I hate spiders too ! The worst thing that happned to me. i was putting on a t-shirt that i haven't worn in years. I felt something on my shoulder and i looked and it was a spider. I cann't tell you how fast i took that t-shirt off. Now ever since that day i shake my clothes first.

 

james that's great i'm ding over here and thanks for the daddy long legs coment. i run into to many people that think they are deadly. that's great though even my wife was but she's just as bad. i know a little bit about spiders. pchristman that sounds like a ST. cross spider they are relatively harmless to people. so what your all telling me is that if you guys came accross the spider i used to have you would have a heart attack. ( golith trantula) the best story i have is when a friend of mine and i were picking up a scrap pile we noticed all these big wolf spiders coming out of the pile. next he picked up a small board and out jumps this huge hairy big grey mouse. he threw all the stuff he had in his hands and proceeded to crawl backwards screaming like a girl. this was on a job site with a bunch of construction workers. i almost died laughing because he was an avid hunter and his dad was high ranking brass in the army. it was great.

 

Wolf spiders. They're usually pretty timid, and kinda nice-looking, in a spidery sort of way. I've played with them many times, especially when around an arachnophobe. On a family reunion camp-out a couple years ago, I was sitting next to the wood pile when a wolf crawled out and looked around at all the people. Knowing there were impressionable kids watching, I stuck my hand down beside it to scare it off, but as I was doing so, something about it looked funny - different funny, not ha ha funny. When my hand was about 6 inches away, he jumped on me and wrapped all eight of his hairy little legs around my finger in what resembled the famous Lithuanian Choke Hold. It was at that instant that I realized why he looked funny - that little guy was a tarantula. And he didn't jump nearly as far as I did.

 

I read a story years ago about a scientist who was studying spiders.He was in the jungle on the side of a mountain looking for these huge spiders(like 12in in size).They burrow into the ground and make a cavern to nest in at night,so he was looking for their entrance.Long story short,he finds one but the earth under his feet wont support him and gives way.He falls in and finds himself at the bottom of a 10ft pit.He cant climb out and knows that come nightfall the spiders will be returning so he starts digging a tunnel hoping that he is digging in the right direction and not into the center of the mountain.Well the story goes on to tell about him fending them off for a couple of nights,by the way,they werent poisonous,just flesh eaters.It ends when as he is fending them off,it starts raining,filling the pit with water.Now spiders dont like water so they are climbing on anything that is above the waterline,and as he is fighting them off and the pit is filling with water,the pressure from all that water finishes his tunnel for him,all the water drains out and he climbs out through the tunnel and has a ton of spiders that drowned for specimens.

 

i call the "St. Cross spider" the "zig zag spider" they are related to the "Banana spider" if im not mistaken. those get pretty big too

 

Nastiest spider I've seen was a specimen that came from Japan. I was over at my buddys place of business. He receives electronics from Japan. So he's opening a crate, and low and behold I see something trying to crawl away. It looked weird since it was bright green, almost flourescent.

So me being macho I grab a jar that was close by and pounce on the lil critter. Danged if he ain't the ugliest lil sob I've ever seen. It had hair all over it's body, and bright green, like anti-freeze. Had some yellow markings on it's head. So we have it in this jar, and showing it off. Well I guess the spider was mad, I held it up lookin real close, and the punk lunged at my face. I dropped the jar and fell backwards. He scared the crap outta me. Learned my lesson not to mess with Mother Nature's children.

only thing even close to being that ugly, were those cave dwelling crab spiders on Fear Factor... ugh now those were nasty.

 

Here's what I found looking up at me when I got into the shower this afternoon...

 

god, i hate it too! its justs.... (Shudders!!!)

i dont know what kind i see all around my house, but they're brown and can get pretty big...i've never seen them spin webs.

 

i was at work the other day and a black widow almost landed on my head. came from a skylight about 40 feet up inside a warehouse. if i wasnt paying attention she would have landed on me i did keep it in a jar for a while then i burned it with the cutting torch. i hate spiders

 

Here's one for the spider lovers. Try patrolling through miles of un-disturbed range at night, pulling point and running into every damn web out there. The best part is when you're face first and the damn spider ends up kissing you on the cheek. Really tough to maintain your bearing at that particular moment in time.

 

Driving the wife to work one morning and I opened the door of my Suburban and I see a decent sized wolf spider run under the seat. So I dont tell the wife, cause she would freak out. I drive her to work and after she goes in I get a flashlight and look for him. Nowhere to be found. I go home get ready for work and I look again before I leave, no spider. Go to work, back, home, and then back to play softball that night. Have a few beers and leave. I am driving home and its dark and I feel it. Crawling up my leg. I like spiders. just not on me. I killer him and was a little weary about the wagon wondering if there were eggs or anything. Nothing. Are most of you suburbanites? Country boys?

 

Please, no more spider stories. I have to sleep tonite. Oh please no more spiders

 

After I did some rock work on the front of our family room (used to be our garage), the black widows took up in the cracks/crevices between the rocks...for the past two summers, we've killed/sprayed literally hundreds of black widows and even found a few in the house...that's a bit scary.

I guess I need to finish up that mortar work to eliminate their hiding places

I HATE spiders...

Scott

 

Hate spiders? No. Like Spiders? NO.
We have a lot around here, mostly nothing to be worried about, but I still do not like them. I live in a very old house and my wife has gotton bit in bed two times in the last two years. Needless to say, SHE HATES THEM.