Huge spider outside my bedroom window!

[Brigid]

Can't take a picture because it's too dark, but he has built an enormous web and he's looking at me! :scared:

[backwoodsbob]

1. sing Sinatra songs to it ?

:shrug:

[Brigid]

2. Maybe "Strangers in the Night?"

:D

[Sky Masterson]

4. I've got you under my skin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIeC4ygsors
;)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. And he's looking at you with EIGHT EYES!

:scared: Eww.

[rug]

5. Maybe he's just hungry.

[Brigid]

6. EWWWW!

:scared:

[armyowalgreens]

7. When you gaze into the spider, the spider will gaze back into you.

-Nietzsche

[whistler162]

8. The Giant SPider Invasion.... OH NO!!!!!!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073043/

[texanwitch]

9. It mignht be a female.

And have babies, lots of babies.

I have lots of spiders in the norfork pines in the backyard.

Look for a eggsack.

It is fun to watch a spider make a web, they work very hard.

[Demoiselle]

14. I thought all web weaving spiders were females...

They have gentlemen callers, breed, and then produce babies.
And I am given to understand they eat the gentlemen callers when they're had their way with them.
Of course, I could be wrong.
Charlotte's Web doesn't go into those details.

[AlienGirl]

38. That's the usual way of things among many spiders in mating season...but...

Smart orb-weaver males will present the female with a wrapped-up insect to occupy her jaws, and can often escape!

Tucker

[Demoiselle]

56. Really!? Wow. Thanks for educating me. That's neat! nt

[GoCubsGo]

10. Cool!!!!

I hope you'll take a photo of it when it's light outside. I'd love to see it. I'm betting it's one of the orb weavers. My it catch and eat lots of flies and other nasty bugs!

[elshiva]

11. It's probably harmless.

Wait until morning to do anything with it. Use a broom and sweep the web away.
:hug:

[Brigid]

12. I can't get to it.

It's on a second-story window in a condo. We don't have a ladder around here tall enough to get to it form the outside, and I can't open the window. It's creepy-looking! :scared:

[texanwitch]

13. Must be a good place to catch bugs in its web.

On the farm we had a really big spider and web on the front porch.

The spider never hurt anybody but other bugs.

[elshiva]

15. "I can't open the window." This is good.

That spider can never get to you then. Remember, SPIDERS CAN'T BREAK GLASS! This isn't a horror movie, that spider is not out to get you. It's just there. It won't hurt any thing.

"It's creepy-looking." It LOOKS creepy, but it can not harm you. Please don't worry about it, okay?
:hug:

[Taverner]

32. It can watch the OP and make scary faces!

[AlienGirl]

33. She's just squinting because she's nearsighted and they don't make 8-eye specs! nt

[Taverner]

36. I'll bet you, though, when the OP turns their back, spidey sticks her tongue out!

[AlienGirl]

41. And raises a pedipalp to her nose and says "Nyah nyah"? nt

[Taverner]

46. Pretty much, yeah. Hey - never knew a Spideyfoot was called a pedipalp

[AlienGirl]

48. Just the ones next to the jaws (what they hold food with).

[Sebastian Doyle]

16. As long as he stays on the outside of the window, what's the problem?

Consider it a custom built Halloween decoration. I got spiders all over the damn place. Fortunately for them, they all have stayed outside so far.

[Joe the Liberal]

17. Is it as big as Clock Spider?

[Brigid]

19. Yikes!

Now that's a big spider! :scared:

[armyowalgreens]

20. I would move if I ever found that in my house.

[Captain Hilts]

43. And burn down that house the minute I got out! nt

[AlienGirl]

45. I would look for an insect net and a really big tank--wouldn't be able to resist! nt

[GreenPartyVoter]

24. So much for sleeping tonight...

:scared:

[Arugula Latte]

25. Oh Jesus Fucking Christ!!!!

:scared:

[Soylent Brice]

28. i see your clock spider, and raise you a camel spider:

[Taverner]

31. I see your wimpy camel spider and raise you a funnel web

Most deadly spider in the world - and they're really common in Sydney Australia

[Soylent Brice]

47. aaaawwwww, he looks friendly.

can i pet?

[AlienGirl]

34. That's two camel spiders. They're pretty cool! nt

[Captain Hilts]

49. Remember the Dutch fighterpilot in Afghanistan who wrecked his plane because

there was a spider in the cockpit?

I don't blame him one bit.

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2007/08/03/215843/pictures-spider-may-have-caused-afghanistan-f-16-fighter-aircraft-to-crash.html

[Taverner]

50. But they're not really spiders - aren't they closer to Scorpions?

[AlienGirl]

54. Yeah, they're Solifugidae, "sun scorpions" or "sun spiders"

They don't make webs, which makes them A-OK in my book.

I am scared of spider webs. I like the spiders...the *webs* are terrifying!

Tucker

[Taverner]

55. I don't really care much for either, but spiders and I have an understanding

They stay outside, I stay inside

They come inside, they go outside

[Taverner]

30. Isn't that a Wolf Spider?

If so those f'ers can JUMP!

harmless, but having one use you as a springboard will give you a nice small heart attack

[Joe the Liberal]

57. it's a huntsman spider.n/t

[mnhtnbb]

18. Time to watch The Mist!

:rofl:


I know. The spiders seem to get really active building webs off rooflines in front of windows in the fall.
We have one in the living room window--right next to the TV where I watched The Mist on HBO for the first
time last week.

[armyowalgreens]

21. ...

:scared:

[Brigid]

22. Oh, thanks.

Thanks a lot. And I was just thinking about going to bed. :eyes:

[armyowalgreens]

23. Whatever you do, do not search "giant spider" in google images.

[woo me with science]

27. Even more importantly, don't google images for "spider bite." nt

[Captain Hilts]

44. Oh, my. 'wet cat' is MUCH more fun! nt

[Sebastian Doyle]

51. Well, what's the point of having 8 eyes if you can't watch TV?

As long as they're on the outside of the window, it's all good.

[texanwitch]

26. The movie Mist is on youtube.

I liked the book and audio book better.

[Taverner]

29. Get a picture!!!! There are plenty of Arachnid Affecianados here who can ID it

[Nuclear Unicorn]

35. Sleep with cotton balls in your ears

just sayin'

[MissMillie]

37. Well, it's outside

which means you're not allowed to hurt it.

Besides, the spiders keep the flies away.

[MilesColtrane]

39. He's just the vanguard of a massive invading force.

Be nice to him, or our future Overlords will take their vengeance.

[AlienGirl]

40. The spiders here are unionizing...

Something is up with this set of communal orb-weavers I saw a few days ago: there were several females (at least four) occupying a sort of compound web made of five webs woven together--so that the borders were indistinct; the webs actually all connected!--as well as TWO MALES in the same web-complex! These were the same variety of orbies who are all over at this time of year and are ordinarily solitary.

I have never seen this behavior before among this species. And I notice spiders, and webs, and have lived in this part of the country most of the time since 1993.

Tucker

[Sebastian Doyle]

52. SPIDERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!!!111!!1

YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT YOUR WEBS!!!111!!!!!11

[Captain Hilts]

42. Oh, man. Move out! They're scary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[AlienGirl]

53. Cutest spider ever! These guys look like little kitties...

http://images-3.redbubble.net/img/art/size:large/view:main/1036860-2-don-king-jumping-spider.jpg

[NewJeffCT]

58. Most likely, the spider is a "she" not a he

but, most people assume it's male.

[old mark]

59. At least he's not crawling over your pillow in the dark.

Not yet, anyway.


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