Die Hoellespinne

[potato_head]

So usually I try to avoid killing spiders. There aren't any around here that are actually deadly, as long as we don't get black widows on our grapes; I've probably been bitten several times by those Yellow Sac spiders since they deliver the most spider bites in the US, but their bite is so ineffectual I haven't even noticed one on me and besides even if I went on a killing rampage I couldn't get rid of them. And I generally avoid killing things smaller than me.

But just ten minutes ago I found this...thing...casually chilling on the wall behind the couch I had been sitting on for several hours.



YUP

THAT THING WAS JUST CHILLING THERE LIKE IT WAS COMPLETELY UNAWARE IT HAD WANDERED OUT OF ITS NATURAL HABITAT (PROBABLY SILENT HILL OR SOME CIRCLE OF HELL) AND ONTO MY LIVING ROOM WALL

WOULD YOU LIKE TO GET A CLOSER LOOK



[03:28] Me: ((OMFG THERE IS THIS UGLY FUCKING SPIDER...THING ON THE WALL BEHIND ME AND IDK WHAT TI IS AND IT LOOKS SCR))
[03:28] Me: ((IT LOOKS LIKE A SPIDER THAT YOU WOULD FIND IN FUCKING SILENT HILL OR SOMETHING WTF))
[03:28] Me: ((I WANT TO SMUSH IT BUT WHAT IF IT KILLS ME WITH THOSE FUCKING FRONT LEG...THINGS...THEY LOOK LIKE FUCKING SPIKES))
[03:29] Me: ((this is seriously the most unsettling spider i have EVER seen and it's not even very big))
[03:30] Amanda: ((aidfeairfjoiejrvftirjg))
[03:30] Amanda: ((omggggggggggg))
[03:30] Amanda: ((YUR GONNA DIE OMG PLS DON'T DIE))
[03:31] Me: ((HOW DO I KILL IT WITHOUT GETTING SPIKED))
[03:31] Me: ((WHAT IF THERE ARE MORE OF HTEM))
[03:31] Amanda: ((DFLAEFDJRJVEIRJGDFJGL))
[03:32] Amanda: ((UM GET SEVERAL TISSUE))
[03:32] Amanda: ((TISSI))
[03:34] Amanda: ((are you alivveee? TnT))
[03:35] Me: ((BUT IF IT IS UNDER SEVERAL TISSUE HOW DO I KNOW I GOT IT))
[03:35] Me: ((I AM GOING TO SMASH IT WITH THE BACK OF A CLEAR GLASS))
[03:35] Amanda: ((SOUNDS GOOD))
[03:36] Me: ((homg kay i got ti))
[03:36] Me: ((scariest moment of my lifeeee omgggg what if it had babies))
[03:36] Me: ((AND THEY ALL COME AT ME FOR REVENGE))
[03:36] Me: ((i took a fucking picture of it so you can share in my horror))
[03:38] Me: ((dios mio ;A;))


I did indeed squish it with the bottom of a clear glass. Scariest five seconds of my life, lining it up and squishing it. I have no idea if hellspiders can jump!

It actually didn't move once. Not at all. Which makes me feel a little bad but still FUCKING DEMON SPIDER OH MY GOD


OKAY I have identified it as a Running Spider which is apparently the more hellish-looking cousin of our Yellow Sac spiders. So it wouldn't have killed me, just walked all over me in my sleep.

Yeah.

;A; forever

Comments

[anobjectinspace.livejournal.com]

I love spiders but holy crap I can understand your horror... Not sure how logical I would be at the prospect of that thing getting near me!

[outdatedclocks.livejournal.com]

omg D:

i thought fucking wolf spiders were bad ;~;

[poto-heart.livejournal.com]

Yeah I usually am a spider lover as well (although from a distance...getting too close still creeps me out ;n;). I've even named the daddy long-legs that's taken up residence in the bathroom (cellar spider, not harvestman). His name is Tim, even though in all likelihood he's actually female...I don't think he minds :P

This thing, though...;A;

TBH if I knew at the time what kind of spider it was, I wouldn't have killed it...but we have so many problems with tropical spiders coming in on fruit and it looked so goddamn scary :c

[poto-heart.livejournal.com]

Hmm, wikipedia informs me you may also know the crane fly as a daddy longlegs! We call them skeeter eaters, and cellar spiders daddy longlegs. Unfortunately, the average American being too uninterested in arthropods to tell one from the other, we also call harvestmen daddy long legs and male mosquitos skeeter eaters...xD;

[poto-heart.livejournal.com]

;n;

I think it is not quite as bad as it looks, because in the ID photo its fangs are not that big...I think it has the uh...grasper part of its mouthparts tucked up. I think it was sick maybe? It wasn't moving, and holding its legs so weird...or maybe it had just fed...D:

IT PROBABLY FEEDS ON SOULS

[poto-heart.livejournal.com]

I do catch-and-release with spiders sometimes, when my sister asks me to kill them. Usually I just let them alone, we have so many Yellow Sac spiders in the house - well actually they mostly live in the garage, and come hunt in the house at night.

And from what I can figure, they are eating the earwigs, and I haaaaate earwigs.

But I don't like it when they get close to me ;n; I usually talk to them until they run away...I assume they can feel the vibrations, most spiders seem to respond to talking.

[poto-heart.livejournal.com]

I didn't feel particularly one way or the other around them. Until we had the infestation last year.

From what we can figure, a spill of cleaning chemical under the sink in hte kitchen created some damp, rotting wood, which they then all laid their eggs in (the pipes under the sink lead from the basement, where they live, upstairs). The babies were...full of chemicals and super-aggressive. And kept laying THEIR eggs in the same spot.

After 3 weeks they were no longer nocturnal. One spent my entire shower running back and forth on top of the bathroom mirror (ON THE SECOND FLOOR, WHY DID IT EVEN GO UP THERE) and menacing me by curling its body and flexing the pinchers. When I got out of the shower, it FLEW AT MY FACE. Another one deliberately came at my mom and pinched her. All very terrifying unusual earwig behavior.

Also notable during that period, all of our spiders disappeared. I think eating the mutant earwigs killed them. When we took care of the earwigs, the spiders came back.

[livefairytale.livejournal.com]

D: glad you didn't die!!! I would have!