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re: Why are people deathly afraid of spiders?

Posted on 5/21/15 at 10:40 am to
Posted by CuseTiger
On the road
Member since Jul 2013
8206 posts
Posted on 5/21/15 at 10:40 am to
Any spiders I see in the house I let stay because I know they'll kill any mosquitos or other flies that make their way in. Snakes on the other hand...
Posted by mindbreaker
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2011
7639 posts
Posted on 5/21/15 at 10:46 am to
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Dr's say that the average person swallows 7 spiders a year in their sleep on average. Apparently the spiders are attracted to the moisture in your breath and they climb in. Spider related asphyxiation is a fairly common cause of death but coroners don't always catch it



Yeah that is actually a myth

https://www.snopes.com/science/stats/spiders.asp
Posted by FootballNostradamus
Member since Nov 2009
20509 posts
Posted on 5/21/15 at 10:54 am to
Put me in the snakes >>>> spiders club.

Spiders don't bother me in the least but fvck any kind of snake. I don't care if it's a footling gardener snake I want no part of it!
Posted by ElderTiger
Planet Earth
Member since Dec 2010
6999 posts
Posted on 5/21/15 at 11:04 am to
Went to school with a guy who was always wanting to whip somebody's arse but would run like a scared kid from a spider
Posted by duggieblue
GA
Member since Feb 2010
4335 posts
Posted on 5/21/15 at 11:40 am to
Because some people are vajayjays...as are the necks that put the flip-flops to them since they are sacred too.
Some of my photos of me holding those vicious beasts.







Posted by LSUgirl4
Member since Sep 2009
39501 posts
Posted on 5/21/15 at 11:41 am to
because they get in your face holes when you're sleeping.
Posted by Captain Fantasy
Member since Mar 2013
1595 posts
Posted on 5/21/15 at 11:43 am to
Where's a photo of them holding a brown recluse, black widow or wolf spider? Pussies
Posted by The Dude Abides
Atlanta, GA
Member since Feb 2010
2227 posts
Posted on 5/21/15 at 11:44 am to
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Not particularly scared of spiders but frick Snakes. frick them. They can all DIAF. DIE GOT DAMMIT.
1000x's this. Killed a 2 1/2 foot copperhead in the front yard last week, GTFO
Posted by duggieblue
GA
Member since Feb 2010
4335 posts
Posted on 5/21/15 at 11:47 am to
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Where's a photo of them holding a brown recluse, black widow or wolf spider


That is me....3 of those are wolf spiders you ignorant slut. Unfortunately I have never seen a Brown Recluse....make that fortunately as if you have one you probably have many.
Posted by Captain Fantasy
Member since Mar 2013
1595 posts
Posted on 5/21/15 at 11:49 am to
just giving you shite. my palms sweat just looking at those photos
Posted by duggieblue
GA
Member since Feb 2010
4335 posts
Posted on 5/21/15 at 11:50 am to


Here....I know some of you love these.



Posted by SW2SCLA
We all float down here
Member since Feb 2009
22813 posts
Posted on 5/21/15 at 11:55 am to
frick this whole thread
Posted by GatorReb
Dallas GA
Member since Feb 2009
9280 posts
Posted on 5/21/15 at 12:27 pm to
Spiders don't bother me one bit.

But frick Centitpedes. I will burn the house down before. I have to deal with one of those.


Nope






Nope





NOPE





NOPE
Posted by Rebel Land Shark
Member since Jul 2013
30167 posts
Posted on 5/21/15 at 12:28 pm to
They're black
Posted by TheCaterpillar
Member since Jan 2004
76774 posts
Posted on 5/21/15 at 12:33 pm to
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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".



LINK


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The Golden Silk Spider, Nephila clavipes, often locally called the Banana Spider (due to its body shape and color), is one of coastal Louisiana’s most conspicuous arachnids.


In both situations, its a nickname given to it by locals. Google "Banana Spiders Louisiana". There are entire websites dedicated to Golden Orb Spiders that people call Banana Spiders.

Not saying you're wrong about the Central/South American spiders, but both are called Banana Spiders by locals and in neither case is "banana spider" their scientific name or classification.



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Banana spider may refer to:

Cupiennius, a South and Central American genus of spiders
the related genus Phoneutria, known as "Brazilian wandering spiders", a South and Central American genus of extremely venomous spiders
Golden silk orb-weaver, a widespread genus of large but rather harmless spiders, noted for their large durable webs
Argiope appensa, a black and yellow spider on several islands in the Western Pacific Ocean
Banana spider myth, an urban legend regarding Huntsman spiders
This post was edited on 5/21/15 at 12:39 pm
Posted by jchamil
Member since Nov 2009
16498 posts
Posted on 5/21/15 at 12:40 pm to
I don't see how people are more scared of snakes than spiders. A rattlesnake or cottonmouth can't get in my shoe/clothes without me knowing it, but a brown recluse or black widow sure can, that's what creeps me out about those little effers
Posted by TheCaterpillar
Member since Jan 2004
76774 posts
Posted on 5/21/15 at 12:55 pm to
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I don't see how people are more scared of snakes than spiders. A rattlesnake or cottonmouth can't get in my shoe/clothes without me knowing it, but a brown recluse or black widow sure can, that's what creeps me out about those little effers




Agreed.

And spider webs are infuriating when you walk into one. Feels like the spiders are all over your body.
Posted by Teddy Ruxpin
Member since Oct 2006
39582 posts
Posted on 5/21/15 at 1:07 pm to
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I don't see how people are more scared of snakes than spiders. A rattlesnake or cottonmouth can't get in my shoe/clothes without me knowing it, but a brown recluse or black widow sure can, that's what creeps me out about those little effers


Samesies. I've taken a photo with an allegedly defanged cobra.(not taking some guy making $1,000 a year word for it) The snake itself doesn't bother me in appearance and I'll touch one I know that isn't poisonous. Those anacondas or what not.

Spiders I don't want to deal with really at all. Certainly not pet them.
This post was edited on 5/21/15 at 1:09 pm
Posted by MrLarson
Member since Oct 2014
34984 posts
Posted on 5/21/15 at 1:24 pm to
In my vast studies of spiders I have determined that all of them are poisonous and should be killed.
Posted by LSUfan20005
Member since Sep 2012
8817 posts
Posted on 5/21/15 at 1:58 pm to
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Unfortunately I have never seen a Brown Recluse....make that fortunately as if you have one you probably have many


True.

When I had my infestation a few years ago, those bastards were everywhere once I went hunting for them.
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