I hate SPIDERS ! And anything like them..........

We get the Wolf spiders & they are big n fuzzy.
When you hit them with something they curl up to protect themselves--kinda feel sorry for them for a few seconds.
They do kill camel crickets tho--so they do some good.
 
zzyzzogeton said:
Here in part of central Texas where I live, they have always been called "Garden Spiders".
Recently, I heard them being called "Banana Spiders" by a guy from Minnesota/Michigan/Wisconsin???? I forget which state he's from, one of these. :D:D
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samclaymore said:
Those are Golden Orb Weaver spiders. They can even catch birds.
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Based on Google-fu, banana spider is one name for the golden orb weaver, which is an entire genus(Nephila). Looks the garden spider spider (also called corn spider or writing spider) is a specific unrelated species (Argiope aurantia).

We've got several near the front door (yes, the same front door that featured the Texas rat snake feasting on the barn swallow eggs on Father's Day) that my wife calls a banana spider (she's from Colorado). I'll have to check them out closer tonight and see if I can figure out what they are for sure.

Coincidentally, my wife texted me from her work yesterday before I left the house for work. She said there was one near the door that I needed to shoo away. I didn't realize she meant inside the house...but couldn't find it inside or out. She was already freaked out from earlier in the week when she opened to door to go to work and a gecko fell into her hair. She, of course, didn't see what it was and apparently flailed wildly to get rid of it. Sadly, I missed all the hilarity... She texted again today that it was back, and I did find it inside by the front door and successfully relocated it to the boxwood hedges out front before I left for work.
 
iwouldhurtafly said:
Grew up in the country in an old house, scorpions were just part of it, whether you were inside or outside. Swear you could find them sometimes as big as lobsters. Scorpions, spiders, snakes, and other varmints all want inside your nice little home. A couple protips for you, FIRST get your house sprayed, it will make a BIG difference, SECOND, dont leave towels, pants, etc on the ground, THIRD, stabbing the scorpion with the tip of your blade will both dispatch it and allow you to easily carry the impaled bug for disposal. :thumbup:
HAPPY HUNTING!!!! :D
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I have sprayed the house recently. But the Orken man is coming Wednesday. And my Rambo 3 knife might:D work for stabbing them. And excellent point on the towels and plants. :thumbup: Kit wasn't an issue till now.

CairoBeretta said:
Camel spiders. Oh god. I once had one run up my leg while I was dropping the Browns at the Super Bowl.
Worst. Experience. Ever.
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What kind of camel has no humps, no hooves and drinks no water?.......... The camel spider.

All of you guys are giving me lolz and chills.
 
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samclaymore said:
I have sprayed the house recently. But the Orken man is coming Wednesday. And my Rambo 3 knife might:D work for stabbing them. And excellent point on the towels and plants. :thumbup: Kit wasn't an issue till now.
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Yah spiders and scorpions absolutely love clothes (clean or dirty) on the ground. Fiddleback spiders like damp towels that get left on the ground after a shower for example.
 
I absolutely detest, abhor, hate, despise, loathe (and any other nasty word you think of) scorpions.

When I get stung by one of them, I swear I'd rather be beaten with a sledgehammer. For me, a scorpion sting HURTS. I have stepped on them, leaned on them, sat on them, found in with folded clothes in drawers and in hanging clothes in a closet, had them fall in my bed from the ceiling and (this was absolutely the worst experience ever) when I was about 7 years old, had one (probably) fall off of an ivy growing in the bath room window into the bathtub at my grandmother's. I found it with my testicles. They swole up to small tomato size and that week SUCKED.

To this day, I shake out my boots, shoes, and any clothes before putting them on, even if they've been hanging up clean in a closet or sitting folded in a drawer. Hell, I even did that out of habit when I was on an air craft carrier in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
 
rkmoore said:
My brother in law is a special forces marine and is really scared of spiders. Last time he was in town he told us about getting his a** chewed out for making too much noise during a training operation. He was leading his squad through the woods at night and walked right into a giant spider web. He says that he didn't scream but musta made some kinda noise cuz his buddies started calling him Spidey cat after that. He's in Okinawa now so there probably aren't any spiders in the jungles over there right? :D
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I bet he'll love this...
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zzyzzogeton said:
I absolutely detest, abhor, hate, despise, loathe (and any other nasty word you think of) scorpions.

When I get stung by one of them, I swear I'd rather be beaten with a sledgehammer. For me, a scorpion sting HURTS. I have stepped on them, leaned on them, sat on them, found in with folded clothes in drawers and in hanging clothes in a closet, had them fall in my bed from the ceiling and (this was absolutely the worst experience ever) when I was about 7 years old, had one (probably) fall off of an ivy growing in the bath room window into the bathtub at my grandmother's. I found it with my testicles. They swole up to small tomato size and that week SUCKED.

To this day, I shake out my boots, shoes, and any clothes before putting them on, even if they've been hanging up clean in a closet or sitting folded in a drawer. Hell, I even did that out of habit when I was on an air craft carrier in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
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GSO1962 said:
Based on Google-fu, banana spider is one name for the golden orb weaver, which is an entire genus(Nephila). Looks the garden spider spider (also called corn spider or writing spider) is a specific unrelated species (Argiope aurantia).
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Minor detail (my OCD coming out) -- until 2006, the Nephila genus of spiders was in the same Family as the Argiope spiders. In 2006, based on some esoteric spider study, the Nephalids were "elevated to their own Family, the Nephilidae.

So the taxonomic structure is the same for both all the way down the chain :
Kingdom: Animalia
Philum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
SubOrder: Araneomorphae
Superfamily: Araneoidea

Until 2006, both were in the same family and were kinda like "1st cousins"
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Argiope Genus: Nephila

Then in 2006, the Nephilids were elevate and so the 2 became "3rd cousins"

Family: Araneidae Family: Nephilidae
Genus: Argiope Genus: Nephila

So there's your Arachnid Taxonomy lesson for the day. :D:D:D
 
zzyzzogeton said:
Minor detail (my OCD coming out) -- until 2006, the Nephila genus of spiders was in the same Family as the Argiope spiders. In 2006, based on some esoteric spider study, the Nephalids were "elevated to their own Family, the Nephilidae.

So the taxonomic structure is the same for both all the way down the chain :
Kingdom: Animalia
Philum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
SubOrder: Araneomorphae
Superfamily: Araneoidea

Until 2006, both were in the same family and were kinda like "1st cousins"
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Argiope Genus: Nephila

Then in 2006, the Nephilids were elevate and so the 2 became "3rd cousins"

Family: Araneidae Family: Nephilidae
Genus: Argiope Genus: Nephila

So there's your Arachnid Taxonomy lesson for the day. :D:D:D
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The Google fu is strong with this one!
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=n7kDGrzDEZg I know m.links suck but here is a good one. And I keep coming back to see little guy. Jumping spiders cool though still kind of creepy.
 
zzyzzogeton said:
Here in part of central Texas where I live, they have always been called "Garden Spiders".
Recently, I heard them being called "Banana Spiders" by a guy from Minnesota/Michigan/Wisconsin???? I forget which state he's from, one of these. :D:D
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we have garden spiders in southern ontario too. but they sure don't look like yours do! i routinely relocate any spiders (and bees) found in my house to the safety of the outdoors. even the scary ones. wasps and hornets get chopped up.
if i ever see a scorpion in the house? that's a keeper. she's going in the empty fish tank.
 
zzyzzogeton said:
Here in part of central Texas where I live, they have always been called "Garden Spiders".
Recently, I heard them being called "Banana Spiders" by a guy from Minnesota/Michigan/Wisconsin???? I forget which state he's from, one of these. :D:D
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Banana Spders are tarantulas, for real. The "Daylight come and me wanna go home" song, is about guys cutting bananas down for a living, and they want to get the hell out of dodge at daylight because thats when the tarantulas that sleep in the bananas wake up.
 
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