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So yes, I've moved in with jalen, Flynn, akcrazywolf, thekitfox and kolmeck_kithron. About 30 miles from where I was living originally. I thought "Hmm, gee golly, at least I got one thing behind me that I won't mis-OHFUCKDAMMIT! SPIDERS!"
It's a house, and this house has a backyard. In this backyard is a slightly overgrown area of grass and vines that I'm sure anyone in their younger years would have all kinds of adventures running through out.
Me? Hell no. I refuse to roll around in the grass like a stunt double on fire. I know what evils lurk in the darkness. I've seen it, and it was not good. And I've got PROOF!!! I was walking along the perimeter of the yard when I found this specimen hanging out by the fence. Actually I didn't find it, it found me. You see I was meandering my way around some grass overgrowth on the ground when I heard a rustle of leaves, as if something were rushing to meet me. I turned around and bumped something, and hip level was this iconic superhero symbol literally waving at me.
And I swear to the god I don't believe in that it had the nerve to say "Sup?"
I died.
Well okay I didn't, but I did snag the camera and got some awesome footage of it building it's web!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXYS1ZSUMUw
It's a house, and this house has a backyard. In this backyard is a slightly overgrown area of grass and vines that I'm sure anyone in their younger years would have all kinds of adventures running through out.
Me? Hell no. I refuse to roll around in the grass like a stunt double on fire. I know what evils lurk in the darkness. I've seen it, and it was not good. And I've got PROOF!!! I was walking along the perimeter of the yard when I found this specimen hanging out by the fence. Actually I didn't find it, it found me. You see I was meandering my way around some grass overgrowth on the ground when I heard a rustle of leaves, as if something were rushing to meet me. I turned around and bumped something, and hip level was this iconic superhero symbol literally waving at me.
And I swear to the god I don't believe in that it had the nerve to say "Sup?"
I died.
Well okay I didn't, but I did snag the camera and got some awesome footage of it building it's web!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXYS1ZSUMUw
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hates when they discard the webs cause you fet face full of it then think ran into web and start flipping out thinking sothign on you. ran into one web or the leade rline to it the thick threads they use to hold web and litterly move dmy hair like somthign clicke dmy hair thought it was dragon fly but looekd back ligh tclinted off it and was WTF. saw it leading to woods to bush in fron tof yard. was able to pluck it like touch it and pluck it liek guitar string with out it breaking XD no sound but came back with broom.
We only really get two kinds of spiders in our yard...orb weavers and grass spiders. The orb weavers are pretty darn useful and tend to keep the bug population under control.
Sadly, the grass spiders are almost always male, and constantly sneak into the house...at which point they just wander around aimlessly going "durrr, where da wimminz at?" They are so derp it's hilarious. :D
Sadly, the grass spiders are almost always male, and constantly sneak into the house...at which point they just wander around aimlessly going "durrr, where da wimminz at?" They are so derp it's hilarious. :D
No, harmless to humans means their venom doesn't warrant a visit to the hospital and is nothing to worry about, even if the bite can be painful.
Dangerous to humans, like some of the tarantulas for example, deliver very painful bites that should be looked at by a doctor and treated, usually with muscle relaxants and/or antibiotics.
Potentially lethal to humans, like the black widow or sydney funnel web spider, should always warrant a visit to the hospital as quickly as possible.
Garden spiders are of the harmless variety. Indeed, some of their have toxins that are actually medically beneficial to humans.
That is, you won't get better if you manage to get bitten, but their venom contain toxins that have beneficent effects when used in medicines.
Besides, garden spiders are not aggressive.
Dangerous to humans, like some of the tarantulas for example, deliver very painful bites that should be looked at by a doctor and treated, usually with muscle relaxants and/or antibiotics.
Potentially lethal to humans, like the black widow or sydney funnel web spider, should always warrant a visit to the hospital as quickly as possible.
Garden spiders are of the harmless variety. Indeed, some of their have toxins that are actually medically beneficial to humans.
That is, you won't get better if you manage to get bitten, but their venom contain toxins that have beneficent effects when used in medicines.
Besides, garden spiders are not aggressive.
I see you missed that "burning horror pain" might be a colorful wording for "doesn't warrant a visit to the hospital" but "can be painful". Seriously, why are you even writing this dissertation? Nothing I said contradicts this extremely common knowledge.
Your whole line of reasoning contradicts the point of the journal here, though; this fairly small harmless spider Noben ran into was considered large and frightening by him. I pointed out a much larger and similarly harmless spider that lives in the same area. This was in no way a journal about the world's deadliest spiders.
Your whole line of reasoning contradicts the point of the journal here, though; this fairly small harmless spider Noben ran into was considered large and frightening by him. I pointed out a much larger and similarly harmless spider that lives in the same area. This was in no way a journal about the world's deadliest spiders.
This is probably going to get long-winded, but it's to prevent misunderstandings. :)
I did indeed miss that "burning horror pain" was colourful wording for "doesn't warrant a visit to the hospital" but "can be painful".
I merely wrote the explanation since I thought you had a misconception about the garden spiders being dangerous.
You wrote:
"...you need to stop worrying about harmless orb weavers and keep an eye out for yellow-and-black garden spiders."
To me that came across as you saying that garden spiders were dangerous, albeit vague on exactly how dangerous. Hence my first reply.
When you replied after that, your use of "burning horror pain" made me think that you thought garden spiders had a very painful bite, on par with the nastier tarantulas say. Since I know how many misconceptions and outright falsehoods many people believe about spiders I posted my next response detailing roughly how you usually classify spiders in terms of their bites (well, ok, technically they go by "not medically significant", "medically significant" and with an extra note for those medically significant spiders who are potentially lethal, not the way I did it) and where on that scale garden spiders fit as information, so you and others wouldn't go around being afraid of garden spider bites.
Apparently you do know enough about them to not panic if you get bitten, but that was not clear to me in the previous posts.
Similarly, I did not realize that you simply posted to point out that there was a larger spider often nesting in similar places as the one Noben had found.
However, my replies was meant to educate and in direct response to yours. It was in no way a journal about the word's deadliest spiders, only about the different "levels" of spider bites which, again, you seemed ignorant of.
Misconceptions all around.
Now that you have elaborated on/clarified what you actually meant, your posts does not seem mis-informed as they did to me at first. :)
I did indeed miss that "burning horror pain" was colourful wording for "doesn't warrant a visit to the hospital" but "can be painful".
I merely wrote the explanation since I thought you had a misconception about the garden spiders being dangerous.
You wrote:
"...you need to stop worrying about harmless orb weavers and keep an eye out for yellow-and-black garden spiders."
To me that came across as you saying that garden spiders were dangerous, albeit vague on exactly how dangerous. Hence my first reply.
When you replied after that, your use of "burning horror pain" made me think that you thought garden spiders had a very painful bite, on par with the nastier tarantulas say. Since I know how many misconceptions and outright falsehoods many people believe about spiders I posted my next response detailing roughly how you usually classify spiders in terms of their bites (well, ok, technically they go by "not medically significant", "medically significant" and with an extra note for those medically significant spiders who are potentially lethal, not the way I did it) and where on that scale garden spiders fit as information, so you and others wouldn't go around being afraid of garden spider bites.
Apparently you do know enough about them to not panic if you get bitten, but that was not clear to me in the previous posts.
Similarly, I did not realize that you simply posted to point out that there was a larger spider often nesting in similar places as the one Noben had found.
However, my replies was meant to educate and in direct response to yours. It was in no way a journal about the word's deadliest spiders, only about the different "levels" of spider bites which, again, you seemed ignorant of.
Misconceptions all around.
Now that you have elaborated on/clarified what you actually meant, your posts does not seem mis-informed as they did to me at first. :)
Hah, that video was pretty awesome even with the camera trying to focus on the wrong thing (spiderwebs are hard to photo without a manual zoom, or so I've learned).
I won't swear to it but it looks quite a bit like a bridge spider (Larinioides sclopetarius), an orb weaver from the same family as the cross spiders though it's harmless. Possibly a Larinioides cornutus.
If it's a bridge spider it's a bit unusual since they prefer to nest on metal rather than vegetation (city kids...).
She's a she by the way. :P
I won't swear to it but it looks quite a bit like a bridge spider (Larinioides sclopetarius), an orb weaver from the same family as the cross spiders though it's harmless. Possibly a Larinioides cornutus.
If it's a bridge spider it's a bit unusual since they prefer to nest on metal rather than vegetation (city kids...).
She's a she by the way. :P
Around here, I've seem them in groups spanning from one tree to another that's really nearby. (usually a 5 to 7 foot span) It's very different to find this kind here, in a yard at a house. These kinds of spiders were nowhere to be found anywhere nearby when I lived in an apartment.
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