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To people with a spider phobia

Cakes488 said:
You should compel yourself to post a picture...considering that you said you were hot an all. Let's see it...out with it now.
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:lol:

You're still on about that, huh? :p


Okay, maybe, but I got to tell you: the face will be covered. First I got to shower; 15 minutes of weight lifting, two hours on a stationary exercise bike, just back from three miles running/walking -- and that's just today, and then I got to go two hours of cleaning in a bit, so later tonight. Maybe.
 
Whaaaa? The face will be covered!! But that's what I want to see...!!

I'll take whatever you give up for now...but this isn't over, far from over I want to see what you're working with and I'm not talking about your bod.
 
This sounds kinky and I'm both excited and a little scared...oh blindfold, gag and tie me up and do with me what you will sir!

Because after your done....than it's my turn....muuuaaaaah.
 
Thanks a lot, Miss Chicken!
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Every time I see spiders, it give me a strong chill after seeing those creeping spiders that stares at my face!! I hated spiders for long time since I was of that young age!
 
Supreme Admiral said:
Thanks a lot, Miss Chicken!
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Every time I see spiders, it give me a strong chill after seeing those creeping spiders that stares at my face!! I hated spiders for long time since I was of that young age!
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Don't thank me. It wasn't me that posted photos of spiders in this thread.
 
I go camping in Georgia and we always see a lot of daddy long legs spiders. They are fun to play with. It's funny when you get them to drink a drop of beer off the tabletop. Here's a pic.
 
I am beginning to actively dislike daddy-long-leg spiders. I am not sure if what we call daddy-long-legs is the same species or genus as what Americans call daddy-long-legs.

Our daddy-long-legs make really messy webs. Just a tangle of silk. I like spiders that constructs webs that are 'works of art'.

Our daddy-long-legs also eat other species of spiders. This means that in my current house (which I moved into a year ago) 90% of the spiders I see are daddy-long-legs. I don't even get the larger spiders such as my beloved huntsmen. The daddy-long-legs probably devour the huntsmen when the huntsmen are still spiderlings as they couldn't take on an adult huntsman.

I like huntsman because they do not make webs at all. They just hide behind pictures etc and come out once in a while to hunt and to amuse me and the cats.

Last summer we had daddy-long-legs in nearly every corner of every room. The best thing about it is we had very few flies or other insects though we did have plenty of piss ants coming into the house.
 
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I honestly don't think American daddy longlegs make webs. They're like M&Ms with long, thin legs. I don't mind them, in fact, I think they're cute!
 
It seems that the term daddy-long-legs can refer to several different creatures

1) The crane fly - which is an insect
2) The harvestman - which is an arachnid but not a spider.
3) Members of the family Pholcidae . especially Pholcus phalangioides which are true spiders and these species make messy webs. They are also known as cellar spiders.

Edited to add - Garry Mitchell's photo is of a harvestman.
 
^Miss Chicken's link about daddy long legs is the first article that I've bothered to read about them. I didn't know that they weren't spiders. Interesting.
 
Harvestmen are awesome. There's a bit at the beginning of Life in the Undergrowth showing a male defending his eggs from females that want to eat them and replace them with their own. The complexity of these animals' behaviour belies their size and common perception that they're somehow without any intelligence.

I forgot to mention about the "spiders the size of cats" comments. I recall seeing some kind of one-off programme about spiders on the BBC a few years ago (I think it was hosted by Attenborough, but I cannot recall) which was noteworthy for showing a bolas spider using advanced problem solving techniques to hit prey (in this instance the prey animal was elevated, but in a place the spider couldn't reach so it moved around until it had a clear line of sight). A biologist on the show made the statement that due to their prodigious skill as predators if spiders had reached the size of cats early in their evolution it's unlikely there would be any human beings or other large animals!
 
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