Kingdom of the Spiders - Neal, are you still alive?

[Skybird]

http://www.azcentral.com/php-bin/pop-photo.php?id=PHP46D6EC87CCFED



A giant spiders web has been found in Texas, Lake Tawakoni State Park, covering several trees, and already having caught millions of mosquitos, it seems. Some sources talk of 180 meters, others 200 yards concerning it's length.

Reminds me of that old B-horror movie with William shatner, title was, i think "Kingdom of the spiders".



http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0830spider30-odd.html

http://www.ksdk.com/news/watercooler/hot_topics_article.aspx?storyid=128154

http://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article1146834/Gigantisches_Spinnennetz_wickelt_Baeume_ein.html



Neal is looking thin recently...

[Onkel Neal]

Neal is looking thin recently...

Don't I wish! :lol:

[Seth8530]

http://www.azcentral.com/php-bin/pop-photo.php?id=PHP46D6EC87CCFED



A giant spiders web has been found in Texas, Lake Tawakoni State Park, covering several trees, and already having caught millions of mosquitos, it seems. Some sources talk of 180 meters, others 200 yards concerning it's length.

Reminds me of that old B-horror movie with William shatner, title was, i think "Kingdom of the spiders".



http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0830spider30-odd.html

http://www.ksdk.com/news/watercooler/hot_topics_article.aspx?storyid=128154

http://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article1146834/Gigantisches_Spinnennetz_wickelt_Baeume_ein.html



Neal is looking thin recently...

Dear lord giant spider web just what we need:eek:

[ReallyDedPoet]

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/pics/breaking/0839spider.jpg

That sucker is huge :o


RDP

[bookworm_020]

Send in the Sydney Funnelwebs! They will make mincemeat (???) out of them!

[Packerton]

OMG is that for real?

[kiwi_2005]

I have a fear of spiders :oops: I hate them man, the only poisoness spider we have in NZ is called the White Tail which originated from australia and even the white tail is pretty harmless - doesn't build webs but instead attacks other spiders and steals theirs.
Folks ask me whats the baseball bat for? To kill white tails man!:yep: They grow only bout 2 inches in length, how the hell can i be frighten of them:nope: WIMP!:roll:

[kiwi_2005]

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/pics/breaking/0839spider.jpg

That sucker is huge :o


RDP

THATS really freaky man! Oh imagine walking home late at night and falling into those webs!!!

I dont even wanna think about it...

[Oberon]

:hmm:

Where's Shelob?

On second thoughts though, perhaps Neal was the one who got these spiders so co-ordinated, perhaps he's trying to construct a new kind of Anti-Submarine net to stop quiet diesel subs from infiltrating Texan waters? :hmm:

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[SteveW1]

I have a fear of spiders :oops: I hate them man, the only poisoness spider we have in NZ is called the White Tail which originated from australia and even the white tail is pretty harmless - doesn't build webs but instead attacks other spiders and steals theirs.
Folks ask me whats the baseball bat for? To kill white tails man!:yep: They grow only bout 2 inches in length, how the hell can i be frighten of them:nope: WIMP!:roll:


Damn wait until one bites you, it will put you in hospital for a week or so, or if it doesnt do that and you dont notice it (highly unlikely very painful bite) the poison that it injects in you actually starts to rot your flesh.

White tails are not nice even im afraid of them:nope:

[joea]

Yea well, imagine how many mosquitos (indirectly responsible for far more death, illness and misery than a mere white-tail) and filthy flies have been caught in that thing. I am a bit leery of spiders but we do need them. :up:

[Tchocky]

:hmm:

Where's Shelob?

On second thoughts though, perhaps Neal was the one who got these spiders so co-ordinated, perhaps he's trying to construct a new kind of Anti-Submarine net to stop quiet diesel subs from infiltrating Texan waters? :hmm:

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Actually.....letting several large poisonous spiders loose on a submarine during silent running......:hmm:

Even mild arachnophobes would scream.....:D

[Skybird]

Actually, a slong as they do not start moving or jumping fast and quickly, hectically and frantically (which immediately raises the alarm level of my lower instincts), i am fascinated by spiders, the diversity of different webs and hunting methods. I once had a huge bird-eating spider on my hand and arm, it was warm and felt like a little bird with a fur. Also, it moved quite slowly, which did not only serve my nerves well, but it's own survival :lol:

Man seems to have a problem with all animals whose mimic (if there is any) and body language (if there is any) he cannot decypher: insects, reptiles, moorays, etc, and of whose giant ancestors his genes carry a reminder. There were times when "mosquitos" were 30 cm in size...

That is what makes me jumping up the trees, which unfortunately is of no help, of course: moquitos, not bees, not wasps, but mosquitos. The sound of one flying around can catapult me from deep RAM phase while sleeping into totally alarmed fight-or-flee-readiness in no second, and sometimes I find myself in the middle of the dark room after having jumped out of bed and wake up not before during the jump. it's terrible, and I do not want to know how my heart rate is. Needless to say that I do not go to bed again before the little sucker got what he deserves: "SMASH!"

That's what I call strong instincts! :lol: :lol:

Strange it becomes for me when people say they have an emotional relation to their pet if that pet is a reptile. Emotions may be radiated by man, but that the reptile answers that on equal terms is a big No-No - a reptile's brain lacks those higher-developed structures needed to create emotions, these appeared a bit later in evolution. They probably can learn to differ what is of harm to them, and what not. Seen that way, they do not love their pet-holder so much, but ignore him or use him for their purpose, since he is no threat to them - that's what they have learned.

"Purpose" of course can eventually mean to use the pet-holder as a food- or mating-surrogate. :lol: .

[kiwi_2005]

That is what makes me jumping up the trees, which unfortunately is of no help, of course: moquitos, not bees, not wasps, but mosquitos. The sound of one flying around can catapult me from deep RAM phase while sleeping into totally alarmed fight-or-flee-readiness in no second, and sometimes I find myself in the middle of the dark room after having jumped out of bed and wake up not before during the jump. it's terrible, and I do not want to know how my heart rate is. Needless to say that I do not go to bed again before the little sucker got what he deserves: "SMASH!"

That's what I call strong instincts! :lol: :lol:



I go through the same phrase when im in close contact with a spider, i wont sleep unless i ve either got him to crawl out the window or hes splattered all over the wall. :D

[Skybird]

I go through the same phrase when im in close contact with a spider, i wont sleep unless i ve either got him to crawl out the window or hes splattered all over the wall. :D

Mind if I cheer for the spider? :cool:

[Oberon]

Drinks glass + piece of card + window = Evicted spider.

Usually the spiders wind up getting evicted from second floor windows, so I'm pretty sure that eventually, they will develop the ability to spin parachutes.

[LiveGoat]

If there isn't a giant spider somewhere in those woods I'm gonna be seriously disappointed. OTOH, it's a pretty impressive feat for a handful of little fellers. Bet their asses are sore, though!

---LG