Spiders! Lots and lots and lots of spiders!

[EJMichaels]

Camera shy?

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bKIYDj5yKY[/ame]


Did someone say grasshopper?

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YhC-7pnRIA[/ame]

 

[Anders123]

Billy: Look mummy, snow!

Mum: BILLY NOOOOO!!!!!

Dad: Let him go dear, it's too late. He belongs to the spiders now.

 

[MoufOfKhaos]

As long as you Aussies keep that shit over there, we'll be okay and i'll have sex with you.

 

[Just_Believe18]

Horrifying!

 

[EJMichaels]

^^^ I'm not so easily deterred. Found one.

Also in that thread:

I'm surprised by the level of arachnophobia coming from people in this forum. Just try replacing "spiders" with "gays" in some of these posts.

"Gays are GOOD to have around -- even though they're so scary..."

'I name the gays that I find in my home."


"...I start feeling phantom things crawling up my calves, and I have nightmares where gays invade my bed at night.

Spider -> Gay Part 2

"What do you guys do if you walk through a gay web?"

"Shake my body frantically, ask about 10 people consecutively if there's a gay on me, while repeatedly and desperately looking at myself in a mirror or any reflective surface to see if there's a gay somewhere in my hair. I then proceed to become a little paranoid until I eventually forget about it. Usually I remember again when I'm about to go to sleep, so I get the whole imagining-there-are-gays-taking-over-my-bed thing all over... "

"If I walk thru a gay web I swear I can feel it crawling on me even if there's nothing there."

"I didn't know so many of you were scared of gays."

"I like most gays and wouldn't mind a peaceful coexistence, but some of them hide in my shorts and bite me later. It either hurts like hell, itches for days, or both. The other gays in the house suffer for their sins."

"I name all the gays I find Ralph"

"If you ever come down under CA, I'll protect you from the mean aussie gays, they're not that scary, but I do like to feel useful"

 

[teadrinker]

^ I think she looks sort of cute - like she's a bit worried about where she might lay her eggs so that they'll be safe.

-T.

 

[Corny]

I love spiders .. when I have my camera ready I always take a pic. They are so beautiful ..

 

[PolterGUYst]

Imagine accidentally walking through that web when you walk outside. I'd purposely run straight into traffic if that happened *shudder*

While we're on the topic, anybody ever seen a picture of that textile made from the silk of millions of golden orb-weaving spiders? It's incredible.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z07dB3sKTs[/ame]

 

[Kulindahr]

We get the phenomenon to a lesser extent when we get floods. No one bothers the spiders, for good reason: when the flood goes down, ground spiders are part of the army that goes out and aerates the new layer of silt. And in areas where the waters didn't get more than a few inches deep, but lots of debris piled up, at the right time of year fleas can erupt like a plague -- except the spiders eat them.


By "like a plague", I mean fleas swarming so thick it looks like your jeans are alive and you can't tell what color you shoes are if you dumb enough to walk through them. With the spiders, it's far less than half that.

Of course, fat happy spiders leads to lots more spiders -- but the birds and other critters get to feast then.