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Topic Started: Aug 7 2010, 07:51 PM (454 Views)
Newpianoplayer
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A spider crawled out from the air vent in my bedroom yesterday am. The vent is at the top far corner near the window. This thing 's body was 2" round; with brown and cream stripes and lots of brown tentacles. Luckily it moved really fast and went back in in 5 sec. Critters like that scare me.
Edited by Newpianoplayer, Aug 7 2010, 07:54 PM.
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brenda
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The body was 2 inches across? Do you mean the legs and body, or just the body? If it was just the body, that's a huge spider.

Got any bug spray?
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Mikhailoh
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That would be one big old spider. What you describe sounds like a Wolf spider, pretty common in houses. Did it look like this?

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Oh, we get wolfies like that all the time. You should see some of the monster-sized ones that live in the garage! Pretty harmless. P*S puts 'em in a glass to watch them for a while and then deposits them in the great outdoors.
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Ooops, now see it was in the bedroom.

Would sleep in kitchen, then.
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Wade past the first commercial: :devilgrin:

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Copper
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We get the big wolf spiders in the Fall, it's still a little early for them

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brenda
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Wow! Those are ugly. All we get are the spindly daddy long legs.

(Note to self: Another reason to like living in Minnesoooota. Some bugs can't survive the climate here.)
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Oh, god. I HATE spiders. Now I'm going to have nightmares. I'm sure I'll be able to post a spider-related nightmare in this thread tomorrow. I would have immediately moved to the couch to sleep that night and then hoped it disappeared back into the vent.
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I'm used to regular small spiders, not a big deal, we never have them in this house anyway. But the tarantula looking wolf spider that Copper posted, there was one on the kitchen ceiling once, it was in the fall. I screamed bloody murder. IT took care of it. If I ever see one again, I'll vacuum it and throw out the bag. Now we have a cat, nothing gets in the house.
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I'm really not bothered by run of the mill spiders. But wolf spiders really creep me out - and yeah, we get them pretty regularly in these parts.

And remember - if you're spooked by spiders, but you decide you're going to be brave and go after a wolfie - just remember that they're really, really good jumpers. ^_^
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Yep. They sure are.
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Oh, what's the big deal, a big spider coming out of a vent. Seen it hundreds of times.

All it means, is the spider went back into the duct to tell the hundreds of other spiders (all bigger and uglier of course) that they can keep sucking on the bloody eyeball for awhile, the lights in the room are still on.

As long as you never take your eyes off the vent, and never turn off the lights, you'll be fine!

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House crickets.

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We´ve got tarantulas. I never knew those things were so fast.
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Dewey
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Oh yeah. Had an encounter with one on my first trip to Honduras. ^_^
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Mikhailoh
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Tarantulas. Well, that provides us some perspective on wolf spiders now, doesn't it?
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Piano*Dad
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The B&B we stayed at in Taos regaled us with stories about tarantula migration in the summer. Apparently they just start migrating west. Thousands of them. They just walk and walk and walk, and your room is just part of their walk.

Glad I was there in winter .... :lol2:
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When I was a kid in Florida one night I woke up to my 12 year old sister screaming bloody murder. She had seen a banana spider in her room. That night she slept in the living room, my mother told her that she killed the spider the next day. Years later she (mom) admitted she never saw it again, but she knew my sister would never set foot in her room again if she thought that spider was still there.


Here's a banana spider:

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In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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Optimistic
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Aren´t those guys pretty dangerous to humans? Either way, they sure are creepy.
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We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
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Aug 8 2010, 12:53 AM
The body was 2 inches across? Do you mean the legs and body, or just the body? If it was just the body, that's a huge spider.

Got any bug spray?
The body without the tentacles. It moved down the wall, then, went back up and flattened out to a straight line. I was reaching for a can of Raid (another story) and it was gone. My ceilings are 12 ' high. I have an extension ladder but no way am I going up there.


Edited by Newpianoplayer, Aug 8 2010, 06:00 PM.
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Aug 8 2010, 05:21 PM
When I was a kid in Florida one night I woke up to my 12 year old sister screaming bloody murder. She had seen a banana spider in her room. That night she slept in the living room, my mother told her that she killed the spider the next day. Years later she (mom) admitted she never saw it again, but she knew my sister would never set foot in her room again if she thought that spider was still there.


Here's a banana spider:

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You grew up in Florida? Cool. So did I.

Those banana spiders do give me the creeps. Two stories about them.

I remember once when I was playing with a bunch of friends. I must have been twelve. We were all running around outside playing army or something. I remember running full steam beside a house and through a gap between two trees. At the last instant something between the trees caught my eye and I stopped dead in my tracks. I don't think I have ever stopped so fast in my life. Hanging there between the trees was one of those banana spiders. It was about at eye level with me! :hide:

Years later I brought my two grad school roommates back to Miami. We went out to the Everglades for the obligatory tour. I had regaled them with my tale of the banana spider. They were rather dubious. I had also told them about the five inch long locusts I played with. Yeah, yeah, I had interesting taste in pets. Well, while walking the Anhinga trail we encountered the locusts. One bit of my credibility was restored. But the banana spiders were elusive that day. When we were back in the foyer of the ranger station getting some water one of them commented about the lack of scary giant spiders. There was a strong gusty wind blowing through the buildings that day. I'm sure I had a somewhat smarmy self-satisfied smile on my face as I gently told them to look upward. There, hanging from the roof of the building, were dozens of webs. Each had a huge banana spider hanging from the bottom. Imagine the wind blowing through, making the webs bob up and down. As they rocked down, the spiders came within about three feet of their heads. One of them uttered a nice expletive and ducked out of the building.

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Klaus
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This thread made me read a few articles on Wikipedia about spiders. One always stumbles upon funny bits of information when following Wikipedia links, such as this one about the Brazilian wandering spider:

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This spider's venom has also been found to cause increased levels of nitric oxide which, in male human victims, will result in an involuntary erection that can be very painful and last hours. Scientists are reportedly attempting to create an erectile dysfunction treatment that can be combined with other medicines out of the peptide that causes this reaction.
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