Big Spider

Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

I saw something skitter across the floor and trapped it under tupperware. Can any of you tell me what this is? It's big, has some pointy mandibles, and I let it loose in the woods.


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Anyone know what kind of spider this is?
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

Quotemander Prime said:
I saw something skitter across the floor and trapped it under tupperware. Can any of you tell me what this is? It's big, has some pointy mandibles, and I let it loose in the woods.

Anyone know what kind of spider this is?
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Great, you've DOOMED US ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Wife: So when are you gonna kill it?
Me: I'm not going to kill it.
Wife: ... why?
Me: There's no reason to kill it.
Wife: It's a BIG FUCKING SPIDER. It has scorpion tails for a mouth!
Me: I'll just let it outside.
Wife: Oh God ...
Me: See? He's secure.
Wife: I'll get the door. Now go FAR AWAY.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

It looked more like the hobo spider from what I looked at in-person than the brown recluse. Sorry the photo wasn't better--he was a quick little sucker.

Either way, it appears I should've killed it after all. Terrific.
 
Tress

Tress

Quotemander Prime said:
It looked more like the hobo spider from what I looked at in-person than the brown recluse. Sorry the photo wasn't better--he was a quick little sucker.

Either way, it appears I should've killed it after all. Terrific.
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KILL EVERY SPIDER. IT'S THE ONLY WAY TO BE SURE.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

Staff member
That would be a Venezuelan Leg Eviscerator, known to bite holes in human legs and feet in which they deposit a clutch of their brood, to burst and skitter forth in less than a week's time.
 
Tress

Tress

GasBandit said:
That would be a Venezuelan Leg Eviscerator, known to bite holes in human legs and feet in which they deposit a clutch of their brood, to burst and skitter forth in less than a week's time.
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Do you see what you have done, Quotemander?! Do you see the horrors you have unleashed upon the world?!
 
HCGLNS

HCGLNS

That's Roger! Oh his wife Rachel is going to be so pissed that he doesn't come home tonight, And with her being so late in her pregnancy and all. Shame what a shame.
 
Jay

Jay

HCGLNS said:
That's Roger! Oh his wife Rachel is going to be so pissed that he doesn't come home tonight, And with her being so late in her pregnancy and all. Shame what a shame.
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Someone mentioned Hobo Spider, knew you'd show up.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

Also, there's really little purpose in releasing an indoor spider outside. Indoor spiders tend to adapt to desert-type survival habits, where food and water are scarce, but so is outside predation. Releasing them outside is just putting them into an environment they don't know how to handle, and will likely starve to death or get eaten by something else.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Ravenpoe said:
Releasing them outside is just putting them into an environment they don't know how to handle, and will likely starve to death or get eaten by something else.
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Or freeze.

I found a good-sized wolf spider in a highway rest area during an Autumn trip. I knew he would get smushed if he kept running around where people could see him, so I picked him up* and put him outside in one of the bushes, whereupon he promptly stopped moving, fell over and curled up his legs as he started to slip into torpor. So I had to pick him back up and release him back inside so he'd at least have some chance.

--Patrick
*with my hands. Yes, really.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

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Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Look, it was either die inside or have a chance outside where I've released all the crickets that keep getting in here.

My hands are clean.


Because I didn't pick it up with my hands.
 
Tress

Tress

1) It's not too hard to hit something with a hammer without damaging the walls and/or floors

2) I don't care if it's overkill. I would drop a Buick on them if it was feasible. That's the penalty for entering my home with more than four legs.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

Staff member
Tress said:
1) It's not too hard to hit something with a hammer without damaging the walls and/or floors

2) I don't care if it's overkill. I would drop a Buick on them if it was feasible. That's the penalty for entering my home with more than four legs.
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What do you have against my OctoDog?!

 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

The absolute worst feeling in the world:

*see's giant spider*

AAHHHH! Spider!

*grabs something to kill it with, turns back*

.... Where'd it go?
 
drifter

drifter

That's why it's handy to have a rubber mallet. That way you can rear back and



without worrying (much) about dents.
 
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