I Hate Spiders!!

[Loopy]

http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/whats-hot/woman-thought-she-had-water-in-her-ear-doctors-find-brown-recluse-spider?fbclid=IwAR3qCV6R64huWRZpgdVO-FHrPEO_OMmbZeamjDT4jd3sW9V-J0HrqQul1c0

 

 

KANSAS CITY, Kansas (FOX 35 ORLANDO) - A Kansas woman went to see a doctor because she thought she had water in her ear. Imagine her shock when doctors pulled out a brown recluse spider!

 

According to MySunCoast.com, Susie Torres said she had a constant "swishing" sound in her ear that wouldn't go away. Torres went to see a doctor about her condition.

 

As she got her ear examined, a medical assistant ended up finding a brown recluse spider right inside Torres' ear.

 

“Just, why? Where? What and how?" Torres told MySunCoast.com. "Never thought that they would crawl in your ear or any part of your body."

Fortunately, Torres did not get bitten by the eight-legged intruder.

 

Brown recluse spiders are venomous. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, if someone is bitten by a brown recluse, the bites can result in chills, fever, sweating and nausea. The venom can also destroy skin tissue around the bite.

 

As for Torres, she's taking extra precautions while she sleeps.“I went and put some cotton balls in my ears last night because I didn’t have any ear plugs,” Torres said.

[Dustparticle]

 As long you live on earth, you will have to deal with them. Unless Jehovah calls you to heaven. Hebrews 3:1

[Thesauron]

Oh, all the creatures that roam in and out of our openings, mostly while we sleep...

[Lee49]

You can spray with Bifen I/T, both outside and inside, kills most everything including mosquitoes unless of course you want to try living with them! ( not available in some states)

[BenJepthah]

I love spiders. Jehovah has made some very beautiful spiders with real personality! Like the peacock jumping spider. ( no it doesn’t specialize in jumping over peacocks). 

[Margaret]

Sorry, the only spider I like is Lucas, on YouTube 

[Old]

I don't know Lucas, but these seem kind of dear.

[Margaret]

[Cushi]

I took this picture today while cutting the grass...

[Wanda Hill]

I think that's a Grass Spider..harmless, and they love to live in bushes too!

[Cushi]

2 hours ago, Wanda Hill said:

I think that's a Grass Spider..harmless, and they love to live in bushes too!

Thanks. I was wondering what kind it was. That makes sense because it was by my hedges.

[Lewis]

3 hours ago, Brother Jack said:

I took this picture today while cutting the grass...

 

Hard to tell between a wolf spider and a grass spider

 

[Wanda Hill]

The Grass spider is not as big, even tho when they come in my house, I think they areas big as plates..lol. I have a better relationship with snakes than spiders, as long as they don't come inside.

[Cushi]

12 hours ago, Wanda Hill said:

I have a better relationship with snakes than spiders, as long as they don't come inside.

I absolutely love snakes. I’ve had dozens of them as pets. I’ve had pythons, boas, king snakes, rat snakes venomous etc. I’ve had em all.

[daydream]

 

Peacock spiders are a genus of colourful arachnids, native to Australia, often found in coastal areas, but they also exist inland.

http://tenrandomfacts.com/peacock-spider/

[daydream]

@Old  Me too. Had to google it up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XVvEqa0Dn4

Lucas the spider

 

Loved the back up singers too. Croak. 

Edited September 4, 2019 by M'Awan

[Thesauron]

Why are people afraid of something so small?

[daydream]

tarantulas? 

https://www.thoughtco.com/fascinating-facts-about-tarantulas-1968545

Tarantulas Rarely Bite (And Other Facts About the Friendly Spiders)

Why Tarantulas Should Inspire Fascination, Not Fear

[Cushi]

7 hours ago, M'Awan said:

tarantulas? 

https://www.thoughtco.com/fascinating-facts-about-tarantulas-1968545

Tarantulas Rarely Bite (And Other Facts About the Friendly Spiders)

Why Tarantulas Should Inspire Fascination, Not Fear

Yeah, I think they are neat. I asked to hold one at a local pet store years ago. It was cool 🙂

[McKay]

On 9/4/2019 at 1:05 AM, Thesauron said:

Why are people afraid of something so small?

Because they can still cause us a lot of damage/death.

On 8/23/2019 at 5:43 PM, Thesauron said:

Oh, all the creatures that roam in and out of our openings, mostly while we sleep...

I assume you're referring to the study that "found" we swallow an average of 12 spiders a year while sleeping? If so, I looked into that years ago (there's a Snopes article about it I think) and it turns out that was a made up statistic in an experiment to prove that people on the internet will believe anything. The experiment succeeded.

 

That said, I wouldn't be surprised if that DOES happen in certain parts of the world.

[Thesauron]

I assume you're referring to the study that "found" we swallow an average of 12 spiders a year while sleeping? If so, I looked into that years ago (there's a Snopes article about it I think) and it turns out that was a made up statistic in an experiment to prove that people on the internet will believe anything. The experiment succeeded.
 
That said, I wouldn't be surprised if that DOES happen in certain parts of the world.

Spiders don’t. They don’t approach us while we sleep since we kind of vibrate in a, for spiders, rather unpleasant way. We breathe, our heart beats, we might snore. But other creatures seem to be less worried about such things.

[Hammerhead]

Read an article somewhere stating that spiders tune their webs like we would tune a guitar. Pulls some more taut than others so it can feel the different vibrations and tell if they want to go eat the trapped insect or not.
I had a spider in my yard one time that had a web, I threw some crushed Doritos in the web at night, in the morning all the Doritos would be laying on the ground.

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[BenJepthah]

1 hour ago, Hammerhead said:

Read an article somewhere stating that spiders tune their webs like we would tune a guitar. Pulls some more taut than others so it can feel the different vibrations and tell if they want to go eat the trapped insect or not.
I had a spider in my yard one time that had a web, I threw some crushed Doritos in the web at night, in the morning all the Doritos would be laying on the ground.

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Sounds like the spider was rather health conscious! 

[Hammerhead]

Sounds like the spider was rather health conscious! 

Maybe it was on a Paleo diet and upset I was trying to sabotage it

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[BenJepthah]

15 minutes ago, Hammerhead said:

Maybe it was on a Paleo diet and upset I was trying to sabotage it

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You probably did it a favor . You’ve effectively baited it’s net.