So is it true? They remain there until they can feast on their mother's tasty innards soup? That's kinda... Creepy... And scary... And... Ohmahgodohmahgodohmahgod... *hypervenilates again* Must... Escape...
*clicks cute kitty massage link*
Awwww....
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Emperor scorpions are probably the most harmless of all scorpion species. As they say, with scorpions the smaller they are, the more you have to be careful. Emperor scorpions are so big, they rarely even use their stingers on their prey. They can just crush prey with their claws.|
Originally Posted by CryoTech
I actually happen to like spiders and other things that most people fear such as snakes. I also used to have an Emperor Scorpion as a pet, which on a side-note also keeps its children on its back much like the wolf spider in the video does.
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Originally Posted by Impish Kat
For the record, I do not call flying insects "daddy long legs". When I mentioned "Daddy Long Legs" I was specifically referring to the arachnid.
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Only one is a spider, but I think two are arachnids.
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/36641/My-Little-Exalt
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Which is why they make a good first pet for those of you interested in Scorpions. Unless you are specifically allergic to them it will do no more harm to be stung by them then by a bee or wasp. They are very docile though and don't mind letting you hold them if they know you, and are quite intelligent.
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Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper
Emperor scorpions are probably the most harmless of all scorpion species. As they say, with scorpions the smaller they are, the more you have to be careful. Emperor scorpions are so big, they rarely even use their stingers on their prey. They can just crush prey with their claws.
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Originally Posted by ReclusesPhantom
Is it just me, or is the forum filled with fellow Arachnophobes and insect-haters? If so, I'm right at home!
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I suggest sitting in a dark room and showing your friends the film Arachnaphobia. Two of us with this problem did just that, and had a room full of people really nervous at the end. It was much easier to explain after that.Big or small, a spider has my unswerving attention. And I intend to show it the hard-hitting news on page 1 of the newspaper...repeatedly. If I want an indoor friend to control the bugs, I'll get a gecko.
Oh, and although I grew up raising dogs, I must take a moment to praise cats for their outstanding predatory instincts toward spiders. Almost gave my sister's cat a hug the day it pounced on a spider near me.
Oddly enough, while spiders make my skin crawl, I have no problem with their cousins, Scorpions, maybe since they seem more menacing then creepy.
"An army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of BS." -General George Patton
-Lord Azazel
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A video of a wolf spider with about 100 spiderlings on her back.
And just for the record....my wife and I, and our 70-some tarantulas, laugh at all of you.
We have some tarantulas that would make the arachnophobes in this thread crap themselves.
Nasty bites on some of them, but most of them are fairly docile. We don't handle them because it stresses them out, but we have a number of them that we could if we were so inclined.
We're working on a couple breeding projects at the moment, I'll be sure to post some pics when we have spiderlings
You thought that video was bad? Wait until you see 150 P. Murinus running around. The common nickname for that particular species is OBT. It's supposed to stand for "orange baboon tarantula", but most people who know about them say it stands for "orange bitey thing". They have attitudes and a nasty bite. When you are bright orange in a green world, and only 5 inches across....you better be mean or you aren't going to live long.
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A few of them do that. Life (the BBC David Attenborough narrated show)had a bug (not a spider but hey) with loads of baby bugs who took too long to deliver some fruit to her babies. So the babies took up and left, finding another nest of the same sort of bugs to co-habit with. So the second mum suddenly had twice the workload in terms of feeding her babies. So much work that she ended up dying of exhaustion. The lovely babies then ate her corpse before departing.|
Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
Wait, really? Do we actually know that? (I'm asking with genuine interest. I want to learn science)
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If I was one of those bugs I think I'd be like the first mum, since being a good mother is apparently rewarded with being worked to death and then eaten.
Life in the Undergrowth is a great show if you're interested in bugs, there's some crazy stuff in it (a Wasp grub which lives on a spider, eating it slowly and then when it wants to pupate drives its host insane causing it to entomb itself and the grub in silk, perfect for pupating).
Not to mention the truly horrific ant brain fungus...
I love those shows.
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At one point I would shriek and flee the room if I had seen a spider. Now I just shudder and find something smash it with. Of course I still flip out if I catch a spider on me, and the size of the spider determines how bad I flip out. Things just give me the willies.....
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Originally Posted by ReclusesPhantom
Is it just me, or is the forum filled with fellow Arachnophobes and insect-haters? If so, I'm right at home!
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"YOU DID NOT READ THE THREAD. GO READ THE LONG, LONG THREAD.
Then, perhaps your butt cheeks will relinquish their grip on your chin." -The_Zekiran
Here's a few species of tarantula we have in our collection:
Pterinochilus murinus - Usambara Starburst Baboon - "OBT"
Heteroscodra maculata - Togo Starburst baboon -or- Ornamental Baboon
Chromatapelma Cyanopubescens - Green Bottle Blue
Poecilotheria rufilata - Red Slate Ornamental
These aren't our personal tarantulas, but they are pretty good pics of them. These girls here are the main reason I like them. They're cool looking!
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What, did my tarantulas scare everyone away?
*sniff* Poor misunderstood little guys.
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I fixed original link
With a new link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmr-B_JZTnE
and: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqH8XhE5604
JJ
I delete more 50s, then you'll ever have.
http://www.pandora.com/people/jjdemon
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Didn't scare me away, but I'm biased as I'm a former tarantula owner myself. Nowhere near as impressive as you though -- I just had a female Chilean Rose Hair bought for me as a birthday present when I was 8 or 9. Decided to give her to a friend before a cross-country move when I was 15. Since that time, I've lost the desire to own any "exotic" pets; my cat is strange and demanding enough as it is. |
Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
What, did my tarantulas scare everyone away?
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Positron: "There are no bugs [in City of Heroes], just varying degrees of features."
At least someone else here likes em!
My VEATs are named after various tarantula species. The scientific name, that is. The best thing about doing that is it pretty much guarantees they aren't taken
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Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
What, did my tarantulas scare everyone away?
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Probably the craziest thing that's ever happened to me was when I was working a summer at a Boy Scout camp in Texas. When I was opening up my sleeping bag to clean it out and take it home, I found 3 brown recluse spiders living in the foot of it, complete with webs and all. I had been sleeping in that bag for the entire 6 week period and had convinced myself that the slight crawling sensation I felt on my legs at night as I was falling asleept was just my imagining things. I never once got bit either.
Hey! Not everyone who posted was a fearful git!!
(I know, I know, my posts always get ignored! Although, maybe this one won't because I insulted others... haha... I was only joking btw)
I hate to be dazzled by pretty colors and all... but that Chromatapelma Cyanopubescens really has remarkable coloring.
Very cool!
It's odd though... Most people that I know with fears of arachnids tend to have much less of a problem with the tarantula types of spiders.
Most, mind you, not all.
They often tell me something about them being bigger or some such makes them less scary. Or that, somehow, the tarantula is a bit more cute looking than other spiders.
I don't know... Don't ask me... I don't have those fears. I love spiders, I also love snakes... I just tend to not like people so much.
@Zethustra
"Now at midnight all the agents and the superhuman crew come out
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
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Originally Posted by Umbral
I had a problem with spiders when I was younger but I forced myself to get over it because I had a few crazy spider/snake ladies that I was very fond of and helped encourage me to not freak out around creepy crawlies.
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Seriously... no phobia is necessary for that to freak someone out.
That's my rule with... well anything (Besides all the multitudes of microscopic beings that are constantly on me and in me and all that jazz)... Stay off of me... If you are going to be on me... I want to know about it first.
I don't have phobias, but if I suddenly have something crawling on me, I might jump up and do the flailing dance of foolishness to get it off.
That goes for any species though, hehe... Excluding ones with sharp claws or teeth, in which I know jumping about would probably be a bad idea.
ANYWAY... Yeah... if something is sharing my sleeping bag... I want to know about it... and I hope she is attractive.
Man... Umbral, that story is enough to create a mental issue all on its own, hehe. I think I'd have problems to work through if that happened to me, hehe.
Now I am going to unzip and check my sleeping bags every single day when I camp.
I always turn my shoes upside down and shake them out before putting them on already...
@Zethustra
"Now at midnight all the agents and the superhuman crew come out
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
I think the main thing people need to learn is that most animals dont just attack for no reason. Most creature that we are afraid of, are also afraid of us! They tend to attack because they feel threatened and are protecting themselves(or their young), so one of the main rules of dealing with wild animals is to not make any threatening or sudden movements/actions and to back off slowly. Freaking out tends to make things worse and make them more likely to attack.
"An army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of BS." -General George Patton
-Lord Azazel
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Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
A video of a wolf spider with about 100 spiderlings on her back.
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http://www.fimfiction.net/story/36641/My-Little-Exalt
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What makes it even stranger is that it didn't freak me out in the slightest. They hadn't bit me in the entire period and at least I knew I wasn't hallucinating. It did explain why my tent was freer of bugs than any of the others though.
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Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
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Originally Posted by Sardan
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I have a strong negative reaction to spiders in general, but jumping spiders are an exception. Almost no matter where I find them, I have no adverse reaction to them. If I was somehow surprised by finding one on me I would probably reflexively fling it away, but I wouldn't object to one getting on me if I knew it was coming. Of course, they are skittish enough that such an approach seems pretty unlikely unless I was very still.
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Originally Posted by Zaran
Except for jumping spiders. They don't move like other spiders; they look like they were animated by Harryhausen. Also, while we know they are effective hunters, they just seem so inept. Watching a jumping spider attempt to navigate a window screen is good for several moments of amusement.
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American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
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Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA
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Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
And just for the record....my wife and I, and our 70-some tarantulas, laugh at all of you.
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Actually that Green Bottle Blue you pictured is quite beautiful. Though what could it possibly camoflage against?
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Probably the craziest thing that's ever happened to me was when I was working a summer at a Boy Scout camp in Texas. When I was opening up my sleeping bag to clean it out and take it home, I found 3 brown recluse spiders living in the foot of it, complete with webs and all. I had been sleeping in that bag for the entire 6 week period and had convinced myself that the slight crawling sensation I felt on my legs at night as I was falling asleept was just my imagining things. I never once got bit either.
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Thank you Vox Doom and FW for the clarification on Daddy Long Legs venom. I was going off a vague memory, my apologies.
For the record, I do not call flying insects "daddy long legs". When I mentioned "Daddy Long Legs" I was specifically referring to the arachnid.
Also, I never said they were harmful to humans. I've know since I was a child that they were harmless, allowing the featherlight critters to crawl over me whenever I came across one.
In general, I leave the arachnids alone, unless a dangerous one comes into the house. Since I have small furry animals in the house, venomous spiders (widows) are not allowed. However, they are more than welcome to the feast of crickets, ants, and cockroaches outside (though, I do sweep the webs from our patio furniture and bbq grill).
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