Re: OT Totally: Eating Giant Cave Spiders on Fear Factor!
 

Garden spider right? I used to live out in the sticks and we had these all
over the place (I think they were too big to get in the house Thank God!). I
called them the "Guardians of the Corn", because when we kids would play
around running through the corn field, you'd see these HUGE webs strung
between the rows... Usually at the VERY last second causing your feet to
come out from under you in an effort to stop, which usually put you squarely
on your back.

Good times.
td

"DougW" <post.replies@invalid.address> wrote in message
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> Jeepers did pass the time by typing:
> > I fell on this show while channel surfing last eve. Giant African cave
> > spiders, eaten live. Man, what people will do to win a mazda.
> > Anyone else get to witness this?
>
> Seen my pet spider? ;)
> http://members.cox.net/beergoggles/spider.jpg
>
> It's only a mere 4 inches across.
>
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Re: OT Totally: Eating Giant Cave Spiders on Fear Factor!
 

Tyler Dirden did pass the time by typing:
> Garden spider right? I used to live out in the sticks and we had these all
> over the place (I think they were too big to get in the house Thank God!). I
> called them the "Guardians of the Corn", because when we kids would play
> around running through the corn field, you'd see these HUGE webs strung
> between the rows... Usually at the VERY last second causing your feet to
> come out from under you in an effort to stop, which usually put you squarely
> on your back.

Yep. And when you get close they shake the web to scare you away.
If that fails they drop to the ground and hide. For a big spider it's
sorta wimpy. :]

Argiope aurantia (Black and yellow Argiope)
<http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/argiope/a._aurantia$narrative.html>

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Re: OT Totally: Eating Giant Cave Spiders on Fear Factor!
 

Tyler Dirden did pass the time by typing:
> Garden spider right? I used to live out in the sticks and we had these all
> over the place (I think they were too big to get in the house Thank God!). I
> called them the "Guardians of the Corn", because when we kids would play
> around running through the corn field, you'd see these HUGE webs strung
> between the rows... Usually at the VERY last second causing your feet to
> come out from under you in an effort to stop, which usually put you squarely
> on your back.

Yep. And when you get close they shake the web to scare you away.
If that fails they drop to the ground and hide. For a big spider it's
sorta wimpy. :]

Argiope aurantia (Black and yellow Argiope)
<http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/argiope/a._aurantia$narrative.html>

--
DougW

Re: OT Totally: Eating Giant Cave Spiders on Fear Factor!
 

Jeepers <moomesa@INVALIDfnbnet.net> wrote in message news:<moomesa-7B66B7.11272730092003@corp.newsfeeds.com>...
> I fell on this show while channel surfing last eve. Giant African cave
> spiders, eaten live. Man, what people will do to win a mazda.
> Anyone else get to witness this?

Yeah, it was nasty! All for a Mazda(!!!)????

Here are some pics of the mean little critters:

http://www.nbc.com/Fear_Factor/tales/index.shtml
http://groups.msn.com/ArachnidCity/amblypygi.msnw

Re: OT Totally: Eating Giant Cave Spiders on Fear Factor!
 

Jeepers <moomesa@INVALIDfnbnet.net> wrote in message news:<moomesa-7B66B7.11272730092003@corp.newsfeeds.com>...
> I fell on this show while channel surfing last eve. Giant African cave
> spiders, eaten live. Man, what people will do to win a mazda.
> Anyone else get to witness this?

Yeah, it was nasty! All for a Mazda(!!!)????

Here are some pics of the mean little critters:

http://www.nbc.com/Fear_Factor/tales/index.shtml
http://groups.msn.com/ArachnidCity/amblypygi.msnw

Re: OT Totally: Eating Giant Cave Spiders on Fear Factor!
 

"DougW" <post.replies@invalid.address> wrote in message
news:YPmeb.1213$Gb.356@news2.central.cox.net...
> Jeepers did pass the time by typing:
> > I fell on this show while channel surfing last eve. Giant African cave
> > spiders, eaten live. Man, what people will do to win a mazda.
> > Anyone else get to witness this?
>
> Seen my pet spider? ;)
> http://members.cox.net/beergoggles/spider.jpg

We got lots of those when we lived south of Austin...
'banana butt' spiders, we called them. They were
wimps when you knocked 'em off the web and the
garden spiders got to 'em.
__
Steve
..

Re: OT Totally: Eating Giant Cave Spiders on Fear Factor!
 

"DougW" <post.replies@invalid.address> wrote in message
news:YPmeb.1213$Gb.356@news2.central.cox.net...
> Jeepers did pass the time by typing:
> > I fell on this show while channel surfing last eve. Giant African cave
> > spiders, eaten live. Man, what people will do to win a mazda.
> > Anyone else get to witness this?
>
> Seen my pet spider? ;)
> http://members.cox.net/beergoggles/spider.jpg

We got lots of those when we lived south of Austin...
'banana butt' spiders, we called them. They were
wimps when you knocked 'em off the web and the
garden spiders got to 'em.
__
Steve
..

Re: OT Totally: Eating Giant Cave Spiders on Fear Factor!
 

In article <bf1f2361.0309301528.62fbe0ea@posting.google.com >,
ih8tspam2@yahoo.com (ih8tspam2) wrote:

> Yeah, it was nasty! All for a Mazda(!!!)????

Figures it was a tailless whipscorpion from Honduras. They were told
they were "cave dwelling spiders from Africa".

Either way... yuk

http://wrbu.si.edu/www/stockwell/pho...pygid(hon).jpg


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Re: OT Totally: Eating Giant Cave Spiders on Fear Factor!
 

In article <bf1f2361.0309301528.62fbe0ea@posting.google.com >,
ih8tspam2@yahoo.com (ih8tspam2) wrote:

> Yeah, it was nasty! All for a Mazda(!!!)????

Figures it was a tailless whipscorpion from Honduras. They were told
they were "cave dwelling spiders from Africa".

Either way... yuk

http://wrbu.si.edu/www/stockwell/pho...pygid(hon).jpg


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Re: OT Totally: Eating Giant Cave Spiders on Fear Factor!
 

That's right, I forgot about the web shaking thing... That and the four
legged posture was cool. It made them look like a giant spider.
td

"DougW" <post.replies@invalid.address> wrote in message
news:oZneb.1341$Gb.518@news2.central.cox.net...
> Tyler Dirden did pass the time by typing:
> > Garden spider right? I used to live out in the sticks and we had these
all
> > over the place (I think they were too big to get in the house Thank
God!). I
> > called them the "Guardians of the Corn", because when we kids would play
> > around running through the corn field, you'd see these HUGE webs strung
> > between the rows... Usually at the VERY last second causing your feet to
> > come out from under you in an effort to stop, which usually put you
squarely
> > on your back.
>
> Yep. And when you get close they shake the web to scare you away.
> If that fails they drop to the ground and hide. For a big spider it's
> sorta wimpy. :]
>
> Argiope aurantia (Black and yellow Argiope)
>
<http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/argiope/a._aurantia$narrativ
e.html>
>
> --
> DougW
>
>
>


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