Spider bites

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Rman

·Oct 19, 2020

May i introduce you to the solifugae or Camel spider, an arachnid but not a true spider.

The first week i moved to the Santa Monica Mountains i took my work bag from downstairs to up, when i slung it onto a chair one of these critters 3 or 4” long came flying out.

Hadnt ever seen anything like it but these things (also called sun spiders) have an incredible biting force and hunt scorpions and centipedes, some have been clocked at up to 10MPH.

A fearsome little bugger.

 

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·Oct 19, 2020

I catch spiders/insects for a living (part of my job), last time we had a spider conversation here I had just got back from 6 hours overtime on the weekend collecting spiders off some pipes that had come into the country.
Paid for a watch IIRC 👍

Mrs STANDY gets paid more being a entomologist for just looking at the dead ones 😲

 

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·Oct 20, 2020

Here is one from work today....

Was tempted as was preserved in scotch

 

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JimInOz

·Oct 20, 2020·Melbourne Australia

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Here is one from work today....

Was tempted as was preserved in scotch

Are you sure there's enough Mortien on it?

😁

Come to think of it, Mortien would probably just make it angry.

WTF is it?

 

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·Oct 20, 2020

When you have common names of two spiders in the NT (Northern Territory) Bird spider and Mouse spider you know they aren't going to be small spiders. (Even have a fishing spider up here)

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64Wing

·Oct 20, 2020

I did encounter a fisher once swimming in a river where a waterfall had been dammed up by a rock wall. I pushed off the wall with my hand to get going in the other direction and it was hiding under that particular rock. The rock moved and we looked at each other for a split second before I realized what I was seeing and got the hell away. It was the size of a softball, mostly black with what appeared to be a month greenish color at its leg joints.

Terrifying for a 13 year old and it would terrify me at 30. But it was his house so...