QueenZone discussion #887364

<font color=660066>Fredlilah<h6>12345678 wrote: Awww, how cute! The bigger the better! ;D

<font color="#FF7F5">GetDown!<h6>Make <3 wrote:

<font color=660066>Fredlilah<h6>12345678 wrote: Awww, how cute! The bigger the better! ;D

o_O...O_o...Please tell me you are kidding. ;_; ;_; ;_;

<font color=660066>Fredlilah<h6>12345678 wrote:

<font color="#FF7F5">GetDown!<h6>Make <3 wrote:

<font color=660066>Fredlilah<h6>12345678 wrote: Awww, how cute! The bigger the better! ;D

o_O...O_o...Please tell me you are kidding. ;_; ;_; ;_;

Nope, serious as ever.. :P

<font color="lime">KillerKing840 wrote: Couldn't it be a threat to your kids? :-\

Marial-B wrote: I'm just scared of spiders :P. Really I have aracnophobia like in the movie, but with all kinds of aracnyds (Correct me please), specially with spiders and scorpions

magicalfreddiemercury wrote: I don't have a problem with spider pictures, or sleeping spiders, or spiders lying in wait... but once they move, once those furry little legs scurry - oh, God, the very word 'scurry' raises the hair on the back of my neck - I'm gone. Pathetic me. They move? I move. And fast. Enjoy her, Lisser. Here's the one in my yard - if you look closely at the second picture, the underside of her body looks like a creepy head with glowing eyes. <shudder> link link

M a t i a s M a y<h6><i>QZ's Rainmaker wrote: Spiders are great I used to have lots it was so fun =)

Lisser wrote:

magicalfreddiemercury wrote: I don't have a problem with spider pictures, or sleeping spiders, or spiders lying in wait... but once they move, once those furry little legs scurry - oh, God, the very word 'scurry' raises the hair on the back of my neck - I'm gone. Pathetic me. They move? I move. And fast. Enjoy her, Lisser. Here's the one in my yard - if you look closely at the second picture, the underside of her body looks like a creepy head with glowing eyes. <shudder> link link

Neat little guy. Do you know what his name is? If not I can help you with it. Thanks for sharing!

magicalfreddiemercury wrote:

Lisser wrote:

magicalfreddiemercury wrote: I don't have a problem with spider pictures, or sleeping spiders, or spiders lying in wait... but once they move, once those furry little legs scurry - oh, God, the very word 'scurry' raises the hair on the back of my neck - I'm gone. Pathetic me. They move? I move. And fast. Enjoy her, Lisser. Here's the one in my yard - if you look closely at the second picture, the underside of her body looks like a creepy head with glowing eyes. <shudder> link link

Neat little guy. Do you know what his name is? If not I can help you with it. Thanks for sharing!

Nope. I have no idea. I'd love to know, though. How did you identify yours? If it involves researching dozens of spider photos, I'm not sure I could handle that. :/

Sherwood Forest wrote: its a nice spider quite beautiful colors but id get that egg sack away from your house unless u want it infested

Lisser wrote: Here is your little friend...it's a female by the way... link I get some help on an insect forum I visit. I'm not good enough with common spiders like you have. However to ID my yellow and black spider, I just googled yellow and black spider. Her markings are striking enough that I knew I'd be able to ID her.

Lisser wrote:

Sherwood Forest wrote: its a nice spider quite beautiful colors but id get that egg sack away from your house unless u want it infested

My house will not be infested. This is why I do a little research on things I don't have a knowledge base on before I make unreasonable assumptions. This spider would much rather be outside than inside my house. She knows that her food source is outside. Most of the spiderlings that will come out of the egg sac in the Spring will not survive due to natural predators or just nature itself. Hardly enough to call an infestation at the least anyway. I also know from doing a little research that this spider is harmless to humans. If I see that some of the spiderlings gets in my house I will make sure it finds its way back out. Also, this spider will nine times out of ten attach its egg sac to a hard, permanent surface like a house, patio support, tree, large shrub, etc. so it is in a very natural place and that is where it will stay. This spider has literally saved my whole backyard. I was infested with grasshoppers until she came along. My grass was chewed to bits.

magicalfreddiemercury wrote:

Lisser wrote: Here is your little friend...it's a female by the way... link I get some help on an insect forum I visit. I'm not good enough with common spiders like you have. However to ID my yellow and black spider, I just googled yellow and black spider. Her markings are striking enough that I knew I'd be able to ID her.

Common? You're calling my spider, 'common'??? :) You know what's interesting is we (the whole family) watched her spin this web. She was all about detail, but fast! She left a hole in the center and when the web was complete, she popped over to the other side (which is how I got the picture of her belly), closed up the hole and just sat there, waiting. The article you found describes her web as about 3 feet wide and 3 feet high. That's exactly right. We were shocked by the size and thickness of it. We had barbecued chicken and hot dogs that night. I wonder what she had. :/

C.J. wrote:

M a t i a s M a y<h6><i>QZ's Rainmaker wrote: Spiders are great I used to have lots it was so fun =)

Those weren't spiders. That was head lice.

Lisser wrote:

<font color="lime">KillerKing840 wrote: Couldn't it be a threat to your kids? :-\

No, she is harmless to them. She is outside, not in the house anyway. I've shown the kids the spider and they know to look and not touch. We watch her and learn from her. They know what good she does for us by keeping pests away. Every night this particular spider eats her web and rebuilds it every morning. So we watched her spin some of her web today. Very cool. I was always terrified of spiders as well and infact I still am but I decided to learn more about them so I wouldn't be so fearful. I don't want to touch them ever but I do like to watch them "work."

<font color=purple>Miss James wrote: I don't mind spiders, even though I get incredibly swelled when they bite me. Chris happens to be scared of them, which I find highly humorous. :-)

M a t i a s M a y<h6><i>QZ's Rainmaker wrote:

C.J. wrote:

M a t i a s M a y<h6><i>QZ's Rainmaker wrote: Spiders are great I used to have lots it was so fun =)

Those weren't spiders. That was head lice.

couldn't have been head lice, cuz it was in your ass :/ ON TOPIC: SPIDERS ARE COOL

Mr.Jingles wrote:

<font color=purple>Miss James wrote: I don't mind spiders, even though I get incredibly swelled when they bite me. Chris happens to be scared of them, which I find highly humorous. :-)

Good to hear I'm not the only pussy dude who's scared of them.

<font color=purple>Miss James wrote:

Mr.Jingles wrote:

<font color=purple>Miss James wrote: I don't mind spiders, even though I get incredibly swelled when they bite me. Chris happens to be scared of them, which I find highly humorous. :-)

Good to hear I'm not the only pussy dude who's scared of them.

It's even better since he is studying to be a Zoologist. He can hold a boa constricter, but he still "doesn't do spiders."