This story broke in August 2007, but I only ran across it a few days ago. I don't know if the web is still in place at the State Park in Texas, or if others have been spun elsewhere.

Photo of the giant web:


http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/6697/web600x450su7.jpg

Article from the New York Times:


http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F05E1DF133EF932A0575BC0A9619C8B 63

Here's what that needs!

http://www.bitterpurl.com/images/flamethrower.jpg

I hate spiders. That picture gave me the shivers just looking at it.

Lovely.

Here's more info on that monstrous web and a pic of one of the possible culprits.

Me no like spidies :eek:


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=478946&in_page_id=1811

The good news is... it's gone now. These things never last too long. I usually have a HUGE single web that's built from the side rail on my porch to the roof around the first of October. Always a VERY SCARY looking spider parked there, too. Fortunately (for him), I allow him to live there as long as he stays outta my way and he always just moves on to where ever big scary spiders go right before Halloween. Too bad.. he'd made a great porch decoration!

~shudder~

::shudders:: I HATE SPIDERS. I never kill them though. They freakin' KNOW if you've killed one of their little spidey brothers and they will come after you.

w0w thats amazing!!

::shudders:: I HATE SPIDERS. I never kill them though. They freakin' KNOW if you've killed one of their little spidey brothers and they will come after you.

I always kill them when I see them, otherwise I am afraid they are going to build a nest and have a few hundred baby spiders.

I always kill them when I see them, otherwise I am afraid they are going to build a nest and have a few hundred baby spiders.
There are already thousands and thousands of them per suburban acre in North America. Killing one or two is essentially futile anyways...

There are already thousands and thousands of them per suburban acre in North America.

LALALALALALA!
I can't hear you!

(j/k)

Killing one or two is essentially futile anyways...

Well, it is one or two less and it makes me feel better.

LALALALALALA!
I can't hear you!

(j/k)
:lolhit:

(BTW, sorry if I was a little harsh talking about you in that other thread... forget which one now... I just jumped on the old straight honesty train there for a moment.)

When Boris (http://www.lyricsdomain.com/20/the_who/boris_the_spider.html) invades my space, he earns a death sentence.

there are so FEW poisonous spiders in the world compared to non-poisonous. i don't mind them.
you can hear a full grown west virginia tarantula run across a linoleum floor. wolf spiders. i called them the west virginia tarantula and not long ago i learned they are classified into the tarantula family.

[QUOTE=primitive man]there are so FEW poisonous spiders in the world compared to non-poisonous. QUOTE]

Actually, there's a great trivia question I like to ask, and that is - What percentage of spiders are poisonous/venomous?

And the answer is - -

100%

All spiders have venom in them, albeit a very small amount in many of them but they need some venom to stun or immobilize their prey, regardless of their size.


If this information is incorrect, I'm sure Borg will come over here and try to shred me to ribbons in a very impolite and demeaning way. That's how he works, ya know. I guess it makes him feel BIG AND POWERFUL. How pathetic it really is.

Anyway, 100% is the answer.

P.S. I dig yer signature ;)

thanks scummy.
ok, you got me. 100%. as you said, not all can penetrate the skin. but how many of them, if they could would kill you? or even make you sick?
how many lakota (sioux) would run if they saw a spider?

Thats freaky.

thanks scummy.
ok, you got me. 100%. as you said, not all can penetrate the skin. but how many of them, if they could would kill you? or even make you sick?
how many lakota (sioux) would run if they saw a spider?

Yup, that's right. Not all can penetrate the skin and for that, I'm very pleased. I don't know how many more could actually kill a person if they could penetrate the skin. (???) Probably not too may more since the small ones can't penetrate and probably don't have much venom.

Are the Sioux afraid of spiders???

I had no idea.

Yup, that's right. Not all can penetrate the skin and for that, I'm very pleased. I don't know how many more could actually kill a person if they could penetrate the skin. (???) Probably not too may more since the small ones can't penetrate and probably don't have much venom.

Are the Sioux afraid of spiders???

I had no idea.

"...since the small ones can't penetrate and probably don't have much venom."

*sigh*

Reminds me of an old boyfriend, doesn't it you, Scum? Bless his heart.

(o)( o)

"...since the small ones can't penetrate and probably don't have much venom."

*sigh*

Reminds me of an old boyfriend, doesn't it you, Scum? Bless his heart.

(o)( o)

O M G ! !

That is so freakin funny, hahahah!! Hey, at least he was NICE.... even thru his (o) ( o)

LMAO!

Plus he was a hardcore Republican. He once sent me a pic of he and Dick Cheney standing together someplace.

But the (o) ( o) will make me laff forever, hee hee hee!!

You so bad.




I love it. :)

LALALALALALA!
I can't hear you!
And this guy claims he married a woman?

And this guy claims he married a woman?

Here's her pic... during one of their deep and meaningful conversations:

(Ain't she purty, though?)

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t33/texrose752/lalalala.gif

Here's her pic... during one of their deep and meaningful conversations:

(Ain't she purty, though?)

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t33/texrose752/lalalala.gif

LOL - I'm sure the poor woman has to do that just to live with him.

This story broke in August 2007, but I only ran across it a few days ago. I don't know if the web is still in place at the State Park in Texas, or if others have been spun elsewhere.

Photo of the giant web:


http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/6697/web600x450su7.jpg

Article from the New York Times:


http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F05E1DF133EF932A0575BC0A9619C8B 63



creepy..looks like something out of a horror movie

I see trees up here with that. They are infected with web-worms....gross!

the NYtimes article made me chuckle, espacially the "web of life analogy"