Dark Knight
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then whatever you do - don't google Camel Spiders. These are in Iraq and the middle east - our military knows all about them. Scary scary stuff. They aren't really spiders but if you read up on them - they are nasty nasty creatures.i'm scared to death of spiders but my darn curiosity made me want to check this out. (shakes my head asking why do i do this to myself?)
There has to be a lot of meat in that thing. I wonder if it tastes like chicken?
Tarantulas crunch when you step on them. Kind of like a water bug. Except I learned that you don't have to step on them hard enough to get their guts all over you...you just have to tap down lightly enough to crack their exoskeleton. They aren't fast movers (not like wolf spiders), unless they are small.
People have always been astounded that I raised my children without having to raise my voice much or ground them when they got older in order to get them to do the right thing.
I always joke with my kids that it's because they've seen me kill both water bugs (american cockroaches) and tarantulas with my bare feet. Yes, bare feet lol. When you've got kids on your hip or a room full of kids and no shoes on in the house---you just walk over and tap on it's body lightly with your foot and it cracks the exoskeleton. That way it "ain't" going anywhere until you can get it out of the house.
We had a nest of tarantulas under one of our old military quarters that we didn't know about until rainy season when the rain was so heavy they headed above the slab foundation to ride out the rain with us. I had 4 small kids and probably about mmmmm, 10 tarantulas in the house? Yes, I didn't run out of the house into the rain...I didn't run out of the room to go find my shoes. I just got to steppin---on them. LOL
ETA: I can't stand large wolf spiders. In west TX they are huge and they are fast. I call them the porsche of the spiderworld. One time I got a pajama top off a pile of clean laundry I had in the corner that I hadn't put away yet. Put in on to lay down and felt something tickling my chest area. I thought it was a string or something. Out popped a wolf spider about half the size of my palm. Yes---the neighbors heard me scream that time. And it sounded like a posse of men fighting in my bedroom as I chased the sucker around my bedroom ---they can move!
Since you said "don't google Camel Spiders".....of course....I've got to google Camel Spiders now! :blushing::seeya:then whatever you do - don't google Camel Spiders. These are in Iraq and the middle east - our military knows all about them. Scary scary stuff. They aren't really spiders but if you read up on them - they are nasty nasty creatures.
JMHO
Tarantulas crunch when you step on them. Kind of like a water bug. Except I learned that you don't have to step on them hard enough to get their guts all over you...you just have to tap down lightly enough to crack their exoskeleton. They aren't fast movers (not like wolf spiders), unless they are small.
People have always been astounded that I raised my children without having to raise my voice much or ground them when they got older in order to get them to do the right thing.
I always joke with my kids that it's because they've seen me kill both water bugs (american cockroaches) and tarantulas with my bare feet. Yes, bare feet lol. When you've got kids on your hip or a room full of kids and no shoes on in the house---you just walk over and tap on it's body lightly with your foot and it cracks the exoskeleton. That way it "ain't" going anywhere until you can get it out of the house.
We had a nest of tarantulas under one of our old military quarters that we didn't know about until rainy season when the rain was so heavy they headed above the slab foundation to ride out the rain with us. I had 4 small kids and probably about mmmmm, 10 tarantulas in the house? Yes, I didn't run out of the house into the rain...I didn't run out of the room to go find my shoes. I just got to steppin---on them. LOL
ETA: I can't stand large wolf spiders. In west TX they are huge and they are fast. I call them the porsche of the spiderworld. One time I got a pajama top off a pile of clean laundry I had in the corner that I hadn't put away yet. Put in on to lay down and felt something tickling my chest area. I thought it was a string or something. Out popped a wolf spider about half the size of my palm. Yes---the neighbors heard me scream that time. And it sounded like a posse of men fighting in my bedroom as I chased the sucker around my bedroom ---they can move!
Since you said "don't google Camel Spiders".....of course....I've got to google Camel Spiders now! :blushing::seeya:
OMG Girl! Lend me some of your bravery and toughness! I live in Florida, but wasn't raised here. I can not stand "water-bugs" AKA "palmetto bugs". I'm a grown woman and literally run screaming out of the house if one gets in! There is NO WAY I could ever step on one - let alone with no shoes on! OMG! I feel faint just thinking about that! OY! You are brave, sister!
The one and only time I was brave enough to "get one" was one time when my hubby was out of town. I saw one about the size of a small dog climbing on the bedroom wall near my our bed! I had just vacuumed and the vacuum was still out, so I grabbed it and pointed the attachment hose at the wall and sucked that *advertiser censored* up in the vacuum cleaner. Then while the vacuum was still on I grabbed and sprayed a can of Bengal Roach spray up the hose (prolly sprayed half the can into the vacuum). Of course then I had to remove the vacuum cleaner completely from the house until hubby came home the next day and made sure I sucked the bug up and that he was dead! I put it on the front porch lol. Hubby came home and was like "why is the vacuum on the front porch?"
Yeah, I know. I'm crazy! I'm not scared of many bugs, but those palmetto bugs scare the living crap out of me! And I'm not a fan of large spiders either, but luckily in this part of Florida I haven't seen any. We have lots of Daddy Long Legs, but they are skinning and I can pick them up and fling them out the door with no problem. But I ain't steppin' on no palmetto bug or spider. Uh-uh. No ma'am. :blushing: