Creepy Crawlies....

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by mrnoodle

Okay, that's done it. I will never visit Australia under my own free will. If I find that I have been brought there against my will, I will spontaneously die of arachnaphobia right on the spot.

Wow, I'm going to have to agree. The picture alone will give me nightmares!

[Hagar]

AARRRRGHHH HUNTSMEN!!!!

Huntsmen deserve to die. All of them. Right now. So do their dodgy, supercharged Wolf Spider cousins.

Have you ever heard the little clicking sound their feet make when they walk across a stainless steel sink in the night when everything else is quiet?

Have you ever been takin' a whizz against a tree and had one appear from under the bark?

Have you ever come home (not un-refreshed) in the small hours and in a short sighted, alcohol-contributed, phobic rage beaten your car keys to death with a rolled up newspaper thinking they were a huntsman?

Have you ever seen their eight metallic eyes reflect back at you while you're weged in under the shelf in the shed with a torch looking for something you'd dropped?

I have. All of the above. And more.

Orb weavers are cool. They don't chase you across the room and rip your arms off and whap you with them. They stay put.

It's my problem. I know - and I deal with it... Usually in a battle to the death, me armed with a broom and a can of Baygon - spidey armed with a whole bunch more legs and eyes than I've got.

[dar512]

I hate bugs. I realize it's my issue, so I apologize before I squish them.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by Hagar

AARRRRGHHH HUNTSMEN!!!!...
Have you ever come home (not un-refreshed) in the small hours and in a short sighted, alcohol-contributed, phobic rage beaten your car keys to death with a rolled up newspaper thinking they were a huntsman?...

Ok, Hagar, you're new here, so I'll spell it out for you. Some of us work with expensive computers that we don't own, and that are even more averse to liquids than you are to Huntsmen. So, if you please, as a courtesy to those of us who don't have the means to replace these expensive displays, please, please label posts such as yours with the warning SCF, or Swallow Coffee First. I, for one, thank you. [/public service announcment]

O M G

Originally Posted by BigV

Ok, Hagar, you're new here, so I'll spell it out for you. Some of us work with expensive computers that we don't own, and that are even more averse to liquids than you are to Huntsmen. So, if you please, as a courtesy to those of us who don't have the means to replace these expensive displays, please, please label posts such as yours with the warning SCF, or Swallow Coffee First. I, for one, thank you. [/public service announcment]

O M G

Best visual of the year so far, I agree. I even got little girl screams with it in my melon... sweet!
I don't name my Wolfies... we used to, but after a while there became so many that we gave-up. Plus, this is odd, but most are ladies that come inside, and they look masuline, so they are hard to name properly. Too butch.
Again, what is a mouse going to do to you? Just ignore it.
I can't wait to hear the news-cast... "man mauled to death in his home by mouse...."

Though I was unhappy once when crawling under an orange tree to fix a micro-jet when I fell into an underground rat's warren. Grove rats are BIG... they were upset about my sudden intrusion. I was wearing shorts, a tool-belt and short work boots. We were all pretty startled. But, it was pretty common to have large spiders fall on me, snakes drop out of the trees onto me, or come out from under stuff, or be around the tree I crawled under, rats, roaches, big bugs, all kinds of nutty stuff when the fruit dropped and began to do what it did after about a week or so (especially the big grapefruit)... just part of the job.
A startled bar-hog is no fun, I'll tell ya' that.

[DucksNuts]

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

Again, what is a mouse going to do to you? Just ignore it.

It might scurry up the leg of my pants and they can give you a nasty nip.

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

I don't name my Wolfies... we used to, but after a while there became so many that we gave-up. Plus, this is odd, but most are ladies that come inside, and they look masuline, so they are hard to name properly. Too butch.

Am I arachnid rascist if I think they all look alike?

[glatt]

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

Again, what is a mouse going to do to you? Just ignore it.
I can't wait to hear the news-cast... "man mauled to death in his home by mouse...."

Mice are pretty bad. If you have mice in your home, chances are they are nibbling on the insulation on the wires in your wall. Many houses have burned down, killing their occupants, because mice were nibbling on the wires and started fires.

Also, mice can carry diseases.

I live in an older house, and every Fall, when it starts to get cold, the mice find their way into our house. In the past week, my traps have killed four of the bastards.

The worst one was in the eaves by our bedroom the other night. We were sound asleep when we suddenly woke up (The snapping of the trap woke me, but I didn't realize it.) Then I heard a loud squeaking noise, and a *clunk* *drag* as the mouse tried to get out of the trap. The trap should have broken its little neck, but didn't. It's like 3AM, and I'm not very alert. I grab an empty coffee can, and pick up the trap with the live mouse in it, and plop the whole thing into the can. I wanted to kill the mouse, but wasn't sure how. I was tired, and just wanted to get back in bed. So I wandered into the kitchen and put the can into the freezer. As I got back into bed, I warned my wife not to look in the freezer in the morning until I got there first. When I checked on him the next morning, the little guy was a mousecycle.

I can't stand mice in the house. I'd happily poison them if it didn't mean I'd be smelling the rotting bodies for a month or so. Traps are the only way to go.

Originally Posted by glatt

Mice are pretty bad. If you have mice in your home, chances are they are nibbling on the insulation on the wires in your wall. Many houses have burned down, killing their occupants, because mice were nibbling on the wires and started fires.

Also, mice can carry diseases.

I live in an older house, and every Fall, when it starts to get cold, the mice find their way into our house. In the past week, my traps have killed four of the bastards.

The worst one was in the eaves by our bedroom the other night. We were sound asleep when we suddenly woke up (The snapping of the trap woke me, but I didn't realize it.) Then I heard a loud squeaking noise, and a *clunk* *drag* as the mouse tried to get out of the trap. The trap should have broken its little neck, but didn't. It's like 3AM, and I'm not very alert. I grab an empty coffee can, and pick up the trap with the live mouse in it, and plop the whole thing into the can. I wanted to kill the mouse, but wasn't sure how. I was tired, and just wanted to get back in bed. So I wandered into the kitchen and put the can into the freezer. As I got back into bed, I warned my wife not to look in the freezer in the morning until I got there first. When I checked on him the next morning, the little guy was a mousecycle.

I can't stand mice in the house. I'd happily poison them if it didn't mean I'd be smelling the rotting bodies for a month or so. Traps are the only way to go.

Don't get me wrong... I trap them. Hate to do it, but, it it does not wear diapers or use the toilet, it does not shit in my house.

[mrnoodle]

Originally Posted by Hagar

Have you ever heard the little clicking sound their feet make when they walk across a stainless steel sink in the night when everything else is quiet?

We have lots of Wolfies here... I like them. They tend to hang in the bathrooms.

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

We have lots of Wolfies here... I like them. They tend to hang in the bathrooms.

YOU LIKE THEM? ARE YOU INSANE?
I am a complete arachnaphobe. There was a black jumpy spider in my house the other day. My guy was gone and I can't get close enough to kill them because they jump all over the freaking place. I felt so cruel, but I sprayed Starch Spray on it to thicken it up then killed it. I felt bad about it, but it was in my house uninvited and was not paying rent, so to heck with it!

What are they going to do? They are just little spiders. I think my Wolves do pay rent by eating roaches. Remember, I live in FL, the roaches take my furniture outside, steal our food and the neighbors beer and have parties.

[limey]

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

What are they going to do? They are just little spiders. I think my Wolves do pay rent by eating roaches. Remember, I live in FL, the roaches take my furniture outside, steal our food and the neighbors beer and have parties.

Great image ... !

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

What are they going to do? They are just little spiders. I think my Wolves do pay rent by eating roaches. Remember, I live in FL, the roaches take my furniture outside, steal our food and the neighbors beer and have parties.

Eek, couldn't stand the roaches either.

Come on, spiders BITE!

Do you name your wolfies?