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yeah...wouldn't this hurt?

Trevorus said:
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???
jay_t said:
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?
I'm sorry guys, I didn't mean to represent that picture as my spider bite. I read the post over, and that's what the implication was, but it was not intended. The pic was supposed to just be representative of what a Brown Recluse bite can turn into. Mine was tiny in comparison, you could only stick the entire head of a Q-Tip past the cotton, and spin it around without touching skin. Or necrotic tissue, as the case may be.

I remember seeing the spider (it was above my bed, I tried to kill it and it ran into the ceiling tiles- he must've been pissed and came after me) I remember when I first noticed the bite- I thought it was an ingrown hair, but I was actually joking that it was a brown recluse bite. The next morning I was showering and brown/black goop went dripping out and it dawned that it actually was a brown recluse bite. I remember having to clean it out with hydrogen peroxide and scrubbing it with a Q-tip. But I do not remember how long I had to do it.

I lived in Panama for about two years, I got "chased" by two tarantulas. This dude and me were sitting by the entrance to this storage bunker thing, and we see two tarantulas coming in our general direction- so we kinda just moved out of their way onto this wall thing. When they got to the door of the bunker, the sumbiches jumped frickin' 8 feet into the frickin' air and landed right at our frickin' feet! We ran, screaming like little girls. Little girls holding shotguns, but little girls none the less.
 
Wademeister63 said:
Hey that first one looks just like the one we found at work!

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This one was very feisty until we got done playing with him. Kinda shriveled up after we put some methyl ethyl ketone on him. Even so, we were impressed enough to get pics.

We're just on the north side of Dallas-Fort Worth.

Scolopendra heros Castaneiceps. Caught mine near Lake Sam Rayburn, also in Texas. Mine was roughly 10" when I turned him over to the biology department at Lamar University in Beaumont.
 
secretdonkey said:
Scolopendra heros Castaneiceps. Caught mine near Lake Sam Rayburn, also in Texas. Mine was roughly 10" when I turned him over to the biology department at Lamar University in Beaumont.

I grew up going to Lake Sam Rayburn...there are lots of good deep east texas nasties in that area.

brad cook
 
I was in Brazil about three years ago, the first week in the south, they have a red spider "don't let one of them bite you, you'll die". I didn't sleep much that week. The second week in Northern Brazil, there the bugs weren't as bad because the lizards were eating them, we had mosquito nets over the beds, I couldn't sleep, clausterphobic, plus the monkeys made to much noise in the mourning. I spent the last week on the coast catching up on sleep. Someone should tell the Brazilians about the screen, didn't see one the entire three weeks I was there!
 
Disco_Gee said:
A pissed of human is capable of breaking a macaw's neck ;)
HA! My sunconure (Mango) hates anyone but me and my dad. Now, he is like a 3rd the length of a macaw, and his beak is no where near as big. However, he can still have people cowering under tables/cushions/blankets. He's so fast that when they try and hit him he just dodges it. Highly amusing to watch.
 
The Golden Boy said:
I lived in Panama for about two years, I got "chased" by two tarantulas. This dude and me were sitting by the entrance to this storage bunker thing, and we see two tarantulas coming in our general direction- so we kinda just moved out of their way onto this wall thing. When they got to the door of the bunker, the sumbiches jumped frickin' 8 feet into the frickin' air and landed right at our frickin' feet! We ran, screaming like little girls. Little girls holding shotguns, but little girls none the less.
LOL. I didn't know tarantulas could jump that far.....I knew they could jump, but not 8 FEET?! :eek:
 
stephdawe04 said:
... no, it's ok...

I'm one of those people who, rather than scream my head off and run around like a maniac, go into a state of paralysis (sp), even before being bitten.

:D :D

That's probably what I would do too! I'm not too bad with spiders but I definitely wouldn't like to see any of these up close.

Insects and spiders - uuggghhhhhhh! :hiding:
 
stephdawe04 said:
... no, it's ok...

I'm one of those people who, rather than scream my head off and run around like a maniac, go into a state of paralysis (sp), even before being bitten.

I feel ya. I hate bugs! With a passion! And I'm talking about sissy northern-american bugs. And you live in australia! GAH! You've got balls even being there. Well, not balls, persay, but you get my point. :)
 
Dan1099 said:
And you live in australia! GAH! You've got balls even being there. Well, not balls, persay, but you get my point.
LOL... guess I do.

Don't tell anyone, though. :D

But where I live, though (in suburbia), we don't get as many scary creatures come through our house as a lot of people think. We do get brown snakes from time to time, and some spiders, but not many. They'd rather live out in the bush.
 
stephdawe04 said:
But where I live, though (in suburbia), we don't get as many scary creatures come through our house as a lot of people think. We do get brown snakes from time to time, and some spiders, but not many. They'd rather live out in the bush.

I know, I'm just giving you a hard time. :) I realize that not everyone is Australia has kangaroo problems, and keep Koala pets. I used to live on 8 mile in Michigan, and people were amazed that I never saw anyone get shot. Stereotypes. Pfft.

I'd actually love to visit Australia some time, though. Seems like a beautiful place.

And what balls you may or may not have is your business, and you business alone. But don't worry, your secret is safe with me! :D
 
Wademeister63 said:
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We're just on the north side of Dallas-Fort Worth.
must be a Texas thing ...
these are real common here in the san antonio area .
i kill three or four of these a year inside my house or garage .
i live just outside the city limits , very rocky , rugged country .

scorpions and black widows are fairly common too ...
nasty little bast@rds , and biatches ...
 
david meissner said:
must be a Texas thing ...
these are real common here in the san antonio area .
i kill three or four of these a year inside my house or garage .
i live just outside the city limits , very rocky , rugged country .

scorpions and black widows are fairly common too ...
nasty little bast@rds , and biatches ...

Scorpions creep me out...big time. The prospect of one sneaking into my garage would make me very paranoid. Very, very paranoid.

P.S. This thread is officially freaking me out.