Spiders

[leddzepp]

Here is a new species just discovered in Oregon: http://news.yahoo.com/rare-discovery...211926504.html

[67lowered]

Originally Posted by leddzepp

Here is a new species just discovered in Oregon: http://news.yahoo.com/rare-discovery...211926504.html

hopefully that is Not the real size, looks about 3-4", wow, might catch the cat in its web, then uh-oh!

[ETsC10]

Originally Posted by CC69Rat

In the pics above, which one is the brown recluse?

The spider with the penny...nasty little buggers too!

Originally Posted by leddzepp

Here is a new species just discovered in Oregon: http://news.yahoo.com/rare-discovery...211926504.html

Thanks for the link Scott!
One article says these things might reach 3" with legs extended.
Sure would hate to get a face-full of that!

Whelp, there goes my career as a spelunker


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[Mike Bradbury]

I did a lot of caving in my younger years and a particular cave we would frequent in Kings Canyon had these large hairy brown cave spiders that had glowing eyes when your head lamp shown on them. They looked like real skinny tarantulas. The leg span was about 3" long and just as hairy as the tarantula but the body was much skinnier, they mostly clung to the ceiling in large numbers and would stay motionless unless you got to close and then they would dart off, they were quick too. Never researched what species they were but we tried to keep our distance, although sometimes it was unavoidable and you would have to try not to make sudden move and frighten them and cause a spider stampede.

To answer jhaymon's question; I am not afraid of spiders and I mostly let them do their work unless they set up shop in my thoroughfare. The last thing I want to do is be walking out to my truck and feel the circular web wrap around my face pinning a large hairy frightened spider to my nose. The brown widows I posted about are as good as toast if I see them, I have got too many animals and kids that I value too much to have a poisonous species in my yard.

[ETsC10]

Originally Posted by Mike Bradbury

...and cause a spider stampede...

OMG Mike!!! I about jumped out of my skin when you mentioned a spider stampede!!!!

Just a few minutes after my last post today, I was cleaning up some loose cardboard in my
parking lot and found this guy in the bucket.

You would have thought I would have been wearing gloves...I got lucky...THAT would
have scrwd up my week for sure!

ewwwwww........ ...and, yes, possibly a young Hobo. Very fast. Very dead.

[Mike Bradbury]

Originally Posted by ETsC10

OMG Mike!!! I about jumped out of my skin when you mentioned a spider stampede!!!!

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Yeah those were the good ole days. LOL

Nice find in the cardboard, "The quick and the dead"

[ETsC10]

Hahaha…guess we aren’t the only arachnophobics around here…

Squarebody Spider infestation!



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