NTACB @"Emiliano" you should be really careful with spiders. Us folks in the northeast like to think the spiders we have are harmless but they can still do a number on you. Even if a spider isn't supposed to be poisonous, it still has bacteria that can be deadly when it bites you, making it pretty much poisonous. My hand got bitten by a spider in the woods once, and a golf ball sized lump swelled up. I had to take antibiotics and my hand is still somewhat discolored after so many years. I forget if it was my brother, an aunt, or both, but they got bitten by a spider on their arms, and when they went to the hospital, the doctors said if they waited any longer, their arms would have needed to be amputated.

I don't know if that's just an exaggeration, but it goes to show that spiders aren't exactly innocent. Sure, they aren't supposed to bite us because we aren't their food, but just like cute little bumblebees and evil demonic wasps, they're stupid bugs and have no way of knowing we mean them no harm.

(06-09-2020, 04:18 PM)Chase Wrote: NTACB @"Emiliano" you should be really careful with spiders. Us folks in the northeast like to think the spiders we have are harmless but they can still do a number on you. Even if a spider isn't supposed to be poisonous, it still has bacteria that can be deadly when it bites you, making it pretty much poisonous. My hand got bitten by a spider in the woods once, and a golf ball sized lump swelled up. I had to take antibiotics and my hand is still somewhat discolored after so many years. I forget if it was my brother, an aunt, or both, but they got bitten by a spider on their arms, and when they went to the hospital, the doctors said if they waited any longer, their arms would have needed to be amputated.

I don't know if that's just an exaggeration, but it goes to show that spiders aren't exactly innocent. Sure, they aren't supposed to bite us because we aren't their food, but just like cute little bumblebees and evil demonic wasps, they're stupid bugs and have no way of knowing we mean them no harm.

I did look up how to make natural spider repellents. I have the dish soap, water, lavender and peppermint essential oils that it calls for. But I have rice vinegar, not white vinegar, so hopefully it still works. And the dish soap, lavender, and peppermint are all in the bathroom. So I'm going to have to wait until he decides to do something else and then just spray the fuck out of everything and hope he gets the point. Or she. Or they.

^ hope it works out. NTACB gets some scary spider pictures:









Yes, that is a picture of a giant spider eating a bird, yes, it is real. Spiders are evil incarnated and were created by the Satan because demons weren't scary enough!

I just sprayed everywhere and now my bathroom smells like vinegar and peppermint, which I guess I'm not that mad about. I like vinegar.
But if he comes around again, I'll be sure to take some pictures so everyone can laugh about how my idea of a big ass scary spider is just a slighter larger small spider. It just scared the shit out of me because i was brushing my teeth and then realized this guy was right next to my face on the wall and moving fast.

NTACB Spiders can creep me out! I have gotten used to black widows which are common in the local woods but still give them wide berth. I fear the brown recluse which is more venomous yet.

Yep, I'm so kind I guess lol. The big ones are usually female.

^yep. Female spiders are like three times bigger than the males. They sometimes literally eat their men after mating with them.
What I always wondered was what life would be like if we were like one of the species where the females are multiple times bigger than the males. There's a species of fish where the males are just little tadpole size parasites that stick to the females. It'd be funny if humans were like that. I wonder if the ladies would be carrying us around in their purses, using us as poker chips, or being kind enough to make little doll houses for us.

(06-09-2020, 05:29 PM)InbetweenDreams Wrote: Yep, I'm so kind I guess lol. The big ones are usually female.

Yikes that post was atrocious. Mean to say "Yep, spider would be dead, so I guess I'm not that kind."

Definitely an error in the transmission from brain to keyboard lol

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Not that anyone cares or anything lol

NTACB please tell me that first spider picture is a fake, and it's made of wood or something?? Is it man-eating?? 

More so than the female spiders who eat their mates, the ones that are eaten by their babies really creep me out. I was staying with a friend in his family's house out on Long Island earlier this year, we were drinking in the basement, and he kept looking past me, but wouldn't tell me what he was looking at. Finally I saw it, a biiiiiiiig spider, like size of my hand, furry spider. I basically climbed on his shoulders and begged him to take me back to the city immediately, but I wouldn't let him kill it. 

We looked it up online and I think it ended up being a black lace weaver, or a wolf spider, I honestly don't want to go back and try to figure it out again. And on the wikipedia it was talking about matriphagy and that really horrified me. 

It came from when I worked at a summer camp when I was younger, and it just struck me that all these kids would sit in a park and flip out when they saw an insect and immediately either try to kill it or get one us to kill it for them. So I spent the whole summer trying to learn up on the native insects in my area so I could tell the kids about them, from a distance, and try to get them to respect this is just another type of animal. You wouldn't kill a cat just for walking by you, but it could potentially fuck you up if it felt threatened too. 

I'll probably end up dying from a spider bite tonight now that im saying all this, but I just feel that being scary or gross shouldn't be a death sentence for an animal, no matter how small or insignificant we think they and their lives are. They're just living their lives and doing their thing. I had a couple of wasps get in my apartment somehow a couple weeks ago, and I caught them with a cup and paper and let them out again. Like earlier, I saw the spider, I left the bathroom, freaked the fuck out about it lol, made a natural spider repellent, and then sprayed it when I saw he crawled back wherever he goes when he's not staring at me brushing my teeth. 

And now he'll come and thank me by biting my throat tonight.