F a bunch of this....

[Big Dad]

In the 15 years I lived in Texas ,only seen one . Was crossing the streetlooking like a small dog !

I drove up next to it , opened the door to get a look and it stood up on half its legs and was ready to fight .

[KBScobravert]

We rolled over one up in Oklahoma on the power tour in 2012. It was fricking huge. I bet that it was at least 8" around it's legs just standing there in the middle of the road. David was right behind us and called me to see if we saw it too. There was no way to miss the damn thing, we could see it from 25 yards out.

[ceyko]

yeah im at the point of calling a exterminator tomorrow, hopefully it will fix the issue and I don't get bent over backwards

I don't live in the sticks, but there are ponds, fields and so forth all around. What helped me a ton with bugs is...

1. Exterminator. Not really all that much per year, can call them to return if bugs still in house. Their job is immediate perimeter of the home and interior.

2. A small boom sprayer that I attach to my garden tractor and spray the whole rest of my yard. I rotate between to pesticides (from amazon) per year and spray it as recommended of course. I also overlap it with the exterminator's treatment on the perimeter.

I maybe completely wrong but I feel like their expensive stuff kills what it can better than what I could do. Then my treatment basically creates a buffer that keeps the "food" away from the house. So anything left leaves for a better source.

[cobrajet69]

We rolled over one up in Oklahoma on the power tour in 2012. It was fricking huge. I bet that it was at least 8" around it's legs just standing there in the middle of the road. David was right behind us and called me to see if we saw it too. There was no way to miss the damn thing, we could see it from 25 yards out.

This guy found it.

https://www.facebook.com/uniladmag/videos/2305160219507024/

David

[GhostTX]

In the 15 years I lived in Texas ,only seen one . Was crossing the streetlooking like a small dog !

I drove up next to it , opened the door to get a look and it stood up on half its legs and was ready to fight .

We were at a park and saw one. At the time, my girl was 4 or 5. I had her and my wife walk over to it and look at it. It then did what you described and then charged them! They both ran screaming to the car and it chased them all the way there. I was doubling over laughing.

[Rick Modena]

svo has a spider living in his ass.










This sentence wouldn't fit in the TAGS, it was too awesome not to share...

[smrr1]

Keeping your yard and bushes trimmed will help too. They like long grass etc. I live in town and have had a few over the years. Harmless but still scare the shit out of you. I scoop them up in a shovel and put them in a bucket. Take out to a field a few blocks away.

[soap]

I've had one fall on my head while working on one of my junk trailers, my fucking skin was crawling all day long.

[Rafa]

I pick them fuckers up all the time where I live. Even when I was a little peewee, I picked them suckas up. haha Picked up a baby one that was still black, you could see it start to change to brown. Ones with the black legs are the harder ones since they get pissed whole lot more than ones with the brown legs.

[BradM]

Ok, I'm not proud of it but my best friend and I used to dump gas down their holes and wait for them to come out... then set them on fire. We were probably 10 years old.

[bonnie&clyde]

Ok, I'm not proud of it but my best friend and I used to dump gas down their holes and wait for them to come out... then set them on fire. We were probably 10 years old.

That will be me this weekend, found like 6 holes along my driveway

[BMCSean]

Just wait until the camel spiders show up!

[soap]

Just wait until the camel spiders show up!

Buddy of mine was in the Marines told me that when he was in Iraq, that a camel spider got into their hooch while they were asleep. And apparently spent all night chewing on the face of one of the guys in there. He said that the guy slept through the whole thing and woke up the next day what a chunk of meat missing off his face. Don't know if it's exaggerated or not but I've heard stories like that before.

[KBScobravert]

Buddy of mine was in the Marines told me that when he was in Iraq, that a camel spider got into their hooch while they were asleep. And apparently spent all night chewing on the face of one of the guys in there. He said that the guy slept through the whole thing and woke up the next day what a chunk of meat missing off his face. Don't know if it's exaggerated or not but I've heard stories like that before.

I am gonna say exaggerated and made up. A little googling shows tons of articles like this http://www.livescience.com/40025-cam...ers-facts.html

That said, I have never seen one in the middle east (Afg/Irq) nor in Africa. Now snakes on the other hand, I saw a picture of an 8ft Black Momba that got ran over on one of our sites in Liberia

[Frank]

I have seen one small tarantula, but they are harmless and they didn't give me nightmares. THIS DID THOUGH when I saw one flying around my garage!

http://imgur.com/gallery/nOGvq