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07/21/2005 12:37 pm
Originally Posted by: LeedoggThat pic is gross! [IMG]As far as the palmetto bug, is that the hockey puck with legs?

He's refering to our mutant cockroaches on steroids (at least I think that's what he's talking about). They're about the size of those Madagascare Hissing cockroaches you see on fear factor, but look like regular cockroaches, and can fly. I'd say they can get up to around 3" long. We defanately have some unique critter's down here in the South.
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07/21/2005 3:07 pm
Originally Posted by: PRSplayaHe's refering to our mutant cockroaches on steroids (at least I think that's what he's talking about). They're about the size of those Madagascare Hissing cockroaches you see on fear factor, but look like regular cockroaches, and can fly. I'd say they can get up to around 3" long. We defanately have some unique critter's down here in the South.


I've spotted a few down here. The winters here only last for like 2 weeks. I guess that's just not long enough to kill these mutant bugs :p
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07/21/2005 3:08 pm
Nope. They're pretty much a year round things.
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07/21/2005 4:38 pm
Yeah well... I'd rather have poisonous spiders than live 50 miles away from a VX Nerve Gas stockpile.............. Newport, IN is the home of the US's stockpile of VX nerve gas... To me, it doesn't make the Brown Recluse spiders that we have seem as dangerous...
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07/21/2005 4:49 pm
I have two friends who are absolutely terrified of spiders. I'm not a big fan myself...
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07/21/2005 5:04 pm
I've been so paranoid of the brown recluse spider lately! I'm always super paranoid slipping my foot into a slipper or even a socked foot into a shoe! I'm afraid one of them little bastards is in there!
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07/21/2005 6:19 pm
Originally Posted by: aschlemanYeah well... I'd rather have poisonous spiders than live 50 miles away from a VX Nerve Gas stockpile.............. Newport, IN is the home of the US's stockpile of VX nerve gas... To me, it doesn't make the Brown Recluse spiders that we have seem as dangerous...

I live like a mile away from a government laboratory, actually where my dad works, (actually the place were they designed/built the first atomic bombs that were dropped on japan. they have big models of them there now, I only know that cause I've been in there once for family day, any other time if you walk past a white line on the ground, then the guards (which carry around ak-47s btw) have the right to shoot you on site) who knows what kinds of radiation, and other wierd things like that the spiders around here have been exposed to. but I haven't turned into spider man yet, so, I guess I'm all right.
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07/21/2005 9:19 pm
Originally Posted by: PonyOneoooh!!! what year is it? is it one of the cool rear wheel drive ones? does it have a 350?? montes are dope...

i probably would kill a spider if i caught it defacing my car, come to think of it.

my dad mentioned those iraqi spiders once... freakin' disgusting.

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07/21/2005 10:55 pm
Originally Posted by: iiholly1972, 360. I forget how they added the extra 10. It was explained to me, but I promplty forgot. It does have rear wheel drive, which would be cool if I wasn't afraid of taking turn too fast. I've never had it spin out from under me, but I've come pretty close a couple times.


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07/22/2005 7:15 am
Originally Posted by: CW14[IMG]

After a morning of spider hunting...

please don't tell me that that is a life sized picture....
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07/22/2005 7:40 am
Originally Posted by: CW14They're sitting on an A4 piece of paper, so they were quite a bit bigger than in the pic

do you know what kind of spiders those are? are they poisonous?
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07/22/2005 7:49 am
Originally Posted by: CW14They're garden orbs. They're not deadly, but they'll give you nausea and make you swell up quite a bit. Still pretty creepy though

dang dude, if I were you I'd get some kind of insect/spider killer and spray around your house/garage... I wouldn't want those things living in such abundance so close to where I sleep...
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07/22/2005 8:29 am
Perhaps I'm unique in my stance on spiders here...I don't go out of my way to kill them. Of course indoors (and my body) is off limits to any unwelcome creature with penalty of death, but outside I just leave them alone. I appreciate their role, cuz I don't really like moths, flies and mosquitoes either. I'm much more wary of wasps and roaches (shudder) than spiders.
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07/22/2005 8:52 am
Originally Posted by: R. ShackleferdPerhaps I'm unique in my stance on spiders here...I don't go out of my way to kill them. Of course indoors (and my body) is off limits to any unwelcome creature with penalty of death, but outside I just leave them alone. I appreciate their role, cuz I don't really like moths, flies and mosquitoes either. I'm much more wary of wasps and roaches (shudder) than spiders.

that's pretty much what I do... I let these one kind of spider (not sure of there actual name, I just call them 'daddy long legs') but they supposedly eat black widows and other harmful spiders... so, they are my buddys, and I let them live, but if they get inside, I kill them, reluctantly, but I still kill them just cause I don't want it to crawl in my mouth while I'm sleeping... and also if I see like a black widow or brown recluse outside, I'll kill it... though I haven't seen any yet (well, I've killed a bunch of spiders that I thought were black widows, but I'm not sure)

say, anyone seen that movie, arachniphobia?
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07/22/2005 12:35 pm
I saw it when it first came out, and I was severely traumatised for months. I had arachnaphobia very bad back then. It's not so bad now, but I still get freaked out from time to time. I jumped completely off of my 4-wheeler at around 20mph last summer when I drove through a spider web. The spider just so happened to be where my head went through. I was pretty messed up for about an hour, but I eventually got over it. It wouldn't have been so bad if the spider hadn't been huge, but it was, so I freaked out :o
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07/22/2005 7:01 pm
Originally Posted by: PRSplayaHe's refering to our mutant cockroaches on steroids (at least I think that's what he's talking about). They're about the size of those Madagascare Hissing cockroaches you see on fear factor, but look like regular cockroaches, and can fly. I'd say they can get up to around 3" long. We defanately have some unique critter's down here in the South.


Yep, the oversized roach looking things are Palmetto bugs. Harmless, but they will scare the crap out of ya if you've never seen one.
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07/22/2005 7:04 pm
Originally Posted by: aschlemanYeah well... I'd rather have poisonous spiders than live 50 miles away from a VX Nerve Gas stockpile.............. Newport, IN is the home of the US's stockpile of VX nerve gas... To me, it doesn't make the Brown Recluse spiders that we have seem as dangerous...


I work about 2 miles from a nuclear powerstation (V.C. Summer power plant), and the Savannah river site is only about an hour away from me....I'm screwed either way, by bugs or a nuclear disaster...
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07/22/2005 7:09 pm
Originally Posted by: 6strngs_2hmbkrsbut I still kill them just cause I don't want it to crawl in my mouth while I'm sleeping


I've heard a study was done on that, and the average person eats like 15 spiders in their sleep during their lifetime..... :eek:
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07/22/2005 7:16 pm
Originally Posted by: JFRICKI've heard a study was done on that, and the average person eats like 15 spiders in their sleep during their lifetime..... :eek:

That just made me really sick at my stomach! and now I've got those creepy chills.
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07/22/2005 7:55 pm
Originally Posted by: JFRICKI've heard a study was done on that, and the average person eats like 15 spiders in their sleep during their lifetime..... :eek:

really? I heard that it was an average of one spider a month... but, that seemed/seems rediculous, so, you're probably right.
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