ^ | 26 Nov 2015 | Ruth Halkon

Posted on 11/28/2015 1:54:46 AM PST by Slings and Arrows

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To: Darksheare

Wow that’s some web skills.


181 posted on 11/28/2015 9:39:15 AM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

She was certainly special.

None of the others have been near as trusting [or spoiled] as she was.

Currently, there is some strange white spider with a fat butt living out there.

It keeps jumping into the sink, on purpose.

No idea why but the last time I fished it out, it stood on the edge of the sink and defiantly threw a strand of silk to the inside corner and zoomed back in again.

At this rate, I have doubts it will live long.

Hubby is not as mindful of ‘checking’ before he turns on the water, as I am.


182 posted on 11/28/2015 9:40:01 AM PST by Salamander (Can't sleep. The clowns will eat me...)
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To: Salamander

The best was when we fed her a grasshopper.
The thing walked down the funnel and received a greeting of “fangs in the face” as she dragged him fully down the hole.
She was real well fed, she didn’t respond to stuff bothering her web for three days after chowing down on him.
After that we dropped caterpillars to her once she was hungry again.
Cutworms, king army worms, the crop destroying kinds.
She got real big on those.
Then she took off.


183 posted on 11/28/2015 9:40:53 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Salamander
LOLOLOL

Yeah I don't think that one will make it long.....

184 posted on 11/28/2015 9:42:20 AM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

Wish I knew what that one exactly was, but he was yellow and black in coloration as well as being the size of my hand.
Weird as heck.


185 posted on 11/28/2015 9:42:20 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Darksheare

Hit breeding size and went looking for a guy, maybe?


186 posted on 11/28/2015 9:42:32 AM PST by Salamander (Can't sleep. The clowns will eat me...)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

All I can figure is either it’s *really* thirsty or it dropped its engagement ring down the drain.

;D


187 posted on 11/28/2015 9:44:15 AM PST by Salamander (Can't sleep. The clowns will eat me...)
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To: Guardian Sebastian

yeah, no, i’d go into cardiac arrest.

I know the logic is flawed.

It’s like being afraid to get in a plane but not being afraid of cars.

I would walk the Manhattan streets at 3am after my shift used to end in Manhattan.

But I’ll get faint at the sight of spiders that are probably the smallest ones you’ve ever seen.

go figure.


188 posted on 11/28/2015 9:44:29 AM PST by dp0622 (..)
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To: Salamander

Maybe.
But it was funny to watch her soccer kick pillbugs out of her web.


189 posted on 11/28/2015 9:57:15 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Darksheare

LOL

No meat on ‘em?


190 posted on 11/28/2015 9:59:22 AM PST by Salamander (Can't sleep. The clowns will eat me...)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Get a cat. My fur babies always ate Charlotte.


191 posted on 11/28/2015 10:31:11 AM PST by Gefn (I want to visit night's Plutonian shore.)
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To: Salamander

They’d curl up and her fangs couldn’t punch through.
You’d hear faint ticking noises as she tried.
Then she’d throw her first two legs upward and kick with her second set, tossing the pillbugs out of the web.
We’d crack jokes about “goooooooal!”


192 posted on 11/28/2015 11:09:25 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Darksheare
Did it look similar to the one I posted earlier? Argiope Spiders (yellow and black garden spiders) come in a number of varieties and some have longer legs and are larger...


193 posted on 11/28/2015 11:15:08 AM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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To: dp0622

LOL. Yeah phobias can be weird like that. Me, I’m afraid of deep deep water....and losing loved ones. That last one is frequent nightmare material.


194 posted on 11/28/2015 11:17:54 AM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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To: Darksheare

ROFL!


195 posted on 11/28/2015 11:18:36 AM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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To: Salamander

Or it has a death wish. But I’m gonna go with the ring.....The spider sounds like Gollum trying to retrieve his precious.


196 posted on 11/28/2015 11:19:48 AM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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To: Slings and Arrows

I like spiders. They eat flies. I hate flies.


197 posted on 11/28/2015 11:21:16 AM PST by Churchillspirit (9/11/2001 and 9/11/2012: NEVER FORGET.)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

That looks like my perp, yes.
Oklahoma, 1996.
He was eating a bird.
The guys tagging along on the misadventure were rather horrified.
And we all stood there staring at it.


198 posted on 11/28/2015 11:22:00 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Slings and Arrows
This should be a good thread!

One time my wife saw a very large spider in our bed when changing the sheets. She insisted that I go up there and kill it but I could not find it. I looked everywhere and practically disassembled the entire bed. But you guessed it, she slept in a spare bedroom that night and then the next and then the next...

At first it was nice having the bed all to myself but I eventually had to go outside, find a spider, kill it, and bring it to the bedroom where I triumphantly announced that I had finally found it and killed it. Once she saw it, she was okay to come back to our bed again.

199 posted on 11/28/2015 11:25:17 AM PST by SamAdams76 (It's time we sent a junkyard dog to Washington to run the low life out)
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To: Darksheare
Like this? Some of the larger varieties are big enough to do that...


200 posted on 11/28/2015 11:26:51 AM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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