Okay I don't know where the fuck this guy lives, but he has so many of these giant spider videos that:

a) I don't ever want to visit him
b) I suspect that he is breeding these fucking monsters

>> ^ponceleon:

Okay I don't know where the fuck this guy lives, but he has so many of these giant spider videos that:
a) I don't ever want to visit him
b) I suspect that he is breeding these fucking monsters


I know right!? That pulsing mound of spider children was about the end of my viewing experience.

Lolth says, "Move out before I unleash my children!!".

a. I'm pretty sure this a dupe
b. fuck everything about this fucking video
c. If God exists he's one twisted fucker



Edit : If this is a dupe I sure as hell couldn't find it. Must of seen it on reddit. A million apologies....

Spiders are cool. Dunno why people freak out over them so much.

>> ^bleedmegood:

a. I'm pretty sure this a dupe
b. fuck everything about this fucking video
c. If God exists he's one twisted fucker


Ill do a dupe check again, but there is a video from the same dude sifted today as well. That one is funnier because of a certain cat!

I'm not certain, but fairly sure, there is spider subliminal messaging going on near the end of the video. Between 3:15 - 3:17, 3:25 - 3:26, 3:43 - 3:44, and one more time from 4:10 - 4:11.

He's pretty ignorant, but at least this time he's using "she" to describe the spider, which it most certainly is. It's good to have these wolf spiders around; they keep insects under control.

I'm just as afraid of enormous insects as the next person. This boy, however, is a sissy.

"Why not wait a week after I find them, and maybe they'll just go away?"

"Why not let this female spider with an egg sac just hang around until they all hatch? Sounds like a great way to get rid of spiders!"

All it would have taken is a 2X4 for the male spider, and a broom and strategically placed trash bucket for the female. Then you kill it with fire.

But then I guess he wouldn't get so many hits on youtube if he did that.

Upvote for nasty spider. A shake of the head for Mr. Sissy McMuffinnuts in the video.

i honestly will never understand people's spider/insect/snake phobias.

but then again, i'm afriad of pickles and mayonaisse.

I'd probably bust out the shop vac.

>> ^peggedbea:

i honestly will never understand people's spider/insect/snake phobias.
but then again, i'm afriad of pickles and mayonaisse.


Rational and Irrational phobias, spiders/snakes/insects are potentially dangerous, it's hard to tell which are and aren't.

I've got a weird quasi-phobia of these things - spiders, anything larger than a £2 coin I don't like being on me. Anything smaller than that no problem. However, I don't mind it near me, or just being where I can see it.

Snakes, don't mind at all, wouldn't be keen on ones with nasty bites or poison however.

Insects, fine with the ones I know are safe and don't nip ya.

These all seem like rational phobias to me, unlike pickles and mayonnaise which seem kinda irrational to me...unless a pickle tried to drown you in a vat of mayonnaise you may as well have a phobia of something like the sound oranges make or the inside of envelopes.

>> ^peggedbea:

i honestly will never understand people's spider/insect/snake phobias.
but then again, i'm afriad of pickles and mayonaisse.


People with a fear of spiders are less likely to be killed by spiders. Those whack arthropods will bite you, old school.

I love the music.

So what happened? This was from 9/17/2009!

>> ^bmacs27:

I'd probably bust out the shop vac.


Fuck that man, I say we take off and nuke them from orbit... it's the only way to be sure.

I'll take a million mosquitos over one of those evil 8 legged assholes.

One Word - "FIRE"

Gross! Kill it already!

BY FIRE BE PURGED!

Id catch it, and put it in a tank. And it would be my pet! And I would watch the babies grow up and cry with sadness but laugh with glory when I set them free in my psycho bitch roommate's bed.

>> ^Seric:

Rational and Irrational phobias, spiders/snakes/insects are potentially dangerous, it's hard to tell which are and aren't.
I've got a weird quasi-phobia of these things - spiders, anything larger than a £2 coin I don't like being on me.

Most of the poisonous spiders are small. Big spiders generally aren't poisonous.

I don't mind spiders. They'll leave you alone if you don't bother them. I usually don't bother them either, but one time I found a black widow spider. For some reason I decided I wanted to catch it and keep it as a pet. I found an empty clear plastic jar in the garbage, poked a few small holes in it and used that to catch her. I needed to figure out a way to feed and water her. That night I was making dinner and I dropped a piece of frozen broccoli on the floor, and that gave me an idea. I set it outside on the front porch to attract bugs. I came back to it after I ate and there were bugs all over it. I took the jar outside, made the spider go up to the top, unscrewed the cap and set it on top of the now thawed and covered in bugs piece of broccoli. I slid it onto the top and closed it up. The spider went to town stringing them up, and I figured she'd be able to get water from the broccoli.

I set the jar in my bathroom so I could check on her every morning. The next day, for some weird reason she pulled the broccoli up into the middle of the jar and wrapped it up in a ball. A few days later, that ball was still there, and I couldn't figure out what she was doing with it. A few more days later, I went into the bathroom one morning to find the ball gone and thousands of little baby black widows all over the place. They were small enough to crawl out of the air hole I poked in the jar, but most of them were inside. I ran and grabbed a can of bug spray and sprayed the outside of the jar, then filled the sink with water and submerged the jar in the water until it filled up and drowned them all.

I decided not to try to keep spiders as pets after that.

I have seen a few black widows running around by garage.

Luckily I have several Pholcidae (Cellar Spiders) that live in my garage.

I usually leave the black widows alone for about a week or two, in hopes that the Pholcidae will prey on them. Pholcidae are natural predators of the Latrodectus family of spiders.

You might ask how do I know that the spiders are Pholcidae? That's easy. The females carry the eggsac near their heads. Both female and male Pholcidae will vibrate their webs in effort to scare away predators. You can try this in your garage, if you live in a habitat where Pholcidae are common. Gently touch the web with a pencil or stick and watch for the defensive tactic.

The spider in the video above is definetly a Lycosidae(Wolf Spider), and not a Zoridae(Relative of Wolf Spider).




Also note that the videos seem to make the spiders appear larger than they are. For example the Pholcidae seems to be extremely large in this video. When in reality it is not but the size of the first two segments of an average index finger which is about an inch and a half.

http://forums.canadiancontent.net/science-environment/77006-female-spiders-eat-small-males.html

Wolf spiders can and will bite humans if provoked. They can get to be 30 millimetres in length, about 1 inch. The female wolf spider does eat the male wolf spider after mating which is not uncommon in the Araneae order.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_spider

http://www.termite.com/spider-identification.html

I endeavor to know my enemy, and how to use their natural predators against them. Also Bugs are a hobby of mine.

>> ^jimnms:

I don't mind spiders. They'll leave you alone if you don't bother them. I usually don't bother them either, but one time I found a black widow spider. For some reason I decided I wanted to catch it and keep it as a pet. I found an empty clear plastic jar in the garbage, poked a few small holes in it and used that to catch her. I needed to figure out a way to feed and water her. That night I was making dinner and I dropped a piece of frozen broccoli on the floor, and that gave me an idea. I set it outside on the front porch to attract bugs. I came back to it after I ate and there were bugs all over it. I took the jar outside, made the spider go up to the top, unscrewed the cap and set it on top of the now thawed and covered in bugs piece of broccoli. I slid it onto the top and closed it up. The spider went to town stringing them up, and I figured she'd be able to get water from the broccoli.
I set the jar in my bathroom so I could check on her every morning. The next day, for some weird reason she pulled the broccoli up into the middle of the jar and wrapped it up in a ball. A few days later, that ball was still there, and I couldn't figure out what she was doing with it. A few more days later, I went into the bathroom one morning to find the ball gone and thousands of little baby black widows all over the place. They were small enough to crawl out of the air hole I poked in the jar, but most of them were inside. I ran and grabbed a can of bug spray and sprayed the outside of the jar, then filled the sink with water and submerged the jar in the water until it filled up and drowned them all.
I decided not to try to keep spiders as pets after that.


You should never keep black widow spiders as they pose a danger to humans. While you should't outright kill them unless they are in your common areas. Like a garage. I kill the black widows that make homes in there, but I leave the ones in the backyard alone. The ones in the back yard don't pose a danger because I have no outdoor pets or children who can be injured by the things.

They aren't there to prey on humans, but they are a natural danger to humans. It is a naturally selected fear response to be repulsed by spiders; especially when they multiply.