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Now I am officially freaked out. In the rainforest of Guyana, lives a Puppy-sized spider know as the Birdeater. As he was out taking a nightly stroll, Piotr Naskrecki, heard something rustling behind him and that’s when he saw the South American Goliath birdeater.

Its body is the size of a human fist. It has ******* hairs and 2-inch fangs and it makes a very distinct sound. When writing about the spider, Piotr wrote, “Its feet have ******** tips and claws that produce a very distinct, clicking sound, not unlike that of a horse’s hooves hitting the ground, but not as loud.”

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When he approached the enormous spider, it began to rub its legs against its abdomen. It’s time to step back when the “Birdeater” begins to display this form of behavior. This is a defense mechanism that allows the spider to send out clouds of hairs with microscopic barbs on them. When these hairs get into your eye and mucous membranes, they can cause extreme pain and itching for days.

If that doesn’t worry you, how about its 2-inch-long fangs? The spider is venomous, but its venom is not deadly to humans. Although, they do describe its bite -- like getting nails driven into your skin. Are you afraid of spiders?

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Beyond words...since forever...I feel like they will attack me if I try to push them out the door. scared of spiders
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A good spider is a dead spider
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**** YES! Creepy little things can be all over your body before you know about them and certain poisonous ones can do major damage to you. . . worse than any other creature. Scary!
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And yes it really depends on what kind of spider it is !
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They remind me of art, teddy bears and kittens more often than they do steampunk machines or Grandma in tiger-stripe tights.

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garden spider

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I'm brave enough to stand a spider. They look scary up close though. Spiders benefits plantation.
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Not really, unless there on me
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It is an irrational fear, like most phobias, but it exists.
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when I was little I had a pet tarantula her name was Pinky.
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Bugs in general.
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I can't deal with them, when I see one I get a can of deodorant and a lighter and burn that mother till it's dead. They all need burning, BURN THEM ALL.
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Spiders are not bugs.
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Who the **** likes spiders? I rather deal with snakes. It amazed me in the past how bulls are afraid of dogs, but if you think of how most humans are with spiders it starts making sense.
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As long as I can step on them, hit them with a phone book, a dictionary - or my truck - i am fine around them... We coexist quite nicely
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Not the ones I deal with. I guy I know did get bit by a brown recluse in my town. The venom scares me, not the spider.
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Given your NO response ,perhaps you'd be up for hire ? Stand guard on my back deck ? My property abuts the forest ..spiders galore. I'll pay well for the protection..arm you with hair spray...don't laugh it works.... Smile.
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Oh my goodness yes and why I could not read past the first sentence or view the pic.
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I fear nothing small enough to step on. Now, if I ever came across that puppy size spider, I might think differently.
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But I will kill those spiders anyhow.
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The only good spider is "The Amazing Spider-man".
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No but all my friends are.
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Creepy, creepy, creepy!
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Don't like them!
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I'm not afraid of spiders and snakes but I'm afraid of earthworms & dogs & everything else
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I act normally when I see a spider, but, well, if it walks towards me... I'll leave the room.
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scared of spider ron gif
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I love them!
Anything that eats mosquitoes &/or *********** is cool in my book.
I won't kill a spider... just won't do it.
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Of course not.
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i'm not scared of spiders but those with really long legs are a little bit creepy.
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Only insects I'm scared of are buzzers. I held plenty of tarantulas in my hands and would if asked to again.
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I can hold a snake.. even venomous snakes, but spiders freak me out.
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A spider is not an insect.
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I often felt that Rack Ni Fobick was the fear of the beginning of pool games . . . Then I discovered that it was something else . . . I killed a humungous tarantula when I was in the Philippines . . . But it was not the huge female that I had seen earlier running across the wall and hiding behind a China Cabinet. It was probably her younger cousin that I killed. Cosmo Topper took all the Arachnophobia out of my mind back in 1956 when there was no Movie Ratings and I learned that Yes! There are Tarantulas THAT SIZE in the Nevada Desert. It is actually the Black Widow Spider that is NOT beneficial to man in any way, what-so-ever; and it is indeed an animal that does not belong with humankind. A lot of people are probably not aware that it was Tarantula that made Clint Eastwood's Day when he was the 25-year-old Pilot that roasted that huge pile of furry-sticks with Napalm. I had no idea that 12-years later I would get to see Napalm, first-hand, catching mountains on-fire in Quang Tri Province.

I said enough already. Anyway, there is nothing more exciting than to watch a hungry spider jump all over a sick fly in a bedroom window in some high-humidified home located in the Texas Gulf Coast Region. [It is the high-humidity that makes the fly so sick 'n slow.] If you've never seen it then you really missed a lot.
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They're creepy.
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I'm totally arachnophobic.
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Whoever isn't is a true warrior
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i am terrified of all of them.
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If someone were to be so foolish as to kill all of them, humanity ( at least most of it) would die of starvation in perhaps 3 months.
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The little ones that create cool web designs are o.k. to a point. You can keep the big nasties like "Grandpa Six Eyes" up there.
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I won't go out of my way to kill one outside but if they come in it must die. They just look evil.
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