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woodsprite

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2. I sooooo feel your pain! I'm exactly the same way.

Reply to csziggy (Original post)

Tue Jun 21, 2016, 07:08 AM

Jun 2016

I don't think Brown recuse are really that big. I've only seen one a couple of times though, when camping. I live in Delaware and the largest spiders I've seen here are wolf spiders. I stepped on one once, just enough to kill it but not destroy it. I took it in the house to show the kids and look at it under a microscope the kids had just received as a gift. With a regular kitchen paring knife, I could ping its darned fangs, and that was using the naked eye to see it. With legs and body, he was 2.5-3" in diameter.

To me, even creepier than the crawling kind are the jumping ones. Just killed one of those suckers that took up residence in my mail box. It was huge for a jumping spider (1/2 to 3/4" long), beautiful black orange and green, took a pic of it before I totally squashed it!

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OMFG - a HUGE spider just dropped off of the ceiling onto my desk! [View all] csziggy Jun 2016 OP

I am with you 100% on spiders. I had to get one of the guys I work with come to my office Arkansas Granny Jun 2016 #1

LOL on hte rubber band! csziggy Jun 2016 #5

I sooooo feel your pain! I'm exactly the same way. woodsprite Jun 2016 #2

It probably wasn't a recluse - but it looked a lot like one csziggy Jun 2016 #6

We have recluse where I live, too. I've seen and killed several, myself. Arkansas Granny Jun 2016 #9

Some sources say recluses don't live in Florida csziggy Jun 2016 #10

This is why you need an assault "style" weapon. Warren Stupidity Jun 2016 #3

The net worked - but my fly swatter would have been more effective csziggy Jun 2016 #7

Spiders are great. Natural pest control. Kingofalldems Jun 2016 #4

I would have been perfectly fine if it had stayed up inside the light fixture csziggy Jun 2016 #8

yup Skittles Jun 2016 #16

You need one of these! Laffy Kat Jun 2016 #11

Now that is brilliant! I think I'll order two of them csziggy Jun 2016 #12

They are pricey! Laffy Kat Jun 2016 #13

Yes, part of the order process is agreeing it will take weeks for it to arrive csziggy Jun 2016 #14

You missed your chance MosheFeingold Jun 2016 #15

Or I could have died a horrible death and no one would have found me csziggy Jun 2016 #17

You were arachanoid. kairos12 Jun 2016 #18

I certainly was! I still am - now that it is getting late evening csziggy Jun 2016 #19

Why on earth would I even click on a thread with the words "HUGE spider" in the title? Chellee Jun 2016 #20

Just DO NOT watch the videos of the Australian guy vacuuming spiders csziggy Jun 2016 #22

I won't. Chellee Jun 2016 #23

I'm OK with spiders, but maybe that's easy for me The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2016 #21

I'm OK with spiders if they stay where they belong - outside csziggy Jun 2016 #24

See, that's what's nice about the frigid North. The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2016 #25

Yes, but it is frigid! I just can't take the cold csziggy Jun 2016 #26

The mosquitoes are normal-sized but there are a lot of them. The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2016 #27

I used to not mind the heat and humidity csziggy Jun 2016 #28

Missed the chance to get Spider-man like powers. GOLGO 13 Jun 2016 #29