Did you hear a loud scream about 5 minutes ago?

[MarkC]

There's a lovely line in a poem I can't recall.
I'm sure I'm getting the animals wrong, and butchering the poetry, but in effect, it asks what carved the deer's grace, but the wolf's hunger?
Or something.

Jim Harrison puts it another way:

"How tall would I be
without my enemies
to measure me?"

 

[rpn453]

I have a big one in the garage that looks similar to that. She's been there all summer and keeps getting bigger. She's interesting to watch when she's wrapping up her catch or expanding her web.

 

[TallPaul]

I am happy to be in Michigan. We don't get half the nasty stuff up here. No killer bee, no fire ants, no black widows, no rattle snakes (except the little ones-- Missassauga or some spelling like that), I don't think we even have chiggers. We do have ticks though.


Saw a black widow spider once in my life, near the Ohio River in southeren Indiana. Have no desire to see another.

 

[carlprop]

Eight Legged Spider Freaks! Sounds like the name of a movie.

 

[wantin150]

Snakes, no problem. Spiders, big problem. Outside, no problem. Inside, DEAD!

 

[Drew99GT]

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I have no aversion to spiders so I cannot figure why you all are screaming like little girls. Does screaming cause colon pain?

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Haaaaaaaaa! Walk face first into a HUGE orb web with a silver dollar sized beast sitting there, FEEL it move on your head. You'll freak.

I don't flinch shooting a .338 winchester without ear protection; I screamed like a baby with a big spider web all over my face and the ---- thin crawling on me.

I have a holster for my raid now; from a huge can of bear pepper spray.

 

[Dr_No]

I was camping, woke up with a HUGE spider on my knee.
I almost died of shock, I didn't know what to do without gettin bitten. I freaked and flicked it really quick.
Got my shoe and smashed it a couple times, then did again just for fun.

 

[MarkC]

Bunch of little girls.

 

[9296D21B14]

At my friend's fishing camp in Dulac, LA at the end of the world in southernmost Terrebonne Parish we always do a snake check upon first entering. Many shed skins discovered over the years but the live one we found looking up at us from the commode and the other one we had to kill under the kitchen cabinets were something else. That one in the toilet still creeps me out. He got away after multiple flushes. I'm not too keen on spiders either.

 

[MarkC]

Back home in NC, I used to run cross-country throguh the woods on the western side of the island.
In a week's time, I saw 2 copperheads, a Water Moccassin, and a pretty fat rattlesnake. Him, I didn't get close enough to identify any further.

 

[ThirdeYe]

We always manage to get those earwigs in our bathroom. Can't stand those ugly things.

 

[wavinwayne]

In summer, if you are the first person riding the bike trails for the day in the mountains of North AL, you will be covered by 20-30 of the exact spider from the first picture, by the end of a 10 mile ride. I hate spiders! It's one of the main reasons I've almost completely given up riding my mountain bike in the summer.