Found this little lady in my pine stack. Love the leg stripe/growth ring combination
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stoveguy2esw
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Wolf spiders are cool. Had 'em in Farifax and at our place on the Shenandoah out between Luray & Front Royal. Had eight eyes, not all the same size. They were patient hunters, sitting in one place forever waiting for something tasty to wander by. I like 'em. Don't seem to have any out here in Oregon.
I hear ya mate. A couple of weeks ago I told my wife I had just dispatched a six foot snake just outside the house. She asked if it had a triangular shaped head. I informed her that I have bad eyesight and had no intention of leaning in that close to check.
Even though I've caught snakes and all kinds of critters to study since I was a boy, I sympathize. Visiting Oz is on my bucket list, but right at the bottom... because my wife says if we go I'll probably get bitten and killed by something in the airport.
I do kill the copperheads in my yard, and they are nothing compared to yours. Rattlers are rare and get escorted way up the mountain in a rubber tote.
Yeah my snake respect was fashioned by being raised in West Texas. Rattler City. In high school one of our field trips every year was to Crater Lake in Oklahoma. The bus would drop us off on the other side of the "mountain" from the lodge. And the contest was to bring the most rattlers or the largest to the lodge with you.
Try doing that for a school field trip these days.
Try doing that for a school field trip these days.
Ashful
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We get those as well, Osage. Almost stepped on a mighty large specimen on my bedroom floor in bare feet late one night, about three years ago. Harmless, I think, but seeing one on your floor at 3am will get your attention, nonetheless. They love the woodpiles.
Z33
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Yeah my snake respect was fashioned by being raised in West Texas. Rattler City. In high school one of our field trips every year was to Crater Lake in Oklahoma. The bus would drop us off on the other side of the "mountain" from the lodge. And the contest was to bring the most rattlers or the largest to the lodge with you.
Try doing that for a school field trip these days.
BB I think your age is showing.
You just put soccer moms everywhere up in arms.
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No doubt. In the US, about 5% of stuff you come across is poisonous and might kill you. In the land of OZ about 95% of the stuff you come across is poisonous and WILL kill you. Nasty critters.
bag of hammers
Minister of Fire
Your company obviously has never sent you to work in some inner cities in August like mine did.
Yeah Philly and Chicago, I'm talking to ya here.
Fsappo
Minister of Fire
Close this terrible thread please. I screamed and threw my last laptop across the room when I read about the bird eating monster spider a few days ago. I'd rather face a wolf than a spider any day. At least with the wolf I can see death coming.
Funny you should say that. I have one store downtown Chicago (stockyards) and two in outlying burbs.
Game set and match they do! We had a big reptile room in college. Roomie made a killing on baby bearded dragons. Cute buggers. Local cops were very interested in all the fluorescent lights, though .The US might be the biggest and best in a lot of areas but our snakes run rings around yours.
Wow...sounds like my kinda party! You're crazier than me, BB. And that's a short list.Yeah my snake respect was fashioned by being raised in West Texas. Rattler City. In high school one of our field trips every year was to Crater Lake in Oklahoma. The bus would drop us off on the other side of the "mountain" from the lodge. And the contest was to bring the most rattlers or the largest to the lodge with you.
Try doing that for a school field trip these days.
Funny you should say that. I have one store downtown Chicago (stockyards) and two in outlying burbs.
Got lost and ended up going through the South side on a 100 degree day. And somehow lived to tell about it.
Ashful
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Hmm... I've always felt quite safe walking around all parts of Chicago. After living in Philly several years, Chicago always felt very clean and safe, by comparison. There are large parts of Philly that look like a third-world country. Think Detroit in 40 years, when those recently-abandoned factories have some age on them.Funny you should say that. I have one store downtown Chicago (stockyards) and two in outlying burbs.
A hairy, primitive, dull witted forest creature that pretends to be dead in stressful situations.
Oh, On the LEFT? That's an Opossum. Our only marsupial survivor from when y'all broke free from North and South America as the placentals showed up. Several species still in South America, though. The placental mammals outcompeted most of the Marsupials. I'd love to see a devil though.
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