Its Raining spiders

[Autocon]

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/2013/02/10/07/38/raining-spiders-filmed-in-brazil

Couldnt get the video embeded

Love to see that??????:p

[Kazza]

I'm glad the video doesnt play straight away as once i saw spider in the title, i just s**t myself...:rolleyes: But serious i fear spiders to no end, even pictures of them scare me... Read the article but refused to touch the video, i wonder how the kid felt...

[Omega Metro]

Saw that a few days ago. And yes, I would crap myself also. Hate spiders.

[ILikeSoundwave]

I know hate them, even in books I try to turn the page without touching them.:p:D

[5FDP]

I'm glad the video doesnt play straight away as once i saw spider in the title, i just s**t myself...:rolleyes: But serious i fear spiders to no end, even pictures of them scare me... Read the article but refused to touch the video, i wonder how the kid felt...

It's OK...


The Anelosimus eximius is a "social spider"

They just wanted to hang-out and make new friends :p

[Paulbot]

Meh. Tell me when it starts raining men, about half-past ten, hallelujah! :)

[Megatron]

Aww, I love the little critters... :o

Am I the only one here who does, then? :p

[M-bot]

Aww, I love the little critters... :o

Am I the only one here who does, then? :p

It looks like. Horrid little fiends, the lot of them. :eek::eek::eek:

Yes, I'm comfortable admitting that the sight of them turns me into an irrational pool of squealing jelly.


Meh. Tell me when it starts raining men, about half-past ten, hallelujah! :)

... and now I can't get the song out of my head, where it sits along with images of 8-legged beasties. Why oh why did I read this thread?::confused::(

[5FDP]

... and now I can't get the song out of my head, where it sits along with images of 8-legged beasties. Why oh why did I read this thread?::confused::(

http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/477/492504-haha.gif :D

[Bartrim]

Thank God I am not alone in my hatred/fear of spiders. Huntsmen are the worst IMO. They just give me the shudders. Found one in my delivery van a couple of months ago. Actually wrecked a customers order trying to kill the f****r. I now coat my van in residual raid. My wife is concerned I am using too much of it and I am going to give myself cancer:o

[Megatron]

Thank God I am not alone in my hatred/fear of spiders. Huntsmen are the worst IMO. They just give me the shudders. Found one in my delivery van a couple of months ago. Actually wrecked a customers order trying to kill the f****r. I now coat my van in residual raid. My wife is concerned I am using too much of it and I am going to give myself cancer:o

That's a valid concern - that stuff is toxic. :o

(and lol at that image of you contending with that big, horrible spider-bot - sorry :D)

[Tallestblue]

*Shudder*

[Hursticon]

Aww, I love the little critters... :o

Am I the only one here who does, then? :p

Nope, not at all! :D

I love Spiders, they were the source of many hours of fun; as a kid I used to take immense pleasure in catching various insects & feeding them to Leaf Curlers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonognatha_graeffei) & St. Andrew's Crosses (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argiope_keyserlingi), Redbacks though I'd steer well clear of until I could grab a Daddy Long-Legs! :D:cool:

I find them utterly fascinating as they come in such a variety of sizes, shapes & colours + the ability to coordinate that many legs & eyes amazes me; I'd love if one was able to stumble across one of these (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdVF9tU9Bbs) beauties though. ;):cool:

[ILikeSoundwave]

Nope, not at all! :D

I love Spiders, they were the source of many hours of fun; as a kid I used to take immense pleasure in catching various insects & feeding them to Leaf Curlers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonognatha_graeffei) & St. Andrew's Crosses (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argiope_keyserlingi), Redbacks though I'd steer well clear of until I could grab a Daddy Long-Legs! :D:cool:

I find them utterly fascinating as they come in such a variety of sizes, shapes & colours + the ability to coordinate that many legs & eyes amazes me; I'd love if one was able to stumble across one of these (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdVF9tU9Bbs) beauties though. ;):cool:
I dropped my phone when I saw that video.:o

[Hursticon]

I dropped my phone when I saw that video.:o

Hehe, then I'd love to know what people think of these:

http://i1032.photobucket.com/albums/a409/Darkone666au/Crap/Huntsman-Spider_zps5c3289bd.jpg http://i1032.photobucket.com/albums/a409/Darkone666au/Webpics/tumblr_m446v3ubrb1qbfm5ko1_500_zps1489e951.jpg

[Megatron]

Nope, not at all! :D

I love Spiders, they were the source of many hours of fun; as a kid I used to take immense pleasure in catching various insects & feeding them to Leaf Curlers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonognatha_graeffei) & St. Andrew's Crosses (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argiope_keyserlingi), Redbacks though I'd steer well clear of until I could grab a Daddy Long-Legs! :D:cool:

I find them utterly fascinating as they come in such a variety of sizes, shapes & colours + the ability to coordinate that many legs & eyes amazes me; I'd love if one was able to stumble across one of these (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdVF9tU9Bbs) beauties though. ;):cool:

Hehe. You've just earned yourself some more Coolness points. :p That video seems a little over the top, though.


Hehe, then I'd love to know what people think of these:

*snip*


Oooooh.. I LOVE that tarantula, nice! :D I WANT ONE!!!

[Trent]

I hate them as well. Having 8 legs on my property means you get a face full of surface spray (shudders). Although I do grant huntsmans and daddy long legs some leniency.


I find them utterly fascinating as they come in such a variety of sizes, shapes & colours + the ability to coordinate that many legs & eyes amazes me; I'd love if one was able to stumble across one of these (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdVF9tU9Bbs) beauties though. ;):cool:

I see your extinct spider, and raise you a live bird eating monster (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2gi0Tan5Wc).

[Hursticon]

That video seems a little over the top, though.

Hehe, cheers dude; yeah it might be a little over the top but it's from a documentary series that I loved from the mid 00s "BBC: Walking with Monsters (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxzHikAt14U)" & I thought it might be interesting for people to learn that at one point in time there was a Spider the size of an Adult's head. :D
(That would be hunting cats if it were alive today... pity :p)

[Megatron]

Hehe, cheers dude; yeah it might be a little over the top but it's from a documentary series that I loved from the mid 00s "BBC: Walking with Monsters (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxzHikAt14U)" & I thought it might be interesting for people to learn that at one point in time there was a Spider the size of an Adult's head. :D
(That would be hunting cats if it were alive today... pity :p)

From Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesothelae):

In the BBC documentary Walking with Monsters (2005), a Carboniferous period species of Mesothelae was shown as being as large as a human head and shown hunting reptiles the size of today's cats. In the series, it is depicted as living like tarantulas in burrows and either lying in wait for its prey or chasing it through the jungle.

In fact, no spider that large has ever been found; but, at the time the series began production, the sea scorpion Megarachne had been mistakenly interpreted as a spider. The correct classification was not made until Walking With Monsters was well into production, and the giant spider was left in and called "Mesothelae" instead of Megarachne. Megarachne servinei had up until this time been considered the largest known spider.

[Hursticon]

I see your extinct spider, and raise you a live bird eating monster (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2gi0Tan5Wc).

Hehe, amazing how big the web must be huh?; how tough she surely is in order to ensnare & poison prey that's even bigger than her! :D:cool:

BUT! - I'll share with you some footage of a Spider (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq_JMgDDIiw) that actually gives me the heebie-jeebies; they're not pretty & nothing they do is pretty, pay attention to how this one eats too. :eek:

[Hursticon]

From Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesothelae):

In the BBC documentary Walking with Monsters (2005), a Carboniferous period species of Mesothelae was shown as being as large as a human head and shown hunting reptiles the size of today's cats. In the series, it is depicted as living like tarantulas in burrows and either lying in wait for its prey or chasing it through the jungle.

In fact, no spider that large has ever been found; but, at the time the series began production, the sea scorpion Megarachne had been mistakenly interpreted as a spider. The correct classification was not made until Walking With Monsters was well into production, and the giant spider was left in and called "Mesothelae" instead of Megarachne. Megarachne servinei had up until this time been considered the largest known spider.

Well, this is both saddening & disappointing - I feel like I've been lied to now. :(

Especially as finding evidence from the carboniferous period is extremely hard at best, not to mention we're talking about a species of animal that rarely if ever leave behind fossils that survive a million years let alone 300 million +. :o

I'll just have to suffice with these (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_spider_crab) instead. :)

[Bidoofdude]

That picture made me throw Foc Soundwave at the wall!!!:mad::p

[Hursticon]

That picture made me throw Foc Soundwave at the wall!!!:mad::p

LOL, why would you throw FoC Soundwave at a wall? :confused::p
(The mental image of you seeing it & immediately and instinctively throwing something is hilarious to me :p:D)

[Trent]

I'll just have to suffice with these (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_spider_crab) instead. :)

They had one of those at Sydney aquarium last time I was there. Pretty impressive.

[Megatron]

Well, this is both saddening & disappointing - I feel like I've been lied to now. :(

Especially as finding evidence from the carboniferous period is extremely hard at best, not to mention we're talking about a species of animal that rarely if ever leave behind fossils that survive a million years let alone 300 million +. :o

I'll just have to suffice with these (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_spider_crab) instead. :)

lol. That's not technically a spider...

Don't feel too bad, though. Keep in mind that there are a lot of missing pieces in the puzzle that is paleontology (and archaeology) with varying, and sometimes contradictory, schools of thought, where researchers are always trying to find explanations for missing links as best they can, and will supersede past theories with new ones all the time as new discoveries are made that don't fit in with the current accepted model. But you already knew this. ;)

[Hursticon]

lol. That's not technically a spider...

True, but an Arthropod it is so maybe... a very distant cousin? :D


Don't feel too bad, though. Keep in mind that there are a lot of missing pieces in the puzzle that is paleontology (and archaeology) with varying, and sometimes contradictory, schools of thought, where researchers are always trying to find explanations for missing links as best they can, and will supersede past theories with new ones all the time as new discoveries are made that don't fit in with the current accepted model. But you already knew this. ;)

;):cool:

[liegeprime]

Meh. Tell me when it starts raining men, about half-past ten, hallelujah! :)

Somehow if this happened there'd be a lot of dead men.... imagine falling from that height waaay up from the clouds down on solid concrete streets and highways, brick rooftops nad even just plain old grassland ground. OUCH!! Lucky if they fall in rivers, they'd still have a chance :p but yeah, it's a massacre oh my goodness, blood everywhere, guts , bones splaterred across everywhere.... :p:p


Hehe, then I'd love to know what people think of these:

Snip

I can bear small spiders but big ones like that just sends a chill up my spine, I don't even wanna attempt getting anything to splatter it. I prefer my spiders and other bugs for that matter, smaller and encased in amber or similar acrylic plastic resin casing. Having said that my old PC Mouse is a freebie from those Bugs magazine and it has a spider preserved/encased in Plastic clear acrylic which serves as the body of the mouse (the part where you hold to the mouse) So yeah I can bear with spiders but not like that big ones and alive...

[Kazza]

Oh man why did i come back to this thread and look at page 2 with the images, thanks guys, gonna have nightmares. Speaking off i have been having reoccuring nightmares of spiders crawling around me for a solid 5 yrs.

Reason i fear them was back when i was a kid, about 6-7 years old, in the backyard of our house, mum and i were admiring the stars. And i thought mum put her hand on my head to pat me. I turn to look at her and i notice both her arms and hands were kept to her sides. But i remember mums gaze and opened mouth staring at me in shock. Than i feel it moving on my head like fingers tapping individually. Mum screamed, I screamed, she brushed it off my head extremely quick and i saw it on the ground, a huntsman about the size of an adults hand (but than again everything looks big when your a kid). Anyways i remember mum stomping furiously as i clinged onto her from behind crying in fear.

[5FDP]

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7svl9JYsz1qmtvvso1_500.jpg

[ILikeSoundwave]

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7svl9JYsz1qmtvvso1_500.jpg

Haha so funny!

[Deonasis]

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7svl9JYsz1qmtvvso1_500.jpgReal LOLs!! Thankyou :)

That is the funiest TF thing i have seen for a while.

[Bidoofdude]

With the Soundwave, I panicked and threw it like 5 metres at the wall. Little black slash mark now.:p

[Bartrim]

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7svl9JYsz1qmtvvso1_500.jpg

Thats like me when I see one.

Why the hell am I still reading this thread?!?!?!?!?!

I scrolled straight past those pictures Hursti. Didn't even pause to look as soon as I saw the top the image I knew what it was going to be and scrolled straight past.:o

[Hursticon]

I scrolled straight past those pictures Hursti. Didn't even pause to look as soon as I saw the top the image I knew what it was going to be and scrolled straight past.:o

Hehehe... :p:D

[5FDP]

Thats like me when I see one.

Good to know... say, you're coming to the fair in May right? ;) :D