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Post by childminerva on Oct 1, 2006 20:55:42 GMT -5
 This is a picture from Wilkepedia.com...it's an orb spider and it looks exactly like the one that just appeared on my front porch!!! It's so freakin' scary! Two hours ago there was nothing, and now there's a huge web between two pillars on my porch and this guy is right in the middle of the web! |
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Post by osusprinks on Oct 2, 2006 17:29:33 GMT -5
Where the heck do you live that you have spiders like that? Cause I am not moving there! That thing is scary looking!
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Post by childminerva on Oct 2, 2006 21:13:33 GMT -5
Where the heck do you live that you have spiders like that? Cause I am not moving there! That thing is scary looking! N. Carolina. This morning, the web was empty and the wind blew it apart...but when I came home tonight he was back and busy rebuilding his web!!! |
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Post by ismaco on Oct 2, 2006 21:31:30 GMT -5
That's HORRIBLE!!
Use some insecticide, DDT, a bat or a bomb... please do whatever you need to kill that thing
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Post by childminerva on Oct 2, 2006 21:34:04 GMT -5
That's HORRIBLE!! Use some insecticide, DDT, a bat or a bomb... please do whatever you need to kill that thing I totally agree-my sister (the 10yr old animal rights activist) agrees too! |
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Post by beMMADfabulous on Oct 2, 2006 21:37:02 GMT -5
That's HORRIBLE!! Use some insecticide, DDT, a bat or a bomb... please do whatever you need to kill that thing ROFL! |
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Post by ismaco on Oct 2, 2006 21:43:41 GMT -5
I'm still impressed  ... please dear, inform me when you kill it before I send a death squad to help you! |
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Post by JKMcGonagall on Oct 2, 2006 23:25:19 GMT -5
I'm very much like Ron. Spiders of any kind terrify me. I almost broke a broom once trying to kill a Black Widow spider in my garage. In fact I pounded said spider into very small particles of dust. My mother finally had to take the broom away from me to get me to stop pounding it. She kept yelling "Stop, you're going to break the broom!" and I kept yelling "It's not dead yet!" That was many years ago, but I have never forgotten it.
I couldn't look at the picture. I closed my eyes and scrolled down past it. I can't watch the scene in Chamber of Secrets where Ron and Harry go visit Aragog. Actually, I can stand Aragog, he is just gross looking, but those other smaller, black, shiny spiders that chase them...oooohhhh...they give me the willies...I leave the room when they come on and don't come back till Ron and Harry come back to Hagrid's hut. I agree wholeheartedly with Ron, why couldn't it have been "follow the butterflies". I could stand those.
Those spiders are good for the environment, they catch and eat a lot of pests. So, I don't advocate killing it, just, please, don't send anymore pics of it.
Kay
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Post by EloquentPhoenix on Oct 3, 2006 1:48:38 GMT -5
I am also like Ron, I stood on a chair screaming once when a spider ran across my floor and it was tiny. And I leave the room quickly if it's big. One once crawled across my bed and went under my pillow, I was too scared to go near it so I went and slept on the couch!
I say kill it *shivers* I wouldn't mind them if they'd just stay away from me.
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Post by FireBird on Oct 3, 2006 6:03:31 GMT -5
I'm not terrified of spiders, but I think they're disgusting, and the farther they're kept away from me, the better. I don't know what I'd do if I lived in an area where poisonous kinds lived.
I realize they're helpful little animals, but please, spiders, be helpful somewhere where I don't tend to spend time.
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Post by emeraldtabby on Oct 3, 2006 6:26:41 GMT -5
*In granmother-ish voice* "Aww... Be kind to the little one- He is just looking for a home!"
Spiders usually mind their own business. Just be thankful you can see it, and have the ability to crush it. ( My rule- if I can crush it, I don't mind it) Though be careful- spider bites are nasty.
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Post by childminerva on Oct 3, 2006 9:15:22 GMT -5
I was thinking of squirting it with the water hose...maybe it would get the message. I don't think I could crush it...I only ever see it suspended in midair!
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Post by osusprinks on Oct 3, 2006 23:51:04 GMT -5
I was never afraid of spiders until I was at church camp when I was 12 or 13. There was a huge spider in the middle of the floor in our cabin. My counselor decided to spray it with bug killing spray stuff. That seemed like a good idea until it basically exploded with thousands of baby spiders which had been clinging to it apparently. We all screamed, ran out of the cabin, and rufused to go back in. They washed all our linens and clothes and switched cabins, but I have never gotten over all those little spiders. I'll help kill it.  My brother lives in Jacksonville, NC, so I'd even have somewhere to stay. lol |
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Post by childminerva on Oct 4, 2006 16:09:47 GMT -5
Okay guys-it's all over, sort of. Last nigh was a repeat performance of the web building. My mom and I actually watched him make it. But today we found his hideout and swept him to the floor where I captured him in a small tupperware container. He's not dead yet, he keeps trying to get out-but I'm sure he'll suffocate eventually. If not, he's going to escape and murder me as I sleep.  I'm sure this is cruel...leaving him to die in a closed tupperware container, but there it is. |
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Post by osusprinks on Oct 4, 2006 20:16:20 GMT -5
Put the container in the freezer! My friend Zak is doing an entomology class project and collecting bugs. He's done that to a few. I think falling alseep and dying from the cold is a little nicer than suffocating.
Congrats on your capture!
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Post by JKMcGonagall on Oct 4, 2006 22:16:31 GMT -5
I don't like spiders, but I do feel sorry for it now. Why don't you take it out in the country and let it go. I'm sure it can't find its way back to your house.
It could actually do some good out in the woods or in a field, and it wouldn't bother anyone.
Kay
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Post by MrCoolio on Oct 23, 2006 19:02:40 GMT -5
eek, spiders = very bad. im probly more... well as scared of them as ron is. idk why but remind me never to come anywhere near your house.
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Post by Apocalypticat on Oct 25, 2006 15:57:45 GMT -5
I used to be terrified of them... now I just hate, and need them to be removed, but I can't say I'm terrified any more. *Giggles* I remember being so scared that I'd read myself to sleep. I was so superstitious, if the word 'spider' was mentioned on a page then I'd cover it up with a finger. After I read CoS, I wrote a note with the word 'basilisk' on it and firmly believed that it warded off spiders.  |
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Post by mcgonagallrocks on Oct 31, 2006 21:56:53 GMT -5
I shoudl have known better than to click on this. I'm like Ron as a few of you are. Can't stand spiders. When I was in 4th grade I was at my desk and looked down for a moment HUGE orb spider hanging off the edge of my deesk. I screamed my head off to put it lightly. Almost gave the teacher(that bitch she gave me a pink slip because I screamed) a heart attack.
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Post by angeldust on Nov 7, 2006 18:21:41 GMT -5
Gosh you guys bad karma upon you lol!
*pets spider avoiding any potentially dangerous parts*
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Post by osusprinks on Nov 7, 2006 20:49:10 GMT -5
Tell you what angeldust, send me your address and I will send you all my spiders! lol |
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Post by StormAngel on Nov 24, 2006 1:21:08 GMT -5
omg. the picture.... I won't be able to look at spiders anymore.
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Post by Drake on Jan 9, 2007 19:43:56 GMT -5
Ha! I get a lot of those round where I live.
Poor little guy....I actually think it's cute....
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... please dear, inform me when you kill it before I send a death squad to help you!
My brother lives in Jacksonville, NC, so I'd even have somewhere to stay. lol
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