Who's Afraid of...
 
Notifications
Clear all

Who's Afraid of Some Little Spider

12 Posts
7 Users
0 Reactions
2 Views
(@holy-cow)
Posts: 25292
Topic starter
 

ME!!

 
Posted : July 24, 2014 7:45 am
(@paden-cash)
Posts: 11088
 

If they're all as big and fast as this one, count me in.

I'd definitely be doin' my best nine-year-old-girl bloody murder scream..

 
Posted : July 24, 2014 10:51 am
 vern
(@vern)
Posts: 1520
Registered
 

Some Little Spider from a duck food bag.

Found in a feed bag for ducks by one of my relatives.

Anybody know what it might be? Gave her a pretty nasty rash.

 
Posted : July 24, 2014 12:03 pm
(@howard-surveyor)
Posts: 163
Registered
 

Some Little Spider from a duck food bag.

Duh, it's a spider of some kind. Was this a test?

 
Posted : July 24, 2014 3:08 pm
 vern
(@vern)
Posts: 1520
Registered
 

Some Little Spider from a duck food bag.

Well yeah, you flunked.;-)
What kind of spider?

 
Posted : July 24, 2014 5:57 pm
(@paden-cash)
Posts: 11088
 

ermagerd!

that must be one of those arachnid humungus skeer-da-chit-outa-us..:pinch:

 
Posted : July 24, 2014 6:58 pm
(@howard-surveyor)
Posts: 163
Registered
 

Some Little Spider from a duck food bag.

When taking state exams, the proctor noted that if you failed it was for two reasons: lack of knowledge or failure to read the instructions. He didn't ask what kind of spider, he asked what it was. I passed.

 
Posted : July 25, 2014 5:38 am
(@jim-frame)
Posts: 7277
 

Some Little Spider from a duck food bag.

It's not just a spider, either, it's a spider eating some kind of flying insect. There are too many legs and other appendages in that photo for it to be just a spider.

 
Posted : July 25, 2014 6:33 am
(@howard-surveyor)
Posts: 163
Registered
 

Some Little Spider from a duck food bag.

According to the Center for Evasive Species Research, it may have been a Brown Widow spider. Weren't the Black Widows bad enough? Photos on their site look similar except for the green coloring. They started out in Florida and now cover as far north as Colorado and west to the Pacific.

 
Posted : July 25, 2014 10:13 am
(@bill93)
Posts: 9834
 

Some Little Spider from a duck food bag.

Uh, I think that's the Center for Invasive Species Research. Several universities have them. The critters may be evasive, too.

 
Posted : July 25, 2014 10:24 am
(@wayne-g)
Posts: 969
Registered
 

Some Little Spider from a duck food bag.

> It's not just a spider, either, it's a spider eating some kind of flying insect. There are too many legs and other appendages in that photo for it to be just a spider.

I'm kind of agreeing there, he was hungry. Too many appendages. The ones I hate around here are the so called "vinegaroon". Kind of a cross between a scorpion and a spider, and get upwards of 2" long. I guess they're not poisonous, but sure are ugly.

Don't matter, just squash 'em when you see one. Same goes for spiders, crickets, cockroaches, ants, to name a few - in my house. Usually leave them alone outside - where they belong though.

 
Posted : July 25, 2014 11:39 am
 vern
(@vern)
Posts: 1520
Registered
 

Some Little Spider from a duck food bag.

After talking to my cousin I found out the picture is zoomed in. The critter in question is smaller, about the size of a dime.

As for the extra appendages, I think the picture was taken postmortem so the "extras" are probably just broken parts.

 
Posted : July 27, 2014 6:16 am