Freakin’ Huge Hairy Spider
OK, I am now officially getting screens for my windows, or else finding some other way to keep cool for the summer. Did I ever mention that large insects completely freak me out? They do. Under a few centimeters in length, I got no problem. But if they’re as big as a medium-sized cockroach, I start to climb the walls. Call it a weakness. I just hate ’em.
So imagine my joy at laying in bed tonight, and seeing movement out of the corner of my eye. On the wall across from my bed, a 12-cm-span spider, I kid you not, is crawling right along near the ceiling. As advertised, I freak out. Not enough to kill my instinct for good blog fare, so I grab my camera and venture as close as I dare to snap the thing’s picture. Between further attacks of the Willies, I run to the kitchen to get a large metal bowl and something thin and hard (a plastic hand fan does the job). I come back, and in a feat of stupendous bravery (or sniveling cowardice, depending on how you define it), I trap the spider underneath the bowl and toss it out the window.
It was either him or me, and I pay the rent here. I mean, really, look at the picture. Look at the FANGS on that thing!
YyyeeeEEEeessshh!
Nice pic, with fangs like that what does that thing eat?
I found a 12 cm Mukade sleeping in my bed the other night, so I know what you went through. I too kept a cool head, fought back the urge to pounce, and got the camera. Much to my wife’s displeasure. She still refuses to look at my blog, because she is afraid to see the picture. (She made me delete it from the computer!)
BTW, screens don’t help much.
Oh my god!!!
I hate big spiders so much. If they are little I don’t have a problem with them (but kill ’em anyway XD ). Ok, honestly I’ve never seen such a big one and I hope this won’t change. Are in Japan a lot of other large insects? *megabumblebee* O.O
I just remember my friend, who used to live in Australia for one year, telling me that there it is normal to have such big and fat spiders in the house. *shiver*…
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Hehehe I’ve actually seen alot of D jaffe’s and have ban his IP address too. I think he just sits infront of his comp and posts blogs. I just did a search on his name and I’m going around telling people to ban his post. Good Job!
Drunk Girl, thanks for the comment. And I hate to say this, but I had to remove your email and URL. No malice or ill will intended there, it is simply the blog policy–the URL led to your site, which sells merchandise. I allow that once, I gotta allow it every time, and then people like Jaffe come along. Again, thanks for the note, and my apologies for the redactions.
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That spider is a male looking for luv. It superficially resembles the Giant House Spiders (Tegenaria gigantea) we get in the Seattle, WA area, but I would have to see one of those in realtime to be sure. The mini legs (pedipalps) in the front are the giveaway as to the gender – they use those bulbs for sperm transfer.
12 cm span? Whee! The wife and kids would surely freak out!
That IS the same spider! You even have the same wallpaper as me!
damn,
in NYC we dont got those things,
and thats the way it shud stay
spider != insect. spider is more like related to crabs than insects.
I have arachnihobia not sure if that is spelled right so compareed to what u did you were freakin hercules i wouldhave shoot it witha bb gun from the next room and if it moved an inch i would let it pay the rent lol