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jdluvr06

No one should ever squish a wolf spider. The reason there was a baby spider explosion is because wolf spiders carry their babies on their bodies. So.... Yeah. Ew.

offensivekitten2

I think bats are adorable, but once one scared the bajeebus out of me.

I used to walk to school in the mornings, and during part of the year it would be predawn and pretty gloomy. One dau, I got to the little wooded part of the walk, and something smacked into the side of my head, fell a bit, and caught itself in my hair. It squeaked and I thought to myself: "Girl, you got a bat in your hair"

Luckily he left pretty quickly, but boy did having a wild animal next to my ear get my heart going!

slothiegal

lolo883 said:

Gross. I hope we don't have stinkbugs in Michigan. I don't wanna Google it to find out. I had always thought we were pretty tame, creature-wise... I guess not if we have demon piggyback spider explosions. And earwigs. EWW earwigs!

Oh for the love of....thanks for reminding me of a childhood fear that I had buried deep in my subconscious.  Eeeeek!!

gladyscf

beethery said:

If they are Western Conifer Beetles, they're not that bad. They just kind of doodle slowly around the house and then get confused by lights. I just coerce them onto pieces of paper and then flick them outside. Sometimes the cats play with them and the bugs fart on the cats' faces. They like to eat wood so it usually smells like a confusing pine or apple smell. Bugs are weird.

gladyscf

lolo883 said:

Sorry I started a convo about spiders, but misery loves company. And y'all can be my character witnesses when I plead justification via spiders at my arson trial.

I was trying to remember who started all this! 

You can count on me as a witness!

larrygaga

Once I was playing with a pretty little green spider and FI ate him.

Ate him. For a joke.

thisismynickname2

BreMR said:

I am horrified by the baby spiders coming off of the giant spiders.  I mean, that shit is what horror movies are made of.  Sometimes I think I'd love nothing more than to live down south, and then I remember... Minnesota doesn't breed giant ass spiders because it's too cold. I think I'll take my six month winters.

SAME! (But I'm in northern Illinois.)  WHERE DO YOU PEOPLE LIVE!!?? Scorpions? Spiders the size of your HANDS!?

But that being said, when there are teeny (dime-size including legs) spiders in my home, I cup them and slide a paper towel behind the cup to trap the spider, then dump it in the toilet.... and the bleach the cup. And my hands. 

larrygaga

lolo883 said:

Gross. I hope we don't have stinkbugs in Michigan. I don't wanna Google it to find out. I had always thought we were pretty tame, creature-wise... I guess not if we have demon piggyback spider explosions. And earwigs. EWW earwigs!

When I lived in the UP my college house had an infestation of wolf spiders. I'm not usually afraid of spiders but holy sweet jesus. I went into the basement and it was like the forbidden forest. I was waiting for aragog to come out and kill me.

thisismynickname2

Oh, you know what else? Did anyone else read Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark?

You know what story where the spider lays eggs IN the woman and then her wound breaks open and baby spiders come out?

That shit freaks me out. I had a weird bite on my chest recently that wouldn't heal, and I was fairly convinced I was going to bust out in spiders one day. (It has since healed spider-free.) Gawd. 

arrippa

thisismynickname said:

Oh, you know what else? Did anyone else read Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark?

You know what story where the spider lays eggs IN the woman and then her wound breaks open and baby spiders come out?

That shit freaks me out. I had a weird bite on my chest recently that wouldn't heal, and I was fairly convinced I was going to bust out in spiders one day. (It has since healed spider-free.) Gawd. 

I looked that up in Snopes awhile ago and thankfully, it's false.

BreMR

thisismynickname said:

Oh, you know what else? Did anyone else read Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark?

You know what story where the spider lays eggs IN the woman and then her wound breaks open and baby spiders come out?

That shit freaks me out. I had a weird bite on my chest recently that wouldn't heal, and I was fairly convinced I was going to bust out in spiders one day. (It has since healed spider-free.) Gawd. 

You know the worst part, is that there was an actual drawing of the the split open face with hundreds of spiders coming out of her face.

I remember that story CLEARLY.

agh.

EDITED:  FOUND THE PIC

jdluvr06

All the bug talk has me thinking about my friends' daughter. My friends are both really outdoorsy. They camp, hike, rock climb, ect. You name it they've tried it. Well I went my friend to the park with her daughter one time. We're sitting on the bench chatting and watching the girl run around. All of a sudden the kid started screaming bloody murder. So we both, naturally, are up and running to her as fast as possible thinking something terrible is happening. We get there and the girl screams "there is a bug on the slide". It was a little cricket. That was two years ago and they still can't get this kid to hike or camp with them without freaking out about bugs. Lol

beethery

larrygaga said:

Once I was playing with a pretty little green spider and FI ate him.

Ate him. For a joke.

you need to call the authorities on your FI. He is not human.

beethery

@BreMR you are probably a bad person for posting that picture.


I am definitely a bad person for laughing so hard.

BreMR

@beethery I didn't even hesitate about subjecting everyone to that...My bad.  

ShesSoCold

When I was in high school, a friend rear-ended someone because a spider was on her leg while she was stopped at a red light and she took her foot off the brake when she panicked. I made fun of her. A week later I left my car windows open at a friend's house. When I got in it, there was a giant grasshopper on the floor and I almost got hit by a car when I jumped out of the car and into the street. Bug karma is a bitch. Edited because I swear I'm putting spaces in. Also, these stories are terrible and are reminding me of terrible experiences I had deeply suppressed.

beethery

My mom almost crashed the car once because a mouse ran across her lap while she was driving. We live in a heavily wooded town, and they will just go make a home in your vehicle during the colder months. I almost got grounded for laughing at her.

VulgarGirl

larrygaga said:

Once I was playing with a pretty little green spider and FI ate him.

Ate him. For a joke.

And you're still gonna marry FI? Now that's love.

VulgarGirl

BreMR said:

thisismynickname said:

Oh, you know what else? Did anyone else read Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark?

You know what story where the spider lays eggs IN the woman and then her wound breaks open and baby spiders come out?

That shit freaks me out. I had a weird bite on my chest recently that wouldn't heal, and I was fairly convinced I was going to bust out in spiders one day. (It has since healed spider-free.) Gawd. 

You know the worst part, is that there was an actual drawing of the the split open face with hundreds of spiders coming out of her face.

I remember that story CLEARLY.

agh.

EDITED:  FOUND THE PIC

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, was fucking twisted shit. But the illustrations that went along with the stories, were even more fucked and probably scared me for life in ways I can't even begin to understand. 

VulgarGirl

thisismynickname said:

BreMR said:

I am horrified by the baby spiders coming off of the giant spiders.  I mean, that shit is what horror movies are made of.  Sometimes I think I'd love nothing more than to live down south, and then I remember... Minnesota doesn't breed giant ass spiders because it's too cold. I think I'll take my six month winters.

SAME! (But I'm in northern Illinois.)  WHERE DO YOU PEOPLE LIVE!!?? Scorpions? Spiders the size of your HANDS!?

But that being said, when there are teeny (dime-size including legs) spiders in my home, I cup them and slide a paper towel behind the cup to trap the spider, then dump it in the toilet.... and the bleach the cup. And my hands. 

The Arizona Bark Scorpion (which is the super scary might kill you if you get stung one) also carries it's babies on it's back. So you think spider exploding into millions of babies is bad...we got scorpions exploding into millions of scorpions. 

Welcome to Arizona, if the heat, wild fires, coyotes, snakes, and spiders don't scare ya, we've got poisonous scorpions that explode into more poisonous scorpions! Why the fuck does anyone live here?

ashley8918

WHY do I keep reading this thread? WHY?

beethery

@MagicInk I heard somewhere that they're re-issuing the books but with different illustrations.

The illustrations were PERFECT for those creepy-ass books though, I have no idea how to feel about that.

VulgarGirl

So off the topic of creepy crawlies...I stayed home yesterday to get some painting done. The only thing I painted was my nails. So I had to go into work today because someone who does not have keys to shop booked an early appointment (why!?!? bad person!) and I said I'd go because I'm nice (and live the closest). So of course today, I'm all inspired and want to paint. 

Brought sketch pad and I'm gonna go home early. 

VulgarGirl

beethery said:

@MagicInk I heard somewhere that they're re-issuing the books but with different illustrations.

The illustrations were PERFECT for those creepy-ass books though, I have no idea how to feel about that.

Yeah, they were creepy as fuck...but they were supposed to be. Honestly seeing those illustrations made me really want to be an artist. Everything I'd seen to that point was all happy and pretty and ugh I never had any desire to paint pretty pictures. Then I saw that twisted horrifying shit and was like yes, I can do that!! 

And every child should be a little physiologically scarred. It makes you an interesting grown up.

grumbledore

@MagicInk are you on the Treehouse?  I think you'd like it.

VulgarGirl

grumbledore said:

@MagicInk are you on the Treehouse?  I think you'd like it.

I am not, but I'll have to go check it out. I did look at it once to see what it was.

SapphireCounselor

MagicInk said:

thisismynickname said:

BreMR said:

I am horrified by the baby spiders coming off of the giant spiders.  I mean, that shit is what horror movies are made of.  Sometimes I think I'd love nothing more than to live down south, and then I remember... Minnesota doesn't breed giant ass spiders because it's too cold. I think I'll take my six month winters.

SAME! (But I'm in northern Illinois.)  WHERE DO YOU PEOPLE LIVE!!?? Scorpions? Spiders the size of your HANDS!?

But that being said, when there are teeny (dime-size including legs) spiders in my home, I cup them and slide a paper towel behind the cup to trap the spider, then dump it in the toilet.... and the bleach the cup. And my hands. 

The Arizona Bark Scorpion (which is the super scary might kill you if you get stung one) also carries it's babies on it's back. So you think spider exploding into millions of babies is bad...we got scorpions exploding into millions of scorpions. 

Welcome to Arizona, if the heat, wild fires, coyotes, snakes, and spiders don't scare ya, we've got poisonous scorpions that explode into more poisonous scorpions! Why the fuck does anyone live here?

I grew up in California's Mojave desert. We had all of those things too! Snakes, coyotes, tarantellas, scorpions and more. Tarantellas are the creepiest! We just went to visit my family in my hometown and it was hot as hell and I found myself wondering what possess anyone to live in that environment. Lol

Inkdancer

Eugh. I think I'll stick with the South. At least I can see a cottonmouth coming. Fuck y'all's scorpions.

Cookie Pusher

Holy crap. I went out to lunch and came back to a lot of EWWW and HELL NO!

lyndausvi

Cookie Pusher said:

Holy crap. I went out to lunch and came back to a lot of EWWW and HELL NO!

Ditto. Now I will be stepping away.