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Look what I just found on my carpet

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Yeah before I knew they were Solifuges, I knew them as "wind scorpions" because of how fast they run.

look at the horrific videos of these demons
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LOL! They are pretty terrifying looking, but I've only ever run into one once. Hopefully it was the first and last time.
 
When I lived in Louisiana I found a Brown widow one time in my garage she was scary and big I wished I had a camera at the time we killed it. =\

I do like garden spiders since despite their size they don't bite like most spiders so I leave them be.
 
Hi Phil

I remember that you like spiders. I know the Argiopes are harmless but they get so big! It creeps me out. lol In my garden, I saw another huge spider that I didn't know what it was. It had a fat round abodomen. It was just a little ways from the orb. I felt like I was in Texas! I couldn't get a good pic of the round one but here are a couple of pics of the orb. If she had spread out, she would have spanned my entire hand. I think she was the biggest I've ever seen. After seeing her and the other spider, I abandoned my weeding plans... Look at the size of that spinneret!

Another denizen of my garden that I had a very unpleasant encounter with was this pretty fellow. They STING! And it hurts! A saddleback catepillar. You don't want to bump up against this guy (they are usually underneath a leaf where you can't see 'em).
 
Besides those nasty house centipedes, we get a lot of those tiny little jumping spiders. I've never seen one devouring another insect, but they don't bother me and stay small, so I don't squish them like any other insect I see in the house.
 
2"?

Dude, that's a berber carpet. Based on the size of the knots in that carpet, it wasn't over 1.5" - which is still a pretty big spider. But let's not our surprise supersize the bugger.
 
Look what I found in my tub.

Look what I found in my tub. These always want to take a shower with me for some reason...

About the circumference of a nickel, mostly all brown, not a web making type of spider.

Species?
 
lol wtf, its probably fake..... there's no way its fake..... dude there's no way a centipede could eat a mouse... i mean... mammal>insect.... right???
 
Glad to finally know that "house centipede" is the real name. I HATE those sons of b*$#%&s, but if they eat the bad guys...maybe I'll think twice about serving one to a nep the next time I see one. I doubt it, but maybe. Is your spider being happily digested?


edit: just read a neat article on them. I won't pretend to like them, but I think I'll let 'em go if they're just in the bathtub or something.


http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/133492/house_centipedes_your_best_friend_for.html
 
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