Thread: spiders

The other day when I woke up, a spider was nest to me. I screamed, cried, and hyperventilated so much I fainted. No joke. But it depends if you character hates spiders, as in she is annoyed by them, or fears them.

I really like the spiders, i know different kinds of spiders. All spiders have eight legs. Most spiders have eight eyes but some have fewer then eight. They don't have ears, they feel the sound vibrations with tiny hairs on their legs. Spider blood is light blue. Blood fills up all the empty space in the spider's body, it helps to keep the legs stiff so the spider can walk. Spiders come in different sizes. Some are fuzzy and others are smooth, and they come in many different colors. Spiders live in many places, water, gardens, houses, and the ground. They live where it is hot, cold, wet and where it is dry. Some spiders are poisonous and others are not. Spiders are ancient animals with a history going back many millions of years. They have always been with us, an ancient source of fear and fascination. They are abundant and widespread and are natural controllers of populations. Wherever you live, you are always close to a spider.

I don't like spiders, but don't have arachniphobia unless there seems to be a lot of them. My 40 year old son-in-law and 20 year-old son will both scream like a girl and panic if they see even a small one. My 5 year old granddaughter says that the Daddy Long Legs spiders stare at her.

It's interesting that this thread from ages past has surfaced again.

I had tarantulas in a house I lived in in Belmopan, and the room I'm sitting in now has a nest of scorpions. I've learned not to put my hand into places I can't see. Fortunately the scorpions we have in Belize are not the deadly poisonous kind unless you are allergic to spider venom.

If you don't like living with an interesting variety of wildlife, don't move to the tropics.

Not many things get everywhere, people, birds, spiders and ants basically, the others, like rats, go on the back of people. There was a new island pushed up out of the sea off the coast of Japan by volcanic action, after a few days, when it was cool enough to land on, the people who did so found several species of spiders had beaten them to it. My Dad was a biology teacher and one day a kid brought a spider into class that had crawled out of a bunch of bananas at the greengrocer where he had a Saturday job. I had it walk up my arm and you could feel the separate footfalls, when it died it got maggots. Spiders have been found floating on a strand of silk tens of thousands of feet up.