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@accalia said in Large, terrifying and impressive...:
@DoctorJones said in Large, terrifying and impressive...:
...but enough about my penis. ;-) Here's a spider in Australia carrying a mouse up the side of a fridge.
Now, that's pretty cool!
I agree, let's just torch Australia and start over. I present this spider as reason A.
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@Onyx said in Large, terrifying and impressive...:
Is that really a big concern? How many species of spiders that humans are likely to meet even pose any kind of danger?
First, as @Yamikuronue said, fear isn't always rational.
Second, it depends where you live. Lists of the "most venomous" vary, but the ones I've seen are generally biased toward species which are native to North America, South America, or Australia. Here's a sample list:
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@abarker said in Large, terrifying and impressive...:
@Onyx said in Large, terrifying and impressive...:
Is that really a big concern? How many species of spiders that humans are likely to meet even pose any kind of danger?
First, as @Yamikuronue said, fear isn't always rational.
Second, it depends where you live. Lists of the "most venomous" vary, but the ones I've seen are generally biased toward species which are native to North America, South America, or Australia. Here's a sample list:
We've found a few of those (black widows) around here. Always killed before I get a chance to get a picture, though :(
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@Dreikin said in Large, terrifying and impressive...:
black widows
That's not a spider.
THIS is a spider.
Check out those fangs.
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@TimeBandit said in Large, terrifying and impressive...:
@anotherusername said in Large, terrifying and impressive...:
@TimeBandit that's because they want to land on humans,
I was talking about humans walking into webs
but there's no particular reason for them to want to land on a spider's web.
They don't, they just fly through it and get stuck there.
Here is a video to show you that even large mosquito can get stuck in them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJan4tQBKN0
That's not a mosquito. It's a mosquito hawk. Google calls them crane flies.
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@dcon said in Large, terrifying and impressive...:
@anotherusername said in Large, terrifying and impressive...:
@Onyx most insects don't bite and build nigh-invisible traps of sticky thread that you can walk into and get that horrible feeling where you just know there's a spider attached to you somewhere now.
That's the thing with me. I think spiders are cool - but walking into their web makes me
do the weirdo dancedemonstrate my awesome ninjutsu abilites.FTFY
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@Onyx said in Large, terrifying and impressive...:
Legs... just not bothered by large number of them. I guess my problem is more when the count is actually 0
I'm a coward if I have to deal with anything with more than four legs.
House centipedes are freaky. Their small size, avoidance of people, and taste for other arthropods make them only slightly tolerable.
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@djls45 said in Large, terrifying and impressive...:
I'm a coward if I have to deal with anything with more than four legs.
Two hamsters?
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@dkf said in Large, terrifying and impressive...:
@flabdablet said in Large, terrifying and impressive...:
Two hamsters?
Soon to be many hamsters!
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@dkf said in Large, terrifying and impressive...:
many hamsters!
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@abarker said in Large, terrifying and impressive...:
First, as @Yamikuronue said, fear isn't always rational.
Never said it was.
@abarker said in Large, terrifying and impressive...:
Second, it depends where you live.
Yeah, well, I live nowhere close to any of those venomous species, and people still just point at spiders across the room, that's as near as they'll go. Still, given the anecdotal lack of media panic over spider bites, I'm buttuming that the number of actual incidents is pretty damned low regardless.
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@Onyx I'm pretty sure I was bitten by a house spider once.
Walking to campus, while I was at University, hands in my hoodie pocket. I felt a sharp prick, pulled my hand out to see what it was, and saw a house spider on me.
I didn't really have a problem with spiders before that, but it did make me more wary of them for a few months.
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@djls45 said in Large, terrifying and impressive...:
House centipedes are freaky.
Giant centipedes are also freaky.
There is really only one thing worth knowing that I have learned about giant centipedes, and it is this: after skinny dipping, shake out your shorts.