Posted on 03/13/2009 5:25:56 AM PDT by LibWhacker
That also gave me the chills. Thanks a rot! :-)
Don’t like spiders. Never have.
Ewwwww! Is that the one that bit Frodo? ;-)
> Ewwwww! Is that the one that bit Frodo? ;-)
Strangely enough, Shelob in Lord of the Rings WAS based upon the Tunnelweb Spider for the movie. The one I have in front of me is a pet: she hangs around the window, and I catch moths for her and feed them to her live. She’s quite tame.
There’s an even creepier spider here in New Zealand. During the 1990’s there was a movie called ‘Arachnophobia’ — I don’t know if you remember it?
The stars of that movie were “Avondale Spiders”, and they are found primarily in Avondale, West Auckland. They have very, very long legs — when stretched out they are as big as dinner plates (smallish body, tho’) Perfectly harmless, but creepy ay!
Google might have a picture — I’m not going to check because I might get creeped out...
(Indiana Jones doesn’t like snakes. I don’t like Avondale Spiders...)
This is absolutely necessary if you use cotton bedding. Cotton is a natural substance (obviously) and pests think its a good, natural place to hang out.
In fact, termites will consume bedding, clothes, etc., made from cotton. Termites consume cellulose and cotton has cellulose in it. (termites can’t digest wood—they live off of protozoa in their gut that actually “eat” the cellulose—protozoa is passed on to nymphs from adult termites during feeding)
Cardboard has cellulose in it—probably why the recluse prefers it—it’s very much like a rotting tree. Oh, and termites will definitely go after cardboard.
There’s your entemology lesson for the day.
I find this stuff fascinating.
Spiders give me the heebee geebees.
What if the spider venom stirred up some anti-body cells within the nervous system that reacted to repair the nerve cell endings? Just a hunch!
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