[56k warn] I just killed this beast ... climbing on my wall
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The camera is really smurfy (the blur has nothing to do with my hands shaking, nosiree
Still, I find it disturbingly big spider for a country in the temperate climate zone *shudder*
I get scorpions in my house every now and again. The ones found in Italy are only slightly poisonous, so they don't worry me overmuch. The biggest ones only get to about 5 cm in length.
Black Widows (Malmignatta in Italian), however, are not all that rare here. I've yet to see one myself, but I've heard that their favoured habitat looks quite a lot like my back garden...
Black Widows (Malmignatta in Italian), however, are not all that rare here. I've yet to see one myself, but I've heard that their favoured habitat looks quite a lot like my back garden...
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I find them all the time... in fact my brother was stung by one a few years back. Little tiny things though... not like the ones in the desert. I don't live in suburban California, but I do live in Oaky California.Everah wrote:I am so glad I don't live in Arizona. I'd bet you wouldn't find too many of those in Suburban California.
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That explains a lot.The Ninja Space Goat wrote:... but I do live in Oaky California.
/ sorry, I couldn't resist
I still have yet to see a scorpion in the natural. Granted, I spend most of my time in suburban residential (or sometimes industrial) California, where it seems that these little varmints don't like to wander.
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I live in the caribbean, and bugs thrive with life here... The other night I was watching a movie at my best mate's and a mantis (not any mantis) flew over next to where I was sitting, man that <span style='color:blue' title='I'm naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span> was scary. It's called here 'Maria Palito' and it looks like a long stick from a tree (just like any other mantis), but this one, it's said that it's really poisonous.
Far back from my backyard, there are snakes, mostly small (but once we saw the skin of a really long one), tarantulas, but those are everywhere.
The same day after a hurricane, I went to sleep on my bed right, and when my father came to say good night he saw a small scorpion over our sheets. Frightening.
Far back from my backyard, there are snakes, mostly small (but once we saw the skin of a really long one), tarantulas, but those are everywhere.
The same day after a hurricane, I went to sleep on my bed right, and when my father came to say good night he saw a small scorpion over our sheets. Frightening.
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