Arachnoterrorism

[NuclearDem]

[Warpy]

1. Not to me. It's fuzzy and kinda cute

It also knows I'm too big to eat and will leave me alone if I leave it alone.

[snooper2]

4. spiders are cute, till the wrong one bites you on the foot!

[REP]

5. Or leg

It's getting better now, but I'm on some scary antibiotics.

[Yo_Mama]

15. I got bitten by a wolf spider on the leg. Inside a house in NJ.

I had to take massive doses of antibiotics. Sickest I've ever been, and years later, occasionally that leg flares up and I have to take more rounds.

After the infection started resolving, the doctor told me that he had thought I would lose half of it.

Note - I was not molesting the spider. I did not even know it was there. I walked past it and it jumped on me and bit.

[REP]

17. That's necrotizing cellulitis

Not as bad as necrotizing fasciitis but not good. Not sure if it's from the spider bite itself or it just got infected. There's a ton of spiders in my greenhouse that I usually just let be, but after this, I got a lot less tolerant.

[Yo_Mama]

20. It was from the spider bite.

First I developed a giant classic ring rash, and then it just got bigger and bigger.

The spider itself was huge - a female.

They are venomous, and first I got ill from that and later that day I could see the fang marks, which then became the center of the rash. The fang marks were close to a quarter inch apart. It was that effing big.

I've never liked spiders, but I've never been a spider enemy, but I have rethought all that now. Now, I want them away from me.

[REP]

22. I meant *my* necrotizing cellulitis

Not sure if it was from spider toxin or environmental infection. I'm immunocompromised and get very bad skin infections.

[Yo_Mama]

23. I was whimpering and hoping that was not an actual picture of your leg

Yes, that's a very bad infection.

It's probably multiple things - spiders tend to carry various pathogens, and then there's the venom reaction.

Just remember to keep taking the probiotics!!!

Best wishes - that looks very, very miserable.

[REP]

24. Aw, thanks <3

It's a lot better now. I have the anti-MRSA ointment and industrial strength antibiotics and a perverse need to gross people out

for the kind thoughts!

[whathehell]

26. This happened in New Jersey?

Woah.

I lived in Jersey..Never knew they grew such fierce critters.

[Yo_Mama]

28. Yes, it did. Years later, I was told by someone that wolf spiders invaded their house in NJ

They moved out for a few days while the exterminators moved in.

They woke up one morning and they saw one huge spider, then another, then it became clear that there MANY.

[Warpy]

6. The worst ones here are the Apache spiders

that really are beautiful animals, glossy black and with fur coats on their backs that range from taxicab yellow to deep brick red.

One of them took up residence in my jeans. As I put the jeans on, it bit me 4 times in quick succession. The bites were initially painful, the size of salad plates, and covered with vesicles. They were also self limiting, gone in a couple of weeks.

Mostly, I tend to coexist with spiders, they eat all the worse stuff. If they're in my living space, I scoop them up and put them outside.

Many species are rare here because of the arid climate and the altitude that gives us very harsh winters.

[Buns_of_Fire]

31. A spider... in your pants... bit you four times...

Well, thankee kindly. Now I know what I'LL be having nightmares about this evening!

[Warpy]

32. They're not dangerous

but the bites do hurt.

[Buns_of_Fire]

33. I keep telling myself that they're just little love nibbles.

It's the spider's way of saying she LIKES you!

On the other hand, I don't know any spiders well enough to want them in my pants, either.

I like to think I have a mutual understanding with most insects: They don't bite me, I don't squash them squishy. Most of the time, we get along. Occasionally, though, I run across an antisocial type that just wants to cause trouble. Like the family of wasps who decided to take up residence just inside the gas filler door of my car. What we had there was a failure to communicate.

[Warpy]

34. I'll take the spider in my jeans, thanks.

I had a family of bees try to take up residence in one of my walls. I sympathize.

[hunter]

2. Six eyes on the camera, smile!

Here's another six-eyed spider:

Spider are cool, especially the furry hunting sorts.

[former9thward]

3. I was bitten by a black widow a couple weeks ago.

Not fun.

[Rex]

7. The beady eyes of an extremist arachnid!

I can tell! Yep. Yep.

[NuclearDem]

9. Where are the leaders of the spider community?

They need to speak out against these troublemakers leaving webs at face level.

[Rex]

10. Good question.

[NightWatcher]

8. The spider IS brown, so it must be a terrorist

[PowerToThePeople]

11. I do not understand

Are you trying to belittle some responses to terrorist actions of those who gun down and threaten to gun down our citizens?

[hobbit709]

12. Look up sarchasm.

[PowerToThePeople]

13. Still not understanding

Even if sarcastic, not getting what OPs message is supposed to be.

[NuclearDem]

14. The message is that spiders are creepy and going to kill us all.

[OilemFirchen]

16. You know some young black-clad lonelyhearts out there is screaming...

"Anarchist! Anarchist! Why can I never seem to get that word right?!?"

[johnp3907]

18. I love that movie!

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[frogmarch]

19. It has kind eyes.

Awwww

[beam me up scottie]

21. So cool!

Wonder what he's thinking?

I like jumping spiders because they pivot to keep their eyes on you when you're moving around them.

I put one in a jar in front of the tv one time (didn't have the heart to send him out into the winter cold) and yep, he was following the movements on the screen.

[Are_grits_groceries]

25. Only one response:

FLAMETHROWER!

[Warren DeMontague]

27. I never, personally, bought that shit about 'spiders are our friends"

Every summer something bites the fuck out of me when I'm out trimming trees and pruning bushes, and it aint mosquitos.

[hunter]

29. Of the spiders in my house...

... we've learned to discriminate between them that are friends and harmless to us, them useful enough against invertebrates much worse than spiders, and them who cannot be allowed any house privileges, ever.

As kids me and my siblings were Addams Family weird. We'd catch black widow spidrs in jars and feed them flies we caught.

My little brother got bit by a black widow once, wild, not one of our pets, and a quarter dollar sized chunk of his leg became necrotic and died, but he lived with a great story to tell about that scar. Sort of like my other brother and cancer.

Most of my own scars, both body and mind, were inflicted upon me by humans.

I let humans into my house, what's the big deal with spiders???

[Arugula Latte]

30. Yeah, I'm gonna slap the next person that says that upside their head.

"Oh, spiders are good! They eat the bugs we don't want in our house!"

Well, the bugs I don't want in my house are the FUCKING SPIDERS!!!

[Warren DeMontague]

35. That's why you want to have rats. To eat the spiders.

[Recursion]

36. And the Nopetopus says...