Not Cool

[create_destiny]

The Mister found this spider in our bathroom. It's a Bold Jumping Spider.

As you can tell by the scale, the spider is approximately 600 meters long. (Ha! Actually, that's part of a topographical map in the background.)



According to a field guide we have, Bold Jumping Spiders have elaborate courtship rituals that you can stimulate by holding a mirror in front of one. Fucking narcissists! Too bad we didn't know this before the Mister shook him out in the yard. That would have been interesting to see.

If I had found that spider I'd be in a padded room right now.

Comments

[agaitis-byrjun.livejournal.com]

You don't know fear until you've had a Wolf Spider in your house. Everyone was freaking out and no one wanted to go near that monstrosity. We were terrified to go in the basement. Unfortunately, I was already in the basement. With it.

[ygolonac.livejournal.com]

"Aside from occasional bites, this species does little more than frighten an occasional arachniphobe."



That spider had awesome big blue/green eyes.

Btw, no spiders were harmed in the making of this post. After photographing the wee beastie, I released him in the woodpile behind the shed in our backyard where he can catch all manner of insectoid vermin and frighten more arachniphobes.

[welfy.livejournal.com]

I found a black widow spider in my workplace this past week. Spiders usually don't scare me but I was pretty freaked out by this one. I should have killed it, but instead I trapped it in a cup and released it outside.

600 meters LONG?? HOW DID YOU GET OUT ALIVE??!

[lucieandco.livejournal.com]

That is the coolest spider I have seen lately. The fact that it is Bold and Jumping only adds to that. All the spiders in my house are Thin Crawling spiders and if you hold a mirror in front of them they spend half a day looking for themselves and when they do see themselves they think they're a pin stuck in someone else's web.

[superhappytime.livejournal.com]

The Mister? How strangely formal...I thought his pet name would be something like "bitch ass."

[bug-311.livejournal.com]

I think those are the spiders that George plays with. If you like poke at them they get up on their back legs and wave their front arm pincer things in a "don't fuck with me" way. It's pretty col. She said they have a white marking on them that looks like a smiley face.

I think it's funny that she hates spiders, yet she'll play with those ones.

[toodamnloud.livejournal.com]

My husband is fucking terrified of spiders. He saw one of the ceiling, and I dismissed it as him being a pussy until he got dressed and decided he'd sleep in the car. I got it outside and then had to retrieve him from the car. If he'd seen that spider, I'd have had to revive him from a dead faint. He has a true phobia.

[cwmackowski.livejournal.com]

A 600-meter spider--ha ha ha--that was the funniest thing I read all day! :-)

WAY cool! :)

[dietcokehed.livejournal.com]

Shots of one in action!! http://nathistoc.bio.uci.edu/spiders/Paudax.htm


So cute and fuzzy...and how can ya hate a spider with a happy face tattooed on it's ass! ;)