The Picture Thread Mark III

she's an old friend, i let her live in my balcony... i have been stung many many times :)
 
LOL, sounds like a wonderful friend. I've got a grandaddy long-legs in my bathroom, and I make sure I don't wash him away when I shower. His/her name is spidey.
 
In Southeast Asia, daddy long-legs have leg-spans the size of your hand and a quarter inch spine growing out of their back. They're not actual arachnids but are related to mites. I believe the order of both Old and New World daddy long-legs (or harvestmen) is opiolones, though there is a different order in Australia that happens to be (surprise) deadly poisonous.
 
Cool. I've seen some here in west Texas get to about half the size of my hand. I love them, cause you can pick them up (gently-they are so seemingly fragile) and let them run up and down your arm for as long as you can stand it.
 
you can do that to the black and yellow spider too, but it feels funny because she is as heavy as a beetle... you can feel her little legs on your skin
she only stings when you push the limits, then it hurts :(
 
Ever make you sick, getting stung by her? My brother got stung by a brown recluse once and it left a hole in his leg the size of a dime. About 1/2 in. deep too.
 
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brown recluses are very dangerous, their poison is citotoxic and hemolitic, i've seen wounds far worse than a dime size... lucky brother
flat spiders creep me out, i stay away from them

when i get stung by the spiders that are common here, it just gets red, bloated and it feels like burning. some spiders leave these small hairs that look like when you touch a cactus... then it heals

once i got stung in the leg though, and i got a dark purple spot the size of an orage, it was very paiful and it took a long time to heal... i never saw what stung me
 
I've never been stung by one. Lucky. Bees, wasps, ants, alot. Baking soda and water always helped with those. The only other spider I see around here much is the black widow and another black one with a red spot on it's abdomen. Know what that is?
 
My dad got bit on the back of the neck by a centipede that was 14-18 cm long. Bit him twice, left 4 bleeding holes. Then it got mildly necrotic and he got ill and lightheaded. We were in the jungle, in the dark. It was scary to watch him freak out, with nothing I could do about it except assure him there was nothing left on his neck.
 
only possibly dangerous thing ive ever been bitten by was a tic, and that was over in australia. other than that all of my bites are restricted to the occasional flea which i pick up from local pets.
 
I reached into the front pocket of my jeans once after getting a saddle out of our tack room and got bit by something. I was out of those jeans in no time flat. Turned out a small east Texas scorpion (I don't know what kind - kinda yellow) had crawled in somehow. That scorpion died.
 
Roman said:
In Southeast Asia, daddy long-legs have leg-spans the size of your hand and a quarter inch spine growing out of their back. They're not actual arachnids but are related to mites. I believe the order of both Old and New World daddy long-legs (or harvestmen) is opiolones, though there is a different order in Australia that happens to be (surprise) deadly poisonous.
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I've heard that our (oz) daddy long-legs are one of the most poisonous spiders, but they can't penetrate the epidermis with their fangs, or something to that effect
 
Azael said:
I've heard that our (oz) daddy long-legs are one of the most poisonous spiders, but they can't penetrate the epidermis with their fangs, or something to that effect
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Yup, that's exactly it. Too bad everything else in oz is deadly venemous, even some of your mammals.
 
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this garden is where i spend most of my free time.
that was actual natural evening light just before the rain, it was a very yellow evening

 
I can climb any surface you throw at me, as long as
A) I can get my arms around it
or
B) There's an adjacent surface for me to stem off

 
Roman said:
I can climb any surface you throw at me, as long as
A) I can get my arms around it
or
B) There's an adjacent surface for me to stem off

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Is that you? It looks rather funny. :)
 
Very beautiful, Varda! :)
I'm happy. The more people live in beautiful places and recognize the beauty, the more beautiful the people.
 
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