Please help me identify this HUGE spider (size of small mouse)

[LeeH]

Originally Posted by Rick Lee

I think we had a thread here a while back about Black Widows. That stuff scares the $hit of out me. I was watching Survivorman the other night when he said a BW's bite can be up to 15x as powerful as that of a Rattlesnake. Snakes don't scare me in the least. But spiders give me the heebegebees.

I thought you wanted to move to Arizona? Here's one of your new neighbors...

[scottmandue]

Originally Posted by Wayne at Pelican Parts

That's exactly what I did - dropped it in my neighbor's yard - he's got way more plants to keep that sucker happy than I do. I don't kill spiders, I think it's bad luck. Me and my son capture them when they are in the house, and toss them elsewhere...

-Wayne

And wasting all that good protein... sauteed with a little butter and garlic... it is quite the delicacy.

There are children starving in China yano.

[sjf911]

Originally Posted by Aerkuld

Why are people so afraid of spiders? Out of all the species of spider in the world I would think that only a very small number pose any risk to humans, yet even grown men are terrified of the things. I have to admit that they're pretty cool but I'm not keen on them. I will normally pick up reasonable sized ones with my hands to throw outside, but anything bigger than a quarter and I'm a little reluctant. Anything the size of this one is definitely going to be a 'catch it in a glass' job.
There must be some reason people find them so threatening, I wonder what it is?

Racial memories of things that go bump in the night.

[96740]

Yes, I thought my wife and babysitter were exaggerating when they said it was the size of a small mouse, but no, they were right. This thing is about 3" long!

What is it? It's SoCal, so I assume it's poisonous...

We used to have those in Hawaii. We'd be walking on some trail and WHAM! right in our face. tangled in the web with the spider on us, screaming like a bunch of girls.

But that one was nothing compared to the "Cowboy"/ Cane spiders that were the size of your hand! and could cover the distance from one room to another in seconds. Sometimes even running across your face as you were sleeping! The females would carry there egg sack the size of a nickel under there body. It did not slow them down.

[jhg41977]

Thanks, I will not sleep well tonight

[Z-man]

Originally Posted by Wayne at Pelican Parts

That's exactly what I did - dropped it in my neighbor's yard - he's got way more plants to keep that sucker happy than I do. I don't kill spiders, I think it's bad luck. Me and my son capture them when they are in the house, and toss them elsewhere...

-Wayne

Well, I'm just glad I'm not Wayne's neighbor in this case...

RE: That moth - I can't imagine what that thing can do to a sweater!

-Z-man.