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I will attach the picture so that the non-spider people won't have to deal with it.
This spider was in our office just now. A co-worker caught it in a large manilla envelope and took it outside.
I looked online and I believe it is in fact a tarantula. It was so neat to see it in person.
Oh, the actual size of it was about 2 1/2 to 3 inches in diameter.
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Eek, that's what it looks like to me. Yikes, I don't think I'd want to see that in my office, although I love seeing them "up close." I'd prefer behind glass, though, at a zoo, haha. Are you including the legs in the measurement? I know the bodies are usually 1-4 inches, but that doesn't include the legs. Too bad there's not something near it to judge size (like a soda can or dollar bill or something). Beautiful animal, though, even though they scare the crap out of me!
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Holy sh-t! If I saw that in my office or house, I would have been out the door long before the spider was!Spiders and snakes are two things that freak me out!
Sure looks like a tarantula to me. Now I have the creepy-crawlies just thinking about it.....
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Paizly Taggart Jax Zeplyn
It was a baby (we think). The size I gave included the legs. In this picture (taken on a cell phone) it looks HUGE. But it wasn't as big as the tarantula's you see like on TV and stuff.
Yeah, some of the ladies were a bit panicked. But I was surprised by some of the people in my office that weren't afraid of it at all. Like the girl that took the picture. When I walked around the corner she was crouched down right in front of it trying to get it to smile for the picture! LOL
They are actually harmless to humans, so there wasn't anything to be afraid of. When it ran into the envelope you could hear the click of the legs on the paper. That was creepy!!
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Cindy (Human) - Taz (RB Tabby) - Zoee (RB Australian Shepherd) - Paizly (Dilute Tortie) - Taggart (Aussie Mix) - Jax (Brown & White Tabby), - Zeplyn (Cattle Dog Mix)
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Originally Posted by Taz_Zoee
They can't/don't bite? I know all spiders aren't venomous, but I thought they could all bite. I get bitten all the time by spiders. I was outside after my husband mowed yesterday and within five minutes, was bitten.Nothing to worry about, true, but annoying nonetheless.
I'm more freaked out by them, not so much afraid that they'll hurt me.
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Holy sh-t! If I saw that in my office or house, I would have been out the door long before the spider was!
Sure looks like a tarantula to me. Now I have the creepy-crawlies just thinking about it.....
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I'm not "afraid" of them - they just give me the creeps.
We get sprickets here a lot - now those things are super weird and creepy. If I find one in the house, I have to get my son to kill it, since I had a huge one jump at me once and scared the daylights out of me.
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To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.
Ecclesiastes 3:1The clock of life is wound but once and no man has the power
To know just when the hands will stop - on what day, or what hour.
Now is the only time you have, so live it with a will -
Don't wait until tomorrow - the hands may then be still.
~~~~true author unknown~~~~
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Hey we could always try to put them on a Steek..
I'm not "afraid" of them - they just give me the creeps.
We get sprickets here a lot - now those things are super weird and creepy. If I find one in the house, I have to get my son to kill it, since I had a huge one jump at me once and scared the daylights out of me.
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One summer when I was in college a friend and I rented an apartment. In hindsight it was horrible - but we were too young (and poor) to recognize it.
It was a Saturday night and I was washing my hair when I noticed a spider in the bathroom with me. I left the bathroom, stuffed a towel under the door and told my roommate that I had just seen the biggest, hairest spider I could imagine!
I normally do not have a problem dealing with critters - whatever method is appropriate - but this was SO BIG and SO HAIRLY.
We decided to go and get my boyfriend (we did not have a phone) and ask for his help.
As I drove saying -- over and over - THE BIGGEST-- HAIRIEST spider - I realize it was a tarantula.
Sure enough, my boyfriend - who had had them as pets in the past - identified and removed it to live another day -- NOT in our bathroom.
What you have there IS a tarantula!
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