don't do it with your shoe cause they will just crawl up your leg.

We sprayed one on the ceiling once and it melted baby spiders onto the table below.

on further examination this is definitely a female wolf spider.

oh jesus CHRIST.

that huge black thing on her back looks like a huge thorax but it's actually babies wrapped in web

Well you learn something new and revolting every day.

You mean like the birthing process of the Surinam Toad?

http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=98373

I was bit on the leg by a black widow spider. It's how I contracted MRSA to begin with.

It's a lot different from the spider bite like symptoms of a MRSA skin outbreak.

Spider bites are basically the American version of Fan Death. I know lots of people that have been bitten by spiders, but not one of those people was ever told they were bitten by a spider that actually lives in this state.

I am one of the unfortunate few, then.

The rattrap I was living in had holes in the walls, which the idiot who owned the house assured me would be filled in by the time I moved in. The yard was a mess and overgrown and filled with old junk so it was black widow heaven. The owner also lied outright about there being absolutely no spider problem and then when I moved in she was all "oh yeah this is like a spider haven here".

I saw a few spiders scuttling into the holes one night and tried to block them with socks but the windows also had cracks in them so it was impossible to keep them out entirely.

I still have the bite wound on my leg.

Get a cat, they eat these things (or pour a cigarette filled beer on them?). That and anyone remember those fuckers from halflife 2 that have the spiders or whatever on their back, and they throw them at you?

Reality's always way more fucked than fiction.

yeah that pissed me off. I leave spiders alone, not for the reasons that this video shows, but more that i consider them the dogs of the insect world.

To be fair, spiders do much more horrible things to the things they eat then you could ever do to them, but I'm still with you guys. If nothing else, spiders eat a lot of other insects and act as a pretty efficient pest control measure.

A spider gave me MRSA. Fuck all the spiders and I will kill every one of them I see in my place of habitation.

There's no need to squash most of them that ARE on you, most spiders are too small to bite you anyway. People who kill spiders end up with dust mites in their lungs and fruit fly larvae in their food though, so I guess justice is served.

I seriously doubt a spider gave you MRSA http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17017234

Spiders TURK UR JURBS

Spiders cannot be killed. You can only break them into smaller pieces that are also tiny spiders, because they are made of fractals.

Chomez, that study was on ">100" spiders in Downers Grove, Illinois. That's not a very big sample size, likely very localized, and that's also too far north for Black Widows.

It is a window into our caveman culture of the past.

I love this comment, as it's my exact sentiment as well.

Well, harmless unless you're a june bug, but even then, I'd consider it euthanasia.

It's harmless as long as you don't go out of your way to repeatedly piss it off.

Otherwise, I don't object to it eating the roaches around here.

Wolf spiders are friendly and helpful, too. Leave 'em alone and they'll do you a solid by eating the bugs you actually don't want to have around.

They live in your house. If you ever run low on spiders, you'll know because your house will look like a plague out of the Bible.

With first strike and poisonous 1.