Critteraphobia: Fear of Creepy Crawlies

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Check out the size of this friggin' Hobo Spider that was hidin' behind the stock rim of my truck when I removed it to bolt on the mags and new tires... :O

Scared the shit out of me! I do not like spiders...

But... there is one thing that will make this 6' 5" 235 pound dude scream and run like a little girl... RATS... I hate rats...

Anyways... thought you'se guys would dig the size of this spider... Hobo's are poisonous... not as bad as a Brown Recluse or a Black Widow... but damn close...

Gary
 

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hahaha thanks for the laugh G. My wife hates spideys and such, I am not such a worrywart. Always prudent to be wary. :)
 
I think you might be alright Gary, that or maybe it's a female. It's abdomen doesn't look right....it looks too wide, and the markings aren't like the hobos I've played with. It's lacking the pronounced spinnerette and crossed "shoestring" pattern on the abdomen and the trapezoid on the cephalothorax I'm familiar with. It also doesn't look "hairy" enough. And from the pic, I think I see white dots on it's abdomen. I don't know that species, but if it's the same one I'm thinking of, they nested and webbed all over my front porch in PA. Even hatched several nests in close proximity, and hobos are very solitary spiders....hence the name. In fact, the best way to keep hobos out of your house is to welcome other spiders! I guess as far as the spider heirarchy, hobos sit low on the totem pole and are the first to be run off by other species, including wolf spiders. Little bit of trivia...hobos can't climb walls! So if you see a spider trying to climb a wall and keeps falling off it's very likely it's a hobo. Yeah, I like spiders......:O

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Either way, big damn spider! :\::O
 
Spiders give the creeps... but I deal with it ... I HATE ANTS! I just get the heebie jeebies...
Also had a mouse make me bout jump off a limb one time. Freaked me out. I was making a cut and it came out of the limb (now obviously hollow) and ran across my hand... I definatly checked the chain location and just sat there trying to collect myself..
 
Yeah, not a recluse; no fiddle. The shiny legs lead me to think it's not a wolf spider. I'd need a better look to call it. But hells yeah that's a big figgin spider! I love spiders, but I don't like being surprised by them unexpected. I'd prbably have sreamed too!
 
Gas you would have hated a tree I just did the other day.. Death by beetle, was so infested the spiders had moved in... I was buckin the trunk... they all came running out... Even made me shivver....:O
 
Snakes aren't bad-they taste like frog. Jay, you keep that centipede away from me! Shudder.
 
yeah jay, keep those in your neck of the woods. take a baseball bat to kill one of those!
 
vharrison said:
Ha, that thing Jay posted freaked me a bit. Bugs and spiders don't bother me, just snakes. I hate snakes.
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Oh I just love snakes ,bigger the better .Nice leather for western boots ,hatbands and belts .:|: I can't say I've ever eaten one though but a frog is pretty tasty .
 
sotc said:
ive eaten one of these before
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I think I would prefer the rectum of a skunk myself although I have no reference to same . Although I might add I've seen dogs lick their butt after bad vittles to get the taste out of their mouths .:lol:
 
Stumper and SOTC....big strong men like you afraid of a little centipede...aren't all those tiny legs cute...just think of one crawling up your trouser leg. :lol:
 
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