For many people, spiders are their #1 fear in the world. This is something that has been conditioned in them since they were young. They were taught that if they saw a spider they were supposed to snuff it out with a napkin or paper towel for fear that if they didn't that spider would end up in their bed.
Plus, in multiple horror films (usually crapfest movies, but still), spiders get cast as the main antagonist. They are huge on screen, and they kill endless amounts of people all the while leaving nothing in their wake. Of course, this giant tarantula runs rampant all over the town, all the while wrapping people up in their webs to save them for a later meal (here's looking at you Ron Weasley and Frodo).
Jokes aside, thankfully most spiders aren't dangerous, and most spiders (including those big tarantulas) aren't a threat to humans. However, there are many kinds of spiders that have resulted in many people having a phobia of spiders.
After all, the venomous spiders can bite, and for the very unfortunate, some of those bites even lead to a terrifying death sentence.
Matter of fact, check out the next page for some deadly and horrifying creepy crawlers in North America you need to stick clear of. #4 is actually very surprising!
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f**k you and your click bait…
The picture on the feed is a Woodlouse Hunter. They are creepy looking but not venomous.
tu no me quieres, hahaha, no quiero ni mirar
Andy Boggs Just was thinking of you brother.
That’s because you’re a jackass….lol
Paige Clarizia Robbie Petroccione
But believe it or not spider bites won’t kill 80% of healthy adults, the only thing you really have to worry about these days is snakes which most of the lethal ones tend to live in Australia.
Steve is kinda right, so from what I’ve read only 10% of the people who get bitten even have a reaction to the poison so that can range from slight swelling to more sensitive people more intense pain. Now for the whole flesh “eating” necrosis which hasn’t been proven to be caused by the brown recluse like Steve mentioned, but it is usually linked to the spider how I have no real clue maybe it walked in some anthrax so when it bite the person it mixed in with the venom like it did to a 6 month old in new York
I think I evicted a number 3 today! Lots of tarantula around my neighborhood of late. Migration time.
Cute
Laura Lenkner
Simone LaRue
#4 FYI was a bad picture. A Yellow Sac spider looks like this:
Shocking huh? I’ve always thought they were poisonous.
You don’t have to worry about snakes either if you pay attention to where your feet and hands go.
I think alot of ppl.get the brown lacrosse and the hobo spider confused and alot of times they have the same bite “look” at first
Wow, that spider is tough eating two jalapeño peppers!!
Tonya Spencer Barrett Mark Barrett III Logan Barrett
Cool article would have been better on one page click baiting bastards
Matt Holt
Matt Holt
Found this big beauty in my wood pile the other day.
Stephen Abernathy I found you some reading material
Kat Lee Berg
We got better ones in our house.
Like snakes the only good ones are dead ones as in squish
Missy Hebert
Why did I torture myself by looking at those.. YUCK and SCARY.
I been bitten twice wasn’t fun
Is that a Hillary nude shot?? I’m sure that’s what the last man who slept with her saw.
But after all that you still put ur finger in ur$#%&!@*an sniff
Most venomous? Daddy long legs. ..but it’s mandibles can’t bite you, they’re too close.
Most venomous? Daddy long legs. ..but it’s mandibles can’t bite you, they’re too close.
Been bit 3 times from the Nasty Brown!!!
I watched my dad eat 3 daddy long legs. No effect.
Not true. ^ This is a myth.
Myth.
Angela Sgrignuoli
Marie Sensi Persson
Spiders are cool!
Gross. And I think I got bit by one of the hobo spiders at your place.
Andrew Miller
Uh, no. Look it up. They have the most powerful venom of any spider. IF they could bite anything bigger than a small insect, they would be a serious problem.
Again, they do have a small amount of venom, but it is the most powerful.
True. Look it up.
Grand Daddy Long Legs are more poisonous than anything. They’re not really spiders either.
That’s true Kevin. 🙂
False, study yourself instead of looking up myths. Opilionid daddy long legs are not spiders, they do not have venom glands OR fangs. But do sometimes, in some species secrete poisonous fluids when ingested, but only to small animals.
Then there are pholocids, the daddy long legs spider, they do have fangs, similar to brown recluses, but are hardly poisonous to humans. In fact if you are bitten, which is highly unlikely because they are very docile, you will only experience a mild burning sensation for mere seconds.
Ok Bran, I found an authoritative source for what you are talking about. I admit, they had me ready to apologize until I got to the last few paragraphs. A toxicological study WAS performed, and published, by an authoritative source back in the 70’s. I recall reading at least three different articles published at the time in different sources.
Your source is incorrect in stating the fact / rumor is false due to a lack of information. At best, they could claim that it is unknown. They don’t mention whether our not yet attempted to track down the original information. However, until they do track it down, and prove the study was faulty out some other reason which would invalidate it, we should put our faith in common knowledge and the recollection if the studyand label the fact / rumor as probably true.
Being able to present a good case and sounding authoritative does not give one the right to toss out the scientific method and dissuade the public with a faulty opinion.
http://spiders.ucr.edu/daddylonglegs.html