jesus :o
lol hobo spider

Oh, trust me. the infestation is here. I just put them outside If I think they are big enough to upset my boyfriend. Otherwise they are really benign. I see hundreds of these things this time of year.

KILLITKILLITKILLIT!!!!!!!! lol yeah I get those every summer too XD squash fest

Im sure there are a few people who would prefur me to handle them that way. I just can never bring myself to kill them for simply being spiders though, espesialy considering that as far as spiders go they aren't that bad. But yeah, I get a ton of them.

if my mother ever saw anything like that she would die. and i dont mean that as in have a panic attack. she would literally die.

0.o maybe they are deadly after all.

No more than an hour ago I had to have Jux kill a really big brown spider for me.
We've been having to deal with a consistent number of spiders in the two years of being here.

I'm really hoping Nikolai and Antlion's place is less prone to spiders. x.x;;

They aren't even on a ground level. I'm sure if they have spiders its not nearly as many as I get.

I get bitten by these bastards all the time in my sleep. It's irritating and itchy, and then I realize a spider was crawling on me and I sob in a freshly-raid-sprayed corner.

*shivers* haate seeing those lil buggers. So fuckin creepy..

This has been a banner year for spiders, I have them in the house and all over the yard--can't go anywhere outside without running into a web.

There are quite a few orb weavers up here. They were a rare site in New Mexico. They are beautiful spiders and the webs they make are incredible. I just wish they wouldn't make quite so many of them or put them in paths I walk every single day >.>

seems alot like the huntsman spider... creepy buggers...
theres just no place safe is there :C

http://www.lollibrary.com/gallery/d.....th-bar_001.jpg

lol, In Australia peoples fears of spiders and snakes are well founded though. They are home to the most dealdy snake in the world and at least 1 dangerous spider. In the U.S. we only need to worry about black widows and brown recluses, which cause horrible bits but are really only deadly to very small children and people to stupid to go to the doctor at the first sign of irritation after a bite.

think we have a variation of the black widow called the red back, nasty little buggers...
not sure about that recluse though I bet its nasty

Brown recluses are small little reclusive spiders that have a bite that causes necrotic skin rot that has to be surgically removed. They are pretty nasty in that you don't normally notice when the actual bite happens. Thankfully they live up to their name and mostly don't interact anywhere near areas where there are people.

avoid the U.S - check 8C
SKIN ROT!? dude, thats messed up.
Someone aught to tell those spiders that isnt cool...

lol, Like I said. those bites are pretty rare. unless you plan on rummaging though boxes of knickknacks in peoples attics while your here you're probably fine. black widows are the more common bite but thats because they don't give a shit where they live. The always loved making their webs in my bookshelves, TV stands, and even couches when I lived in the desert. Their bites can make a leg or and arm go numb and make you pretty wickedly sick but they are generally not fatal.

I'm 42 and still trying to get over mild arachnophobia. Comes from putting on a boot at age 6 and finding a freshly crushed black widow in it after feeling the crush. I even played with black widows with my friends in 5th and 6th grade, but I still go wiggy at the sight of a huge wolf spider in my shower, and sadly, they don't have room in my home. I don't have flying insects, so they can just go crushy bye bye. But, I do have something of a pet spider on my front porch. She's earning her keep as she's catching wasps. So, I'm getting better.

Have fun.

Maybe you can do your own little experiment and let a Hobo bite you.

BTW, I'm up here in Hoboland too, near Spokane actually (Hobos are the least of my worries, we have Tea Partiers here.)

XD Tea Partiers..

lol, yeah good luck with that. You should atend one of their events and take a bunch of these with you: http://media.photobucket.com/image/.....lemonparty.png :P

Yeah my arachnophobia was triggered by waking up in bed with a big honken wolf spider when I was young. It's tough thing to get over. Black widows still creep my the hell out but I have gotten over being shocked at the sight of spiders I know to be harmless. I don't think that without poking one of this hobos with a stick repeatedly that i could get on pissed enough to eve attempt biting me. They seem to be pretty chill though I don't suppose that it would be that bad if they did since the most they could do is give you a mildly itchy welt.

I haven't actually seen any black widows up here but I suspect that there are probably plenty of them out on that side of the mountains. People tell me that you can find them here on this side but so far I have found a few spiders that look like them minus being the same stark black and minus the hour glass. for that matter the head and thorax shape in these guys don;t match black widows so I suspect that it is just one of many misleading spider folk tales.

Cool! We have banana spiders around here ( http://davidmichaelkennedy.com/blog.....ana-spider.jpg (not my photo)). They don't tend to come indoors, but like to build their enormous webs across paths in forests, which cause them to hover right around face-height.

wholy shit! I suppose one could get used to those but man. That's a big assed spider!

The worst web makers I have ever seen here are some of the lager orb weavers that only get about 1 1/2 inches in leg span. So do those spiders actually take their name for being around bananas?

I think they get their name because they're big and yellow, like a banana, but I'm not sure. I used to encounter these all the time when I was working as a field archaeologist in southeastern Georgia, and even though I'm not afraid of spiders, having them appear an inch from your face while pushing through dense underbrush is a bit unsettling.

I've always had a "live and let live" policy when it comes to spiders, but a friend of mine will happily remove them by force from existence.

That always makes me sad when I see someone just step on them :( It seems a bit harsh.

Spiders are alright. Some of the little jumping spiders are actually kind of cute, I think.

Oh yeah I used to play with those when I was really young:)

COOL!
i love spiders...they fascinate me

they are pretty cool :)

Spiders are cool, but I still shudder whenever a big, black, hairy Tegenaria atrica (a close relative of your Hobo) runs for my legs when I'm on the loo or drops onto my keyboard when I'm at the computer. This happens far too often... :/

I saw one of those when I was living in Göteborg. It was very late at night and I was fumbling around in the kitchen late at night, and it ran across the counter. I was amazed there were spiders that big there.

Their size never ceases to amaze me, no matter how many of them I see. They're our second largest spider; only the semi-aquatic Great raft spider has them beat.