Giant flying spiders headed to the East coast

ok who had giant flying spiders on their apocalyptic bingo?

I saw a segment Tucker did about this with two "experts" blaming climate change.



so yeah I can brag like I'm a tough guy , I was never scared of Covid , I did not wear a mask I did not get the vaccine, I'm not worried about A nuclear holocaust .

But if I see a swarm of giant flying spiders coming at me I am going to #### my pants and run screaming like a little girl

spiders are my bugaboo, especially "giant flying ones".
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a reply to: just4fun

Blaming international shipping / containers is a much more likely explanation.

a reply to: just4fun

I'd rather wrestle a polar bear than have a spider on me. eww.

originally posted by: infolurker
a reply to: just4fun

Blaming international shipping / containers is a much more likely explanation.

www.foxnews.com...

A woman says she found an egg sac full of deadly spiders on some bananas she had recently purchased from a grocery store. While no one was hurt in the incident, her home reportedly needs to be sealed and fumigated for two weeks to make sure none of the deadly arachnids are still lingering around.

We didn't have giant falling space spiders under Trump

Those are just big ass Garden spiders used to run into their webs in Texas as a kid scary as hell but harmless web would stretch across a alleyway lol

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Don't worry, I heard Murder Hornets find them delicious.

They aren't bad at all and don't have fangs that could penetrate human skin. Their webs are something else we had them here in Georgia a while back.

here's an article from back in October

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Nancy Hinkle, another entomologist at the University of Georgia, said Joros help suppress mosquitoes and biting flies and are one of the few spiders that will catch and eat brown marmorated stink bugs, which are serious pests to many crops.

“This is wonderful. This is exciting. Spiders are our friends,” she said. “They are out there catching all the pests we don’t want around our home.”

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originally posted by: putnam6
They aren't bad at all and don't have fangs that could penetrate human skin. Their webs are something else we had them here in Georgia a while back,

Not a lot of people know that the "Daddy Long legs" is extremely poisonous but their fangs are to small to bite us .

"Daddy-Longlegs are one of the most poisonous spiders, but their fangs are too short to bite humans"

originally posted by: Ravenwatcher

originally posted by: putnam6
They aren't bad at all and don't have fangs that could penetrate human skin. Their webs are something else we had them here in Georgia a while back,

Not a lot of people know that the "Daddy Long legs" is extremely poisonous but their fangs are to small to bite us .

"Daddy-Longlegs are one of the most poisonous spiders, but their fangs are too short to bite humans"

Not so fast my friend, I used to work at Terminex..

www.terminix.com...

and this

entomology.ucr.edu...

You've probably heard this playground legend: Daddy longlegs are the most venomous spiders in the world, but their fangs are too short to bite you. Is this really true?


A daddy longlegs, also known as a cellar spider. Are they really the most venomous spiders in the world?

The short answer: no. But to reach that answer, we're going to have to get a few things straight.

"First, what are you calling a daddy longlegs?" said Rick Vetter, a retired research associate of entomology at the University of California, Riverside. Vetter has been busting this particular myth for years.

The problem is that the term "daddy longlegs" is used colloquially to refer to at least three different animals, only one of which is a true spider.

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originally posted by: network dude

originally posted by: infolurker
a reply to: just4fun

Blaming international shipping / containers is a much more likely explanation.

www.foxnews.com...

A woman says she found an egg sac full of deadly spiders on some bananas she had recently purchased from a grocery store. While no one was hurt in the incident, her home reportedly needs to be sealed and fumigated for two weeks to make sure none of the deadly arachnids are still lingering around.

Spiders don't scare me too much, I've been keeping tarantulas for 30 years. One time though, a friend who worked at a grocery chain here, called me up, said come by the store. I go there and he hands me a deli cup, containing the type of spider in your story..Brazilian Wandering Spider. It was found in..a crate of bananas!

So, I put in a tank, interesting critter, it's eyes reflected light like a cat, very aggressive at feeding time. Well a week later, it has laid an egg sac..hmmm, this might get interesting, but really, I figured it might be infertile. Over the next few weeks, 2 more egg sacks. Ok, lets see.

A month later, I'm at work, my boss hands me the phone, its the wife, she says you need to get your ass home..NOW! So, apparently the egg sacs were viable I rush home, she is in her wheelchair, rolling back and forth on the kitchen floor, running over these baby spiders, about the size of a pinhead. It was kinda funny, but at the same time..better get this cleaned up. Got it cleaned up, and decided, this spider would be better suited somewhere else..I think it, and the 2 remaining egg sacs ended up at the Vancouver Aquarium, with Rick West. The only time I have thought twice about a spider.

originally posted by: vonclod

originally posted by: network dude

originally posted by: infolurker
a reply to: just4fun

Blaming international shipping / containers is a much more likely explanation.

www.foxnews.com...

A woman says she found an egg sac full of deadly spiders on some bananas she had recently purchased from a grocery store. While no one was hurt in the incident, her home reportedly needs to be sealed and fumigated for two weeks to make sure none of the deadly arachnids are still lingering around.

Spiders don't scare me too much, I've been keeping tarantulas for 30 years. One time though, a friend who worked at a grocery chain here, called me up, said come by the store. I go there and he hands me a deli cup, containing the type of spider in your story..Brazilian Wandering Spider. It was found in..a crate of bananas!

So, I put in a tank, interesting critter, it's eyes reflected light like a cat, very aggressive at feeding time. Well a week later, it has laid an egg sac..hmmm, this might get interesting, but really, I figured it might be infertile. Over the next few weeks, 2 more egg sacks. Ok, lets see.

A month later, I'm at work, my boss hands me the phone, its the wife, she says you need to get your ass home..NOW! So, apparently the egg sacs were viable

I rush home, she is in her wheelchair, rolling back and forth on the kitchen floor, running over these baby spiders, about the size of a pinhead. It was kinda funny, but at the same time..better get this cleaned up. Got it cleaned up, and decided, this spider would be better suited somewhere else..I think it, and the 2 remaining egg sacs ended up at the Vancouver Aquarium, with Rick West. The only time I have thought twice about a spider.

Aren't those the ones that give you like a week long woody then you die ?

originally posted by: Ravenwatcher

originally posted by: vonclod

originally posted by: network dude

originally posted by: infolurker
a reply to: just4fun

Blaming international shipping / containers is a much more likely explanation.

www.foxnews.com...

A woman says she found an egg sac full of deadly spiders on some bananas she had recently purchased from a grocery store. While no one was hurt in the incident, her home reportedly needs to be sealed and fumigated for two weeks to make sure none of the deadly arachnids are still lingering around.

Spiders don't scare me too much, I've been keeping tarantulas for 30 years. One time though, a friend who worked at a grocery chain here, called me up, said come by the store. I go there and he hands me a deli cup, containing the type of spider in your story..Brazilian Wandering Spider. It was found in..a crate of bananas!

So, I put in a tank, interesting critter, it's eyes reflected light like a cat, very aggressive at feeding time. Well a week later, it has laid an egg sac..hmmm, this might get interesting, but really, I figured it might be infertile. Over the next few weeks, 2 more egg sacks. Ok, lets see.

A month later, I'm at work, my boss hands me the phone, its the wife, she says you need to get your ass home..NOW! So, apparently the egg sacs were viable

I rush home, she is in her wheelchair, rolling back and forth on the kitchen floor, running over these baby spiders, about the size of a pinhead. It was kinda funny, but at the same time..better get this cleaned up. Got it cleaned up, and decided, this spider would be better suited somewhere else..I think it, and the 2 remaining egg sacs ended up at the Vancouver Aquarium, with Rick West. The only time I have thought twice about a spider.

Aren't those the ones that give you like a week long woody then you die ?

Supposedly, they could kill a child within 2 hours, not sure about the woody ok, so maybe you are correct.

originally posted by: network dude
a reply to: just4fun

I'd rather wrestle a polar bear than have a spider on me. eww.

I'm just the opposite .

I'd rather fight a Spider the size of a bear than fight an actual Bear .

Bears are Omnivorous creatures or a better way to describe them would be to say they are opportunistic Predators , They eat what ever is most easily available to them .

Which could be berries or a wounded Deer or a Slow Fat Human , and they eat everything the same just one bite at a time while they hold it down and it screams . Bears do not kill there prey quickly , they don't go for the Arteries nor do they suffocate there prey they just use there weight and strength to hold and eat .

So no I'd take the spider , a Bear is one of my worst nightmares.

I believe that only the babies deploy the parachute and fly and so do a number of native species. Not all that scary when they're the size of a pin head. Having a sky full of big ass spiders would be creepy as hell!!

originally posted by: mikeh3t
We didn't have giant falling space spiders under Trump

Bahahaha!

Do not mock the scarlet arachnid. By day she is a meek, mild, economics teacher, but in the darkness she dresses as a red spider and fights crime.

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Here in the UK we don’t really have any dangerous spiders, unless they’re huge like a dinner plate I just let them get on with business, they keep to themselves.

Giant flying spiders tho, F that.

Spiders are the wonders of the small world. Some tiny spiders use a tactic called 'Ballooning" A tiny spider sprays a web off the rear of it's abdomen utilizing it's silk glands to produce a sail that can transport it into a new territory for a numerous of reasons.

Meaning, it would be a nightmare if Goliath bird eating tarantula's started ballooning. Then I would get worried. It's safe to say that's not possible. Thank god!

Unless this happens, UGG! Winged Spiders.

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Why no picture of Nancy Hinkle could be provided.