An Habitual Arachnid

[Urakro]

So here I am signing on INTP forum to check things out, and get a scoop on the daily drama. A small puny spider comes spinning down from the ceiling a few inches from my face. As I've done a hundred times with the spider, I gently take him and place him over to a different spot on my desk and resume my daily INTP forum ritual.

The weird thing is, this has been going on for months. It's become that I do it as second nature. It's the same kind of spider, and he spins down from the same place above. I'm not sure what he does when I'm not around, but I'm guaranteed to see him everyday when I sit at the computer.

I've considered that perhaps he does it everywhere, but I only notice it when he goes a few inches in front of me. I've considered that there may be more than one spider. But it still amuses me more to think it's the same spider, doing the same thing over again and wondering what his deal is.

 

[QuickTwist]

#SpiceofLife.

I enjoyed this post.

 

[Cheeseumpuffs]

Kill it with fire.

 

[Ex-User (11125)]

i like arachnids only when theres a wall between me and them

 

[Jennywocky]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CULJIanqrY4

 

[Pyropyro]

is that a wolf spider (lean jumping little bugger) or an orb weaver (webmaking dude with fat abdomen)?

If it's a wolf then It's probably hunting flying insects near your ceiling. I think you see it every now and then since it miscalculated an attack and lost its footing. Think about the thread like a sort of safety rope for it to use.

If it's an orbweaver then it might be in the process of building its new web. It's probably laying the foundations of its new home.

 

[Black Rose]

Two days ago I found a brown recluse spider on my floor.

I smashed it.

insects like warm places during the winter and spiders like insects.
in the forest why would there be warm places during the winter?
mammals? beehives?
wouldn't a den of different insect species eat each other if they were all together?

 

[Urakro]

is that a wolf spider (lean jumping little bugger) or an orb weaver (webmaking dude with fat abdomen)?

If it's a wolf then It's probably hunting flying insects near your ceiling. I think you see it every now and then since it miscalculated an attack and lost its footing. Think about the thread like a sort of safety rope for it to use.

If it's an orbweaver then it might be in the process of building its new web. It's probably laying the foundations of its new home.

Ah no, it's just a simple cellar-dwelling spider, often mistakenly named the 'daddy-long-leg'.

It seems that I'm very spider-brave writing about how I constantly handle the creature. I've always handled different insects and small creatures when I was young with curiosity, including spiders. Around here, we get wolf/hobo spiders, which sometimes could deliver a bite that leads to an infection (so I've read). But the majority of others are harmless, unless being somewhere where they import stuff.

I see the fear of spiders as a rational reaction, especially if you live in australia, and as you go more south in the states. Though I generally leave most spiders alone (unless they are a nuisance like in front of my face), some do give me the creeps if they are really big with crazy colours and I can't identify them.

But this little cellar spider is just a little over the size of my thumb-nail, and really doesn't seem very threatening. Although I once watched a show of australia's most deadliest, and they stated that it's not the big ones you have to worry about when it comes to spiders. It's the little tiny ones that'll kill ya.

 

[Cheeseumpuffs]

Kill them with fire.

Edit: first post from work! Yay!

 

[Pyropyro]

Ah no, it's just a simple cellar-dwelling spider, often mistakenly named the 'daddy-long-leg'.

It seems that I'm very spider-brave writing about how I constantly handle the creature. I've always handled different insects and small creatures when I was young with curiosity, including spiders. Around here, we get wolf/hobo spiders, which sometimes could deliver a bite that leads to an infection (so I've read). But the majority of others are harmless, unless being somewhere where they import stuff.

I see the fear of spiders as a rational reaction, especially if you live in australia, and as you go more south in the states. Though I generally leave most spiders alone (unless they are a nuisance like in front of my face), some do give me the creeps if they are really big with crazy colours and I can't identify them.

But this little cellar spider is just a little over the size of my thumb-nail, and really doesn't seem very threatening. Although I once watched a show of australia's most deadliest, and they stated that it's not the big ones you have to worry about when it comes to spiders. It's the little tiny ones that'll kill ya.

Oh! those little dudes are cool and totally harmless. They take care of mosquitoes and other pests.

 

[Cognisant]

Anything under a centimeter isn't likely to be able to break the skin nor deliver enough venom to be dangerous, although with anything that can break the skin there's always the small but terrifying chance of being infected with necrotizing bacteria.