ATTN PLZ KAi

[Freeky]

I don't wanna look for pics of the spider basatrd, because it's too late and I'm trying to sleep, but we found a spider in the house today. it had a bulbous body, was brown, no hair, and if you took your thumbnail and wrapped it into a globe you'd have about the size of the body. I don't remember leg length. What was it, do you think?

[Lies]

No offense, but, that pretty much describes... a lot of spiders.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

OMG IT WAS A BROWN/BLACK HOUSE KILLER CORNER SNEAKY SPIDER!!
THEY WILL EAT YOUR INTRUDER BUGS AND BITE YOUR TOES UNDER THE COUNTER!!!


(no clue)

[Triple Zero]

OMG IT WAS A BROWN/BLACK HOUSE KILLER CORNER SNEAKY SPIDER!!
THEY WILL EAT YOUR INTRUDER BUGS AND BITE YOUR TOES UNDER THE COUNTER!!!

... or it could have been the Dutch version, which looks about the same but just sits there and eats cheese.



was it eating cheese? sometimes the brown/black house killer corner sneaky spider uses that as a decoy to pretend it is in fact a brown/black house cheese-eating Dutch spider, in order to get your guard down and bite your toes under the counter when you don't expect it.

that's how they got the "sneaky" part of the name.


ah, the wonders of nature!

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

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[Reginald Ret]

hahahahaha genius!
should PD write/draw/WOMP a bestiary?

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

HEBBO GAISE! IMA EAT YOUR CHEESE OK? SQUEEEEEEEEEK!
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[AFK]

It's a brown hairless bulbous spider.  Or a baby tarantula.  Not sure. 

[Kai]

I don't wanna look for pics of the spider basatrd, because it's too late and I'm trying to sleep, but we found a spider in the house today. it had a bulbous body, was brown, no hair, and if you took your thumbnail and wrapped it into a globe you'd have about the size of the body. I don't remember leg length. What was it, do you think?

It's probably in the spider category known as "harmless".

[Freeky]

I don't wanna look for pics of the spider basatrd, because it's too late and I'm trying to sleep, but we found a spider in the house today. it had a bulbous body, was brown, no hair, and if you took your thumbnail and wrapped it into a globe you'd have about the size of the body. I don't remember leg length. What was it, do you think?

It's probably in the spider category known as "harmless".

I hope so.

[Stelpa]

Usually the smallish spiders are poisons. I learned that from the Animal Planet!

[Kai]

Usually the smallish spiders are poisons. I learned that from the Animal Planet!

All spiders have venom. Few spiders have venom strong enough to hurt a human much more than a bee sting, and even fewer of those regularly come into contact with humans. There are really only a small number of spider species in the US (<10) that fall in those categories, and of them, only two, the Black Widow (very conspicuous) and the Brown Recluse (very secretive and unagressive) are dangerous.

The rest either don't come into contact with humans, run away from humans, or bite and do no worse than a mild reaction to a bee sting.

So no, I wouldn't worry about it, Freeky.

[Freeky]

Thanks Kai, you've set my mind at ese, or at least as much as can be done with spiders running around. Not their fault, but I am scared of those little buggers.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

But they are corner kittens.
They live in corners, and sit there all fuzzy, eatin bugs.

awe

'cept they're sneaky. and they'll bite your toes under the counter.

[AFK]

The girl's dormitory at the college I went to had some issues with brown recluse spiders.  Those things give some really nasty bites.