Trees Cocooned in Spider Webs After Flood

[Subnuts]

What's that you say, Mr Tree, "Kill me! Kill me?" Just hold on a minute while I go home and whip together a flamethrower.

[STEED]

Kill them, kill them all..

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by STEED

Kill them, kill them all..

[STEED]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

A..?

[Platapus]

Two words

Camel Spider

Which strangely is neither associated with camels nor actually a spider.

Relatively harmless to humans, but high on the oogy scale.

[kiwi_2005]

Spiders & snakes is one reason I wont travel outside my country. Relatives head of to Aussie, no way man to many spiders over there!

The only poisonous spider we have is the Whitetail which came from Australia and the black widow. Very rare to see a black widow they hang out mostly in sand dunes but the whitetail is everywhere during summer, their bites are not fatal but you can lose a limb to gangrene if you do not get it treated. Rots your fresh

We have no snakes, scorpions or any other creepy crawly, though one creature which is freaky looking but doesn't seem to scare me like a spider does is the Weta. Harmless slow creatures.

[Reece]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Make sure Reece accompanies them next time...not much chance of them catching anything then

Now how do you respond to that!!

[krashkart]

I like spiders because they keep the other bugs from becoming invasive; but there is a limit to my level of tolerance.

The only genus(?) of spider that I have ever been able to hold in my hand


^These are probably the most docile critters on the planet.

@kiwi: When I was much younger we lived next door some college kids that kept black widows (and piranhas) for pets. At some point they got tired of keeping the black widows and set them loose in the space between their home and our home. With nowhere else to go the wayward bastards (the black widows, not the college kids) ended up in our basement; more specifically in the corner of my bedroom where my bed happened to be. We didn't find out about that until a deep spring cleaning. Turned out that I had been sleeping a few inches above the nest for close to a year. I don't know what words my dad had for those guys next door, but if those words were anything like the words he reserved for me whenever I got into trouble (then they got off far too easy IMHO ).

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by Platapus

Two words

Camel Spider

Which strangely is neither associated with camels nor actually a spider.

Relatively harmless to humans, but high on the oogy scale.

Remember this picture?

Yea, they are the reason we invaded Iraq. Exterminating the horrid things.

Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

SWe have no snakes, scorpions or any other creepy crawly, though one creature which is freaky looking but doesn't seem to scare me like a spider does is the Weta. Harmless slow creatures.

Reminds me of the Emerald Ash Borer. We have a problem with them in NYS. Saw one once, thought it was a frog at first it was so huge. I got closer and saw it was some kind of huge bug and I ran away.

[krashkart]

So District 9 really is a documentary? I'll be damned.

[kiwi_2005]

Originally Posted by krashkart

So District 9 really is a documentary? I'll be damned.

They are nocturnal so love coming into homes at night cause of the lights. I use to live near native bush and would always get Wetas coming in or just hanging out on the outside of my windows attracted to the light. Never bothered me I just don't find Weta's scary they are slow and just tend to stay in one place for ever. Though put a spider there, half its size and I would be running for the hills

http://www.doc.govt.nz/conservation/...tebrates/weta/

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by STEED

A..?

It was just something off Starship Troopers

Doesn't show up on Google now

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

Spiders & snakes is one reason I wont travel outside my country. Relatives head of to Aussie, no way man to many spiders over there!

The only poisonous spider we have is the Whitetail which came from Australia and the black widow. Very rare to see a black widow they hang out mostly in sand dunes but the whitetail is everywhere during summer, their bites are not fatal but you can lose a limb to gangrene if you do not get it treated. Rots your fresh

We have no snakes, scorpions or any other creepy crawly, though one creature which is freaky looking but doesn't seem to scare me like a spider does is the Weta. Harmless slow creatures.

I also consider those of us living in the UK as being very lucky...we only have the common Adder snake and that rarely bites and is even less likely to prove fatal...unless you have a heart defect etc.

[Hottentot]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

I also consider those of us living in the UK as being very lucky...we only have the common Adder snake and that rarely bites and is even less likely to prove fatal...unless you have a heart defect etc.

Aye, that's the only real poisonous animal in here too and it's very rare that they bite: usually they scarper already when you are trampling your way trough the bushes a few kilometres away.

Though every year about this time our media goes crazy with the news of some new, weird and exotic little bug that has somehow found its way over the border and is eeeeextra icky scary disgusting dangerous! Boo! It's beyond me why, but our journalists seem to have some sort of collective fetish for them, based on the way they write those articles . This year it's some new tick and a bug that apparently sprays its eggs right into your eyes thinking you're a moose.

They never seem to stick around, though. I guess they are just smart and notice their mistake soon enough. "Bob, you moron, I told you we should have taken the left road, not the right one! This is Finland, not England! Give me that map!"

[Jimbuna]

LOL