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What the HELL kind of spider is this!

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Yeah, another "see a weird ass bug, run to post about it on GAF" thread.

I found this earlier today in my backyard. Fucking had a web covering my entire back door. Trapped in the web was a bug about the size of a cricket. Then i saw the damn thing itself. Holy hell.

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What the fuck is that thing. I almost shit my godamn pants. GAF, tell me what type of spider this is! It took 5 minutes of continiously spraying bug killer onto the thing for it to croak.. and I wasn't even sure it was dead until i squashed it under my shoe.

More pictures of the horror!
 
It's just an orb weaver spider of some sort. The first time I saw on at a friends house I thought it was something that escaped from a shipment of bananas at the grocery store but in reality they are increasingly common across north america and mostly harmless to humans. They certainly are big though.
 
That reminds me that I need to post pics of my trip to Malyasia (Penang and the mainland coast) from last week. We ate at a restaurant with a web six feet in diameter and a spider a good 7-8" hanging out in it. One of my business partners stood near the web for a picture and the fucker ran RIGHT at his FACE. He moved in time, though.

Pics will be posted this week. You've been warned. :)
 
GhaleonEB said:
That reminds me that I need to post pics of my trip to Malyasia (Penang and the mainland coast) from last week. We ate at a restaurant with a web six feet in diameter and a spider a good 7-8" hanging out in it. One of my business partners stood near the web for a picture and the fucker ran RIGHT at his FACE. He moved in time, though.

Pics will be posted this week. You've been warned. :)
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An 8'' spider. Way to steal my thunder :lol
 
jesus christ that thing is huge
 
Holy crap youd have to wrestle that sucker to take it down. I don't know what I would do if I saw a spider that big. As for around my house, we used to just have those small long legged spiders but I think we're starting to get a whole new breed in my room...NOT good.
 
photographers:
Please use a tripod when you are not using flash. Your exposures will come out with no movement if you do so.


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spidmesc.jpg

.......web of a spider on LSD ............................................... web of a spider on mescaline




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.......web of a spider on hashish ............................................... web of a spider on caffeine




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ust Say No: web of a drug-naïve spider





Give your spider some drugs, and then use a tripod on your camera to capture the fun!
 
RaymondCarver said:
photographers:
Please use a tripod when you are not using flash. Your exposures will come out with no movement if you do so.


spidlsd.jpg
spidmesc.jpg

.......web of a spider on LSD ............................................... web of a spider on mescaline




spihash.jpg
spicaf.jpg

.......web of a spider on hashish ............................................... web of a spider on caffeine




spid.jpg


ust Say No: web of a drug-naïve spider





Give your spider some drugs, and then use a tripod on your camera to capture the fun!
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Buy me a tripod?
 
These threads always make me so glad i live in england where if a spider is bigger than a quarter it must be a figment of your imagination.
 
Ghost said:
These threads always make me so glad i live in england where if a spider is bigger than a quarter it must be a figment of your imagination.
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I'm from England and last week I found a house spider in my room that was as big as a Gamecube disc! It was HUGE and the fucker was so fast. It's nothing compared to the spiders you lot in America have to put up with though. I feel sorry for you tbh
 
pnjtony said:
Is that in IRAQ?!!?!

Fuck the IEDs and insurgents, I'd be scared of the bugs
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Yeah, its called a camel spider. They run between 10-15 mph if I remember correctly. They seek shade, so those big fuckers haul ass straight for you across the desert and stop just inside your shadow. Fucking eeeeeeew.

That pic is two attached, btw.
 
GhaleonEB said:


The leaf is about seven inches long. That's a 2x10 in the background. :D
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The weirdest thing about it is that it looks unusually graceful for a spider. Very smooth and shaped, not hairy at all. Like a CGI spider or something. That actually makes it scary in an "WTF alien" kind of way more than the "ZOMG spider" kind of way.
 
Diablos said:
If the spiderweb pattern is any indication, looks like caffeine messes up spiders the most. Odd.
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If thats what it does to spiders, imagine the millions of people working each day hyped up on tons of caffeine from coffee and soda. makes you go hmmmm...
 
Umpteen said:
Yeah, its called a camel spider. They run between 10-15 mph if I remember correctly. They seek shade, so those big fuckers haul ass straight for you across the desert and stop just inside your shadow. Fucking eeeeeeew.

That pic is two attached, btw.
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that its a fake
 
Camel spiders (so named because, like camels, they can be found in sandy desert regions, although they aren't technically spiders) grow to be moderately large (about a 5"-6" leg span), but nowhere near as large as dinner plates; they can move very quickly in comparison to other arthropods (a top speed of maybe 10 MPH), Camel spiders shun the sun and generally hide during the day, coming out at night to do their hunting.

So basically what I said wasn't fake at all, except for the shade part actually meaning they are generally out at night.
 
I did a google a few months ago for "world's largest spider". That talk about dinner plates? Yup.

Say hello to the lord and master:

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It's call the Goliath Birdeater.

The most dangerous thing about the goliath bird-eater is its ability to flick urticating hairs from its body at any creature it perceives as a threat, including humans. This is not a species of tarantula you'd keep as a pet. The tiny, almost invisible hairs that it voluntarily sends floating through the air are extremely irritating to our skin, and can cause real problems if they got into delicate mucous membranes around eyes and mouth.
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Really? Whoda thunk?

http://www.extremescience.com/BiggestSpider.htm

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omg omg omg omg

You are singlehandedly responsible for the massive spider-bomb I'm about to set off in my apartment.
 
GhaleonEB said:
I did a google a few months ago for "world's largest spider". That talk about dinner plates? Yup.

Say hello to the lord and master:

goliath-plate.gif


It's call the Goliath Birdeater.



Really? Whoda thunk?

http://www.extremescience.com/BiggestSpider.htm

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Why you gotta hurt people like this? Nobody here was talking about Xbox 360 vs PS3, dual skus, or backwards compatibility man. Seriously, why you gonna give people nightmares?

Imagine trying to kill one of these? What do you do? Raid? Yeah right, probably irritate a bit and then you get eaten for dinner. Clearly not gonna step on it, because if you miss, it's probably crawling up your leg in an instant.

You need a long distance weapon, and you probably only have one shot cause I'm guessing it's gonna shoot back. That spider is a THUG, so you better be strapped.
 
wha. . . wha. . . what the fuck kind of god creates a monstrosity like that Camel Spider? Jesus fuck, that video of it. . eating. . . UGH!

Maybe those things are intended to give us a taste of hell so we repent. Well it worked. I'M SORRY LORD!
 
Goliath Spider? Pft...that thing is a n00b compared to the Chicken Spider (named so because...it kills chickens and drags them back to its nest for its baby spiders to eat!!!). The scary thing is that it's different to normal tarantulas. It keeps its young in a nest and looks after them, which is not what tarantulas are supposed to do!

It's a new species so the exact size isn't known. But the one I saw on a BBC documentary is about 12-14" long!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/spiderman.shtml
 
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