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		Almost all spiders are solitary, and very few hunt together in groups of thousands, cooperating to kill and eat prey thousands of times their own size. Very few (io9.com)		108
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austncorp		2012-05-11 10:57:40 PM

Sweet Drreams.

bob_ross		2012-05-11 11:01:42 PM

So wait, they are the new Ant?

Wyckyd Sceptre		2012-05-11 11:12:18 PM

CSB time:

When I was a kid we lived in Oklahoma. One night, when I was around eleven or twelve, I told my parents I was staying over at a friend's and we stayed out all night exploring. At one point we were wandering through an abandoned orchard in the moonlight, being dive-bombed by bats, when we came upon a section of the orchard that was taken over by spiders. We could not go any further due to a literal wall of webs that stretched from the ground to the treetops. Within the webs we could see little movements in the blue light, and there were large dark spots, as if birds or squirrels had been caught and hung there waiting to be eaten. It felt like the web was going to reach out and pull me in. I wasn't scared of spiders before that night.

Cagey B		2012-05-12 12:09:15 AM

Oh spider threads. How I love thee.

Cagey B		2012-05-12 12:12:12 AM

Cagey B		2012-05-12 12:13:19 AM

Cagey B		2012-05-12 12:14:21 AM

Cagey B		2012-05-12 12:15:23 AM

Bathia_Mapes		2012-05-12 12:17:30 AM

Cagey B		2012-05-12 12:20:05 AM

What a glue trap left outside this thread may look like:

cameroncrazy1984		2012-05-12 12:24:31 AM

The spiders were one of the creepiest parts of Uncharted 3

HawgWild		2012-05-12 12:31:38 AM

Am I the only one who thinks the headline is an oxymoron?

"very few hunt together in groups of thousands"

Few?! They're THOUSANDS of them!

abb3w		2012-05-12 12:35:58 AM

Ob Far Side:

Fano		2012-05-12 12:51:19 AM

Wyckyd Sceptre: CSB time:

When I was a kid we lived in Oklahoma. One night, when I was around eleven or twelve, I told my parents I was staying over at a friend's and we stayed out all night exploring. At one point we were wandering through an abandoned orchard in the moonlight, being dive-bombed by bats, when we came upon a section of the orchard that was taken over by spiders. We could not go any further due to a literal wall of webs that stretched from the ground to the treetops. Within the webs we could see little movements in the blue light, and there were large dark spots, as if birds or squirrels had been caught and hung there waiting to be eaten. It felt like the web was going to reach out and pull me in. I wasn't scared of spiders before that night.

You should have sung:

Old fat spider spinning in a tree!
Old fat spider can't see me!
Attercop! Attercop!
Won't you stop,
Stop your spinning and look for me?

Old Tomnoddy, all big body,
Old Tomnoddy can't spy me!
Attercop! Attercop!
Down you drop!
You'll never catch me up your tree!

Lazy Lob and crazy Cob
are weaving webs to wind me,
I am far more sweet than other meat,
but still they cannot find me!

Here am I, naughty little fly;
you are fat and lazy.
You cannot trap me, though you try,
in your cobwebs crazy."

aniyn		2012-05-12 12:55:36 AM

Thanks for the nightmare fuel jerkmitter.

/off to bed :/

PacificaFitz		2012-05-12 01:00:07 AM

Great, add that to the list of ways I do not want to die.

Diogenes Teufelsdrockh		2012-05-12 01:05:32 AM

"Rock and roll"

artthehypnotist		2012-05-12 01:06:47 AM

Cagey B: Oh spider threads. How I love thee.

Came here to say something like this.

I do not kill spiders I find in my home, I just let them go outside... in YOUR yard.

AKTurkey		2012-05-12 01:08:18 AM

meat0918		2012-05-12 01:10:45 AM

artthehypnotist: Cagey B: Oh spider threads. How I love thee.

Came here to say something like this.

I do not kill spiders I find in my home, I just let them go outside... in YOUR yard.

I love spiders.

I just rescued a Phiddipus audax and put him outside.

But those spiders ummm...

www.tsarbomba.org

Farty McPooPants		2012-05-12 01:12:30 AM

artthehypnotist		2012-05-12 01:13:16 AM

meat0918: artthehypnotist: Cagey B: Oh spider threads. How I love thee.

Came here to say something like this.

I do not kill spiders I find in my home, I just let them go outside... in YOUR yard.

I love spiders.

I just rescued a Phiddipus audax and put him outside.

But those spiders ummm...

[www.tsarbomba.org image 640x480]

From Orbit I assume?

RoyFokker'sGhost		2012-05-12 01:22:39 AM

Fano: Wyckyd Sceptre: CSB time:

When I was a kid we lived in Oklahoma. One night, when I was around eleven or twelve, I told my parents I was staying over at a friend's and we stayed out all night exploring. At one point we were wandering through an abandoned orchard in the moonlight, being dive-bombed by bats, when we came upon a section of the orchard that was taken over by spiders. We could not go any further due to a literal wall of webs that stretched from the ground to the treetops. Within the webs we could see little movements in the blue light, and there were large dark spots, as if birds or squirrels had been caught and hung there waiting to be eaten. It felt like the web was going to reach out and pull me in. I wasn't scared of spiders before that night.

You should have sung:

Old fat spider spinning in a tree!
Old fat spider can't see me!
Attercop! Attercop!
Won't you stop,
Stop your spinning and look for me?

Old Tomnoddy, all big body,
Old Tomnoddy can't spy me!
Attercop! Attercop!
Down you drop!
You'll never catch me up your tree!

Lazy Lob and crazy Cob
are weaving webs to wind me,
I am far more sweet than other meat,
but still they cannot find me!

Here am I, naughty little fly;
you are fat and lazy.
You cannot trap me, though you try,
in your cobwebs crazy."

*SO* looking forward to hearing that song. The chanting in the trailer gave me goosebumps

basemetal		2012-05-12 01:36:25 AM

aerojockey		2012-05-12 01:53:19 AM

Spiders vs crickets, I root for the spiders every time.

jtown		2012-05-12 02:06:26 AM

Lemme guess. Australia?

rocky_howard		2012-05-12 02:11:30 AM

So that's where Blizzard got the inspiration for the Zerg Rush!

KEKEKEKEKEKE!!

redmond24		2012-05-12 02:12:15 AM

Oh my God why did I come into this thread? The last time I came to a spider thread that SECOND spider picture was posted and I seriously had a nightmare the following night.

I Hate you now.

lousyskater		2012-05-12 02:18:03 AM

MagSeven		2012-05-12 02:28:25 AM

This wasn't part of the deal, spiders.

THIS WASN'T PART OF THE DEAL!!!

Uchiha_Cycliste		2012-05-12 02:48:22 AM

I was heartened when they *finally* got to telling us they live 15-20 meters above the ground, and hunt from their webs. Up until then I was imagining a wandering gang of tens of thousands of spiders taking down anything in their path. They'd probably all have tattoos with numbers, indicating their rank, and call themselves Genei Ryoden. thank GOD all we have to do is stay out of their webs. that way we don't end up with tens of thousands of spiders intentionally targeting our joints for their venom.

HighZoolander		2012-05-12 03:10:01 AM

Uchiha_Cycliste: I was heartened when they *finally* got to telling us they live 15-20 meters above the ground, and hunt from their webs. Up until then I was imagining a wandering gang of tens of thousands of spiders taking down anything in their path. They'd probably all have tattoos with numbers, indicating their rank, and call themselves Genei Ryoden. thank GOD all we have to do is stay out of their webs. that way we don't end up with tens of thousands of spiders intentionally targeting our joints for their venom.

Yeah, tell that to the cameraman who had to film that.... I'm sure he didn't mind his bosses telling him to just "get in a little closer"

/and then there's the one asshole who tickles his foot with a feather while he's up there :)

Uchiha_Cycliste		2012-05-12 03:18:54 AM

HighZoolander: Uchiha_Cycliste: I was heartened when they *finally* got to telling us they live 15-20 meters above the ground, and hunt from their webs. Up until then I was imagining a wandering gang of tens of thousands of spiders taking down anything in their path. They'd probably all have tattoos with numbers, indicating their rank, and call themselves Genei Ryoden. thank GOD all we have to do is stay out of their webs. that way we don't end up with tens of thousands of spiders intentionally targeting our joints for their venom.

Yeah, tell that to the cameraman who had to film that.... I'm sure he didn't mind his bosses telling him to just "get in a little closer"

/and then there's the one asshole who tickles his foot with a feather while he's up there :)

How DID they do that? Crane? Ladder? little helicoptor, wires hung from higher trees like the NFL? the trees those webs were in sure aren't going to hold a camera man, and he had that floating around in the air thing going on.

LordJiro		2012-05-12 03:23:09 AM

bob_ross: So wait, they are the new Ant?

i.imgur.com

They're working on it.

scalpod		2012-05-12 03:37:30 AM

Those of us participating in the Arachnid Relocation Program have nothing to worry about.

Those with bad spider karma should sleep well knowing there's only 2 dozen species who do this. THAT WE KNOW OF.

buckler		2012-05-12 03:37:44 AM

Attenborough kicks ass. I always loved this bit.

scalpod		2012-05-12 03:38:17 AM

Think of Phase IV and then ADD TWO LEGS AND SEVERAL EYES.

studebaker hoch		2012-05-12 03:44:55 AM

Nothing quite like reaching for your socket set and feeling your hand go through a black widow web.

Even better when the SOB charges out and stops about two inches from your hand as if to say "get lost".

Best when you come back with your weed burner on the 20 lb bottle with the pilot going, and she's still right there standing her ground.

Get that blaster into juuuuust the right position.

And hit the trigger.

FOOOSSHHHHH

Hey! She left and took her webs with her! Cool.

/get away from my tools you biatch

ShawnDoc		2012-05-12 04:13:22 AM

Whatever you do, don't GIS "brown recluse bite".

9beers		2012-05-12 04:22:49 AM

9beers		2012-05-12 04:27:22 AM

9beers		2012-05-12 04:28:19 AM

omeganuepsilon		2012-05-12 04:31:25 AM

Furniture polish? YOU CRAZY biatch

/love that one

buckler		2012-05-12 04:35:03 AM

omeganuepsilon: Furniture polish? YOU CRAZY biatch

/love that one

That was my mom. In the presence of a spider, every spraycan became deadly to arthropods. Furniture polish, deodorant, hairspray (which actually worked), air freshener, WD-40...

Smoking GNU		2012-05-12 04:49:48 AM

buckler: omeganuepsilon: Furniture polish? YOU CRAZY biatch

/love that one

That was my mom. In the presence of a spider, every spraycan became deadly to arthropods. Furniture polish, deodorant, hairspray (which actually worked), air freshener, WD-40...

If they were accompanied with a lighter or a match, i'd agree with you.

starsrift		2012-05-12 04:59:23 AM

basemetal: [i369.photobucket.com image 238x236]

Love that. You make it?

artthehypnotist		2012-05-12 05:03:38 AM

You know, they are probably trying to cross breed these with Brown Recluse Spiders, Tarantulas, or Camel Spiders, but, it is probably MONTHS away before they actually set it lose close to where you live in some kind of "ACCIDENT". Can you imagine that on such a large scale?

Please, do not let your imagination dwell on this... Sleep well!

omeganuepsilon		2012-05-12 05:11:07 AM

buckler: hairspray

Nothing like encasing bugs(I tend to grab that for flies) in enamel. A little tougher to clean up afterward, but sort of entertaining. Then again I've got a sadistic side, and an an OCD/stubborn side(when I set my mind to it it WILL get done and done in the way of my choosing) when it comes to flies. Anything that flies gets annoying, but flies, junebugs, and moths are the worst since they really like heat. They're either on me or my monitor(why they don't hang out behind the PC tower is beyond me). Sure smaller bugs do the same, but they don't thud into things when they fly about, nor do you hear them buzz.

Spiders, I just blot with a tissue/paper towel(they tend to be juicier than other bugs except fat mosquitoes.) It's funny because a brother and a sister of mine have that irrational fear of spiders. Sister's really bad, get a decade old web on your shirt from leaning on something, and even look like you might head in her direction, she'll spasticly run away, not caring if there's chairs, tables, doors, or babies in her path. I've seen her injure herself more than a couple times, and nearly topple adults. farking crazy.

I flip out if I feel something crawling all of a sudden like, or if they appear in my vision really close(had on in my car drop right to eye level), I'm a flincher when it comes to sudden things of any nature really, but never that kind of deep scared. I will attempt to find an entertaining way to kill something environment permitting though, if I'm on the porch smoking, the lighter gets put to use a lot.(I've burnt many a finger because of windage). I don't do the flamethrower thing though, that's got some inherent danger to it, saw someone melt a window screen once when trying to kill a wasp.(ok, those freak me out a little, but the farkers are painful, to a one).

Precision Boobery		2012-05-12 06:42:10 AM

Well! Nothing horrifying about that!

Congratulations on reading the most sarcastic comment in the history of the internet.

Mayhem of the Black Underclass		2012-05-12 06:44:51 AM

Spiders are cool in my house. If the kids find one and the wife isn't around, we watch until they get bored. If my wife is around we scoop it onto a card or magazine and then treat them like an non-paying tenant. EXCEPT IF I FIND THEM IN THE GOD DAMN SHOWER. THEN THEY COME APART. THE DEAL IS THAT YOU DON'T LIVE WHERE I GET NAKED. DO YOU HEAR ME, KING OF SPIDERS? GET THE WORD OUT.

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