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Posted on 5/21/15 at 8:46 am to lsunurse
If spiders like that were native to New Orleans, I would not be a big fan 
Posted on 5/21/15 at 8:50 am to JTM72
Arachnophobia ruined them for me, but spiders have done little to earn that trust back. They are just so quiet and small. Snakes don't scare me in the least. Strange how that works.
One time in college I was back home at my mom’s house for an LSU football weekend. No one used my room while I was gone. My chocolate lab would always sleep in the bed with me too. One morning I woke up and was itchy. I looked at my legs and had like 20 bites all over them. I figured it was fleas from my dog. My mom comes in and flips my sheets up and, what appeared like 10,000 spiders (more like 50), just scattered. I screamed like a little girl and ran out the room.
Pest Control guy called them house spiders I believe or something like that. Said that they probably just bit me to feel me out and see what I was.
Another time in Nashville, I closed my shower curtain after stepping into the shower and a half-dollar sized brown recluse fell onto the shower floor. I jumped out and managed to use my shower hand held sprayer to get him down the drain. Apparently, Nashville is one of the most common places to see brown recluses.
One time in college I was back home at my mom’s house for an LSU football weekend. No one used my room while I was gone. My chocolate lab would always sleep in the bed with me too. One morning I woke up and was itchy. I looked at my legs and had like 20 bites all over them. I figured it was fleas from my dog. My mom comes in and flips my sheets up and, what appeared like 10,000 spiders (more like 50), just scattered. I screamed like a little girl and ran out the room.
Pest Control guy called them house spiders I believe or something like that. Said that they probably just bit me to feel me out and see what I was.
Another time in Nashville, I closed my shower curtain after stepping into the shower and a half-dollar sized brown recluse fell onto the shower floor. I jumped out and managed to use my shower hand held sprayer to get him down the drain. Apparently, Nashville is one of the most common places to see brown recluses.
Posted on 5/21/15 at 8:52 am to Ed Osteen
Spiders, in general, don't bother me as I've found the few I've come across at my house to be timid and reclusive (no pun intended).
My neighbor has massive tropical landscaping -- it really looks like a rainforest in her yard. As a result, we see some weird spiders from time to time. However, we keep our bug contract current and thus far haven't seen but a handful over the years.
My neighbor has massive tropical landscaping -- it really looks like a rainforest in her yard. As a result, we see some weird spiders from time to time. However, we keep our bug contract current and thus far haven't seen but a handful over the years.
Posted on 5/21/15 at 8:54 am to chinhoyang
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I had a huge banana spider on my neck heading to the deer stand one afternoon.
Your deer stand is in Central or South America?
Lol
My backyard in Baton Rouge was covered in Banana Spiders growing up. Our yard guy always told us to leave them alone because they kill annoying bugs. I used to blow torch them with WD40 and a lighter.
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Posted on 5/21/15 at 9:01 am to WeeWee
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Posted on 5/21/15 at 9:05 am to WeeWee
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Please turn in your man card to front desk.
Posted on 5/21/15 at 9:05 am to tidalmouse
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Because of that.^^^
Just get you some of this
Posted on 5/21/15 at 9:14 am to WeeWee
I had a brown recluse infestation for about a year. That was rough - I was a paranoid, spider-hunting machine.
Posted on 5/21/15 at 9:16 am to el Gaucho
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Spider related asphyxiation is a fairly common cause of death but coroners don't always catch it
If coroners "don't catch it", how could it possibly be known that its a "fairly common cause of death"?
Or should we just stack that up there with "coral snakes can't strike" and "daddy longlegs are the most poisonous spiders on earth"?
Posted on 5/21/15 at 9:21 am to WeeWee
I hated them growing up.
I love to ginseng hunt more though. Ironically both sang and the spiders love cool, dark ridges with the least amount of direct sun. After walking through thousands of webs in the mountains I just don't give a shite anymore.
I love to ginseng hunt more though. Ironically both sang and the spiders love cool, dark ridges with the least amount of direct sun. After walking through thousands of webs in the mountains I just don't give a shite anymore.
Posted on 5/21/15 at 9:29 am to TheCaterpillar
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Why are people deathly afraid of spiders? by TheCaterpillarquote:I had a huge banana spider on my neck heading to the deer stand one afternoon. Your deer stand is in Central or South America? Lol My backyard in Baton Rouge was covered in Banana Spiders growing up. Our yard guy always told us to leave them alone because they kill annoying bugs. I used to blow torch them with WD40 and a lighter.
That is not a Banana Spider...that is an Argiope aurantia, among many accepted common names are Yellow Garden Spider, Black and Yellow Garden Spider, Writing Spider.
Nephila clavipes is a "Banana Spider".
Posted on 5/21/15 at 9:30 am to WeeWee
This.
But mostly seeing this at a young age.
Posted on 5/21/15 at 9:38 am to WeeWee
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They can't fly and they are easily defeated by a flip flop?
You gotta sleep sometime. And they are always there. Waiting. Silently waiting.
Posted on 5/21/15 at 9:41 am to CadesCove
You might be a redneck if you burn your house down trying to kill a spider with fire
Posted on 5/21/15 at 9:41 am to CadesCove
I hate spiders. Had a ton of black widows at my house growing up.
Posted on 5/21/15 at 9:43 am to The Pirate King
I hate opening up a newspaper with an ad showing a giant f'ing tarantula.
Posted on 5/21/15 at 9:56 am to Salmon
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ignorance
most irrational fears are based off ignorance
This. The question has already been answered.
Posted on 5/21/15 at 10:02 am to PPL
The person who made those memes is probably dead because he let spiders live in his house.
Posted on 5/21/15 at 10:34 am to PPL
Lizards can do all the same things.
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