ooooooh! Spiders

[Shell Beau]

[Call Me Wesley]

1. Cute!

I had two of those babies: (Avicularia metallica)

[Shell Beau]

2. Do they make nice pets?

[Shell Beau]

3. Are people scared of a little bitty spider?

:rofl:

[billyskank]

4. No, of you, dear

:P

[Shell Beau]

5. And you should be!!

:P

[billyskank]

6. I am!!!

:scared:

















































































:loveya:

[Shell Beau]

7. Hehehehehe!!!

:*

[billyskank]

8. *swoon*

*thud*

[neweurope]

9. My favorite: Zebra spider (Argiope bruennichi)

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[Shell Beau]

10. Cool!! Looks somewhat similar to the garden spider!

[neweurope]

11. Don't know your American names - the Zebra spider was new

to me two years ago when I first spotted it in some of my garden plants. I'm very interested in nature and was astonished that such a highly colored and big (the females are about 1.5 inches and the first one I saw in my garden was even bigger) spider had been living unknown to me in Germany. I found out that it usually didn't - their presence is a sign for global warming. Usually they live on the other side of the Alps.

Their nets are interesting. They have a higly reflective,even glittering zig-zag-line in it. Scientists aren't quite sure what it means, maybe it's a signal for birds to stay away who would destroy the net.

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[Shell Beau]

13. Oh, well duh!! It IS a garden spider! They are pretty!

For a spider anyway!

[neweurope]

14. Your garden spiders are that big? I mean - just the body, sans legs?

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[Shell Beau]

15. They are pretty damn big! One time, when I lived in an apartment,

the lady below me had one on her front porch. The web was huge and in the middle was the spider. It was Halloween and I honestly thought it was a Halloween decoration. That is how big the sucker was. My husband tried to tell me it was real and I didn't believe him, not until I saw it moving!

[neweurope]

19. Ooops... you know I had arachnophobia and worked hard to ocercome

it because I kept telling myself that all of nature is great and they are not so very different from insects (it's the many legs that bother me). Meanwhile I can live with the big fat

who has decided to spend the winters on top of the lamp in our stable (which I have to touch to switch on, and the little sucker is the only poisonous spider we have). I worked hard :)

But I'm not sure how brave I could be in a country that had spiders as large as Halloween decorations sitting around just everywhere! ;)


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[kick-ass-bob]

12. The other white meat.

[WeRQ4U]

16. So. Fucking. Sick.

It took me 5 minutes to write this because I couldn't unclench my hands.

[Shell Beau]

18. Well, you did read the title didn't you???

:P

I would have felt the same way if it were roaches! :scared:

The one on the toilet paper roll does creep me out though!!

[WeRQ4U]

20. It's like a double dare.

I know the outcome isn't going to be good, but I can't stop myself from doing it anyway.

[momophile]

17. I seriously don't know how you all do it...

I had to shield my eyes to get to the text in this thread because my heart rate increases when I see pics like these. I seem to go thru phases - sometimes it's not as bad as other times. I have a lot of dreams with spiders and they usually aren't pleasant. I understand all the good things spiders do and I respect them, but I still have a hard time looking at the big ones.

I envy you all a bit. But only a little bit.:hi:

[Shell Beau]

21. My husband feels the same as you!! Me, I am scared of

roaches and I don't respect them at all! Does that make me bad? :o