Comments on: Personal Note: I get the creepy crawlies just writing about it!

By: momoffour

momoffour — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:45:31 +0000

I have always had an irrational fear of spiders. In our shed, we have wolfies that are as big (leg to leg) as the palm of my hand, and their eyes glow from across the room.

My brother, knowing my fear, recently sent me a blown up picture of a soldier holding a camel spider. EVer seen one of those???

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By: opinionated teen

opinionated teen — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:58:20 +0000

I generally don’t have a problem with live spiders; I’ll kill them all day. It’s dead ones I don’t like. Dead things in general, really.

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By: Pauline

Pauline — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:27:28 +0000

I was staying at a friend’s house, a couple years ago, and chatting with her husband, and the subject of insect bites came up. He said that if you wake up with bites in the morning, most likely they were spider bites, because the spiders bite you while you’re asleep. Not bad bites, just little itchy ones.

The next morning I woke up with several new bites. So whether he is right about spiders in general, it certainly seemed to hold true in his house. I don’t generally get bites like that at home – I don’t know if it’s the difference in where we live (Iowa vs Pennsylvania), or maybe the spiders in my house have some other source of food and leave me alone.

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By: Victoria

Victoria — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:05:48 +0000

NJL, she couldn’t help it, she wants us to stay awake tonight, waiting for the ‘walk across the face’ – and then the SWALLOW!

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By: NJLawyer

NJLawyer — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:58:23 +0000

Bianca, you didn’t have to tell me that.

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By: momof5

momof5 — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:17:10 +0000

We have to deal with Amazon-sized roaches in FL. I spray them when I can because the *crunch* they make when squashed is unnerving. Ick.

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By: Wiglaf

Wiglaf — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:26:14 +0000

A guy I met while hiking had to get eye lid surgery because he was sleeping out in the open and a wolf spider scurried onto his face. Half asleep, he went to rub the offending itch from his face and got bit on the eye lid. Wolf spider venom tends to destroy flesh and eyelid skin is too thin to take the punishment. Fortunately, the only thing I had sitting on my face, as far as I know, while sleeping in the woods was a mouse. He immediately scurried off when he felt me wake up.

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By: Bianca

Bianca — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:07:27 +0000

And when you consider that all human beings have swallowed at least one spider in their sleep in their lifetime… yikes.

Oh, well what r ya gonna do?

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By: Make it Man

Make it Man — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:47:04 +0000

Roly Polies!

We had a lot of fun rolling up the potato bugs when I was younger, and then rolling them down an incline…

I still do it today with those large black and red centipedes that emit an almond smell.

And click beetles. I have more fun with those things… I mess with ‘em just to see ‘em jump!

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By: Victoria

Victoria — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:06:24 +0000

I have been bitten very badly three times by spiders. The bite I received in Saint Barts was the worst, and then there were two others here in California. I had to go to emergency twice with one of them.

I kill every spider I see.

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