• NOPE: Dozens of Brown Recluse Spiders invade man's apartment
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So his house is like a typical Australian house?
He's waiting till September? Yeah I would rather live in the scummiest of motels than live in a house full of those little buggers.
Fucking christ now I'm imagining every feeling as I'm sitting here being one of these fuckers
[QUOTE=Instant Mix;36966157]it's head looks a bit like a ballsack.[/QUOTE] A ballsack with tiny fangs that can inject hemotoxic venom into its victims. [img]http://www.brown-recluse.com/graphics/recluse-map.gif[/img] Maybe I'll move to the far northern reaches of Canada someday where it's too cold for these little bastards to live. Or any of their terrifying cousins, for that matter. This entire thread has made me itch like a motherfucker.
All arachnophobes should just move to Estonia. The biggest threat to the existence of human society as we know it here is a harvestman (daddy longlegs?): [IMG]http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2578/3936935847_2e927db7f8_z.jpg[/IMG] Almost as destructively cute as jumping spiders. Edit: [IMG]http://www.brown-recluse.com/graphics/recluse-map.gif[/IMG] Ok, I have to ask: what the fuck is a Hobo Spider. I know it's PROBABLY just a family of recluses I haven't heard of, but I'm imagining a completely different thing...
[QUOTE=just-a-boy;36973965]All arachnophobes should just move to Estonia. The biggest threat to the existence of human society as we know it here is a harvestman (daddy longlegs?): [IMG]http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2578/3936935847_2e927db7f8_z.jpg[/IMG] Almost as destructively cute as jumping spiders. Edit: [IMG]http://www.brown-recluse.com/graphics/recluse-map.gif[/IMG] Ok, I have to ask: what the fuck is a Hobo Spider. I know it's PROBABLY just a family of recluses I haven't heard of, but I'm imagining a completely different thing...[/QUOTE] Its just a dark / brown (non translucent) Recluse. Also, whilst cleaning the room below mine, we found 2 of 'em and 2 black widows. ^ This is also the room my clothes are in. Fuck.
[QUOTE=Character;36959761]Feet are no longer on the floor[/QUOTE] I ALWAYS pull them up on the table. ALWAYS and this is exactly why.
[QUOTE=Hullu V3;36959117]No.[/QUOTE] You would probably have a heart attack before it even bites you.
You guys have it pretty bad with spiders, the biggest spiders that I have seen over here are like 1-2 cm
you need to call an exterminator [IMG]http://mydisguises.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/daleks.jpg[/IMG]
e b[QUOTE=FpShepard;36975350]You guys have it pretty bad with spiders, the biggest spiders that I have seen over here are like 1-2 cm[/QUOTE] Thats pretty much the same for
[QUOTE=FpShepard;36975350]You guys have it pretty bad with spiders, the biggest spiders that I have seen over here are like 1-2 cm[/QUOTE] Biggest we have here is 5-6". (lol tarantula country) Spiders are neat, though. Thankfully where I live it's too damn hot/dry for Recluses to comfortably live. (outside of town, now INSIDE of town they're fairly common due to basements, more moisture, etc)
I blasted the fuck out of a spider with raid once and it held its fucking ground like a champion until I brought a lighter up to the mouth and used Glade to exterminate it I suggest the spiders be [B]PURGED IN FLAME[/B]
This guy got brown recluses. I got fire ants. Wonder if he's up for a trade...?
[QUOTE=Saphirx;36959886]I hate spiders.[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://www.bookofjesus.org/images/l6iaqaa9z6tbun27dv3y.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=znk666;36980393][IMG]http://www.bookofjesus.org/images/l6iaqaa9z6tbun27dv3y.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] [img]http://www.desertusa.com/desert-animals/images/brown_recluse2.jpg[/img] fucking adorable right???
I got bit by one of those fuckers once. I don't know what was worse, the bite or the treatment.
[QUOTE=ziggy420;36959339][img]http://www.lakeneosho.org/BrownRecluse/Brown_Recluse_7.JPG[/img] :3[/QUOTE]The ratings speak for themselves. NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE!
At least he doesn't have camel spiders [img]http://www.camelspiders.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Facts_on_Camel_Spiders_Specie.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Taepodong-2;36982841]At least he doesn't have camel spiders [img]http://www.camelspiders.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Facts_on_Camel_Spiders_Specie.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] I had problems with these when I lived in Arizona. They called 'em "sun spiders," though. These things suck! They're not venemous, but they are extremely fast runners, their leg span can be as large as dinner plates, and they like to hide in cozy places, like boots. They chew, too. Rather than poison their prey, they just numb it and start chomping. They eat lizards and stuff. Also, they chase you if you run. They like shadows, so they'll try to stay in yours if you move away! They can run at, like, ten miles per hour, so you can hardly even escape them! Sun spiders, terrible creatures. Hope to never see one again!
that's not a brown recluse, at least not in that picture. it's a hobo spider. the pointed abdomen is a dead giveaway. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobo_spider[/url] Hobo spiders suck but they're not near as bad as brown recluse bites. Brown recluse bites tend to become necrotic. Another thing about brown recluses, they are, as their name implies, reclusive. they won't bite you unless you actually press them against your skin.
[QUOTE=Taepodong-2;36982841]At least he doesn't have camel spiders [img]http://www.camelspiders.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Facts_on_Camel_Spiders_Specie.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] Yeah, we got those, too. Neat critters but they're ugly as sin.
what if spiders tasted like lobster he could eat all the "lobster" he wanted
Just an hour ago, i was digging around in my pantry for some snacks, when my hand suddenly brushes against a thick, wire-like web, and as i begin to uncover the containers of food, i come across two brown widows and a nice little egg sack that was waiting to pop open little demons. I was so scared that i brought out my plumbers torch just to burn those ass holes before they could bite anyone.
[QUOTE=TheDon;36984986]Just an hour ago, i was digging around in my pantry for some snacks, when my hand suddenly brushes against a thick, wire-like web, and as i begin to uncover the containers of food, i come across two brown widows and a nice little egg sack that was waiting to pop open little demons. I was so scared that i brought out my plumbers torch just to burn those ass holes before they could bite anyone.[/QUOTE] You may not like them, but why outright [B]burn[/B] them? Can't you cup them and take them away somewhere? I mean, alright, people tend to generally be creeped out by spiders, but why deny it life just because you don't like how they look? I just don't get people whose first reactions are either "squish" or "burn".
[QUOTE=just-a-boy;36989604]You may not like them, but why outright [B]burn[/B] them? Can't you cup them and take them away somewhere? I mean, alright, people tend to generally be creeped out by spiders, but why deny it life just because you don't like how they look? I just don't get people whose first reactions are either "squish" or "burn".[/QUOTE] Because they were nested right in a hard to reach corner of the pantry. It would be too risky to try and attempt to move them somewhere else so i did what i did. I'm fairly sure you wouldn't go and try to move one of the worst spiders ever to a safe place if your own safety was in danger.
[QUOTE=Laferio;36959148]actually, the more you know. Brown recluse's hold a potentially deadly hemotoxic venom inside their bodies. Most brown recluse bites don't produce necrosis, but a percentage does, and that can actually kill you. This guy was living with DOZENS of them...[/QUOTE] My dad was one of the ones with a brown recluse bite that actually went necrotic, calf muscle looked like pink putty. He's fine now, but his leg has scars all over it from the surgery to save it.
I keep a propane flame thrower within reach at all times.
There's always a problem with having your house sprayed by an exterminator The spiders like to live in the out of reach places, which is where the exterminator poisons, so for a week or two the spiders can't go there For the next two weeks, you will see spiders EVERYWHERE
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