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nutranurse posted:For the challenge. And I moved in just as everything was getting started, really just terrible as poo poo timing. My roommate is from China and I don't think he really understands the risks.
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Intern Dan posted:My roommate is from China and I don't think he really understands the risks. And now he's been bitten. Time to talk with the management on Monday!
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Topher87 posted:I just went outside to hang out some washing and this guy was all set up on the clothesline. Ah yes, banana spiders, nature's cruelest joke on Florida. (They're harmless, aside from nightmare fuel.)
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precision posted:Ah yes, banana spiders, nature's cruelest joke on Florida. If you think that's bad, I found one of those things next to my window last summer. I broomed the gently caress out of it  Tarantula Needless to say, I have never ever ever left it open again without a bug screen ever again since then. Oh and unlike most tarantulas, those ARE poisonous. I nearly stepped on one of those as I was going to enter the shower while visiting my friends in the south.  camel spiders We killed it and I barely slept all night. It was so loving huge  And while not a spider, this crawled out of my shoe a few years ago:  I have never not checked my shoes first without putting them on ever since Gotta love the Middle-East 
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SaltLick posted:I have a slight scar on my rear end from a spider bite that had some necrosis. gently caress spiders. I had a scar on my rear end from when I sat on a furry caterpillar. It's faded now, which sucks because it was neat.
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This isn't the critterquest thread. Hope your friend's ok
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My friend's bachelor uncle who lives in a desert-like region along the Nevada/California border has a house that most of us, myself included, would treat like one of those haunted mansions in a movie where everyone who tries to stay there comes running out screaming a few minutes later. It was, no exaggeration, covered in tarantulas and spiders of all varieties. He managed to do his own dishes, but never swept, vacuumed, etc., so the spiders just started reclaiming the space and wandering around. His reasoning was that things will just get dusty again, and he actually liked the spiders because they eat any bothersome insects. Except this meant that behind the couches he wanted us to sleep on were a few tarantulas, next to the tv was a giant spider, underneath every chair, table, any nook and cranny were at least a few spiders. It was hard not to exist within that house and not be a few inches, if you were lucky a foot, of at least one large arachnid. Good luck with your recluses and/or getting out soon; I lived in a house infested with hobo spiders in WA, had them in my clothes, in my bed (on my arm, behind my pillow), and saw a girl get bitten on the arm which led to a quarter-size chunk of flesh falling off (nice scar from that one). There's a good episode of "Infested" on Netflix about a recluse infestation- the family ends up moving out.
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gently caress that. It's poo poo like the story above that makes me uneasy about moving out of the northeast. Deal with awful winters or deal with awful insects/arachnids? I think I know which side I'm leaning towards.
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Every time this thread gets bumped I thank geography that the worst we really get in Britain are spiders that might sometimes look at you funny. I'm not even borderline arachnophobic and have little idea how you don't all just walk around with flamethrowers in your hand.
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Khablam posted:Every time this thread gets bumped I thank geography that the worst we really get in Britain are spiders that might sometimes look at you funny. At least we're not Australia.
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TheMammoth posted:My friend's bachelor uncle who lives in a desert-like region along the Nevada/California border has a house that most of us, myself included, would treat like one of those haunted mansions in a movie where everyone who tries to stay there comes running out screaming a few minutes later. My adviser was talking to me about how I could easily get a job teaching in rural Nevada for a few years. I thought it might be a kinda good idea when I heard it. Not anymore! 
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Khablam posted:Every time this thread gets bumped I thank geography that the worst we really get in Britain are spiders that might sometimes look at you funny. Immersion therapy, I guess. Once I learned that Wolf Spiders almost never bite humans I breathed a huge sigh of relief though. Those things pack a pretty hefty size-to-badass ratio. Did you know? Nearly all spider bites happen in your sleep. Sweet dreams!
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Volkerball posted:At least we're not Australia. That's what we always say when we need a pick-me-up.
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Mr. Despair posted:This isn't the critterquest thread. Thanks, he got to the doctor within a few hours and they gave him antibiotics. He shouldn't have to lose any flesh it looks like, maybe a tiny little bit. We're moving to a different building compliment of the management very soon.
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