Damn boy! That's a lot of pies!
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Yep....its real.! And just outside my kitchen window.
If that scuttled into my house, Mike. I'd be like "it's yours mate, here's the keys"
Yeah, can’t give that like, damn that’s a big arachnid!
Paul in Florida and the guys in Austrailia are probably laughing about that little thing.
Yep. That's not even a big one. Common as dirt here.
This is from Reddit
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We have a bunch of big critters here. These are just the pictures I have taken myself:
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The top is a cuban tree frog and the bottom is some kind of stick walker (that sprays noxious chemicals at you) with her mate.
Don't think so. Its native to these parts, as orb weavers go. Haven't found its name yet.
They usually don't get this big, but holy shite.!! See um like this up around the great lakes, just not around my area.
Mustta been eatin good all year.
Its called a, Cross Spider.
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The biggest of them are the female's. Mine must be the empress, queen of all orb weavers. :rofl2:
I would rather touch the frog than that bigass spider
The Cuban Tree frog is an invasive species and they have an irritant they excrete from their skin that will burn the eyes nose and throat. The state tells us to rub a numbing agent on them, put them in a bag and then put them in the freezer. I just smash their head with a hammer. I figure that's quick and painless enough. With them, like spiders and the Southern Two Striped Walking Stick, the female is larger. The walking stick sprays out a chemical called anisomorphal which burns the eyes, nose and throat also.
I have always picked up spiders with my hands and carried them outside...all except for banana spiders. They give me the heebee jeebees.
EDIT: but hell we're WAY upstate. in south Florida they have 17 foot alligators like we do but they also have 20 foot American crocodiles that weigh a ton as well as 20 foot anacondas and Burmese pythons plus lion fish and all kinds of other weird stuff. Of course here we have 8 foot eastern diamond backs with a head the size of a salad plate so...:shrug:
Look up the everglades for some interesting reading.
Damn good reason I havent been to Florida. Id be shooting and killing critters all day no matter where I was.
Critters are people too. Feel the love Jerry.:roflmao
Seriously though, if you don't like critters Florida may not be the place for you 'cause we have plenty of 'em.
A bit of reference.
Average cross spider size. For around here.
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There be only one type of spider 'round my house.
:overkill:
Yep. Dead!
I do the catch and release program. We have some dandy spiders here. The wolf spider is the big one, but there are quite a few others.
It cracks me up that people who hate bugs kill spiders. Same with people who hate rats and squirrels killing snakes.
I don't kill rats or squirrels, I don't get close enough to kill a snake, and spiders, well don't get me started. I am am terrified of creepy crawlies and spiders, and those massive centipede things that scurry across the room as about a hundred miles an hour.
My wife has just decided she is too and that I have to man up - what!!
A handful of kitchen towels and down the loo quickly before it can eat it way through the paper and attack me.
I'm a bit braver when it comes to food though, as long as it doesn't have more legs than a horse.
Talking of horse, that's good stuff, I liked Moose in Labrador and in New Orleans I fell in love with Alligator sausages and my Aunt had an Ostrich farm so I ate a lot of dinosaur steak.
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Now that's my kind of woman!
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"The mystery man got nervous and he fidget around a bit
He reached in the pocket of his mystery robe
And he whipped out a shaving kit
Now I thought it was a razor
And a can of foaming goo
But he told me right then when the top popped open
There was nothin' his box won't do
With the oil of aphrodite, and the dust of the grand wazoo
He said you might not believe this, little fella
But it'll cure your asthma too
And I said look here brother
Who you jiving with that cosmik debris?
Now what kind of a guru are you, anyway?
Look here brother, don't waste your time on me" Frank Zappa
:gth. :roflmao
Seasonal photo.
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