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RE: Spider lovers - thank goodness I increased my defen... - 9/26/2009 9:07:16 AM

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*gulp* I searched clock spider.......

WARNING: do not look at pics if spiders squick ya... but the comments following are GREAT!

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RE: Spider lovers - thank goodness I increased my defen... - 9/26/2009 9:14:56 AM

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Oh. My. GARY!!!

That is NOT poisonous??

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RE: Spider lovers - thank goodness I increased my defen... - 9/26/2009 9:38:12 AM

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Thank you greedy for sharing

and did you read one of those comments below that article, where someone wrote

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when i lived in Australia it was very common to find these in your house

Hah, I know now for sure why I made my mind up to return my back to my consideration of australia

I would need 20 cats on that location to feel halfway safe and would take 5 of them with me to the bathroom at night time when there are such ones out there *shudder*

Yesterday evening I found 2 pair of spider legs near my washing maschine...thank goodness the main part was already sorted out from my girls

I don't like them

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RE: Spider lovers - thank goodness I increased my defen... - 9/26/2009 9:42:01 AM

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Spiders in general do not bother me. The parachuting kind bother me somewhat when then parachute onto my eyeglasses.

As far as jumping spiders are concerned. It is true most jump away from you and are tiny. But a few years ago I moved from Indiana to upstate New York (I am back in Indy now). My first winter there I was cleaning windows and suddenly had a jumping spider jump ONTO my hand. Thankfully it did not bite, but even I nearly screamed. I had been used to the little ones, the biggest I had ever seen was about the size of a lintel bean. This one was about the size of a quarter, leg to leg. I freaked. I shook my hand and the damn thing had put an anchor web on it, so now I had a spider yo-yo.
I ran to the front door, swung it out the open door and slammed the door quickly, hoping to cut the web. It worked, the spider was on the outside of the door, and I was on the inside. I went to open the door and stomp on the damn thing when suddenly it jumped up and landed on my pant leg.
You may have seen Jed Clampett do a hoe-down jig on the Beverly Hillbillies, if you ever watched that show. Well I tell you, I could have given ol' Jed a run for his money. I had neighbors from three doors down come running out their door to see what the screaming was about only to end up rolling on the ground in laughter when they saw me and heard me screaming spider.

Well that is exagerated a little, but not much. They weren't rolling on the ground... LOL... But the jumping spider in Upstate NY is huge.
No it is not the biggest spider I have ever seen, but it is the first one that I have ever had that actively chased me.

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RE: Spider lovers - thank goodness I increased my defen... - 9/26/2009 10:24:34 AM

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*shudder*

thank goodness you survived *shudder* I doubt I would *shudder*

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RE: Spider lovers - thank goodness I increased my defen... - 9/26/2009 10:41:00 AM

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If you wander around industrial plants or warehouses here in central Florida, be on the lookout. Large brown spiders (about 4 to 5 inches, 8 to 12 cm across leg tip to leg tip) inhabit those spaces. I don't have any idea if they're venomous or not but I tend to let them be. As long as they're not chasing me I don't care what they do.

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