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 Texas Tenderheart
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Location: Red Raiderland | Notice the babies on her back hitchin a ride.
I'm headed to Petsmart tomorrow for a collar for her...
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| I'd pass out if I saw that in person! |
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 Texas Taco
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Location: Bandera, TX | Yuck! This is even more gross than a scorpion carrying her babies on her back...
I stepped on a pregnant scorpion the other day and then had scorpion embryos stuck on my sneakers. Yuck! Yuck! Yuck! |
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 Elite Veteran
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| WHY did I open this?! Gross gross gross!!! |
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 A Barrel Of Monkeys
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Location: Texas | Hahaha. I saw one of those today packing all her babies on her back. Pretty cute, in a creepy kinda way. |
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | We have them all over our place, they dont bother me at all, they eat the bugs out here and thats just fine with me... |
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Red Bull Agressive
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Location: North Dakota | NOPE. |
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Location: ohio-in my own little world with pretty ponies :) | OMG! That's disgusting!!! I can't handle spiders or snakes. Nope nope nope. Get that outta here! Lol |
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 Miss Laundry Misshap
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| We have some monster spiders up here that look similar to that. They don't carry their young on their back though...that seems odd to me. Most spiders I've dealt with don't do anything with their young. |
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  Whack and Roll
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Location: NE Texas | We have those huge garden spiders all over my barn and I actually like them. My step daughters.....not so much. LOL I don't want them in my house, but I don't mind them outside. |
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| We have tons around our neck of the woods. Take a flash light out at night and shine it about grass level and you'll see all there eyes. Looks like glitter in the grass but its just lots of wolf spiders! |
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 Ms. Marine
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Location: Texas | Well isn't that just cute?! I hope you killed it... |
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 Born not Made
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Location: North Dakota | Yuck.
The enormously large bugs are one reason I will never live in the south. Lived in Arizona for 3 months and the large cockroaches were enough for me.
Good ol' North Dakota winters kill off most of that stuff up here.  Thank goodness. I haaaaaate spiders.
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 Ima Fickle Fan
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Location: Texas | I like the wolf spiders as long as they stay in my barn or outside. But if they sneak in my house, you will hear me yelling "DIE, DIE" followed by shhhhhhhhh............ Which is the can of Raid going off. And I use the wasp spray so I don't have to get as close to them. It shoots farther and more accurately than spider spray. |
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 Do You Feel Lucky Punk?
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Location: NM...the Land of Manana | EWWWWWYYY!!! |
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 BHW Resident Surgeon
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | They are cute. |
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"Heck's Coming With Me"
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Location: Kansas | That's why I have a pool and condo for my toads.... to keep them close to the house and barn. They eat all those eight-legged varmits.
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 You get what you give
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Location: Texas | I used to be terrified of spiders. Still am, but I can at least look at them now in the barn without flipping out. My sister is huge into spiders right now! Knows all the species in the barn, knows which ones are males and females, knows how to tell a male southern house spider from a brown recluse. LOL.
She always points them out to me now! So gross. Last winter she and I cut open a banana spider's egg sack to see what was inside. BAD IDEA. |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | I have large garden spiders all over the place, the only thing is, that I hate walking into their webb's and getting it all over me and then its like glue in my hair... |
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Location: Somewhere else | Heck no....I hate them. I've gotten bit 3 times by them things. Not nice critters. |
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Texas Tenderheart
Posts: 6715
Location: Red Raiderland | They are fascinating and gross at the same time. I have spent my life around wolf spiders so they aren't too bad but when I see one the size of one of my Dachshunds it creeps me out a bit. I was brave enough to put that dime down next to it and it didn't move but when I went to pick the dime up she took off. I screamed like a 5 year old. Yuck!  |
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Location: Stuck in a cubicle having tropical thoughts | Thank you for reminding me why we live in Ohio. Every winter I question our sanity of why we don't move south. Then photos like these pop up and we remember why survive the winters. |
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Location: South Texas | I am terrified of spiders! They make me hurt myself - like run into trees, walls, whatever. Double Yuck! |
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