Farking banana spiders!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[neebelung]

If there's one thing I could change about Florida (well, other than hurricanes :lol: ) it's the fuckin banana spiders! :nilly: Holy shit!!!!! In the last couple weeks, our yard is chock-full of them! One particularly massive bitch has built her web-of-steel just outside our 3rd bedroom/office window (which is where I spend the better part of my day these days). She's been there for a week now, and she's literally getting bigger by the day! We had a huge storm the other night, and I was suuuuuuure it would dislodge her web, and I'd be free of my little 8-legged-voyeur, but nooooooo - she's still there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Right now, she's trying to incorporate a partcicularly long blade of grass into her web - an arachnid tiki hut in the plans maybe?

At press time, one of our cats is sitting on the windowsill, MESMERIZED by the huge yellow and black beast from hell.

FAAACCKKKKKKK!!!!!!

[AquaPython]

at least its not a camel spider...

btw banana's may be freaky looking, but coming across 3 black widow's and there egg sacks (about to pop out 100+ each) on your patio is an even scarier arachnid encounter here in the sunshine state.

[neebelung]

Are camel spiders those humongous things you see pics of from out in the desert in the middle east? In that case, YES, at least it's not one of those. :lol:

I can't say I've ever run across a black widow (let alone a triad of them) and their spawn... so yes, again, glad it's not one of those either.

STILL, Um, less than thrilled at this spider the size of a friggin... well... big ass spider just outside my window all day long. :lol:

[BobTheBiker]

starting fluid+blowtorch=black widow death. spiders freak me the fuck out. to the point where if I see a large one, I'll find the largest and most likely to kill it object I can just to make sure I kill when I heave it.

[neebelung]

:rofl: I'm right there with ya... the last massive one we had in the yard (in an area where it just had to die, cus she was stringing up her web across the front of our house :lol: ), took an entire can of spider spray AND a swift beating with a broom handle before she finally died. Stubborn ass things!! If this one wasn't mere inches from the house, I'd try to light her (but I don't wanna burn the house down in the process :lol: )

[unknownroad]

I'll take a yardfull of banana spiders over fire ants :panic:

[neebelung]

Hmmm... tough choice there. Fireants seem easier to kill (mind you, I'm nursin a nasty fireant bite on my foot from last week, but it's better than the heart attack I'd have had if I walked into a banana spider web :lol: )

[HurricaneHeather]

Pics? :lol:

We had a brown recluse spider set up shop on the Honda this weekend. It got sprayed with a lot of WD-40 and we can only hope he died somewhere we can find him later. He climbed down in the spark plug hole, the little fugger.

[Trip]

This thread is worthless without pics...

[azoomm]

Banana Spiders are cool as hell... the webs are incredible!!

Brown Recluse and Black Widows freak me the hell out - we have found a bunch of them down at the track. Enough that I don't want to walk around without watching where I step *willies*

[Trip]

I got some massive black widows in my garage and in the crawl space. Fuckers are about to start losing the war because winter is coming.

[defector]

but it's better than the heart attack I'd have had if I walked into a banana spider web :lol: )

Nothing funnier than seeing somebody walk into a spider web from a distance. The "holy shit, what the fuck is that" dance is hilarious.

[neebelung]

:lol: miscellaneous spider webs are so common at our house lately, I routinely walk out the front door, arms a-flailing. :lol:

[shmike]

I can't tell one arachnid from another.

The most common spiders around our house are the Barking Fanana type. :didntdo:

[neebelung]

:dvrofl:

[Antwanny]

i can't tell one arachnid from another.

The most common spiders around our house are the barking fanana type. :didntdo:

hah!

[Jet]

Heh, I had my fill of Naner spiders.
When I was going through Selection you have to do land nav in the dark from midnight to 11am. So your running through the woods and every 20 ft you run into another web and you know when you've hit a banana spider because it nearly yoinks your ass back from the damn tensile strength of the web. The real indicator is the big plop you feel when it hits you in the face or comes running up the back of your neck than rappels off.
It's really bothersome at first but sooner or later you get used to it and even stop thwacking them off. :D

[Digifox]

at least its not a camel spider...

btw banana's may be freaky looking, but coming across 3 black widow's and there egg sacks (about to pop out 100+ each) on your patio is an even scarier arachnid encounter here in the sunshine state.
:tremble:


Thats worse then finding one of these on your door at night
http://www.entomologicalillustration.com/Images/Large-43-Blood-Sucking-Cone-Nose-Kissing-Bug-Illustration-Triatoma-sanguisuga-LeConte.jpg

:skep:

[Mr Lefty]

http://ebbs15.com/photos/402519873_HZtzt-XL-1.jpg

[Phenix_Rider]

Black Widows are cool! I took one in for show and tell in third grade :rofl: Those suckers were everywhere in Arizona. Under the grill, in the shed, up the water faucet. BIG roaches too, and scorpions, and the occasional snake... Critters with extra legs (or none at all) don't bug me at all :lol:

Last thing that spooked me was a bat flinging itself at my head. I hit the deck, then went looking for something to bash the fucker with. It's not the fact that it was a bat, just that it was in MY house, aimed at my HEAD, and I didn't see it coming.

[Phenix_Rider]

http://www.spitenet.com/bass/gallery/bass/images/BlackWidow.jpg

[Hydrant]

:shudders

Can't stand spiders, their webs or anything about them. Usually they will loose the battle if they are anywhere around me. Brake Cleaner, or a can of WD-40 and a lighter will do the trick. (just make sure what is behind the target, don't want to set the house ablaze)

[neebelung]

Jet, you win. Holy shit, just thinking about that is going to keep me from sleeping well tonight. :lol:

[Gas Man]

starting fluid+blowtorch=black widow death. spiders freak me the fuck out. to the point where if I see a large one, I'll find the largest and most likely to kill it object I can just to make sure I kill when I heave it.

:shudders

Can't stand spiders, their webs or anything about them. Usually they will loose the battle if they are anywhere around me. Brake Cleaner, or a can of WD-40 and a lighter will do the trick. (just make sure what is behind the target, don't want to set the house ablaze)

This is so what I was going to say!!

This thread is worthless without pics...

This as well. Get us a pic Nee!

[neebelung]

:lol: I tried to get a pic yesterday, but it didn't adequately illustrarelyle the massive scale of the beastie. I'll try again today; I'm sure she's sittin thefe waiting on me.

[Dave]

:lol: I tried to get a pic yesterday, but it didn't adequately illustrarelyle the massive scale of the beastie. I'll try again today; I'm sure she's sittin thefe waiting on me.

bigger than a golden orb weaver? Used to see some of those suckers in texas get up in the 3-4inch range

[AquaPython]

spiders are not too bad IMO. the harmless jumping ones that move so fast it looks like they are teleporting 2-3 " at a time freak me out more than a banana.

i was just in the El Yunque Rain Forrest last month and i was skeeved out just thinking about the possibility of running into one of these fuggers:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3437/3211364158_78d02ef68f.jpg


http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8313878609430213933#


Fun Centipede Facts to help you sleep at night:

Centipedes have existed for over 400 million years
Two Curled Hallow Fangs Inject Venom
Size ranges from a few millimeters to a foot long
Found in soil, leaf litter, under stones, deadwood, and inside logs
Elongated metameric animals with one pair of legs per body segment
Poison claws or forcipules at the fist appendage unites this subterranean species

[defector]

Black Widows are cool! I took one in for show and tell in third grade :rofl: Those suckers were everywhere in Arizona. Under the grill, in the shed, up the water faucet. BIG roaches too, and scorpions, and the occasional snake... Critters with extra legs (or none at all) don't bug me at all :lol:


Yep. With all the new construction around us, we are sure to see the numbers jump. We just had a huge influx of crickets, so the black widows and scorpions aren't far behind. My neighbor is routinely in his back yard at night with a black light and propane torch igniting scorpions.

[neebelung]

bigger than a golden orb weaver? Used to see some of those suckers in texas get up in the 3-4inch range

Body, or legspan! This one, including legspan, is about the size of my palm. Body is about the size of a large peanut, double, still in rhe shell.

[neebelung]

Fuckin a, Aquapython!! I'm officially "out" of this thread.... :rofl: i don't LIKE big spiders, but I'm fucking TERRIFIED of millipedes and centipedes!!!!! :lol:

[Dave]

Body, or legspan! This one, including legspan, is about the size of my palm. Body is about the size of a large peanut, double, still in rhe shell.

all around, ive seen something that resembled a giant wolf that was man palm sized at ft dix's range fifteen years ago. That fucker skeeved me right the hell out

[neebelung]

Skeeve... :rofl:


Ok *phew* I thought you meant palm sized PLUS legs... not that palm sized including legs isn't friggin huge, but ... well... the other would just give me a heart attack on the spot. :lol:

[z06boy]

i was just in the El Yunque Rain Forrest last month and i was skeeved out just thinking about the possibility of running into one of these fuggers:



I was there not too long ago...how about the freakin' Mongoose with rabies ? :whatwhat: :lol:

[Dave]

now that i think about it i believe that was a huntsman that i saw on base. Fucker was bigger than some tarantulas ive seen

[neebelung]

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA... I just watched a butterfly play cat-n-mouse with Bertha (that's what I've named the nana spider outside my window :lol: ).

Bertha's web is probably 3'W x 2'H, with the lower support strands connected to the row of bushes below the window, and the uppers to the eave overhang. So this butterfly comes flitting along (I wouldn't have noticed, except the cat sitting on the edge of my desk got all excited about it), and starts flying ovals around the web... I'm watching going "OH SHIT! Flutterby is a goner!" and Bertha was watching, too, scrambling all over the web, thinking lunch has landed...

Butterfly does a couple laps, teases the spider, then away she goes... :rofl: Bertha is (I'm assuming) not amused. :lol:

[Trip]

you have an iphone, yet no pictures as of yet. FAIL

[neebelung]

:lol: the pics just don't do her justice (plus they're through a screen). But here ya go.

[HurricaneHeather]

:eek:

[Ninjakel]

Oh hell no!!

[FJRChick]

I'm sooooo glad I live urban on the 7th floor :D

[Trip]

Kewl. I would kill it in some fantastically complicated and amusing manner if it was at my house.

I will have to take some pics of my next battle with the Black Widows.

Flaming gasoline induced spiders is not a good idea. They run around towards your house.

[neebelung]

:dvrofl: Please do document your next battle... maybe it'll inspire me to get brave with this one.

For now, she exists peacefully unaware in the back yard.

[BobTheBiker]

power washer spraying gasoline with torch at the end! WIN!

[HurricaneHeather]

power washer spraying gasoline with torch at the end! WIN!

I don't why but I am just picturing someone do this and of course they are laughing maniacally with the crazy eyes. :lmao: It's a hilarious image.

[Dave]

put some coke in the web, the caffeine drives em bonkers. makes them do crazy things to their web.

anyone here ever used a flashlight to "sniff" for spiders?