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San wrote:black spiders, multi-colored spiders, and large spiders scare me
daddy long legs, not as much
DarkJackal wrote:I'm not scared of em really, but I don't feel like touching them >.> lol.
Icealya wrote:that picture freaked me out.
I HATE SPIDERS!!
well, those huge hairy ones at least...
Little ones I can handle, but srsly, I Farking freak out at those huge spiders...
especially after Harry Potter 2
Knight_Ange1 wrote:Here, it made me think of this guy...
"FOUND IN IRAQ !
They run 10 mph, jump three feet, are a nocturnal spider, so only come out at night unless they are in shade. When they bite you, you are injected with Novocain so you go numb instantly. You don't even know you are bitten when you are sleeping, so you wake up with part of your leg or arm missing because it has been gnawing on it all night long.
If you are walking around and you bump something that is casting shadow over the spider, and the sun makes contact with this spider, you better run. It will instantly run for your shadow, and scream the whole time it is chasing you.
PS. The one on the bottom is eating the one on the top. These are Spiders found daily in IRAQ by troops. Imagine waking up and seeing one of these in your tent!!"
This scary-looking creature (actually, it's a pair of scary-looking creatures dangling end-to-end) is indeed commonly called a camel spider, but it is found in arid locales all over the world including the southwestern United States not just in the Gulf region. A typical specimen can grow to about the size of a child's hand, but, though they are known for being vicious predators , camel spiders are neither venomous nor a threat to human beings.
They don't eat camels, either.
Portia labiata: the spider so smart it puts mammals to shame.
LOOKING more like a flake of bark than a spider, Portia labiata stops to have a think. Portia is a jumping spider that makes a living by eating other spiders - a risky business at the best of times. Luckily Portia has brains.
Right now it needs them. Portia, no bigger than a thumbnail, is perched on a branch with its beady eyes trained on a Scytodes pallida, another spider that specialises in eating other spiders. Scytodes is a spitting spider. It can squirt zig-zag jets of poison-coated silk from its mouth glands that would snare Portia in the blink of an eye.
They are like two high-rolling gamblers about to bet all their chips on a single throw of the dice. Fortunately for Portia, Scytodes doesn't know it is being watched. Spitting spiders have weak eyes and Scytodes is content to lurk in its web in the cup of a curled leaf in the forests of the Philippine island of Luzon, until some unwitting passer-by stumbles in. Portia, on the other hand, has excellent eyesight, with spatial acuity better than a cat or a pigeon. From a safe distance about half a metre away, Portia sits scanning Scytodes.
First it needs to know whether Scytodes is carrying a sac in its fangs. This is how Scytodes protects its eggs. And to do any spitting, it has to drop them first. If the spider had eggs, Portia would mount a frontal assault. It would creep to the edge of the web and gently tickle the threads, luring Scytodes into the open for the pounce.
On this occasion there is no egg sac. Worse, there is no way Portia can execute its regular plan B - crawl around the web and jump Scytodes from behind. So perched on its branch, Portia begins to plot. For a good quarter of an hour it scans the undergrowth, its tiny brain working out possible pathways across boulders and branches. The retinas of its two principal eyes have only a few thousand photoreceptors, compared to the 200 million or so in a human eye. But Portia can swivel these tiny eyes across the scene in a systematic fashion, patiently building up an image. Eventually Portia makes up its mind and disappears from sight. A couple of hours later, the silent assassin is back, dropping down onto Scytodes on a silk dragline attached to a rocky overhang, like something out of Mission: Impossible. Once again, Portia's guile wins the day.
While Portia's deception skills are impressive, what is most remarkable is its ability to plot a path to its victim. For an animal operating on instinct, out of sight is usually out of mind. Yet Portia can take several hours to get into the right spot, even if that means losing sight of its prey for long periods.
This capacity has been tested with mazes in the lab, both at Canterbury and at the University of Sussex, UK. In a typical experiment, researchers create a choice of two paths with coat-hanger wire (see Diagram). The set-up simulates a pair of branches growing out of the forest floor and crossing over each other in a confusing way. At the end of each wire is an identical prey-holding dish. Into one the experimenters place a dead spider, spray-coated to remove odour cues. Then they release a hungry Portia onto the top of a tall, wooden dowel that commands a view across the whole apparatus. To get to the bait, the spider has to work out which branch to take, climb down the dowel and onto the floor and then climb up the correct wire. Once off the platform, though, it can no longer see the prey and has to rely on memory.
This would be a tall order even for a rat or monkey. Yet more often than not, Portia succeeds - though it takes its time. Portia sits on the viewing platform for up to an hour, twisting to and fro as it appears to track its eyes across the possible routes. Sometimes it gives up. But once it has a plan, it clambers down and heads for one of the wires, even if this means walking past the other.
it seems that Portia knows where it wants to go and ignores distractions along the way. This is strengthened by the fact that on trials where Portia starts climbing up the wrong wire, it often gives up as soon as it reaches the first bend - even though it still cannot see the bait. It is as if Portia knows where it should be and can tell straight away when it has made a mistake.
Tasdik wrote:Deathly afraid of them?
I'm not really, I figure if I get bit by a spider theres a 50/50 chance that either
A. I'll die
Or
B. I'll turn into Spiderman and kick a$$
That's my theory anyways
Wu wrote:If I have a spider on me I scream like a little girl and barrel roll trough the living room like there's no tomorrow.
Knight_Ange1 wrote:Here, it made me think of this guy...
"FOUND IN IRAQ !
They run 10 mph, jump three feet, are a nocturnal spider, so only come out at night unless they are in shade. When they bite you, you are injected with Novocain so you go numb instantly. You don't even know you are bitten when you are sleeping, so you wake up with part of your leg or arm missing because it has been gnawing on it all night long.
If you are walking around and you bump something that is casting shadow over the spider, and the sun makes contact with this spider, you better run. It will instantly run for your shadow, and scream the whole time it is chasing you.
PS. The one on the bottom is eating the one on the top. These are Spiders found daily in IRAQ by troops. Imagine waking up and seeing one of these in your tent!!"
This scary-looking creature (actually, it's a pair of scary-looking creatures dangling end-to-end) is indeed commonly called a camel spider, but it is found in arid locales all over the world including the southwestern United States not just in the Gulf region. A typical specimen can grow to about the size of a child's hand, but, though they are known for being vicious predators , camel spiders are neither venomous nor a threat to human beings.
They don't eat camels, either.
DarkJackal wrote:I'm not scared of em really, but I don't feel like touching them >.> lol.
Wu wrote:If I have a spider on me I scream like a little girl and barrel roll trough the living room like there's no tomorrow.
emperor3000 wrote:Spiders, yes anything besides the Daddy long legs, i'll quickly get the fucking
Lysol spray and start spraying at it until its immobile and i come in for the kill
