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Is this normal..?

Felidire

Felidire

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Well I was at work today, busily potting plants into what I figured were fairly old pots, because there was this one pot with a spider on it. Well lots of them had spiders on them, but this one particular spider got scared of me, he was like "Ho-shit, a titan!" - So it got up and ran half way across the pot to it's pile of eggs, grabbed them in it's mouth, and then bailed.

I was in near-hysterics from laughing; I was just staring at it the entire time, thinking "Ok, I had no idea they did that.. rofl".

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It was a daddy long-legs, or cellar spider, whichever you guys call it.
 
A few spiders do that when their young are in danger. I know, for example, the wolf spiders around my house carry the egg sacs around with them everywhere.
 
J.T. said:
A few spiders do that when their young are in danger. I know, for example, the wolf spiders around my house carry the egg sacs around with them everywhere.
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Random Website said:
Some spiders stay with the egg sac, guarding it until the spiderlings emerge (e.g, huntsman spiders, trapdoor spiders) or carry the egg sac about with them (wolf spiders and water spiders), sometimes in their jaws (daddy-long-legs spiders).
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Hah.. Guess you're right... You'd think that it would carry it everywhere though. ,,xD
It was hilarious watching something that small run 13 inches to grab a silk-ball~
"I'll just leave them here for a moment, what could possibly happen.. H'WOA FUCK! A GIANT!"


The day before that, I was waving a pair of secateurs infront of a wasp sitting on a leaf, and it was turning it's head watching as it moved.


lol i'm fascinated by the most stupid things. ,xP
 
Haha, I remember one of the best things I ever saw involving any sort of creepy-crawlie.

I was camping with my grandparents (back then I loved bugs, and I wanted to be a "bug scientist" when I grew up), and we were packing up to leave, when my grandfather pointed me towards a picnic table. I looked and I saw a boreal jumping spider (back then, I carried my Bugs of Alberta book almost everywhere - my god I'm a nerd). Normally, I think a lot of people would have been pretty creeped out, but it was looking up at me, and it looked kinda cute. (Yeah, it's weird.)

Anyway, after a few seconds it started scampering across the picnic table, jumping over the gaps in the boards. Soon it started crawling down the table, and I noticed it staring at this massive orb-weaver spider in its web. The two were staring at each other for a few seconds. I remember being worried, thinking the big one would kill my little jumpy friend. D:

Nope. The jumping spider tackled the orbweaver, pretty much instapwning it. I figured it was about to eat it, so I backed off, not really willing to see it happen.
 
One time, about a few years ago, there was this brown thing my mom and grandmom found in the cat litter box. They thought it was a fake spider my oldest brother put in there, so when it jumped an inch or two in the air it shocked them. They got my dad to come home and throw it out. Turns out it was a large Wolf Spider, probably anywhere between 3-5 inches long, possibly longer. We haven't seen one since, but I'm still a bit worried it, or another like it, will come back inside since I'm afraid of the nearly microscopic spiders.
 
IT WAS SCARED AND PROTECTING ITS FAMILY

FAMILY AFFAIRS AREN'T FUNNY :( SHE HAD TO EAT THE DAD FOR THAT, YO

Well probably not but he was apparently AWOL.
 
J.T. said:
I was camping with my grandparents (back then I loved bugs, and I wanted to be a "bug scientist" when I grew up), and we were packing up to leave, when my grandfather pointed me towards a picnic table. I looked and I saw a boreal jumping spider (back then, I carried my Bugs of Alberta book almost everywhere - my god I'm a nerd). Normally, I think a lot of people would have been pretty creeped out, but it was looking up at me, and it looked kinda cute. (Yeah, it's weird.)

Anyway, after a few seconds it started scampering across the picnic table, jumping over the gaps in the boards. Soon it started crawling down the table, and I noticed it staring at this massive orb-weaver spider in its web. The two were staring at each other for a few seconds. I remember being worried, thinking the big one would kill my little jumpy friend. D:
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Rofl, yeah those random moments are funny as hell.

I remember a few years ago a mosquito landed on my arm, I actually said "Hello MR. skeetie! =D" and put my face close to it, and it flew into my fucking left eye. Made me flinch something terrible, and then I was like "Auh! Rude!!"

I also remember about 6 years ago, my friend and I were dicking around with a bee's nest. Well I got stung 5 or 6 times in the head while we were running, then we stopped on the dirt track, and my friend and this one bee had an epic brawl.

It chased him around while he was trying to slap it, then it landed on the front of his shirt and he like.. flicked his shirt making it fall to the ground, and stomped on it. Then he bent over to see if it was dead, it was squirming around on the ground and then it flew up directly into his stomach, he went flying about a meter backwards as if someone had punched him in the gut and winded him(funny as hell). It went on for about a minute but he eventually emerged victorious.

I'm just standing there with 5 stings in my face the entire time, almost dying from laughter. Oh, and to make things more awesome, school photos were the very next day. </3

Tailsy said:
IT WAS SCARED AND PROTECTING ITS FAMILY

FAMILY AFFAIRS AREN'T FUNNY :( SHE HAD TO EAT THE DAD FOR THAT, YO

Well probably not but he was apparently AWOL.
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Now that you mention it there were 2 spiders there when I lifted up that pot, and the other one just instantly legged it and was gone. XD - definately must have been the dad.
 
Felidire said:
Now that you mention it there were 2 spiders there when I lifted up that pot, and the other one just instantly legged it and was gone. XD - definately must have been the dad.
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Eh, he was planning on asking for a divorce anyway.
 
Smaller spider = dad
Larger one = mom
Usually dad ends up without a head after babymaking (at least with black widows, IIRC). My god that kind of decision would suck - sex and death, or virginity and life. Reminds me of that one episode of Futurama with Zoidberg's species' mating season.
 
Yeah i'd definately go with the latter, it's not so bad i've lasted this long. ,xD
I think what'd suck the most would be knowing that there will be children, but you'll never get to see them, spend time with them, or know them.
 
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