Ack! Spiders!

[Feralpenchant]

Yikes! Aren't Banana Spiders and Brazilian Wandering Spiders one and the same? And listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's most venomous spider?? And she lived alongside you for a whole season??! I think that could even give me the heebie jeebies!!

No, they're not, Brazilian Wandering Spiders don't make webs, Banana spiders do, and banana spiders are harmless.

I read on the news that some whole foods place found a brazilian wandering spider in one of their produce shipments. RKWAHKDJACB

RUN!

 

[HopeDream]

I don''t mind spiders along as they''re not on me.
If a spider gets on me ( or any bug realy) I have a full body freak out - totaly involuntary!
Then as soon as it''s gone I''m fine. I feel a little silly, because I''m an ecologist and work woth a lot of creepy crawlers.

I trained my cat to eat spiders:
Every time I see a spider in the house I bring my cat to it and point to it and go "kick-kick-kick" (fast and in a highish pitch)
(you know the sound cats make when they see a bird out the window- I try to make that sound).

The she eats it

! What a good cat!

Try it with your cat.

cheers!

HD

 

[fleur-de-lis]

Date: 4/22/2009 2:40:46 PM
Author: Feralpenchant
Yikes! Aren''t Banana Spiders and Brazilian Wandering Spiders one and the same? And listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world''s most venomous spider?? And she lived alongside you for a whole season??! I think that could even give me the heebie jeebies!!


No, they''re not, Brazilian Wandering Spiders don''t make webs, Banana spiders do, and banana spiders are harmless.


I read on the news that some whole foods place found a brazilian wandering spider in one of their produce shipments. RKWAHKDJACB

RUN!

FeralPenchant, now thanks to this thread, I think that cute little kitty in your avatar is hiding from a spider-- she looks terrified!!

 

[Feralpenchant]

LOL! She does look scared! I never noticed that.

That''s actually her pounce face. She was trying to hide behind the blanket before she pounced on my hand.