Some spiders display unique personalities, study finds - Polidicks

Just me that thinks the female Hyllus Diardi is beautiful?

[quote="Article"]And instead of shaking the web by hand, they used a reproducible source of vibrations — a pink Minivibe Bubbles personal massager, from Fun Factory[/quote] I like how specific they are about the vibrator.

there was a daddy longleg in my helmet once so when i was driving it was crawling around my face lucky i didnt crash into something because i was freaking out fuck spiders mang

[QUOTE=Crumpet;41684464]How big are they? The pictures I see make them out to be pretty huge. We don't get them in the UK so I wouldn't know.[/QUOTE] Pholcidae. Also known as the cellar spider and vibrating spider, due to one of their defense mechanisms being to vibrate themselves rapidly on their web to try and scare away prey. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pholcidae[/url] Opiliones, also known as Harvestmen, are arachnids but not spiders. They're also given the name 'daddy long-legs' with the cellar spider and crane flies. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opiliones[/url] Crane flies are commonly called 'daddy long-legs' in the UK, but have many names. Mayfly and mosquito hawk, - or 'skeeter hawk' if you live in the Southern US - are two of the more common ones - or at least the ones I've heard. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_fly[/url] I have severe arachnophobia, but I'm also fascinated by spiders. Also I like to know more about the godless killing machines so I know how fast I need to scream and run when I see one.

[QUOTE=Stormcharger;41681043]Theyre so chill, I have like 10 in my room atm they get all the bugs Sometimes they give me a fright by popping down on a sliver of web right in front of my computer screen but they are harmless[/QUOTE] daddy long legs dont produce any silk

Spiders are cool but they also freak me out. There was a huge jumping spider in my kitchen yesterday and he nearly got the swat until I remembered they're bros. [editline]2nd August 2013[/editline] Just went out my back door to see if I could find a black and white jumper which are always there, two pricks had made a web right in the doorway so I can't even use that door without destroying someones livelihood

Why do spiders always seem cute when they're not near me

The only spiders I have here are really wretched looking ones. [URL="http://bugguide.net/images/cache/OK8KBKGK2KBQV0EQZSVQJ0AQHSWQRSBQCKMKLS8KVK7K304KUK0KCK4KTKGK30GKF0XKBKNQCKIKPKGQ309QY0GK.jpg"] Giant House Spiders[/URL] (:suicide:) and those really spindly looking ones that that monstrosity is devouring

A lot of the spiders I've met seem to like to hang out with people, I've had wolf spiders chill on my desk for hours. They also seem to make eye contact, it's weird honestly

Spiders have been trying to kill me this summer by running at my legs whenever I'm trying to push one out. I always squish them, but it's like the rest of their family seeks revenge.

The spiders in my house can't catch anything. I've seen bugs get caught in a web, then wriggle themselves out multiple times. I hate spiders, why can't they at least be useful to me?

[QUOTE=pfoot;41688280]daddy long legs dont produce any silk[/QUOTE] uhh then how do they make their webs that Im looking at right now

I wish the spiders around my house were friendly. Along with the black widows, in Florida we have wolf spiders, huntsman spiders, and banana spiders. [img]http://www.epa.gov/epahome/sciencenb/slideshow3/7.jpg[/img] This is a banana spider.

[QUOTE=Stormcharger;41692142]uhh then how do they make their webs that Im looking at right now[/QUOTE] wizardry

[QUOTE=Stormcharger;41692142]uhh then how do they make their webs that Im looking at right now[/QUOTE] [video=youtube;0JK2dR8ei5E]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JK2dR8ei5E[/video]

I had a spider in my room. One day I woke up and it was on my face. I reached up to my forehead thinking it was an itch, not knowing what was there and it bit me. I don't keep spider bros anymore.

I've had a spider in my room just chilling on the wall near my computer. I outright refused to hurt it, but it couldn't stay there, no siree, can't sleep until i know it's gone. So instead, i opened the bedroom door, and just watched. Instead of going into the corner, right after i opened the door, it turned to me, then to the door, and slowly started to scuttle out of the room. I closed the door once it left and i guess it just sorta went about it's business. Just can't bring myself to hurt spiders on purpose, i feel like absolute shit even when it's an accident.

[QUOTE=Stormcharger;41681043]Theyre so chill, I have like 10 in my room atm they get all the bugs Sometimes they give me a fright by popping down on a sliver of web right in front of my computer screen but they are harmless[/QUOTE] Yeah that happened to me a few weeks ago. I got frightened as hell when I suddenly realized something was standing still, hanging in the middle of the air from the roof with its invisible spider web, very close to my computer screen staring at me and laughing at my ignorance of its existence. Then I looked at it until it slowly returned to the roof.

Spiders are the spawn of nightmares and must be destroyed.

I love spiders they're some of the coolest bugs out there I'd much rather have spiders in my room than ants, fuck ants

[QUOTE=Pvt. Martin;41679555]Or be adorable as hell. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9ZbrRD5b0c[/media][/QUOTE] These guys always end up on my window somehow. I live in an apartment on the 18th floor. Not a problem though, I always point them in the right direction.

Spiders are pretty 'aight (at least the ones in the UK are, Aus, you can keep your death on legs). I don't hurt them when I remove them unless they are really, really hard to remove. Though as long as they aren't crawling on me, behind my monitor, or dropping down in front of me I let them chill wherever they might be. I really don't get the fear of them, especially the tiny ones we have here.

[QUOTE=Sega Saturn;41694304]I wish the spiders around my house were friendly. Along with the black widows, in Florida we have wolf spiders, huntsman spiders, and banana spiders. [img]http://www.epa.gov/epahome/sciencenb/slideshow3/7.jpg[/img] This is a banana spider.[/QUOTE] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argiope_(spider)"]Argiope, actually[/URL]. a few of them used to live near my house, they're pretty neat.

[QUOTE=hexpunK;41700787]I really don't get the fear of them, especially the tiny ones we have here.[/QUOTE] It's called a phobia for a reason. It's a uncontrollable fear that the person affected by may know is ridiculous, but can't help but suffer from. Some stuff is based on primal instinct, like my phobias are spiders and heights. Both spiders and heights can be incredibly dangerous, so having a natural aversion to them would help me survive if I was out in a wilderness setting. Similarly, both can be overcome temporarily if needbe, I just have to fight my instincts. Oh, also? The tiny ones are usually some of the more dangerous. Ever heard of a brown recluse? You don't have them over there in the UK, but their venom causes necrosis. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_recluse_spider[/url]

[QUOTE=Lijitsu;41701038]It's called a phobia for a reason. It's a uncontrollable fear that the person affected by may know is ridiculous, but can't help but suffer from. Some stuff is based on primal instinct, like my phobias are spiders and heights. Both spiders and heights can be incredibly dangerous, so having a natural aversion to them would help me survive if I was out in a wilderness setting. Similarly, both can be overcome temporarily if needbe, I just have to fight my instincts. Oh, also? The tiny ones are usually some of the more dangerous. Ever heard of a brown recluse? You don't have them over there in the UK, but their venom causes necrosis. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_recluse_spider[/url][/QUOTE] I know what fears are, I know they are totally irrational for the most part, I was mostly focusing on the tiny spiders here that aren't dangerous, the kind that sit around our houses anyway. I totally get being scared shitless of spiders that are known to fuck you up though, even I wouldn't go near them and I don't particular care about spiders :v:

I started researching spiders through Google (again) and I think I found the coolest-most-terrifying looking spider so far: Pachyloidellus goliath [url]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Pseudo-ara%C3%B1a_nocturna_%28opilion%29.jpg[/url] Check that fucking thing out. It's a link because this place seems to have big amounts of arachnofobics, even though this is pretty much a thread about goddamn spiders so they shouldn't come here at all.

[QUOTE=SgtTupelo;41701277]I started researching spiders through Google (again) and I think I found the coolest-most-terrifying looking spider so far: Pachyloidellus goliath [url]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Pseudo-ara%C3%B1a_nocturna_%28opilion%29.jpg[/url] Check that fucking thing out. It's a link because this place seems to have big amounts of arachnofobics, even though this is pretty much a thread about goddamn spiders so they shouldn't come here at all.[/QUOTE] That looks like the thing tons of space super-spiders you see in cartoons and shit were based on. Jesus.

Again though, it's not something that's controllable. Most people can sympathize with an arachnophobe when it comes to poisonous spiders. I mean, seriously, who looks at a wolf spider and goes "Oh whatever it's just some fucking spider" and starts fucking with it? Crazy people that I can outrun, that's who. It's literally [i]any[/i] spider can trigger the phobia, that's the problem. Most people see it as silly. Nine times out of ten, a grandaddy long-legs - harvestman or cellar spider - won't trigger me. I'm used to them and I actually like them; they're absolutely no threat to me, they kill bugs, and honestly they barely look like spiders. They're a little ball with a bunch of sticks sticking out of it. But even house spiders trigger my phobia. Do I know they're harmless? Yes. Do I know they're probably looking at me with just as much (relative) fear as I am at them? Yes. Am I still too fucking terrified to come near them? Definitely. I'm not trying to sound like I'm angry with you or that I'm dismissing you or anything like that, I know that's kinda how it comes off, but truthfully a lot of people's brains just can't wrap around the concept of a phobia, sometimes even if they have a different one. [editline]3rd August 2013[/editline] Whoops, that's what I get for walking off after typing that whole thing up without posting it.

[QUOTE=lxmach1;41700788][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argiope_(spider)"]Argiope, actually[/URL]. a few of them used to live near my house, they're pretty neat.[/QUOTE] I had one at my house once as well, except instead of having yellows and whites, it was solid black with the green markings. I wish I got a picture, since it looked vaguely pretty.