Spiders Rock

[Urjak]

Spiders totally rock. I dont see why people hate them so much. :Confused:

[Sage]

cause everyone else hates them. we all know if anyone likes spiders they are a nerd.

(thats what everyone thinks. i dont get it personally)

[Naryar]

I personally witnessed this summer a small 1/5 inch spider moving 10cm (four inches) in the blink of an eye, i mean perhaps one tenth of a second. Seriously.

Same as an human running at a sport car's speed. Awesome, isn't it?

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I even FED some because they didn't catch anything (lazy), but i think they can live without food for several weeks at least.

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But still, I won't like to find a common house spider (the Lycosa type, 4 inches long) on my nose when waking up. I don't understand why we are afraid so easily of animals that small, that said... They're not dangerous here in France. Excepted the black widow...

[Somebody]

I go to a camp in the summer, and the place has numerous Wolf and Brown Recluse spiders. Every night you have to check your tent to see if anything crawled in.
The camp is a Boy Scout Camp, because I am in boy scouts.

[Venko]

One friend photograph this in his WC. You cant understand the size of that "thing" from this image, cos there is no object to compare with, but... With the "legs" this creepy spider have a 20 centimetres diameter !
No one likes to see "things" like this in his WC...

[Naryar]

That doesn't looks like an average spider... it's not a long-legs spider, because the legs AP's are not packed together... not a wolf spider either... certainly not a tarantula...

This pic has bad resolution (no offense, just a fact), but perhaps it's an Opiliones...

...Wait, 20cm? That's pretty huge for an European spider!

[Venko]

This pic has bad resolution (no offense, just a fact), but perhaps it's an Opiliones... I saw the spider too and i dont think its a Opiliones, i dont know this spider type. Yes, the image is with very bad quality, but what you expect from a cheap old GSM camera, also without much light, plus too close focus. But this pic you see is repaired a lil from me with photoshop, the original is way worst... ...Wait, 20cm? That's pretty huge for an European spider! I know too :o

We can capture it (with some big jar maybe :lol: ), and send to you more detailed pics for future resurch if you want :lol: ...

[Naryar]

We can capture it (with some big jar maybe :lol: ), and send to you more detailed pics for future resurch if you want :lol: ...

Yep. And I want a detailed .BMP splash in 1024x768, resolution of 100 dpi, showing the spider from at least 4 different angles.

And with the certified "No spiders were harmed in the making of that pic"

You'll post it here ASAP, because  Urjak wants it too.

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EDIT: WOOT I'm a SHW !!

[ACAMS]

It is a monster Brown Recluse.
 
 
 
http://myfolderz.com/Images/Spider_bites/brown_recluse1.jpg
 
http://myfolderz.com/Images/Spider_bites/Day3.jpg
 
http://myfolderz.com/Images/Spider_bites/Day4.jpg
 
http://myfolderz.com/Images/Spider_bites/Day5.jpg
 
http://myfolderz.com/Images/Spider_bites/Day6.jpg
 
http://myfolderz.com/Images/Spider_bites/Day9.jpg
 
http://myfolderz.com/Images/Spider_bites/Day10.jpg

[R0B0SH4RK]

Day 3-6 look pretty good, but 9 and 10 look photoshopped...

If not, then the thumb was probably amputated or something.

EDIT: I just did a little wikipedia-ing, and found that the bite does cause necrosis (death of cells in living tissue) in very rare cases. It's usually self-healing though. But a monster one? That thing could pack enough venom to kill a horse. I doubt it is though. Plus, Recluses are only found in the Souteastern-Midwest United States and Mexico.

[Sorrow]

Looks real to me. Brown Recluse bites cause necrosis.

[Urjak]

Wow Naryar, I didnt know any body else on this forum new much about spiders.

Edit: Wait 20 cm !?!?!. There are no spiders that big that are not tarantulas.

[Venko]

Actually, its look a lot like on the pic ACAMS post. Maybe it was 15 cm in diameter (not radius), but it is still HUGE BASTARD. And the bad news : my firend say they are FEW. Too bad he didnt capture also the light switch on the photo so you all to see how big is that mutated Chernobyl "thing". I was gonna photo him again near to metric line, but seeing what he can do i changed my mind, he better kill it. But what he eat in the WC?

[infiniteinertia]

i was bitten by a brown recluse when i was 14...that didn't happen to me.

[Madiaba]

I once was bitten by a spider that had ingested a bit of U-238 isotope.
It didn't affect me at all....
 
 
unless.....
 
I see a thief:nope:...

or a fly:eat:...

Gotta go....

[DuckRA2]

I like spiders, they eat flys, and they just are spiders

i've seen 3 blackwidows, one dead and 2 alive

[Urjak]

I like spiders, they eat flys, and they just are spiders

i've seen 3 blackwidows, one dead and 2 alive

Catch one and keep it as a pet. :D

[DuckRA2]

But I do like african giant millipedes better, spiders are awsome, but not as pets in my opnion

[Naryar]

Brown Recluse? You Americans sure have interesting fauna... Rattlesnakes... Gila Monsters...

Ah. 15cm is not 20cm.

I WIKI-ed too, (Didn't know about Brown Recluses at all) and found this spider is solitary and doesn't shows often (hence the name). Not aggressive, but don't disturb/attack her.

The species Loxosceles reclusa is deep purple, like this one.

It could be that because several Brown Recluses have been found in Europe, by boat or plane (unwilling) transport, but still I don't see the thorax/abdomen very well, it is supposed to be violin-shaped.

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Duck: Wait, aren't these Scolopendra, predators, black and orange, and poisonous? ??

[Madiaba]

In the mid-west we learned to check our shoes and gloves before putting them on.
I've seen them, but as the name implies they like to stay secluded.
Good thing it's passive and not pro-actively aggressive.