tarantulas

[LifeisaGarden]

Thanks now I need to go take a valium!

I have been avoiding cleaning out my garage because of this very thing. We have a ton of black widows around here but I have never seen but one brown recluse and that was a few weeks ago when I was fishing around in the Halloween stuff.

[Wither]

Any creatures with anything other than four limbs get dead around here.

[Wither]

Also to note, this is a good reason to keep a few pets in the house (yes, multiple). Cats are particularly curious and small (not poodles) to medium-sized dogs can also be very useful.

Depending on the size of the house, I recommend two cats and a beagle.

[Matt Foley]

Get a snake.

[Wither]

Get a snake.

I'd rather happen upon a snake than a spider. Small creatures are irritating.

[LifeisaGarden]

My cat is effin bad ass when it comes to killing things. We haven't had to call the exterminator to come inside the house since we've had him. Flys don't stand a chance. If one gets in the house they will meet their tragic demise real soon.

This is Jorge, the effin bad ass cat. He keels things.

[Delhommey]

I knew they had tarantulas west in the desert but never knew they hung out in your neck of the woods.

You're right about the hipsters though.

[Hairless Cat]

i hope not.

that things got a bigger crank than me ..........

[strik9]

Tarantulas are pretty harmless, but if you spook one and it does bite you it is painfull due to their large fangs.

[MCCNASTY]

FUG spiders and scorpions! I be damned if i would live anywhere with gadamn tarantulas and scorpions creepin around the house! That kinda crap scares the hell out of me. i hate bugs in general. Sneaky, ugly mutha fuggers.

[Panthro]

This has been the most frightening thread on the huddle since that other spider thread that involved Black Widow pics.

[TarPanther9180]

[Epistaxis]

Informative.

Didn't know big tarantulas like that hung out in TX.

I have inlaws in Tucson. They all have been stung by scorps and now pretty much ignore them and take care to shake out the shoes and clothes.

The spiders and other crawlie things don't bother me that much.

Sticky traps in the basement have pretty much snagged most of our spiders and seem to work quite well. That is until my two year old found them and came up from the basement looking like some kind of Tim Burtonesque dead spider ornamented Christmas tree. He found like 10 of them and stuck them all over himself. He thought it was the funniest thing ever.

I have an irrational fear of wasps and hornets but not the crawlies.

I think because they have air superiority.

[Scrumtrilescent]

another oddity.. my wife had bad carpal tunnel before she got stung by a scorp in her hand. now she swears she has no pain what so ever.

either the scorp sting hurt that much, or theres some research that needs to be done.

There is sort of, actually. That's about all I can say. lol

And I'd burn down my whole neighborhood, fug spiders. Every last one of them.