Haha, yeh! Imagine a Hyacinth getting hold of you?Sundogue said:
My sunconure and senegals can deal a fair bite if you upset them enough.
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yeah...wouldn't this hurt?
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My sunconure and senegals can deal a fair bite if you upset them enough.
I still have a scar on my calf from a brown recluse bite 15 years ago.
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Nickthebassist said:Haha, yeh! Imagine a Hyacinth getting hold of you?
I only have a Severe Macaw (mini) and he bit my drunk friend one night (whom I told NOT to keep pestering the bird)...when all of a sudden I heard this "crunch" sound from across the room. Eck! I can still remember how it sounded!
Good thing he was drunk when it happened (although if he hadn't been drunk it wouldn't have happened in the first place, because he knew better) because he didn't feel as much pain as he would have otherwise. My friend needed 37 stitches in his index finger and the bone was bruised.
Needless to say he learned his lesson.
When my macaw is in a bad mood sometimes, he will give me a bite...but I know him and he knows me, so it's never too hard.
Did you ever hear about the thief who broke into a pet store? True story. When the store owner and police arrived, they couldn't find the thief...but the owner's hyacinth was on the floor in front of a table, pacing back and forth and saying "bad bird" over and over.
Under the table was the thief...curled up in a ball. He was a bloody mess and he had to be taken to the hospital.
Having said all that, that bug does look terrifyingly creepy. But I'd still rather get bit by that than an angry parrot.
Aw, that thing's just a baby. My giant centipede was about 10" long when I donated him to the biology department of a local university. This is obviously some form of Scolopendra - not the same species as mine but closely related.
To address some issues raised in this thread and some of the obvious questions:
No, I absolutely would not try to hold one of those things. I never, ever touched mine directly.
Each leg has a needle-sharp spine near the base. These reportedly have a substance that is a strong irritant, and any contact should be expected to result in unpleasantness.
The jaws are impressive and the bite is venomous - supposedly close to a bad wasp sting.
They are wicked fast, squirmy, and can double over on themselves so quick you're not sure which direction they're headed.
Mine is native to Texas, and I caught him live... very carefully, of course.
Mine DID indeed get loose in the house, thanks to the interest of our cat who tumped his cage over. I almost slept through the crashing noise from the other room... glad I didn't.
You should see one of these things eat. I fed mine crickets and he would hold his prey in the first sets of legs and bite off hunks of the cricket, often discarding the less juicy parts. Mine was known to bite off and discard the head of his cricket victims.
For more, here's an old OT thread: http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=90750
To address some issues raised in this thread and some of the obvious questions:
No, I absolutely would not try to hold one of those things. I never, ever touched mine directly.
Each leg has a needle-sharp spine near the base. These reportedly have a substance that is a strong irritant, and any contact should be expected to result in unpleasantness.
The jaws are impressive and the bite is venomous - supposedly close to a bad wasp sting.
They are wicked fast, squirmy, and can double over on themselves so quick you're not sure which direction they're headed.
Mine is native to Texas, and I caught him live... very carefully, of course.
Mine DID indeed get loose in the house, thanks to the interest of our cat who tumped his cage over. I almost slept through the crashing noise from the other room... glad I didn't.
You should see one of these things eat. I fed mine crickets and he would hold his prey in the first sets of legs and bite off hunks of the cricket, often discarding the less juicy parts. Mine was known to bite off and discard the head of his cricket victims.
For more, here's an old OT thread: http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=90750
LMFAO! That is the funniest thing I have ever heard. Hyacinths are formidable, only a fool would take one on. One once tried to bite me when I was trying to fish a feather out of its cage for my macaw feather collection(i got the feather in the end!) It's a pity they are now endangered. :scowl:Sundogue said:
secretdonkey said:
I remember you talking about the one you had. I have never seen one in person myself, I have yet to find a pet store that carries one. How was the thing? I heard they are extremly agressive, like they are pretty much programed to attack who/what ever. They even kill and eat tarantulas, rats, lizards, ect..
I remember seeing something on animal planet, and they found a 13-14 inch Peruvian centipede and the thing was absoultly insane. Couldn't believe how fast the thing could move, and it was actually chasing after the camera guy and he was basically screaming like a girl.
Anything with > 4 legs, and/or non-feathered wings needs to die right now.
I'm so amazingly scared of spiders it's insane. Even the little ones, like the daddy-long-legs. If one gets on me, I just freak out.
I'm so amazingly scared of spiders it's insane. Even the little ones, like the daddy-long-legs. If one gets on me, I just freak out.
The Golden Boy said:
I'm from Oklahoma and they have fiddlebacks there too. I never got bit but my parents house used to have them. I say used to because they moved. I've seen nastier pics than the one you posted but I did see one in person once upon a time. Not as bad as yours was because he got help when he realized what bit him. But still nasty nasty stuff. How bad is the scar? Still have a little bit of a crater there?
Holy crap, dude. Golden, you had quite a hole, didn't you? That stuff is crazy. It jsut destroys living tissue. How long sis that take to heal???
It eats Tarantulas?Bad Brains said:
Btw, don't post anymore photos of spiders(especially funnel webs), I'm terrified of them.
Nickthebassist said:It eats Tarantulas?
Why? We have no nasty spiders in the UK...
Oh, hang on...
You know those big hairy ones that run across the floor in your house? They're Tegenaria spiders.
Most of them are either a species called Tegenaria gigantea (giant housespider or giant funnelweb)...
...or another called Tegenaria domestica (domestic housespider or domestic funnelweb)...
...but some are a related species, Tegenaria agrestis (aggressive housespider or aggressive funnelweb)...
They do this to you when they bite...
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Yes, they're a UK native species. They are rare and are more common in the south of the UK, but have been recorded as far north as Edinburgh.
Tegenaria Gigantea live only in a certain area.......right near where I live. They are the heaviest UK spider. However, I've only ever heard of Wolf Spiders biting.dlloyd said:Why? We have no nasty spiders in the UK...
Oh, hang on...
You know those big hairy ones that run across the floor in your house? They're Tegenaria spiders. Most of them are either a species called Tegenaria gigantea or Tegenaria domestica, but a few are a related species, Tegenaria agrestis...
They do this to you when they bite...
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Yes, they're a UK native species.
Hmm, how very odd. Well I know we have a sub-species of Gigantea or something with that name round here. Big things.
