is lostinsexeh teh 'Bug Guy™'?

[asphaltcowboy]

found this on meh kitchen floor this evening! :beam: I thought it'd come out really bad with the flash on, but it turns out that it was actually the better picture - a lot more.. creepy if you ask me :thumb: (the non-flash/normal lighting pic is the second link). If you're not a fan of creepy crawlies.. meh, click anyway :P Enjoy!

Spider1 (http://www.asphaltdesign.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/canon/spider1.jpg)

Spider2 (http://www.asphaltdesign.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/canon/spider2.jpg)

[ahmed]

lost is such a cute spider :nerd:

[asphaltcowboy]

yeah, I think I will call him lost (not least because he ran off before I could catch him! lol! no one tell my sister!)

:love:

[ahmed]

Originally posted by asphaltcowboy
no one tell my sister!rofl.. i have sisters like that :P:bu:

[senocular]

cool. How big is he? Theres not much else in the shot for reference

[asphaltcowboy]

pretty big for your average British house spider...

maybe... 2 inches? (in that pose, not spread out)

[nobody]

Ahhh spider. I'm once again scarred for life.

[senocular]

Originally posted by asphaltcowboy
pretty big for your average British house spider...

maybe... 2 inches? (in that pose, not spread out)

cooooohohohohoooool :beam:

[asphaltcowboy]

Originally posted by senocular
cooooohohohohoooool :beam: yeah, I like it more the look at it.. I'm surprised I managed to get the hair definition.. in fact, I'm suprised the poor bugger wasn't blinded by teh flash lol! :d:

perhaps I can use this in the photo-editing battle... :sure:

[lostinbeta]

Wow uhh, thats one creepy spider. I don't think we have those here :checks in my north american insect book: yep, can't find it.

Excellent shot though :thumb:

[asphaltcowboy]

Originally posted by lostinbeta
Wow uhh, thats one creepy spider. I don't think we have those here :checks in my north american insect book: yep, can't find it.

Excellent shot though :thumb: he likes my photo! he really likes my photo! :love:

lol @ 'teh north american insect book' btw ;)
didn't think spiders were insects? :D

hehe, as far as I know, it's just a common house spider. we get them all the time, though admittedly they're not usually that big! and the fang-thingies look really huge.. I dont remember normal house spiders having ones of such big proportion! perhaps it was some evil tropical one that has taken to nesting under my cooker... :sure:


maybe I can use meh supah-PS skills to add some breasts in a strange spider-man-breast splicing experiment! *don's mad scientist coat* :bad:

[senocular]

this is one of my favorite spiders :beam: the garden spider

these things get pretty huge - we used to find them a lot when I was younger. We'd go find grasshoppers and throw them in their webs and watch them feast =)

http://www.holoweb.com/nature/spiders/images/Argiope_Aurantia_1.jpg

never have these in the house though.

[Yeldarb]

lost, actually we do have them in north america, i saw one last week on the side of my house (about 4 inches!) i took pictures, if you wan't, i'll upload them

[asphaltcowboy]

Originally posted by Yeldarb
(about 4 inches!) 4 inches?!? I'm not sure house spiders get that big!


....


unless this isn't a house spider! argh! *runs* :run:

[Yeldarb]

maybe a little exaggerated, i didnt measure... i just ran, got my camera, snapped some pics, and ran as far away from there as possible :P

[lostinbeta]

Originally posted by Yeldarb
lost, actually we do have them in north america, i saw one last week on the side of my house (about 4 inches!) i took pictures, if you wan't, i'll upload them

I guess that is one disadvantage to living in the city. The biggest spider ive ever seen around here (aside from a tarantula at the pet store) is a wolf spider.

Of course, in Maryland that are some super freaky spiders.

I don't usually follow up on spiders though, honestly... they freak me out. You tend to not like them when you get bit by one that is the size of a pea, yet your whole arm swells up like a balloon (no allergies to them).

Not fun.

[awligon]

great quality pic. what type of camera did you use? As for the spider, i'm not so impressed, there are tarantulas up to a foot spread in the southwest, mainly texas and new mexico. They get as large as a frisbee. :P You have to shoot them, not with a .22 or small caliber rifle but with a shotgun. That's only if you insist, they're generally harmless unless you corner one.

[reverendflash]

The Desert Tarantula (Aphonopelma chalcodes) grows 2 to 3 inches long and is colored gray to dark brown. It is common to the Sonoran, Chihuahuan and Mojave deserts of Arizona, New Mexico and Southern California.

The most common North American tarantula is Eurypelma californicum, found in California, Texas, and Arizona. A 30-year life span has been recorded for one individual of this species. Certain South American tarantulas, which have a body length of up to almost 3 in., build large webs and eat small birds.


but here is a South American version that fits your description:

http://www.extremescience.com/gspidermenu.gif

Revhttp://www.aulman.com/rev.gif

[asphaltcowboy]

Originally posted by awligon
great quality pic. what type of camera did you use? :love:

I used meh sexeh Canon Digital IXUS 400 which I love to bits! :beam: It's a shame actually, I didn't have the camera set to the highest picture quality... I should remember to do that :sure:

http://www.canon.co.uk/Images/14_36959.gif

Link to more Information (http://www.canon.co.uk/For_Home/Product_Finder/Cameras/Digital/Digital_IXUS_400/index.asp?ComponentID=37151&SourcePageID=26181#1)

[andr.in]

eww.. I h8 spiders!

[Kitiara]

Not as much as I do. :)

I saw these pics last night and they only served to re-enforce my irrational freak-outish-ness at spiders. :) Whilst I can fully appreciate the artistic appeal of the photos, the clarity, angle, composition etc etc, the actual subject still makes me want to hide under my desk in abject terror. :P

I've never been the same since a boy at infants school dropped one down the front of my dress when I was 6. :sure:

[.soulty]

Nice pic !!

Got myself a picture of this spider when i was on holidays, it poped out the last day we were staying at our relatives place (we were they for a week), so basically this dude was there all the time we were there. He probably was right on top of my bed when i was sleeping, Freaky feeling, anyway
here are the pics the spider. Think it was a huntsman (not deadly but painfull).

Not the best of lighting, but enough. :)

www.soultydesign.com/spidera.jpg

www.soultydesign.com/spiderb.jpg


::links working now !

[asphaltcowboy]

Originally posted by Kitiara
the actual subject still makes me want to hide under my desk in abject terror. what desk? :P

Soulty: your links aren't working for me atm.. :(

[.soulty]

links should be up now. :)

[asphaltcowboy]

nope, still not working, but I can't access http://www.soultydesign.com/ either
dunno if anyone else is having problems :(

[Kitiara]

Originally posted by asphaltcowboy
what desk? :P I'm at work, I have a desk here to cower under. ;) Of course at home I just have to hide underneath the ironing board... :P

I can't access the links either Soulty...

[.soulty]

Hmm they are working for me, thats weird. :-\

[Kitiara]

OK, it just worked and for the record...

AIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE!

*Hides in stark terror*

[.soulty]

lol :P nice one isent it. And that was in our room for a week without me any wiser. *shakes off a cold chill down his spine*

:!:

[asphaltcowboy]

ack! still not working! alright, who's sitting on the cable? :P

[.soulty]

just for you asphalt,

here are some other links that might work for you.

http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/site_uploads/spidera.jpg

http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/site_uploads/spiderb.jpg

enjoy :smirk:

http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/paulsoultis/spider.gif

[gpdesigner]

I had a friend who once said that Spiders...( most multi legged insects) are not indigenous creatures to this planet.....? he gave this long drawn out theory that I won't empale you with btu it was entertaining and somewhat believable... anyway his main reasoning was based upon the uncontrolable basic almost primative urge we all get when seeing an insect....
we want to "SMASH IT"......
I don't think this is true..., however... Cowboy where is the Spider now..?
gp

[asphaltcowboy]

lmao, I have no idea gp m8.. possibly still under the cooker..? :sure:

soulty, cheers for the effort m8! I can finally see the pics... and eeeww! that is hideous! :-\ how big was that thing? it looks huge!? :d:

[.soulty]

Huge i tell ya, much bigger than my hand, though i didnt test the theory :smirk:

But it was pretty big. :!:

::ugly thing isent it, i asked it to smile and it just didnt want to, proffessionals these days , impossible !! lol :P

[asphaltcowboy]

cheers phil, it is a great camera - that's not the highest resolution or picture sharpness either :beam: