Are you afraid of spiders? I am... my friend is weird. He loves spiders... yack!

It gives me the creeps...

Nope, in my line of work i bump into them a lot, they're always in front of windows somehow. Then again, we don't have any deadly critters like in Oz. :D

hmm... its ok as long its not the long legged kind.. or the big tarantula unless there is a trainer with it.

spiders are such cute animals
i could fluffy them all day, but they'd be squished then :/

spiders are evil, scary, dangerous an im terrified of them ARGGH!

No but getting a web in the face is a little "phooey".

Spiders are small and harmless in Denmark.

YES! I couldn`t agree more. There are always there,watching you...and you can`t see them...creepy.
Call me anchrophobic(?) but...i will kill spider on sight...

Remember that they catch and eat all those annoying bugs.

You are right about on this one.

dangerous?

dangerous? </font>[/QUOTE]They are harmless as long they do not feel threthend.(sp?) They often bite from fear or they feel threthend. You too punch somebody on the nose if you feel threathned don`t you?

Good point Xen.

dangerous? </font>[/QUOTE]They are harmless as long they do not feel threthend.(sp?) They often bite from fear or they feel threthend. You too punch somebody on the nose if you feel threathned don`t you? </font>[/QUOTE]i'm a pacifist
besides spiders cant hurt you...

That is not entirely true Rikard, some spiders can hurt you, although it is the wast minority of them. And if they do decide to hurt (or at least make an effort at it) it is in self defence, some spiders are more paranoid than others though.

Personally I've got nothing against spiders, in fact, I've got one with a 6 inch leg span sitting on the shelf. Wonderfull little critter.

they are so cute arent them ^_^

its the way they walk... creepy

Most of them are cute...??? But as they say:Poison comes in small packages...
Make a conclusion with this information! :D

Spiders are <s>small</s> big and <s>harmless</s> harmful in <s>Denmark</s> Australia. ;)

Spiders are <s>small</s> big and <s>harmless</s> harmful in <s>Denmark</s> Australia. ;) </font>[/QUOTE]Actually The Black Widow is not big. It is small.
And deadly!

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Yes they can be pretty big and harmful. Seen a lot of animal programs.

The Black Widow is a little devil.

Actually DevilISH...she is a woman you know. :D

Yes you are 100% right Xen [img]graemlins/biglaugh.gif[/img]

I know. I am always right! :D


Edit: :D -smiley

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Bird spiders

"The largest spider of this family has a body 60mm long and a leg span of 160mm and is almost <font color= "red">the size of a man's hand. </font> Bird Eating Spiders are covered with velvety hairs and have small eyes in a clump on the front of their head. Their legs are covered in long hairs. They have claw tufts which enable them to run up smooth surfaces"

It is poisonous but will not kill you unless you are in poor health or have a weak heart

Oh btw they are called bird spiders because they eat birds [img]smile.gif[/img]

Mwahahaha, that's nothing wellard, some spiders get twice that size.

No I'm not afraid of spiders. As a matter of fact I don't have a phobia against any animal ( or anything else for that matter), I'm just being cautious with obviously dangerous animals. The same things with rats, aside from that they can spread deseases and I don't really want them in my home, I'm not afraid of them. Spiders on the other hand I usually leave alone in their corner as they eat flies and other insects.

We should be happy we don't live in Faerûn where Swordspiders and Direspiders lurks in every dark corner.

yes but not poisonous as well [img]tongue.gif[/img]

we have bigger spiders and we have the most deadly spiders. my old house used to have spiders *small* with a white stripe that would not kill you but if you were allergic to the poison it could leave you with a gruesome disfigurement. I'll try to find the link to some pics [img]graemlins/1puke.gif[/img]

It appears that this one is the most dangerous spider on the block. Interresting little critters they have down under.

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In answer to the original question.....Only when there are a bunch of them crawling on me....or...when Im locked in a small room with many spiders and no way out. [img]smile.gif[/img] hope no one has graphic dreams now ;)
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Thanks for the link Johnny. The redback is the most common spider around where I live now but because our kids are sensible and leave them alone we do not bother killing them, just move them away if they come in the house.

this is a quote from the white stripe spider link (johnny's link)

The white-tailed spider (Lampona cylindrata), and bites from some other spiders, such as the common black window or house spider (Badumna species), the cupboard or brown spider, and (in the US)the brown recluse (Loxosceles reclusa) and hobo spiders (Tegenaria agrestis), have been infrequently implicated in the development of the so-called necrotising arachnidism syndrome, in which a near-painless bite progresses to painful cutaneous blistering and inflammation which may progress into intensely cyanotic lesions, occasionally resulting in substantial recurrent local tissue necrosis with a deep rolled ulcer involving fat and skin and exposing muscle. Amputation has been required for severe necrosis, and ulcer recurrence may last for years.

Our old house had hundreds of these!!!!

but do not let any of this put you off visiting. the locals (Human) are friendly [img]graemlins/heee.gif[/img]

[ 07-10-2003, 11:25 AM: Message edited by: wellard ]

I'm scared of spiders. I had a nightmare about spiders in my room the other night; it was awful. We get quite a lot of huntsmen in our house in the summer, which I am well aware are not dangerous, but I'm not afraid of getting bitten by spiders, I'm afraid of them running over me, which huntsmen could do easily. I don't mind them outside where they catch bugs but not in my house.

I'm not scared of spiders. though I have a tendency to immediately kill one if I happen to bump into one.

mm it depends on the spider and the situation ...i woke up n there was a spider on my bed which was rather scary but im not usually scared of them

dangerous? </font>[/QUOTE]They are harmless as long they do not feel threthend.(sp?) They often bite from fear or they feel threthend. You too punch somebody on the nose if you feel threathned don`t you? </font>[/QUOTE]Ah but you aren't punching him in the nose because you hid in his shoe and he put it on without knowing you were in there. Whats there to be afraid of spiders anyhow, they rarely bite in common house varieties, tap out your boots and such if you live somewhere with nasty ones. Thats all you CAN do really.

We have white-tails in NZ too. My Grandmother was bitten by one of these while gardening last summer. It was painful for her, but easily treatable.

For all the arachnaphobia that is present in so many parts of the world, I've still never seen any species on Earth dish out more unnecessary death, pain and destruction than the common human. It's not like spiders are hard to deal with. Their diplomatic philosophy is pretty simple, and one that I hold dear as well: 'Leave me the f**k alone and I'll do the same for you'.

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