Giant 'dog size' spider

http://www.news.com.au/world/europe/giant-spiderdog-terrifies-passersby-in-viral-video/story-fnh81p7g-1227049737917

A DOG dressed up as a giant spider, and seen terrorising unsuspecting victims, has become an internet sensation.

Chica the Dog Spider is the fever dream and film creation of Polish prankster Sylwester Wardega, whose imaginative short already has almost 8 million views on YouTube.

I nearly had a heart attack when I read the title!

eddie wrote:I nearly had a heart attack when I read the title!

Yeah, the biggest spider in the world is only about big enough to cover a man's forearm ::D:: ::D:: ::D::

@ Veya - I already posted this on your "Who wants a kiss???" thread.  Nems and Cass will think you're picking on them!!!!  Quick, hide

Your secret is safe with me x

Ben_Reilly wrote:

eddie wrote:I nearly had a heart attack when I read the title!

Yeah, the biggest spider in the world is only about big enough to cover a man's forearm ::D:: ::D:: ::D::

You're a funny man Ben. Fucking hilarious

Ben_Reilly wrote:

eddie wrote:I nearly had a heart attack when I read the title!

Yeah, the biggest spider in the world is only about big enough to cover a man's forearm ::D:: ::D:: ::D::

Wow...our little girl was about a quarter the size of that one.

eddie wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:

Yeah, the biggest spider in the world is only about big enough to cover a man's forearm ::D:: ::D:: ::D::

You're a funny man Ben. Fucking hilarious

I don't know how he sleeps at night Eddie, honest x

Ben and Veya you are both very naughty boys being so cruel to some of the girls here, though I have to admit it is very funny.   ::D::

FTL I think Ben is pure evil at times

It is a beauty. Be a bitch if he got loose.

Original Quill wrote:It is a beauty.  Be a bitch if he got loose.

Yep. And ran straight up your trouser leg

Am I evil?

Sorry Eddie but you need to know, hope it does not freak you out:






You are not alone. Your body is a collection of microbes, fungi, viruses…and even other animals. In fact, you aren’t even the only animal using your face. Right now, in the general vicinity of your nose, there are at least two species of microscopic mites living in your pores. You would expect scientists to know quite a lot about these animals (given that we share our faces with them), but we don’t.

Here is what we do know: Demodex mites are microscopic arachnids (relatives of spiders and ticks) that live in and on the skin of mammals – including humans. They have been found on every mammal species where we’ve looked for them, except the platypus and their odd egg-laying relatives.

Often mammals appear to host more than one species, with some poor field mouse species housing four mite species on its face alone. Generally, these mites live out a benign coexistence with their hosts. But if that fine balance is disrupted, they are known to cause mange amongst our furry friends, and skin ailments like rosacea and blepharitis in humans. Most of us are simply content – if unaware – carriers of these spindly, eight-legged pore-dwellers.

Scientists from NC State, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, and the California Academy of Sciences have just published a study that uncovers some previously unknown truths regarding these little-known mites – all the while providing a glimpse into even bigger mysteries that have yet to be solved.

http://news.ncsu.edu/2014/08/face-mites-2014/

Right. That's didge and Ben on ignore.

Ben_Reilly wrote:Am I evil?

Yes look out, Eddie bites

feelthelove wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:Am I evil?

Yes look out, Eddie bites

Damn right I bite.

They know I hate spiders and didge has just told me I've got creepy crawlies up my frickin' nose!!!!! Honestly FTL!! I'm back two days after my holiday and already I need another one!!

eddie wrote:Right. That's didge and Ben on ignore.

Be honest, did you start rubbing your face after reading that?

Sorry Eddie.

::footie::

Didge wrote:

eddie wrote:Right. That's didge and Ben on ignore.

Be honest, did you start rubbing your face after reading that?

Sorry Eddie.

::footie::

Who said that?

eddie wrote:

Didge wrote:

eddie wrote:Right. That's didge and Ben on ignore.

Be honest, did you start rubbing your face after reading that?

Sorry Eddie.

::footie::

Who said that?

Hey edds, is it just spiders and germs, or is there anything else we should avoid ... like maybe centipedes?

STOP IT NOW.....

FUN, FUN, FUN...

Cass wrote:STOP IT NOW.....

C'mon now, Cass, these photos are just pixels on a screen. It's entirely on you if you're imagining the sensation of all those hairy legs quickly scurrying up your ankle or something, or maybe it's rousing you from sleep as it races across your forehead and over your nose, with one of its long, alien legs brushing your eyelid, as the spider races toward your mouth -- or, you know, whatever

Ben_Reilly wrote:

Cass wrote:STOP IT NOW.....

C'mon now, Cass, these photos are just pixels on a screen. It's entirely on you if you're imagining the sensation of all those hairy legs quickly scurrying up your ankle or something, or maybe it's rousing you from sleep as it races across your forehead and over your nose, with one of its long, alien legs brushing your eyelid, as the spider races toward your mouth -- or, you know, whatever

YOU SOOOOOOOO BAD!

Original Quill wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:

Cass wrote:STOP IT NOW.....

C'mon now, Cass, these photos are just pixels on a screen. It's entirely on you if you're imagining the sensation of all those hairy legs quickly scurrying up your ankle or something, or maybe it's rousing you from sleep as it races across your forehead and over your nose, with one of its long, alien legs brushing your eyelid, as the spider races toward your mouth -- or, you know, whatever

YOU SOOOOOOOO BAD!  

I know ... I'm incorrigible

Ben_Reilly wrote:

Cass wrote:STOP IT NOW.....

C'mon now, Cass, these photos are just pixels on a screen. It's entirely on you if you're imagining the sensation of all those hairy legs quickly scurrying up your ankle or something, or maybe it's rousing you from sleep as it races across your forehead and over your nose, with one of its long, alien legs brushing your eyelid, as the spider races toward your mouth -- or, you know, whatever

I hope one crawls up your leg and bites off your weener

Ben_Reilly wrote:

eddie wrote:
I nearly had a heart attack when I read the title!

Yeah, the biggest spider in the world is only about big enough to cover a man's forearm ::D:: ::D:: ::D::

ANYBODY who actually paid attention in Biology classes should know that the largest size possible for the actual body section of these classes of arthropods (i.e. insects, spiders and mites..) is roughly 20 cms (8") long ~ as any insect or spider larger than that won't be able to breathe in enough Oxygen to sustain themselves (due to the type of lung/respiratory systems they posses..).

THAT'S why the largest spiders and stick insects recorded aren't much over 30 cms ~ to grow any larger, they would require either a different lung system (e.g. more like that of reptiles, birds and mammals..); or else they need to have evolved on a planet with a much lower gravity..

Ben_Reilly wrote:

eddie wrote:


Who said that?

Hey edds, is it just spiders and germs, or is there anything else we should avoid ... like maybe centipedes?

Kill it. With a shovel, brake parts cleaner, fire, and maybe a second dose of environmentally unfriendly brake parts cleaner. I hate those things.

jaded fox wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:

eddie wrote:


Who said that?

Hey edds, is it just spiders and germs, or is there anything else we should avoid ... like maybe centipedes?

Kill it. With a shovel, brake parts cleaner, fire, and maybe a second dose of environmentally unfriendly brake parts cleaner. I hate those things.

Aren't they supposed to be really poisonous, too? Not like the friendly furry spiders we've been posting

Quill and Ben.... and Nems and Cass know how to use it

jaded fox wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:
Hey edds, is it just spiders and germs, or is there anything else we should avoid ... like maybe centipedes?

Kill it. With a shovel, brake parts cleaner, fire, and maybe a second dose of environmentally unfriendly brake parts cleaner. I hate those things.

WHY ?   What did a centipede ever do to you ?
I suppose millipedes creep you out as well..   What about earthworms ?

I dug up one centipede about a foot long several years ago !  Same colour as that one in the photo'..
Usually though they are only around 4 -> 6" long around here. And various colours (red, brown, black, green - as well as both bright and dull blues..).

IF I dig one up I simply toss it aside - they re-bury themselves quick smart..
ONE would have to be unlucky, or truly careless, to be bitten by centipedes or scorpions around here...

[AS with spiders and snakes, there is a lot of irrational fear and worry over a lot of invertebrates, simply because some of them protect themselves by biting or stinging..].

Bull Ants though ! Now that's a different matter ~ those little mongrels grow to about 2.5 - 3 cms down here, and can jump high enough as to bite you behind the knee or high up on your calf..    

Fgs!! I don't like this thread!

eddie wrote:Fgs!! I don't like this thread!

Interesting! How do you do with horror movies, scary stories, etc?



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6flB0XvmTo

(Just a creepy short film, it's two-and-a-half minutes long)

I don't mind horror films. In fact I like them.
I just don't like big giant fecking dog-spiders and pictures of things that crawl around up my nose!

eddie wrote:I don't mind horror films. In fact I like them.
I just don't like big giant fecking dog-spiders and pictures of things that crawl around up my nose!

So, of course, you get them in spades! Remember my rant against North Mexican pointy boots?

Mexican Pointy Boots: Xavier Glowing at the OK Corral from FG on Vimeo.

Lone Wolf wrote:

jaded fox wrote:

Kill it. With a shovel, brake parts cleaner, fire, and maybe a second dose of environmentally unfriendly brake parts cleaner. I hate those things.

WHY ?   What did a centipede ever do to you ?
I suppose millipedes creep you out as well..   What about earthworms ?

I dug up one centipede about a foot long several years ago !  Same colour as that one in the photo'..
Usually though they are only around 4 -> 6" long around here. And various colours (red, brown, black, green - as well as both bright and dull blues..).

IF I dig one up I simply toss it aside - they re-bury themselves quick smart..
ONE would have to be unlucky, or truly careless, to be bitten by centipedes or scorpions around here...

[AS with spiders and snakes, there is a lot of irrational fear and worry over a lot of invertebrates, simply because some of them protect themselves by biting or stinging..].

Bull Ants though ! Now that's a different matter ~ those little mongrels grow to about 2.5 - 3 cms down here, and can jump high enough as to bite you behind the knee or high up on your calf..    

You mean aside from the stingers and venom that hurt like hell? Aside the bites swell and become easily infected. And I laugh at your 4"-6" estimate. Where I live I've seen them get up to 10 inches. My dog got bitten and we ended up taking him to the vet who gave us some pain killers.

These bastards are aggressive and before I started regularly putting out the granules were in the hone at least once a month. And you don't need to do anything to aggravate them. They'll climb into your bed and bite you. They also like to stay in clothing drawers.

For the record I don't care about millipedes and I adore earth worms (especially the ones that make my rose bed home.)

For the record this is the species I live with.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scolopendra_subspinipes

Side note: Lizards are awesome. I like the laughing geckos down here.

IN THE forests of East Gippsland, on the S.E. coast of Victoria, it has been recorded that one species of earthworm can grow up to 10' (>3 metres..) long; while there have also been reports of millipedes over 3' (nearly a metre !) in length, and centipedes approaching half of that (comparable with those from the Amazon and Indonesia..).





THE biggest single specimen of a tree (a Mountain Ash : Eucalyptus regnens..) ever recorded [@ >132 m (435 ft) in the 1870s], a few metres or more taller than the highest Californian Redwoods..) also came from that region. And IT was also missing the top section as well, due to an earlier lightning strike and fires ~ so that the total height was over 500 feet, or some 60' higher than the tallest tree (a Douglas Fir) recorded in N.America..

jaded fox wrote:

Lone Wolf wrote:


WHY ?   What did a centipede ever do to you ?
I suppose millipedes creep you out as well..   What about earthworms ?

I dug up one centipede about a foot long several years ago !  Same colour as that one in the photo'..
Usually though they are only around 4 -> 6" long around here. And various colours (red, brown, black, green - as well as both bright and dull blues..).

IF I dig one up I simply toss it aside - they re-bury themselves quick smart..
ONE would have to be unlucky, or truly careless, to be bitten by centipedes or scorpions around here...

[AS with spiders and snakes, there is a lot of irrational fear and worry over a lot of invertebrates, simply because some of them protect themselves by biting or stinging..].

Bull Ants though ! Now that's a different matter ~ those little mongrels grow to about 2.5 - 3 cms down here, and can jump high enough as to bite you behind the knee or high up on your calf..    

You mean aside from the stingers and venom that hurt like hell? Aside the bites swell and become easily infected. And I laugh at your 4"-6" estimate. Where I live I've seen them get up to 10 inches. My dog got bitten and we ended up taking him to the vet who gave us some pain killers.

These bastards are aggressive and before I started regularly putting out the granules were in the hone at least once a month. And you don't need to do anything to aggravate them. They'll climb into your bed and bite you. They also like to stay in clothing drawers.

For the record I don't care about millipedes and I adore earth worms (especially the ones that make my rose bed home.)

For the record this is the species I live with.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scolopendra_subspinipes

Side note: Lizards are awesome. I like the laughing geckos down here.

AS I'VE already stated above, the largest I have found around here was about 12", while down in Victoria they have been recorded at nearly double that length (see my last post, just before this..).

AND as far as their stings go, that's easy to avoid. Redbacks, Bullants, metallic blue wasps ~ they're another kettle of fish altogether...

Talking of fish ~ we have some quite deadly sea life around here, as well. As a matter of fact, we're world renown for them.. Ever heard of box jellyfish, stonefish, blue ringed octopus, bullrouts, white pointers, rock cod, stingrays, bull sharks, bluebottles (aka "Portuguese Man'o'war"..), mauve stingers ???

AND then there's the saltwater crocodiles..  Don't get me started on the crocodiles.    ::=|Q::

Lone Wolf wrote:

jaded fox wrote:

You mean aside from the stingers and venom that hurt like hell? Aside the bites swell and become easily infected. And I laugh at your 4"-6" estimate. Where I live I've seen them get up to 10 inches. My dog got bitten and we ended up taking him to the vet who gave us some pain killers.

These bastards are aggressive and before I started regularly putting out the granules were in the hone at least once a month. And you don't need to do anything to aggravate them. They'll climb into your bed and bite you. They also like to stay in clothing drawers.

For the record I don't care about millipedes and I adore earth worms (especially the ones that make my rose bed home.)

For the record this is the species I live with.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scolopendra_subspinipes

Side note: Lizards are awesome. I like the laughing geckos down here.

AS I'VE already stated above, the largest I have found around here was about 12", while down in Victoria they have been recorded at nearly double that length (see my last post, just before this..).

AND as far as their stings go, that's easy to avoid. Redbacks, Bullants, metallic blue wasps ~ they're another kettle of fish altogether...

Talking of fish ~ we have some quite deadly sea life around here, as well. As a matter of fact, we're world renown for them.. Ever heard of box jellyfish, stonefish, blue ringed octopus, bullrouts, white pointers, rock cod, stingrays, bull sharks, bluebottles (aka "Portuguese Man'o'war"..), mauve stingers ???

AND then there's the saltwater crocodiles..  Don't get me started on the crocodiles.    ::=|Q::

I missed the cm.

Yeah, I am very familiar with box Jellies they stop by after every full moon for some reason. Portuguese man of war. Those I have encountered. I try to keep far far away from them and their tentacles. Though I will admit that some jellyfish do taste pretty good though I seriously doubt they're cooking box jellies.

As for sharks I worry more about tigers than bulls I'm not sure we have those in my section of the sea. I know we have a lot of white tips and black tips too but those really aren't that aggressive. Supposedly we have hammerheads but I've never seen one.

Stingrays I know we have them but they're generally pretty mellow. Don't bother them and they don't bother you. I've never seen one alive but I know what a fugu is.

feelthelove wrote:Quill and Ben.... and Nems and Cass know how to use it

yes we do


found a scorpion in my library yesterday. when I managed to get off the ceiling I somehow bravely trapped it......ok I dropped the heaviest book I could find on it - and then had a quick burial ceremony - I dropped it in the bin and covered it up with stuff and put said bin outside.

Cass wrote:

feelthelove wrote:Quill and Ben.... and Nems and Cass know how to use it

yes we do


found a scorpion in my library yesterday. when I managed to get off the ceiling I somehow bravely trapped it......ok I dropped the heaviest book I could find on it - and then had a quick burial ceremony - I dropped it in the bin and covered it up with stuff and put said bin outside.

Sometimes the biggest is not the baddest.  When it comes to scorpions, the Arizona bark-scorpion is one of the worst.  He's not all that big...



But he's got one of the worst stings.

I used to buy mesquite wood by the cord...for the fireplace.  The logs would be loaded with bark scorpions.  Jo, my OH, was a San Francisco poof who came to live with me.  In the middle of the night she would go to pee, and inevitably she would find one out on the carpet.

SAME deal with the scorpions found in Australia, too.

THE bigger ones found along the coast and in the southern parts are fairly slow and neither as aggressive, nor as poisonous (unless the victim is unlucky enough as to be allergic..).

Mean little black buggers out in the bush are worse but still not usually deadly. The only really bad ones are found in drier parts of the Northern Territory and inland Queensland. (AND even then, they're not quite as poisonous as some of the African, Indian and N. American species..).

Hi folks. Anyone want some slugs? Grrr, there's more in my garden this year than I've ever seen before, nibbling everything. As for spiders, if there's any in the house I'll pick them up and put outside, unlike the wife, she'll give 'em a headache with her slipper, poor little beggers.

stardesk wrote:Hi folks. Anyone want some slugs? Grrr, there's more in my garden this year than I've ever seen before, nibbling everything. As for spiders, if there's any in the house I'll pick them up and put outside, unlike the wife, she'll give 'em a headache with her slipper, poor little beggers.

Got my ow slugs thanks. They're currently wrecking havoc on my amaryllis plants. I lost 4 of my old bulbs to them.

Hi Jade. You have my symapthies. They've nibbled just about everything, even the greenhouse tomatoes. I feed the birds so don't like to use slug pellets, incase the birds eat them.

Ah! I have an idea: I'll pick them all up during the night, which is when they all come out, and sling them over my neighbours garden...wicked.

Piss on them. Not only effective, but it gives expression to your feelings about them.

That's a good idea Quill. BTW, if you do it in a bucket and sling around the garden it keeps cats off. Like an animal, you're scenting and marking your territory. I knew a man who used to do that around his rose bushes. He claimed it worked.

Cats N' Roses...great name for a rock band. Lol.

stardesk wrote:Hi Jade. You have my symapthies. They've nibbled just about everything, even the greenhouse tomatoes. I feed the birds so don't like to use slug pellets, incase the birds eat them.

Ah! I have an idea: I'll pick them all up during the night, which is when they all come out, and sling them over my neighbours garden...wicked.  

I think they're coming from my neighbor's yard. That's where the slim trails seem to start.

stardesk wrote:
That's a good idea Quill. BTW, if you do it in a bucket and sling around the garden it keeps cats off. Like an animal, you're scenting and marking your territory. I knew a man who used to do that around his rose bushes. He claimed it worked.

AS WELL as those neighbourhood moggies, pee'ing around the yard to mark one's territory should also help to keep the whole menagerie at bay, I should think ~ dogs, skunks, badgers, bandicoots, racoons, squirrels, foxes, wombats, polar bears, coyotes, crocodiles..

THOUGH,  I'm not so sure about those polar bears..    ::dunno::