The Dancing Spider

[Nightclub Dwight]

My spare bedroom is a bit of a wreck these days, so when I went in to practice today I put my Champ amp up on a bedside table and started playing.  I noticed a spider on his web in my tangle of plants in the window.  With the amp elevated, the sound was blasting right at him.  When I'd play he'd scurry around the web, sensing the vibrations.  As soon as I stop playing he'd sit still.  Its like having a remote controlled spider.  I spent ten minutes playing and stopping abruptly just to watch him dance around.

I wish I had a video camera to show this, but I don't so you'll have to visualize it.  Its one of those little funny things thats hilarious if you see it, but probably not so great reading about it. 

 

[Nando Vallart]

You're sooooo mean :evil4:

I don't like insects, SPECIALLY spiders, so I'd play all night long :laughing7:

 

[lafromla1]

I'd just smack it with a rolled up magazine and be done with it.  Too many people around my area getting bit by spiders and having to go to the hospital for days at a time.  Its all from the cutting down of treed areas and them needing a place to live, so they are moving in.

 

[line6man]

Blow torches work well on spiders, IME.

The other day I captured three spiders in a jar and just let them do their thing.
At first, they all just left each other alone and tried to get out. Then, the two larger ones started to fight any time they touched each other. I came back later and the largest one had killed the smaller two and ripped a few legs off.

 

[bagman67]

I like your new avatar, Line6man.  Sweet pickup covers.

Also, I don't much care for spiders.  One bit me on the back recently and I had a big, nasty, itchy welt for about a month afterward.  Mostly I usher them out of the house when they make their way indoors, but for a while after that I was more inclined to smash them than show mercy.

Bagman

 

[JaySwear]

i don't do well with household pests. i spotted a big spider sitting in my hallway the other day. i literally walked all the way around the house so i didn't have to get close to it, then sprayed the crap out of it with roach killer. it ran around in a circle for a minute, then curled up and died. easily the biggest spider i've seen outside of a zoo. and now i think "what if..." every time i put my shoes on... ugh. i also once hit a mouse with a fly swatter. i felt really bad, but like i said; i don't do well with household pests.

 

[jwl68th]

I got bit by a spider in my woodpile 15 yrs ago on my wrist. It swelled up to the size of a golf ball and hurt like hell, ended up having to have my wrist lanced and had to stuff my gullet with super strong antibiotics. Was sick for 2 weeks. To this day I still have a visable divot on my wrist. I kill every one I see!!

 

[dNA]

I've never seen a group of people that are so bug-phobic. I love spiders man. I was thrilled to find out that there's about a month at the end of the summer here in Portland where you see these huge spiders EVERYWHERE outside. Like, i'm talking 5 or 6 webs the size of a t-shirt on my back porch on a given day. They're some amazingly skilled builders man.

 

[Superlizard]

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhTjifulPB8[/youtube]

...................................

 

[Jusatele]

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[Superlizard]

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OylmCm1zgWg&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_634385[/youtube]

Muahahahhaaaa

 

[Cagey]

Spiders used to make me uncomfortable, but then about 10 years ago I bashed my head in. Obviously, I lived through it, although I was in a coma for a couple months. When I came out, I had severe retrograde amnesia, among other issues. Couldn't remember huge blocks of things that I'd known for many years. Didn't even recognize my mother and one of my brothers, who were there when I came up. But, a happy side effect was that whatever had happened to me as a kid to make me hinky about spiders was also forgotten, so they don't bother me anymore. Not a recommended way to cure phobias, but effective <grin>

 

[Jusatele]

I want to love spyders, I want to love spyders, I want to love spyders


no no use this formula

 

[hannaugh]

That's a cool story.  I love it when weird stuff like that happens. 

The other day, there was a huge spider in a gigantic web in the deck area at my mom's house.  My husband started walking toward it, and the spider freaked out and started taking down it's web.  It was like it saw him getting close and he said "Oh crap, that guy is gonna kill me for building my web here.  Destroy the evidence!".  I've never seen a spider do that before, but it was really cool to watch.  It took about a minute for him to take his huge huge web down, which I'm sure took hours to build. 

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

You're sooooo mean :evil4:

I don't like insects, SPECIALLY spiders, so I'd play all night long :laughing7:

Oh , Nando.  Spiders aren't insects.  Silly Brazillian.

 

[Graffiti62]

Look, he's crawling up my wall
Black and hairy, very small..........

Now he's up above my head
Hanging by a little thread.............

You should name your new friend Boris

 

[DangerousR6]

I've never seen a group of people that are so bug-phobic. I love spiders man. I was thrilled to find out that there's about a month at the end of the summer here in Portland where you see these huge spiders EVERYWHERE outside. Like, i'm talking 5 or 6 webs the size of a t-shirt on my back porch on a given day. They're some amazingly skilled builders man.

Spiders aren't from this planet, anything with 8 eyes and legs isn't of this earth. they hitched a ride from a asteroid or something...

 

[Nightclub Dwight]

It was just a little spider.  I actually don't mind spiders in the house as long as they're the little ones, and they stay in their territory.  Once one invades my personal space, I'm likely to trap it and throw it outside. 

Spiders do eat bugs, so I don't mind having them around as long as they know their place.