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"TRAPDOOR SPIDER!!!"
Posted by Snidget on 06-03-12 at 01:33 PM
WARNING: PICTURES AND LINKS WITH PICTURES

Never saw anything like this in my yard before.

Dug it up in my garden, was weeding, apparently came up with some weed or other, saw this thing that looked like a nut in a shell, kinda like a peach seed in a peach pit.

Then the seed leapt out at me, or well crawled out aggressively.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapdoor_spider has info.

Musta pulled up the whole "trap", not sure where the lid went.


Here's the "little" fellow:

For Size, I picked up a rock

And rolled it near him, I think he found it threatening.


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"RE: TRAPDOOR SPIDER!!!"
Posted by weltek on 06-03-12 at 02:17 PM
*hides* Call me when the spidey is gone.

I was just so lucky that we cleaned off the overgrown top of a retaining wall this a.m. that also had old boards from a deck we dismantled thrown all over. As we picked up the boards, I was ready for snakes, mice, gross bugs, etc. Lucky a few gross normal bugs were all we encountered.


-Handcrafted by RollDdice

"RE: TRAPDOOR SPIDER!!!"
Posted by kingfish on 06-03-12 at 07:57 PM
So, for the next few days (or, possibly, for the rest of your life) just remember that those phantom tickling feelings walking up the back of your leg or your neck in the dark is probably NOT one of those things. Probably. Try to remember that, and don't go berserk. You might hurt yourself if you happen to have a shovel or a big knife in your hand at the time.
"RE: TRAPDOOR SPIDER!!!"
Posted by Snidget on 06-03-12 at 08:47 PM
*fights urge to put itching powder in kingfish's bed*

I'm more likely to worry the crawly sensation is a junebug, the six legged kind--not the OT posting kind. One time came home after the evening shift when I'd head straight to bed and one of them hitched a ride in from the porch light and decided it wanted to cuddle.

Cuddle turned into a beat down real fast.

"RE: TRAPDOOR SPIDER!!!"
Posted by suzzee on 06-03-12 at 10:21 PM
When my dog was about a year old, he tended to stick his big nose where shouldn't. He came in the house one evening shaking his head. To my shock he had a large june bug (not our Jbug) hanging from his nose. When I stopped laughing I removed the offending nose ring and released her back outdoors. The dog was a little more cautious from then on.



agman made me famous dahlin'


"RE: TRAPDOOR SPIDER!!!"
Posted by jbug on 06-04-12 at 09:00 AM
I'm shocked!
and wounded!

We don't see junebugs around here very much anymore.
I used to play with them when I was a kid.


Handcrafted by RollDdice

"RE: TRAPDOOR SPIDER!!!"
Posted by agman on 06-04-12 at 09:49 AM
The junebugs are all serving Jury Duty right now! heh heh heh

"RE: TRAPDOOR SPIDER!!!"
Posted by jbug on 06-04-12 at 09:58 AM


4th member of the Jury 2012

"RE: TRAPDOOR SPIDER!!!"
Posted by VisionQuest on 06-03-12 at 09:22 PM
Damn nature, you scary!


Eyes of March by Agman


"Is it Edible?"
Posted by foonermints on 06-03-12 at 10:10 PM
Snidget: Possible foodwaster.

CTgirl Chupacabra!

"RE: Is it Edible?"
Posted by suzzee on 06-03-12 at 10:16 PM
You are certifiable.


I'll get you my pretty, and your little dog too.


"RE: Is it Edible?"
Posted by foonermints on 06-05-12 at 01:30 AM
*foonerkick*

You needed that, babe. I won't believe otherwise.

"RE: Is it Edible?"
Posted by Snidget on 06-04-12 at 09:25 PM
Well it is related to tarantulas and they deep fat fry those...

But I left it alive to patrol the garden eating pests.

"RE: TRAPDOOR SPIDER!!!"
Posted by Silvergirl1 on 06-03-12 at 11:28 PM

*screams* *thud*


"RE: TRAPDOOR SPIDER!!!"
Posted by cahaya on 06-03-12 at 11:34 PM
And suddenly someone from behind you says, "Oops. Honey, I shrunk the Snidget..."

Aiyee!

"RE: TRAPDOOR SPIDER!!!"
Posted by agman on 06-04-12 at 10:13 AM
Awwwww he's kinda cute!
"Waitaminit."
Posted by Estee on 06-04-12 at 01:41 PM
You're white?
"RE: Waitaminit."
Posted by Snidget on 06-04-12 at 04:11 PM
And about as pasty as they come. Half British and half Nordic with a few random Asian genes that got left behind by a Mongol or so. Did you know you can trace the extent of the Mongol invasion by mapping where certain blood types occur in Europe?
"RE: Waitaminit."
Posted by cahaya on 06-04-12 at 04:52 PM
I think you just got Estee worried...

Agman, on the other hand, would relish the idea.

"RE: Waitaminit."
Posted by Starshine on 06-04-12 at 04:55 PM
One in 200 men are descendants of Attila the Hun

Details

Lovely cheese Mooney

Where are Voice of the Beehive when we need them?

Every one of us is a mongrel

"RE: Waitaminit."
Posted by PepeLePew13 on 06-04-12 at 05:40 PM
...and yet you linked to Genghis Khan who lived 700 or so years later.
"RE: Waitaminit."
Posted by kingfish on 06-04-12 at 06:09 PM
Attila was a honey.

And if Ghengis Khan, anybody Khan.

"RE: Waitaminit."
Posted by Starshine on 06-05-12 at 03:08 AM
Mea Culpa

Although I'm going with Chingis being a descendant of Attila

Well I suppose it's possible

"RE: Waitaminit."
Posted by foonermints on 06-04-12 at 10:05 PM

»Every one of us is a mongrel«

The English: so silly!

Some of us are purified by the Cherokee Sweat Lodge.

foonermint: 100% Cherokee

*small tongue stick out*

"RE: TRAPDOOR SPIDER!!!"
Posted by Max Headroom on 06-04-12 at 04:46 PM
I see nothing that a rolled-up newspaper couldn't handle.

If it were my house, the sound effects would include much loud squealing from both female members of the household. I applaud Snidget's courage.

"RE: TRAPDOOR SPIDER!!!"
Posted by cahaya on 06-04-12 at 04:50 PM
I prefer the rubber band for the clean kill!

But if this spider is outside, he's welcome to his/her own home. Just not in mine!

"RE: TRAPDOOR SPIDER!!!"
Posted by kingfish on 06-04-12 at 06:08 PM
THe heel of the shoe.

And an easy-wipe rag to deal with the squirty stuff.

"RE: TRAPDOOR SPIDER!!!"
Posted by Snidget on 06-04-12 at 09:28 PM
As long as it stays outdoors it can live.

I might try to catch and release it if it was in the house, but it would have to cooperate.

"RE: TRAPDOOR SPIDER!!!"
Posted by cahaya on 06-04-12 at 11:17 PM
Funny you mention catch and release... I do that with most insects that make their way into the house, including benign moths and not quite so cooperative wasps that somehow wander in from time to time. Anyone outside my immediate family give me a funny look, like can't you just swat it? I've been this way since childhood and haven't found any reason to do it any differently.

The most recent incident was when a bumblebee was buzzing around in my car when I got in. Contrary to unpopular belief, bumblebees are actually quite friendly. I leaned over to the window it was buzzing up against, rowed it down (manual, not electric) and it sailed off into the breeze.

The only exception was cockroaches in Malaysia, where catch and release means an unwelcome revisit, along with the potential for a nest of them. And they are mean, like mean mean, and will attack you. Alas, no mercy for them.

"RE: TRAPDOOR SPIDER!!!"
Posted by Molaholic on 06-11-12 at 12:10 PM
Spiders, wasps, bumblebees --- all we need is something about bats and we've covered most of the Marvel Universe.

today's challenge -- what's the link with bumblebees?

"RE: TRAPDOOR SPIDER!!!"
Posted by kidflash212 on 06-14-12 at 08:50 AM
I believe Bumblebee and Bats are DC territory.
"At least it hasn't sprouted mutant wings"
Posted by kidflash212 on 06-11-12 at 10:20 AM


Capn2patch put me in motion!

"RE: At least it hasn't sprouted mutant wings"
Posted by Estee on 06-11-12 at 11:20 AM
I read the Spider Island graphic novel on Friday. I can think of much worse things it could have been sprouting.

Oh, those immunity-building toothbrushes.