Spiders- Friend or Foe?

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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,863

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,677
    edited October 2021
    Loujoe said:
    Halloweeney. I like spiders. That big, I'd avoid! 
    If you shine a flashlight in the grass at night you can see the reflective eyes of wolf spiders. 
    My friend told me you are rarely less than 6 feet away from a spider.

    Whoa!  Cool.  Gotta try that!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • GlowGirl
    GlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 12,187
    I like spiders as well. I never kill them. When I was a kid a spider built a nest in between my screen and outside bedroom window. It laid eggs. I spent so much time just sitting on my bed watching the nest and waiting for the babies to come out. It was like my own personal Charlotte’s Web. Of course I have never encountered a giant tarantula in the wild or the crazy poisonous spiders they have in Australia. I did come home from Costa Rica with a huge spider bite on my back. The doctor said if it was going to hurt me I would already be sick. It eventually went away with no after effects. 
  • PureandEasy
    PureandEasy Posts: 5,818
    Oh God, I can't even look at this post, I hate them.  If I encounter one I will grab any type of aerosol spray close at hand and spray it from across the room and yell, DIE, MF'ER, DIE.  I know it sounds mean, but spiders scare me more than anything.  Now I have to go and deprogram myself; get this thread out of my head so I don't have nightmares tonight.
    Don't come closer or I'll have to go
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,863
    A web I just saw has a mass of harchlings on it. Really miraculous when you tune into the natural world.
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,863

  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    https://youtu.be/hMuyx5C1BiA
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,818
    depends on when and how we meet...
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  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    Friend. They're interesting creatures, and the sight of a dew-covered web in the early morning is a beautiful thing. 

    The fact that they get rid of far more annoying creatures is a big bonus. 
    my small self... like a book amongst the many on a shelf
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,818
    Feeder had been up less than 24 hrs.....

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  • JojoRice
    JojoRice Kennesaw, GA Posts: 4,554
    https://youtu.be/sHzdsFiBbFc
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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,863
    oftenreading said:
    Friend. They're interesting creatures, and the sight of a dew-covered web in the early morning is a beautiful thing. 

    The fact that they get rid of far more annoying creatures is a big bonus. 

  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    mickeyrat said:
    Feeder had been up less than 24 hrs.....

    Loujoe said:
    oftenreading said:
    Friend. They're interesting creatures, and the sight of a dew-covered web in the early morning is a beautiful thing. 

    The fact that they get rid of far more annoying creatures is a big bonus. 

    Marvels of nature 
    my small self... like a book amongst the many on a shelf
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,863
    Helps that not any where I live are poisonous. I lived by black widows and had to kill a couple. Relocated one. Then when they started getting into my garage had to begrudgingly squash a few.
  • GlowGirl
    GlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 12,187
    mickeyrat said:
    Feeder had been up less than 24 hrs.....

    Beautiful!!

  • Purple Fairy Tree
    Purple Fairy Tree Posts: 2,055
    edited October 2021
    Foe.
    The worst thing is when they hang down from their web when you're driving as you have to push them away safely without harming them or driving dangerously.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,677
    OK, heads up, not a story the arachnophobia prone will enjoy:

    The only time I've really had an issue with spiders was one day when I was lying on my back in bed with my head propped up, reading a book.  All of the sudden, I felt a thunk on my chest and moved my book aside and found myself look right at the biggest wolf spider I'd ever seen.  HELLO!  I sprung out of bed like a jack-in-the-box!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,863
    It was probably going for a drink from your eyeballs or mouth.
  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    "Your mitt has more spiderwebs than a No Doubt set list, Mary-Anne."
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,677
    Loujoe said:
    It was probably going for a drink from your eyeballs or mouth.

    LOL!
    yikes

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

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