It's friday.

[donquixote99]

Are we seeing that a spider found a nifty plug for his door? Or what?

Thing is, can't really identify the plug. Is it a man-made object? A piece of goat poo? Spider-made? What's that pattern on it?

Damn puzzling piccies there, Pete....

[piece-itpete]

Ach. It's the way the spider is, part of his defense.

Pete

[donquixote99]

A spider body part? That was going to be my next guess....

[piece-itpete]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclocosmia

Pete

[MrPots]

Spiders scare the crap outta me and that one also gives me damned nightmares.....

[donquixote99]

Yes, the spider fear instinct. I have it: I didn't like spiders from the first time I saw one, and I remember the occasion. Don't have a bad enough case to have nightmares though, thank goodness....

[ebacon]

My spidey sense would have said, hark, that there is a valuable coin!

We know how accurate my spidey sense is.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by MrPots

Spiders scare the crap outta me and that one also gives me damned nightmares.....

I kill 'em all of the time for my wife. She stands in awe as most of the time I use my finger. Every now and then I'll smash a wasp with my hand if it won't leave me alone and I'm too occupied to find a bludgeon. Like when I'm trying to drive.

Don't like bugs, don't like people like bugs.

Chas

[piece-itpete]

My last house had these amazing spiders, I called them Halloween spiders, actually beautiful graceful black with slender well-proportioned legs, BIG, very scary. Very fast, very strong hunter types. When cornered they would rear up. Thankfully I usually ran into them outside where towards the end I would brush them off the woodpile etc with my hand.

But when we first moved in we had an incident When I bought the house it was condemned, a coon lived in the attic and brush grew in one window and out the other. Being a slab I had a very good remediation company clean the ductwork during reconstruction but still:

We had only been in a few weeks. I get a call at work, my SO, out of breath and almost hysterical. She had opened the shower curtain to use it and there was a mommy, a giant, sitting in the middle of the tub. As she watched the monsters' egg sack opened and millions of baby monsters spread out from her up the sides of the tub.

Thank goodness my SO has some brains. For a blonde Anyway she grabbed the hair spray and stuck all the babies down, then tried it on 'mom'.

It didn't work! She only slowed down. Finally in desperation my SO brought the heel of the can down on her.

Originally Posted by ebacon

My spidey sense would have said, hark, that there is a valuable coin!

We know how accurate my spidey sense is.

Me too, when I first saw that pic I thought I'd probably try to dig it out!

Pete

[donquixote99]

Now you've given Mr. Pots another nightmare.

There are two widespread instinctive criitter fears: of spiders and of snakes. I read that if you have one, you're unlikely to have the other. Snakes don't bother me at all. I was sitting on a rock in a forest one time, munching a bit of lunch, when a copperhead came by. He passed withing about three feet of me and just continued on his way; I just sat still and watched calmly.

Mrs Q, now, would have freaked. I once had to rush home to deal with the crisis of a garter snake introduced into the house by a cat who had proudly caught it (but not killed it).