[56k warn] I just killed this beast ... climbing on my wall

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here's what I found.

http://arachnophiliac.co.uk/burrow/utic ... ctions.htm

I guess it is 'semi-legit'. Blindess is only partial and only temporary, at least according to this guy.
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My willingness to buy a spider has decrease slightly :wink:
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*shiver*
I used to want to move west, but I'm thinking east coast has its advantages. Although black widows are relatively common here. Frightening little buggers, too. My comrades and I called off a whole hiking excursion once because we kept seeing loads of them. Scorpions, though... jeez. Aren't they aggressive?
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I've never heard anything about them being agressive. Unless, of course, one crawls into your sleeping bag and you turn over on it. :lol:
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Lol, Jcart, I've always known the buggers are out to get me, but now it is confirmed ;)
I still can't decide which experience was more hard on my arachnophobia, this guy in the photo, or a slightly smaller one which I almost didn't notice behind the curtains.
I've heard statements that the fear of spiders, snakes and heights is somehow built-in (i.e. not learned from experience) in the human mind. Subjects tested with rapidly changing random images reacted to photos of spiders with response times several times shorter than a conscious reaction. I've seen a similar documentary of monkeys, where monkeys bred in captivity for several generations still displayed fear at a rubber (false) snake put in their environment.
Fascinating stuff, phobias :)
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ok, I know I said I'd take pictures of the next one I saw at my house...I didn't think that would be as soon as I drove in my driveway! lol.

I saw this guy as I was pulling into my garage, ran into the house to get a camera and wrote this note so you wouldn't think I just grabbed a tarantula picture off of the net somewhere. This is a pretty good sized one (probably the third largest I've seen since I've lived here).

as you can see in the second picture, he wasn't really happy with my screwing with him 8O

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the chapstick was for scale...although his lips did look a little rough
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here are all the pics if you're interested

http://www.burritostand.com/spider.zip
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D00D!! I've been here since '95 and I have never seen anything like IT especially that size!!! That thing... you could almost BBQ it.
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yeah he was a pretty good one. But the largest one I've seen actually got into my house and started climbing my kitchen wall....that, as you can imagine, made for some great enjoyment with my wife.

I've only seen about 15 of them in my yard in the three years I've been here so seeing this one today was very serendipitous.

I think this thread jinxed me :P
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Dude, next thing you know you are going to find a sabre-toothed tiger in your front yard. And do I ever want pictures of that!
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Well done Burrito, well done :lol:
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wtf wrote:That thing... you could almost BBQ it.
They do that in Asia ;)
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And I was just thinking how delectible a scorpion-a-bob would be this morning...
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Post by Maugrim_The_Reaper »

I'm just glad I live in Ireland. No big spiders, no scorpions, and one of the few snake free nations on the planet. ;). Where a walk in the park does not involve dodging half a dozen poisonous creatures out for revenge on two legged mammals.
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