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PostPosted: May 04, 2006 9:11 am    Post subject: YIIIIKES!!!!!!!! Reply with quote

So last night I fel asleep right after dinner and woke up around 11:30. Crap - I knew my sleep schedule was going to be jacked up and was already a bit grouchy about that, but I moved myself from the couch to the bed and flipped on the tube. Around 3am I saw a little shadow moving across my lower chest...I blew it off and figured it was just the shadows from the tv. Saw it again a couple of seconds later and looked a little closer this time -as the tv went bright again I jumped my scared a$s out of the bed and ran into the kitchen to grab something to catch the intruder. Here he is:



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PostPosted: May 04, 2006 9:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

WOW! Shocked
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PostPosted: May 04, 2006 9:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's pretty small, but a tarantula is a tarantula. Little bastid was sizing me up, I just know it. I almost woke up looking like Frodo Shocked
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PostPosted: May 04, 2006 9:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That is why I will NEVER move to Texas.
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PostPosted: May 04, 2006 9:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

jt09, HAHAHA...That place always had critters inside!!! Evey morning, there was a new bug in the tub! That thing is freakign huge....

My question is...did you scream like a biznich!! that would've have been funny to hear! HAHA

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PostPosted: May 04, 2006 9:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

and i thought the cockroaches in Georgia were bad....
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PostPosted: May 04, 2006 9:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dpierce37, I didn't sream, but I did have somekind of verbal "Gahughayyy" type thing pop out. I was totally freaked the f*ck out and have no qualms admitting it in the least. F spiders! Evil or Very Mad

Remember Kim, the hot blonde who lived next door? She had her leg in a brace from ACL surgery (after landing a huge tantrum out in the flats on Clear Creek - how bada$s is that?) and it took her about 5 minutes to get in her convertible one morning when she saw a HUGE (about 3x the size of this one) tarantula on the dashboard - she exited the car in about .8 seconds! We had to catch it for her and the sucka hid under the seats so it took us about an hour! She took it to work as her excuse for being late!

We do find them in the driveway fairly often, but this is the first time for one inside the house and it did a number on me - didn't quite sleep fully the rest of the night.
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PostPosted: May 04, 2006 9:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

those suckers can JUMP, you mess around with them with a broom long enough they'll jump straight upwards about 4 feet, pretty badass.

Mermaid, come on, it isn't even that big!

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PostPosted: May 04, 2006 10:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

jt09, me and my girl were walking around here apartment, and in the shadow of a tree, I saw a black mass, closer we got, the more legs it had...It was the biggest tarantula I had ever seen. She was screaming bloody murder at me to kill it (She is orse then you jt), I was like hell no, that thing was cool as hell! There are a bunch here in Texas, thats for sure!

Does anyone know if the one jeff saw is female or a differnt type of tarantula? Cause most tarantulas I see are pitch black.

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PostPosted: May 04, 2006 10:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

jt09, spiders don't freak me out. But a fawker like that walking across my chest would have given me the heebie jeebies from hell. I can just picture the screams you made as you realized how big it was, and that it was WALKING across you earlier. Laugh

They are a good thing though. They keep other little nasties out.

Dpierce37, with many tarantuala species the female is larger and darker. That looks like it could be a male. Females tend to be more aggressive by the way. Go figure. Laughing
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PostPosted: May 04, 2006 10:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

what a wuss!! it's just a baby tarant!






oh, who am i kidding....i would've screamed like a little be0tch! Laughing i hate spiders!

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PostPosted: May 04, 2006 11:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

jt09, OMFG! I would've disgraced myself if that thing was crawling on me!

Some jerk I knew that had one as a pet. He let it out of the cage b/c he knew I was scared of it. The damned thing started jumping towards me, backing me into a corner - freaked me out! He finally picked it up when it got close & I lifted my foot to step on it...

Eewww! Now I have the heeby-geeby's!

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PostPosted: May 04, 2006 1:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You know if there was one in the house........there's gotta be more Twisted Evil

They're great for cricket control, if you can get over the crunching sound.
Pretty harmless unless they're hungry. Wink

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PostPosted: May 04, 2006 1:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

in my 5 years in Austin, I was fortunate enough to never see one. I would have been in the hospital from the heart attack.... that or you would need a new couch from the mess that I would have left. Shocked
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PostPosted: May 04, 2006 1:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

HOLY SHIAT!

I was hunting in the swamp one morning, sun came up, looked behind and this spider was black and yellow and had a huge web, it was 1/3 or smaller than that trant, but i ran into the other blind, with my 12g crying like a girl,

the hunter became the hunted.

so these are common in TX? How bout brown spiders or scorpions?

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PostPosted: May 04, 2006 2:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Brown Recluse is fairly common in Texas. My fiance was bit by one when she was a kid. They are more common in the outskirts of Houston where the housing sprawl has over taken the fields.
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PostPosted: May 04, 2006 2:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

you know, sometimes there are reasons why i love the north
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PostPosted: May 04, 2006 4:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nothing like some eggs an spider for breakfast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am firing up the skillent right now.
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PostPosted: May 04, 2006 6:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

muckmeister, yeah - tarantulas and scorpions are pretty common in this part of Texas. I've seen probably 10 at this house in 5 years. Only one full grown - like jumalian said, this one is a baby. My dad's house in Bulverde (just N of San Antone) ALWAYS had a scorpion crawling around in the bottom floor.

Dragonlady8, Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad NOT funny!!!
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PostPosted: May 04, 2006 6:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dude spiders scare the hell out of me. I can handle snakes, but damn. Ryan got stung by a scorpion once and he thought he was going to die Laughing I've seen two in AR and that's enough.
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PostPosted: May 04, 2006 8:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i am definately glad i wasnt in bed with u when that happened, i would have like had a heart attack!!! Shocked
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PostPosted: May 04, 2006 8:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Spiders don't really scare me if I see them before they are on me. If I feel them first though...I will scream like a school girl at an N*Sync concert.
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PostPosted: May 04, 2006 8:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

jt09, dude effing tell me about it... Every time I head back to pops house right off Travis, I see like 10 on the porch at night... Wait till you crawl in bed, and you are sound asleep, and it feels as though someone burns you with a match on your leg... You throw the covers off, and spot a damn scorpion... They do in fact "rock you like a hurricaine." I am like you broseph, I dont do the whole wildlife thing that well... I quit hunting on our land in south Texas due to snakes... I dont care how many points a damn buck is there, between the snakes, spiders, and other ungodly critters, I prefer to stay in the city with the gangstas where I have a sporting chance at not getting harmed.
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PostPosted: May 04, 2006 11:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I effing hate spiders just as bad. I dont usually kill them but if one gets on me he will not live long.

We have what I call Jedi spiders here. They look like a mix between a Wolf spider and a Jumping spider. They look like a wolf spider but thiner, and they are REAL aggressive. If one's on the wall in the hallway it will jump on you as you walk by.

Talk about freaking out. I had one lower itself onto me as I was watching TV in bed one night. Came off the self above, I could see the shadow for a second coming down.

Ahh, not sure if I want to sleep now. Shocked Evil or Very Mad

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PostPosted: May 05, 2006 7:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

So now I am keeping this guy alive until next Wed and I'm giving him to a guy who has a ton of spiders/snakes etc. He's a reptile rescue type and I am going to take my daughter to see his snakes. Still pretty creepy having a tarantula sitting on the kitchen counter.
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PostPosted: May 05, 2006 8:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

jt09, it knows where you sleep...I think it will get out of the cage and come back for round 2...keep us posted!
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PostPosted: May 05, 2006 9:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

89comp, Nah - he's going to live about 40 miles from me! In a cage.
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PostPosted: May 05, 2006 9:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

well shoot...I'll be town tuesday night, but I guess I'll miss it.
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PostPosted: May 05, 2006 11:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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HOLY SHIAT!

I was hunting in the swamp one morning, sun came up, looked behind and this spider was black and yellow and had a huge web, it was 1/3 or smaller than that trant, but i ran into the other blind, with my 12g crying like a girl,

the hunter became the hunted.

so these are common in TX? How bout brown spiders or scorpions?


You ran across a harmelss Bananna spider. They are everywhere in Texas..they love building inbetween mesquite trees, and just hang out in the middle. They are great for target practice with your pistol Twisted Evil


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PostPosted: May 05, 2006 11:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dpierce37 wrote:
You ran across a harmelss Bananna spider.


Harmless my a$s. Heart attacks aren't harmless.
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PostPosted: May 05, 2006 11:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

What do you do when you find those things, kill em? Then you have to clean up all their squishy guts, nasty. How bout a scorpion? Do tarantulas bite? WTF possesses a spider to freakin' jump on you? It's pretty damn funny that I'm scared of fiddlesticks that's so teeny.

Goddamn I hate bugs.


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PostPosted: May 05, 2006 11:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dpierce37, jt09,

debate this heart attack thing for me...... Very Happy Very Happy

i took a pic of it, i might look for it this weekend.........

i like to pistol shooting! looking at a new toy tomorrow. Twisted Evil

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PostPosted: May 05, 2006 12:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There's no debate about it. I walk into one of those things out int he woods and I'm going to have a heart attack. I would be muy harmed. Thus, said spider is NOT harmless.

dirtysparks, I've killed plenty of scorpions before. I usually only find dead tarantulas in the driveway and the ants are munching them. From what I understand tarantulas bite and it hurts, but isn't lethal.
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dirtysparks, the most common scorpions arround here are harmless, and when I mean harmless, they are not the venomus kind...they sting like a mofo, little bit worse the a hornet sting.

Tarantulas rarely bite, but when they do, you will be hurting. They are not poisoness, but have fangs almost half an inch long!!!! My gf's Dad has one as a pet..crazy people.

I am most scared of the Brown recluse...plain fuking nasty critters. Bite doesnt really hurt, but if not treated, in a week you will have a fist full of rotton flesh under your skin.

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PostPosted: May 05, 2006 3:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

In my opinion there is no such thing as a good spider, good snake, or good scorpion. I am so afraid of bitting and stinging insects that I am afraid to go to buy plants at the nursey for fear of being stung by a bee!!
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