arachnopoll of fear

all are terrifying but i voted spiders_ceiling.jpg

^^

last one because it's HUEG

the last one's just a giant crab tho

spiders_ceiling is O_O

is that thing real????? Id probably die on the spot if i saw that on my trash can.

http://cdn-www.i-am-bored.com/media/65565_lotsofspiders.jpg

yeah cococrabs own:

It is also called the robber crab or palm thief, because some coconut crabs are rumored to steal shiny items such as pots and silverware from houses and tents.[2]

Yeah, voted ceiling. Just the picture creeps my shit out. Last one looks like a facehugger.

(Something like the ceiling thing actually happened to my wife and me. When we moved from Ohio to Virginia, one of the items we took out of the moving truck had something weird hanging off of it, and when I went to brush it off it exploded into about a jillion baby spiders. I thought I was going to have a coronary.)

Gah, I knew there was one I missed, Ade L.

i found/felt on of these inside the leg of my jeans once:

http://members.iinet.net.au/~pterren/Spider_Dads_hand.JPG

Ceiling is the obvious one, that thing is fucking horrible.

Clock spider is underrated, srs fear of the unknown, like how big is that thing under there?

your dad's hand?

xp

lolz

Ceiling is the obvious one, that thing is fucking horrible.

Clock spider is underrated, srs fear of the unknown, like how big is that thing under there?

― Pashmina, Thursday, 26 February 2009 19:48 (1 minute ago)

your dad's hand?

― s1ocki kong country (cankles), Thursday, 26 February 2009 19:48 (42 seconds ago)

roffle

i think i am immune to all of these thanks to that fucking giant centipede eating mouse mpg that was all the rage a couple of years ago.

http://www.upmyownass.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/giant-spider-eating-bird-1.jpg

yeah, the centipede-eating-mouse thing is the most unnatural horror i've ever witnessed

http://lh4.ggpht.com/abramsv/SB1mpido4TI/AAAAAAAAQIw/NCGymSYdQW0/s800/coconut-crab-2.jpg

hey girl hey

There's absolutely no way on earth I could ever take that clock off that wall.

Ceiling spider wins because that is something I could potentially encounter anywhere. It's not like I'm going to have to fend off a coconut crab when I take my trash to the dumpster in midtown Los Angeles.

jesus christ @ ceiling spider, argh

the crab doesn't really bother me, it doesn't seem dangerous. and the bottom part looks like a hamburger.

ceiling spider + army of baby spiders is terrifying, no doubt, but the unknown factor of the clock spider really does it for me.

yeah, the centipede-eating-mouse thing is the most unnatural horror i've ever witnessed

so glad i've never seen this.

...is it on youtube?

Children sometimes play with coconut crabs by placing some wet grass at an angle on a palm tree that contains a coconut crab. When the animal climbs down, it believes the grass is the ground, releases its grip on the tree, and subsequently falls.

yes it is

The coconut crab is admired for its strength and holds a special place in the local culture of many areas where it lives. Villagers in some places use the crab to guard their coconut plantations, because the crab may attack a person if it feels threatened. Adolescent coconut crabs are sold as pets in Tokyo and other places, but they must be kept in a cage that is strong enough that the animal cannot use its powerful claws to escape. If a frightened coconut crab pinches a human, not only is the pinch painful, it is difficult to dislodge the powerful claw.

Thomas Hale Streets reports the following trick, used by Micronesians of the Line Islands, to get a coconut crab to loosen its grip:

It may be interesting to know that in such a dilemma a gentle titillation of the under soft parts of the body with any light material will cause the crab to loose its hold.

see, that's adorable, you can't use tickling as a defense against spiders

xp - is there sound on video? want to know if i should wait till everyone leaves the office at 4 before i witness gruesome horror

coconut crabs fuckin feast on coconuts, cracken them shits open w/their claws, so u have to figure they can fuck a person up - also they climb trees for food, meaning they could just fall on ur fucken face when u walkin under a palm tree

ugh ugh ughthis thread fuck shit ugh ugh gu

there is sound but u dont hear much besides the disquieting munching and squeaking

if it fell on you it would probably eat your face while you were unconscious

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i don't know guys it says that coconut crabs mostly eat fruit, they sound pretty cool.

the fruit of your nutsack maybe

However, they will eat nearly anything organic, including leaves, rotten fruit, tortoise eggs, dead animals, and the shells of other animals, which are believed to provide calcium. They may also eat live animals that are too slow to escape, such as fresh sea turtles. During a tagging experiment, one coconut crab was observed catching and eating a Polynesian Rat (Rattus exulans).

u can click thru on the giant centipede vid btw

this thread has made me so paranoid, i just felt an ant on my finger and jumped

hey guys

check out japanese bug fights

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http://japanesebugfights.com/

RULES OF JAPANESE BUG FIGHTS

1. Two Bugs to a fight

2. Bug fights go on as long as they have to

3. No outside weapons in Bug Fights

i couldn't make it all the way through that centipede video

Did not watch centipede/mouse but would rather use a nice glue trap on both. I don't like surprise spiders but I'm not the phobic type, as years of spider rustling for phobic Momz have deadened me. With clock spider I think my KILL IT KILL IT KILL IT reflex would kick in, would smash clock. Tough luck, spider.

Am I also the only one who sees cococrab and wonders HOW BIG BOILING POT NEEDED and HOW MUCH CRABMEAT IS POSSIBLE FOR ONE PERSON TO EAT?

The coconut crab is eaten by the Pacific islanders, and is considered a delicacy and an aphrodisiac, with a taste similar to lobster and crab meat. The most prized parts are the eggs inside the female coconut crab and the fat in the abdomen. Coconut crabs can be cooked like other large crustaceans, by boiling or steaming. Different islands also have a variety of recipes, as for example coconut crab cooked in coconut milk.

voted for the clock cuz like i know those cheap-ass clocks always stop and so your at work or home maybe and u see the cheap-ass clock is wrong again so you go to fix it and when you take it off the wall like damn what lurking horror is waiting to fukkin pounce or spring or leap or spit venom or open a pustulating sac of stygian goo or otherwise freak you the fuck out and YOU JUST DONT KNOW, BRO! YOU JUST DONT KNOW!

I'd change my username to pustulating sac of Stygian goo but...

japanese bug fights otm

I was getting kinda caught up rooting for the praying mantis

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xpost way upthread to sunny

That spider you found in your drawers literally just made me jump up! arrgg!

actually feel sick now xp.

least favorite thread on ILX

Hi!

http://www.eurospiders.com/spider_eyes.jpg

wholy FUCK! that ceiling fan thing. no offense to the rights of living beings, but i would be PULVERIZING that thing with a mophandle, like stifling screams and going all irreversible and shit. good god i'm gonna have the horrors tonight

nah youd miss with the broom and then it would jump into your sheets and disappear

Def. need something bigger than a mophandle. Like a cast-iron skillet or an anvil.

See, BIG spiders don't bother me. They're fuzzy & conspicuous & most tarantula-type spiders are actually quite docile and harmless. It's the sneaky little ones that give me the heebie-jeebies. Of course, this comes after having been bitten by a poisonous one last summer. I never even saw or felt it, but it got me on the foot while I was on a boat. Later that night, I started getting dizzy & then having flu-like symptoms & my foot swelled up like a balloon. Everything went away in about 24 hours or so, except for the swelling, which took about two weeks to fully subside. And this was the result of a lesser poisonous spider. The brown recluse is the one that really freaks me out, b/c they are (near)deadly, small, brown, inconspicuous, and like to hide in nooks & crannies (like shoes!). At least black widows look goddam evil and scream "don't come near me!"

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It's kinda fascinating, but a MASSIVE ew-omg-squick factor

Also check out this 2007 New Yorker article about an arachnologist who searches for recluses in downtown Los Angeles.

http://www.lclark.edu/dept/public/objects/BilgerSpiders.pdf

Early one morning last year, when the streets of downtown Los Angeles were still mostly deserted, a strange figure appeared in the Goodwill store at 235 South Broadway, next door to the Guadalupe Wedding Chapel. She had on tennis shoes, dungarees, and a faded blue T-shirt, and was outfitted as if for a safari or a spelunking expedition. A khaki vest was stuffed with empty plastic vials; a black duffelbag across her shoulders held a pair of high-tech headlamps, a digital camera, and a venom extractor. She made her way to the front desk, past a rack of summer dresses on sale for six dollars and ninety-nine cents. Then she introduced herself to the store manager, Gina Torres, a statuesque woman with silver-blond hair and thickly drawn eyeliner. She said that her name was Greta Binford and she wanted to hunt spiders in the basement.

Torres stared at her. Binford is small and keen-eyed, with a dark-brown bob and a scattering of freckles across her nose. Her voice has a quick, clear, almost chirping quality, and at forty-one she car-ries herself with the springy assurance of a high-school cheerleader. She didn't look like a crackpot to Torres. Then again, she didn't look like a spider hunter, either. Perhaps she was a health inspector. "I've never heard anything about you," Torres said, her eyes narrowing. "I've been here two years, and I've never seen you before."

Binford explained to Torres that she was a professor of biology at Lewis & Clark College, in Portland, Oregon. She specialized in arachnology and was on a weeklong spider-hunting trip through the Southwest. She'd been to this store before, years ago, to collect an interesting species that lived in the basement. "I just need an hour or so to get a few more specimens," Binford said. What she didn't say was that they were among the deadliest spiders in the world.

They belonged to a South American species called Loxosceles laeta--a cousin of the brown recluse, but larger and more venomous. Sometime in the late nineteen-sixties, apparently, their ancestors had ridden to California in costume crates owned by a troupe of Shakespearean actors from Brazil. A year or two later, they were discovered at a theatre in the L.A. suburb of Sierra Madre and promptly triggered a citywide panic. "50 DEADLY SPIDERS FOUND," a front-page headline in the Los Angeles Times announced on June 7, 1969. "VENOM LIKE RATTLESNAKE'S." In Sierra Madre, spider suspects were rushed to the police in jam jars, ice-cream boxes, and Styrofoam cups. "Some have shown up around 3 A.M. in the trembling hands of frantic householders," the Times reported. By August of that year, more than two hundred laeta--as well as a thousand of their molted skins--had been found across Los Angeles. One family of eight abandoned their home at the sight of a single spider.

The Great Spider Hunt of 1969 ended as such scares usually do: attics were cleared, toolsheds swept clean, buildings fumigated and declared safe. Yet the spiders remained. Buildings like the Goodwill store had basements and sub-basements so deep and interconnected that no pesticide could reach into every hiding place. "I showed one of the spiders to an employee the last time I was here," Binford told me. "And she said, 'Yeah, I see those in the bathroom all the time.' " No bites had been reported, but word seemed to have got out that something was not quite right in the basement. Torres told Binford that no one was allowed downstairs, for reasons of liability. "You have to understand," she said. "I have to protect myself."

the super fuzzy spiders are pretty cute imo

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3020/3102943600_9196365463_b.jpg

Oh sweet jesus, I avoided clicking on this thread for ages, and then did and OH THE AWFULNESS. My hair is genuinely standing on end and I feel creepy all over.

I'm so glad I live in the UK where the spiders are small and cute.

I went for Clock Spider because of the unknown fear factor.

but the small, cute ones are the ones that KILL YOU

FOR FUN

every home should have a spider killer

http://apresski.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/claudine_peoplemag.jpg

i want a stormy life in aspen

Clock Spider induced a serious shudder when I noticed those fucking legs.

im no fan of spiders but that crab is freaking me out way more

I bet it's making a really creepy scratching sound on the side of that bin...

gah

I bet the spiders would tickle way more if they snuck up on you while you were reading this thread and started crawling up your back.

http://entertheoctopus.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/coconut_crab-6.jpg

i need a hammer. where do these creatures hang out? on an island where they cant get me right?

oh shit i forgot crabs swim

http://entertheoctopus.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/coconut_crab-6.jpghttp://entertheoctopus.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/coconut_crab-6.jpg

i need a hammer gun! seriously, for all these creeps. i couldn't handle smashing a bulbous puslating rodent-sized spider even with a long stick i dont think

I bet the spiders would tickle way more if they snuck up on you while you were reading this thread and started crawling up your back.

big lol at this

Bullets only make it crazier.

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oh god

right if you miss you know theyre coming for revenge

and a posse

*with*

Just run outside into the garden. It's gonna take those guys four times longer to put their shoes on, you've got plenty of time to get away.

Funnel-web Spiders often fall into swimming pools. Spiders can trap a small bubble of air in hairs around the abdomen which aids both breathing and floating, so it should not be assumed that a spider on a pool bottom has drowned. Funnel-webs have been known to survive 24-30 hours under water.

this would happen a lot in our pool when i was a kid

also a few years ago my mom was making her bed in the morning and found a very much alive female funnel web (v deadly) at the bottom of the bed in between the bottom and top sheets where she had just been sleeping.

fuckin spiders

guys, these crabs a bros, let's fight the real enemy (spiders)

http://www.dvdrama.com/upload/soundwave-Arachnophobia5.jpg

Finally realized what spider_ceiling reminded me of.

http://www.uloc.de/screenshots/b/babf02_spinnen_im_kaugummi.jpg

haha after this thread the first :02 of that legitemately scared me

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if I showed my ex gf this thread it would be worse than if I slept with her mother

lol, yeah, I sent a link to this over to my gf last night while on Skype & I could hear the occasional gasp or "eek!" in the background as she cursed me for making her aware of its existence, but at the same time could not stop scrolling.

japanese bug fights is my new favorite website ever

omg that fucking crab is too freaky. kind of hoped stuff like that didn't exist

you had previously wondered whether there might be giant crabs that live in trees?

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oh great idea to discover this thread just before bedtime.

spider in hand actually made me emit audible high-pitched girly squeal of terror.

pictures do not inspire fear, but horror. a sick, psychedelic, reeling sort of sensation.

^ this

Just run outside into the garden. It's gonna take those guys four times longer to put their shoes on, you've got plenty of time to get away.

― Frank Sumatra (NickB), Friday, 27 February 2009 15:32 (2 days ago)

Why is clock spider so scary? Time ate it!