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[Al Swearegen]

Ugh. I could live without those spiders.

  I was watching a show about Australian wildlife.  The host was driving his car while chatting
  with the audience,  and out of nowhere a huntsman spider appeared on his shoulder and
  crawled around on him.       And he just talked about the spider as if it were
  no big deal to drive while being  CRAWLED UPON.  I would have crashed that car!

Huntsman spiders are my favourites

I take it you don't suffer from arachnophobia?

I have read that no matter where one lives on planet Earth, one is never more that four to six feet from a spider.
I have also read that the average person eats/swallows a spider at least once per year in their sleep.
People often sleep with their mouths open and marauding spiders, in need of water or at least a wet meal, are attracted to the water vapor wafting from our open mouths while we sleep. They sometimes venture in to hunt and tickle our throats and we huff, smack and swallow. Seldom, but occasionallly the unfortunate spider is overwhelmed by our natural ability to clear our throats and down into our gullet she goes.

Spiders are cool. This little fella in Queensland was playing with a mouse

[odeon]

I have no problems with small spiders--the kind we have here--but the larger ones are too much for me.

[Walkie]

I don't mind teeny tiny little "money spiders", but the bigger they get, the more they make me shudder. Some of the house spiders here grow to  about 3" across (counting legs as well) and their bodies grow to  nearly  1" long. I've been known to vacate a room when I spot a big one. The hairy spiders in the garden really give me the creeps as well.

I've just read online that those house spiders can go for months without food or drink. So that's how come the house can seem spider-free for ages, then suddenly there's a bunch of  big ones , all at once. Mating season . 

[DirtDawg]

I have no problems with small spiders--the kind we have here--but the larger ones are too much for me.

I take solace in the fact that they do not have wings.

[DirtDawg]

I don't mind teeny tiny little "money spiders", but the bigger they get, the more they make me shudder. Some of the house spiders here grow to  about 3" across (counting legs as well) and their bodies grow to  nearly  1" long. I've been known to vacate a room when I spot a big one. The hairy spiders in the garden really give me the creeps as well.

I've just read online that those house spiders can go for months without food or drink. So that's how come the house can seem spider-free for ages, then suddenly there's a bunch of  big ones , all at once. Mating season .

We have plenty of big hairies in the garden, but we also have some big, pretty shineys.

These pretty ladies set a special section of her web tightly wound (notice the squiggly part) as a quick-access net that she throws over anything landing in her net. The potential meal or threat is almost instantly snared beyond escape.

[odeon]

[Pyraxis]

I take solace in the fact that they do not have wings.

Unlike those good old southern roaches.

 

[DirtDawg]

I take solace in the fact that they do not have wings.

Unlike those good old southern roaches.

 

                            

You do not know what you are talking about! NO such things exists. 












Met them, have you?

( Those hand sized flying cockroaches were supposed to be a secret!!  Thank you very much!! )


 

[Pyraxis]

Something died under our house. Day or two later I walk into the dining room and ohgodtheyreswarmingeverywhere. Much smashing was done that day. Somehow they got in through a crack in the wall or the floor, despite our best efforts to proof the place.