Spiders

[Sarah B]

Hi Cindy

Yes most definitely, Nicky is gung ho on the "vegemite" stuff, should go well with stewed Werekoalas.

Kind regards
Sarah B

[LordKAT]

Vegemite is made from spiders?


Who knew? It explains vegemite being Australian I guess.








Please take in the joking manner in which it was meant.

[Randi]

Having done a lot of construction work, I have been bitten many times by spiders-mostly brown recluses. While they will conservatively inject just a small amount of venom, if they are really afraid they will pour the stuff to you and it can and will make your flesh dissolve into a big hole. I also have been bitten by a Black Widow-ONCE and have seen many many more. They just love dark moist places that Plumbers have to go every day and you will learn to be careful or get bitten as I did. A large female got me on the right hand ring finger but I didn't think much of it at the time. When it swelled to the size of a softball and the vein up my arm turned blue I got worried and went for treatment. The Doctor said that if I had waited for three more hours I would have lost my right hand if not part of my arm! Be Careful!

Randi

[milktea]

lucky not to have spiders where i am, and now i'm having serious doubts about moving to australia...main pests here are mosquitos and cockroaches, the former being ultra-fast-smart-city type and the latter brown about the length of yr index finger with an oily shine. if only there's a way to drive all these irritants to extinction in my living area...

[spacial]

Don't know it will work on your local spiders but we have found that most insects seem to hate sertain smells.

Our cat brings us his yearly dose of fleas and the next is due soon. Vacuming, of course, is essential, but spraying a weak solution of ceder, and pine onto our shoes stops the little blighters when we go into the back porch.

We also manage to scare away our yearly visit of mice. They have just arrived and left after dropping some peppermint oil in the places where they seem to like to go.

With some experimenting, you may find the smell your local spiders hate.

[Arch]

When I was living with my ex, a black widow managed to make its way into the house and find the perfect spot to hang out: the gap between the sliding closet doors in the master bedroom, about six inches from the ground. Right where one of the cats might encounter it. Nevertheless, I spent about a week and a half attempting to capture the beastie without hurting it. Don't ask me why; I saw what one of them did to my father when I was a kid. His hand and arm swelled up something awful.

Fast little suckers. Hard to catch. I finally succeeded, but what a headache. When I moved to my new house and saw a black widow out in the garden (again, right where my cat was likely to have a close encounter), I thought, "To hell with it" and executed it. Nature-lover, that's me.

But I really do like spiders, mostly.

[V M]

I've been bit a few times by black widow spiders when I lived in Calif.

The bite area did swell a bit, but nothing as bad as a hobo spider bite

Mostly I had flu like symptoms and felt like I was on some weird drugs for a day or so 

[rexgsd]

When my dad went to Texas, he secretly brought back a black widow spider in a jar (for whatever reason) and brought it home. Well it laid an egg sac thing, and he punched a big hole in the top of the jar (it was a ball glass jar with a metal lid) with a hunting knife, which i thought was way too big of a hole, especially since the babies will prob be very little when born. Well, good thing I wasn't there when they hatched..

my dad said he got up at night, and was bringing the jar over to put some water in it or something, and when he went in the light he saw hundreds of little black widows crawling up his arm O-O he started smashing them all. it was kind of horrifying when i went over there a few days later, cause he was living in sort of a basement-type room and it was in a countryside-type town, and all i kept thinking was that one of the black widows would land on my head or crawl on me when i sleep. he said at one point one came down on a string  in front of him too.

[Constance]

When my dad went to Texas, he secretly brought back a black widow spider in a jar (for whatever reason) and brought it home. Well it laid an egg sac thing, and he punched a big hole in the top of the jar (it was a ball glass jar with a metal lid) with a hunting knife, which i thought was way too big of a hole, especially since the babies will prob be very little when born. Well, good thing I wasn't there when they hatched..

my dad said he got up at night, and was bringing the jar over to put some water in it or something, and when he went in the light he saw hundreds of little black widows crawling up his arm O-O he started smashing them all. it was kind of horrifying when i went over there a few days later, cause he was living in sort of a basement-type room and it was in a countryside-type town, and all i kept thinking was that one of the black widows would land on my head or crawl on me when i sleep. he said at one point one came down on a string  in front of him too.

I believe the only possible response to this is, "AAIIIEEEEEE!"

[Jay]

Strangely enough I love spiders...

Jay

[rexgsd]

haha.

yeah i dont like spiders but i like tarantulas. my dad has one, and he never used to have a cover for the top so it would get out at night and stuff, but he finally put one on so someone wouldn't roll over on him at night or something and kill him

[Sarah Louise]

I was bit by a brown recluse when I lived in Missouri, I killed a wolf spider in my garage and the babies scattered all over the place.  I get black widows webs on my patio all the time.

Sarah L.

[rexgsd]

arg! where do you live now with all those spiders?! jeez, i hate when spiders scare me, i get so mad and seek revenge. last one that dangled in front of me i killed with a gluee louee rat trap

[brainiac]

I am the valiant spider-killing knight for my arachnophobic princess (boyfriend).

[Stella Blue]

I am terrified of spiders, if I see one in my room I can't sleep in there until it is found and either killed or taken outside. The only creepy crawler that bugs me out as much as spiders are centipedes....

[brainiac]

House centipedes are terrible. I can handle spiders fine, but those little evil buggers are fast and have so many legs... I've killed them by drowning them in Windex before (it surprised me in the middle of the night in the bathroom). An awful way to die for an awful creature.

These are the ones I'm talking about; don't click if you're freaked out by bugs! (SO UGLY)

[Stella Blue]

House centipedes are terrible. I can handle spiders fine, but those little evil buggers are fast and have so many legs... I've killed them by drowning them in Windex before (it surprised me in the middle of the night in the bathroom). An awful way to die for an awful creature.

These are the ones I'm talking about; don't click if you're freaked out by bugs! (SO UGLY)

I don't know why I clicked but I did LOL... I hate those things.. the other night I was watching a show and they had those giant ugly centipedes you'd find in like hawaii or the amazon or wherever, freaky stuff!! I don't think I could deal if I saw one in person..

[rexgsd]

eww i hate those! and they are super fast and like invisable. i saw one scurry under the couch i was on at my dads and was like 'did something just run across the floor?' and it was one of those. and i had to sleep on that couch, sick! hard to sleep after seeing that s.o.b. crawling around.

my bad luck bug lately has been random bees and black wasps IN MY ROOM or bathroom randomly. holy ->-bleeped-<-, that is a heart attack and a half right there o-o i dont even know where they come from...and why are they always in my room/bathroom? i smash them with something or drown them in comet and hairspray or something

[brainiac]

Apparently, house centipedes can also detach legs if they're trapped by them. This idea bothers me deeply.

Speaking of bees, this fall I was walking on the sidewalk, talking animatedly to my friend, and I gestured to make a point. At that EXACT MOMENT a yellowjacket flew directly into my finger and stung the crap out it. And then I had to sit in class for an hour and a half with a throbbing finger.

[rexgsd]

ugh that sucks. fortunately i have only been stung like, twice in my life. i remember once i was running in a field to my dads truck and one flew out of this little shed and stung me and went back in the shed. my dad got out some bee poison (hes an exterminator ) and killed the whole colony. haha thats what they get