Is this a tarantula?

[caseysmom]

Thats pretty cool! I didn't know we had them around here although I remember camping at ice house as a kid and my dad had one crawl up his leg.

[Catherinedana]

I think spiders are FABULOUS! They are also extremely cooperative if you don't panic around them. Case and point the fact that this beauty clip clopped her happy little legs into an envelope to be deposited outside. I have been bitten by the rather large (but not THAT large!) spiders that we have here in FL (called wolf spiders) and got rather sick (fever, a bit of delirium [which is not that different from my usual state] and nausea). I would have the deepest and most profound respect for a furry lady like that! Where are you from that you see ginormous spiders in your office?

Occasionally a little nipper will rappell (?) from the ceiling here, but nothing like that!

Cheers! Cathy

[Twisterdog]

Cool! I think I would have been tempted to bring her home and see if she would eat in captivity. I used to have a rosy hair tarantula. She was actually very sweet.

I have never heard them called "sprickets" and had to look it up. Seeing the picture, I know what they are, though. Indeed, nasty. I do NOT like crickets or grasshoppers, not AT ALL. Give a me a tarantula any old day!

However this is the most horrifying insect ever, IMO, at least in my part of the country. We call them "sand puppies" here, and I have a positive phobia of them.

[Taz_Zoee]

I actually thought about keeping it, but I didn't know how to care for it and didn't think it was fair to the poor thing.

Oh potato bugs!!! We have those out at my parents house. I HATE those things. They are just so darn UGLY!!!!

[Twisterdog]

IOh potato bugs!!! We have those out at my parents house. I HATE those things. They are just so darn UGLY!!!!

Ugly does not begin to scratch the surface. I think they are actually alien probes, sent here from another planet to scope out the best way to take our the world.

They are beyond creepy. Ewwww, ewwwww, ewwwww!

[AdoreMyDogs]

Ugly does not begin to scratch the surface. I think they are actually alien probes, sent here from another planet to scope out the best way to take our the world.

They are beyond creepy. Ewwww, ewwwww, ewwwww!

Yes I have to agree the potato bug is ugly but is even more disgusting!

[Catlady711]

Yes I have to agree the potato bug is ugly but is even more disgusting!

I agree, earwigs are creeeee-py.


Hard to tell from the picture but kinda looks like a Fishing/Nursery spider to me. Either way it would really creep me out to find that thing indoors. I've been finding enough big black spiders in my basement lately. *shivers*

[allmycats]

that's what I was ging to say, it looks like a baby one. I have seen one and it is bigger than that and black, just the body alone is the size of your fist, at least, not counting the legs.

[Taz_Zoee]

Years ago I had a glass (dark glass) of soda sitting on the floor next to my chair and when I went to take a sip I noticed something mixed in with the ice. It was an earwig (pincher bug is what we call them). So I almost drank it
!!!

[Catlady711]

Best picture of a Fishing Spider I could find that is close to the view of the one you posted.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/susanqjennings/2896215416/

[Twisterdog]

Ewwww, yeah, hate earwigs too. One time I went to water my grass, and the sprinkler wouldn't work properly. So I turned the water off, and took the sprinkler off the hose to see what was wrong. Turns out, it was FULL of earwigs! Nasty!!

When my son was young, he asked, "Mommy, why do they call them earwigs?" (He was so scared of them.) I said I didn't know. He said, "I bet it's because a long time ago people didn't take baths much, and they wore those big wigs, and I bet those bugs lived in their WIGS, then crawled into their EARS." Smart kid!! And SUCH a disgusting thought!

[Medusa]

Ewwww, yeah, hate earwigs too. One time I went to water my grass, and the sprinkler wouldn't work properly. So I turned the water off, and took the sprinkler off the hose to see what was wrong. Turns out, it was FULL of earwigs! Nasty!!

When my son was young, he asked, "Mommy, why do they call them earwigs?" (He was so scared of them.) I said I didn't know. He said, "I bet it's because a long time ago people didn't take baths much, and they wore those big wigs, and I bet those bugs lived in their WIGS, then crawled into their EARS." Smart kid!! And SUCH a disgusting thought!

I HATE EARWIGS!!! We had a lot of rain a couple of years ago and those things were in my gutters and several fell down on me when I opened my front door. They bite! (I'm starting to itch now. I've got to stop reading this thread.)

[Taz_Zoee]

Best picture of a Fishing Spider I could find that is close to the view of the one you posted.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/susanqjennings/2896215416/

This does look a lot like the spider that was in our office. Only it was fatter than the fishing spider. And the two "things" coming from it's face were longer, I believe.