Spiders!

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I like spiders because they kill and eat mosquitoes...can't stand mosquitoes. Tea, the video of the spider covering itself up with sand was cool

@seanmw, that video was hilarious

I used to love spiders. Then I met my boyfriend who lived amongst many fiddlebacks and decided to catch one and scare the fricking crap out of me! Yep. I freeeeak out on spiders now. But my best friend used to be a yellow and black gigantic garden spider. Now that I think about it, I always wondered why the lady bugs stopped going to my little rock pile I made for them when the spider moved in... xD

I've held a Rosie and a Mexican Red Knee tarantula. The Red knee was strikingly beautiful and huge, but my favorite was the Rosie. It released a bunch of liquid on me after about 5 minutes on my arm. The owner told me it was the spider's version of "sweat". All I can say is it was a weird and totally unexpected sensation!

I wouldn't mind having one some day.

I love Tarantulas! I want one of these...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaZ2v5zS-z8&playnext=1&videos=00FoOfZKDdA[/youtube]

^ She's got legs!
So delicate and graceful.

They feel so neat on the skin.

I've always admired spiders, and have accidentally destroyed webs to get the perfect shot of a common orb weaver. But it was the tarantula species that I held first. There's just something about them. Maybe it's similar to how some that have some fear of snakes often hold a big species first. I'm a snake keeper and have been involved in public education, so I've seen this a lot. Big snakes don't creep people out as much as smaller ones. It seems to be the same with tarantulas as far as spider representatives go.

I've never had the opportunity to hold a Tarantula. I have held lots of small and medium spiders, though. I am particularly fond of Wolf Spiders.

Tried to keep a Wolf Spider as a pet once, but it freaked my daughter out and wouldn't eat. So... I let it go.

A Golden Orb

I saw a really weird spider today. It was mostly black with small yellow stripes on its sides, one each. And its legs were in an X. I wonder now if it was

That spider covering itself with sand is so cute - it reminded me of my dog. I love spiders. Once I disturbed/destroyed a web cleaning brush from my yard - I planned on catching the spider and relocating it, so as used a stick to clear the web away and raised the jar to catch her she rushed over to her egg and wrapped her legs around it. I was stunned. It was so self sacrificing. I gently got them both and moved them. The next day I noticed she had carried the egg a fair distance from where I left her in the jar and built a new web.

If it's anything, this is my favorite Spider...

Dumbass... lol

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRV4d9LCawU[/youtube]