I HATE spiders / Daddy Long Legs etc.....
This huge DL/Legs came in with wme into the house (it was Massive), I saw it. Then we had the task of killing it, it dissappeared, I was hiding in the other room and right on the wall next to where I stood It was there........ Saw it, and AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH (run!!) Properly s**t myself there!
after I nearly stood on a King Brown in Australia while working in the bush...you have about 30 mins to get medical help I believe before things start to look pretty dire...:S
Suppose you wont be watching that new snakes on plane movie then!
Its getting beyond funny now, just walked into the kitchen and ANOTHER daddy long legs flying around. i think the one from earlier was a different one.
Terrified really, I hate them, scared stiff of them, im going to bed and hiding under the covers!!
I once shot a daddy long legs with a bb gun, as I'm not all that keen on them either. Felt really guilty afterwards - all that remained was a small dent where the ball had hit the wall and a leg - the bloody thing exploded.
I do the same with spiders, too. I get all caught up in the thrill of the chase and pretending to be Rambo or whoever then have a crisis of conscience straight afterwards.
It's mad. You get all excited about 'being a big man' shooting things up but at the end of the day, you're shooting insects with a toy gun and you're doing it because you're actually scared of them
Demmerz wrote:It's mad. You get all excited about 'being a big man' shooting things up but at the end of the day, you're shooting insects with a toy gun and you're doing it because you're actually scared of them
And you also have to watch out for ricochets, otherwise you'll have a very embarrassing obituary.
I feel for you, mjd. I also absolutely HATE daddy-long-legs.
I think I detest them most because they're so clumsy and unpredictable. You know that things like dragonflies will nimbly avoid you, whereas fecking craneflies are quite happy to blunder into your face. Horrible.
I heard a tale once that a daddy long-leg's venom was more poisonous than that of a black widow, but because they've got crap jaws, they just can't inject it into anything worthwhile.
It's not true i'm afraid. Another urban legend....
'There is an urban legend stating that Daddy long-legs spiders have the most potent venom of any spider, but that their chelicera (fangs) are either too small or too weak to puncture human skin'
'In 2004 the Discovery Channel show MythBusters set out to test the daddy long-legs myth (season 1, episode 13 "Buried in Concrete"). After measuring the spider's fangs at approximately 0.25 mm (average human skin thickness is about 0.10 mm) the show's host was apparently bitten, although the bite produced little more than a mild short-lived burning sensation. [3] This appears to confirm the suspicion that pholcids can penetrate human skin, but that their venom is practically harmless to humans. Additionally, recent research has shown that pholcid venom is actually relatively weak in its effects on insects as well'
Matt
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