Close encounter of the arachnid kind-bug video added post 26

[ChrisH]

It's just an ordinary house spider, albeit one of the big kind. Autumn is mating time and the males are all pretty busy running around looking for a mate. Who am I to get in their way.

[anna_66]

I would have absolutely FREAKED OUT Just seeing the picture gives me the heebee jeebies!

[Pam]

I can't believe I was brave enough to look! Chris I would have been afraid to lay the ruler down next to it for fear that the spider would run over and jump on my hand. Can you tell I am afraid of those things?

Once, years ago when I was a teenager, (OK many years ago when I was a teenager ) I walked up our front walk and right through a huge spider web that was built between two evergreen trees. It was huge and felt like rope as I walked through. I ran inside and starting stripping off my clothes even before I was in the privacy of my bedroom!

[mike001]

It's just an ordinary house spider, albeit one of the big kind. Autumn is mating time and the males are all pretty busy running around looking for a mate. Who am I to get in their way.

Pretty cool statement.....I have never seen anything so scary looking, spiders out here aren't that big. I cannot stand spiders of any kind...yuck.

[catnapper]

Oh dear --- I would have been screaming so hysterically that the neighbors would have been prompted to call 911!

One of my coworkers liberates all the bugs in the store. Last week a wasp was stuck in the store and he spent all afternoon trying to coax it down from the ceiling region onto a piece of paper so that he could release it outside. I had a customer a few hours later who saw in on the ground and promptly squashed it. My poor coworker was heartbroken!

[K9soul]

It looks like a hobo spider (or else a brownish grass spider, they can look similar). If you google that it'll come up with a bunch of images. They can actually get pretty big and they build funnel webs in corners and crannies. I remember when I was a lot younger and still living with my mom in Missouri, I was picking up a towel to dry my hair and in the mirror I saw a big spider running across the back of the towel. Lemme tell you that towel went flying . I don't mind seeing them if I know they are there but I don't like being startled LOL. I love the little spider emoticon in your first post, really added to the story .

[jennielynn1970]

OMG... if that sucker would have been on MY shoulder, I think the whole block would have heard me scream! That's an ordinary house spider?! Where is this an ordinary one, because I really don't want to go there!!! I've seen little tiny spiders that jump when you put your finger by them, but besides daddy long leggers, that's about it!

Lately, I've been seeing centipedes... those suckers that look like huge eyelashes. UGH! They freak me out!! They move so fast, and they just give me the creeps!

[Taz_Zoee]

I can handle spiders, better than my BF and a bunch of girls I work with, as long as they are NOT on me. That would have freaked me out so bad!! I also can't stand crickets or grasshoppers because they can JUMP on me!! ICK!!

[G535]

We have huntsman spiders here that grow to 4 - 5 inches and up in the tropical parts there are tarantulas and bird spiders which are a Lot bigger! Huntsmans are found in most houses near us.

Here's some information and photos of the big guys: http://www.amonline.net.au/factSheet...an_spiders.htm

[crow_noir]

What freaked me out more was the parasite on the one in the last picture!

I felt so sorry for the one with the wasp parasite on it.

We have huntsman spiders here that grow to 4 - 5 inches and up in the tropical parts there are tarantulas and bird spiders which are a Lot bigger! Huntsmans are found in most houses near us.

Here's some information and photos of the big guys: http://www.amonline.net.au/factSheet...an_spiders.htm

[crow_noir]

OMG, S.O. is sooooo afraid of those... and they're one of my favorites. I used to feed them when i was younger.

It looks like a hobo spider (or else a brownish grass spider, they can look similar). If you google that it'll come up with a bunch of images. They can actually get pretty big and they build funnel webs in corners and crannies. I remember when I was a lot younger and still living with my mom in Missouri, I was picking up a towel to dry my hair and in the mirror I saw a big spider running across the back of the towel. Lemme tell you that towel went flying . I don't mind seeing them if I know they are there but I don't like being startled LOL. I love the little spider emoticon in your first post, really added to the story