(May 21, 2017 at 7:09 am)Luckie Wrote:If I saw the wolf spider you encountered, I might change my mind. Except he/she might be ready for a fight.(May 20, 2017 at 9:48 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Virtually any insect I see dies on sight. No rehab. No parole. No three-strikes you're out.
I had this mindset when I moved back to Kansas for awhile. There's some serious bugs there yo!
One ordinary night in fall, having had the window (with screen) open for the beautiful fresh cool air, I had a horrifying encounter with a wolf spider the size of my palm! Unfortunately as horrifying as it was for me, I was confused yet too adrenaline ridden to notice at the time, that this spider was literally terrified of me. Of ME! Well I did kill it. But it was the process of me chasing it around my room with a shoe, and then us having a shift standoff where if I moved right it moved left, tentatively, and at some point it was so unsure which way to go it seemed frozen in place. And so I killed her.
And then I felt guilt!
Who feels guilt after killing a spider? Me, that's who.
The sentience of the spider is what got me. Usually I preceive that spiders can't see me as I'm about to kill them because I'm so big and they're so small I'm in another plane of vision to them, just part of the spider cosmos.
This giant spider though ruined that for me. And looking back at how scared she was I got very sad about killing her ! I still do. Even though I fucking hate spiders. :
Hey MH the last pic of the OP is the world's most aggressive spider, unless I'm mistaken.
They stand up on their hind legs and hiss too! I know cuz I was watching a show about Australia's Deadly and watched one dedicated to these crazy little f*ckrs.
Funny story though, the night I was watching that special.. was special. We were having an insane summer for insects and I went out to smoke some dosha in the garage when I noticed a wolf spider enter stage left. I had just hit my doob when it showed up. About the size of a small puppy, I flipped out and headed for the door. It got closer to the door and almost put itself between me and the door when it stood up on hind legs and hissed just like the Aussie killers and I almost feinted! Instead I ran head first into the door and hurt my noggin as I screamed bloody murder.
I think it followed me in because I kept seeing moving shadows as I finished the spider special
and a week later I found a very big dead wolf spider to the back side behind my bed!
Yay
I hate.. spiders. Look up the Viniagaroo. It's a spider/Scorpion hybrid that I've seen in New Mexico aNd Kansas!
(May 20, 2017 at 11:27 pm)Industrial Lad Wrote: Hah I usually avoid killing spiders when they show up in the shower. Maybe my meme would be like an Aesop's fable thing. "You spared my life human, now I help you."
Lol perhaps. Who knows maybe that spider Is you in another life?
Nowadays I put a glass ontop of them and wait for someone else to deal with it [emoji14]
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