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RobertCloud -> RE: Spider lovers - thank goodness I increased my defense mechanism at home!!! (9/26/2009 9:42:01 AM)
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Spiders in general do not bother me. The parachuting kind bother me somewhat when then parachute onto my eyeglasses.
As far as jumping spiders are concerned. It is true most jump away from you and are tiny. But a few years ago I moved from Indiana to upstate New York (I am back in Indy now). My first winter there I was cleaning windows and suddenly had a jumping spider jump ONTO my hand. Thankfully it did not bite, but even I nearly screamed. I had been used to the little ones, the biggest I had ever seen was about the size of a lintel bean. This one was about the size of a quarter, leg to leg. I freaked. I shook my hand and the damn thing had put an anchor web on it, so now I had a spider yo-yo.
I ran to the front door, swung it out the open door and slammed the door quickly, hoping to cut the web. It worked, the spider was on the outside of the door, and I was on the inside. I went to open the door and stomp on the damn thing when suddenly it jumped up and landed on my pant leg.
You may have seen Jed Clampett do a hoe-down jig on the Beverly Hillbillies, if you ever watched that show. Well I tell you, I could have given ol' Jed a run for his money. I had neighbors from three doors down come running out their door to see what the screaming was about only to end up rolling on the ground in laughter when they saw me and heard me screaming spider.
Well that is exagerated a little, but not much. They weren't rolling on the ground... LOL... But the jumping spider in Upstate NY is huge.
No it is not the biggest spider I have ever seen, but it is the first one that I have ever had that actively chased me.
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