Thursday, January 14, 2010

Froggy, Don't Read This!

Giant crab spiders have such a ferocious appearance that they earned a spot as extras in the horror film Arachnophobia. These creatures, however, eat only cockroaches, crickets, and caterpillars, more than compensating for their scary appearance. Giant crab spiders are about 2 inches long, are hairy, and have noticeable black fangs and black feet. Their egg sac is the size of a golf ball.

I intentionally did not include a photo.

8 comments:

Marker said...

Thank you for not including a photo!!

Their egg sac is the size of a golf ball. - Ew.

the dogs' mother said...

Oooooooooh!
I not only read, I went to find out more information - I am never going to Arizona again!

Just yesterday I had my spider zapping electrical chamber of death out and bravely got one off the ceiling. I made Eldest take it outside, open it up and make sure the poor spider was fried.

I will catch jumping spiders, for some odd reason, and let them go - but the super sonic skuttlers are too scary to catch. They can be half way up your arm in a nano-second.

Okay, I need to go lay down now.

David Dust said...

Ok ... now I'm going to have to Google this so I can see a picture...

XOXOXOXOXOXO

David Dust said...

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SWEET MOTHER OF GOD!!!! Those suckers are scary looking!!!!

XOXOXOXOXOXO

Unknown said...

I love the fact that my family is not the only carriers of the dooposite gene. 'Don't Read This!' suddenly becomes I read it, and went on the web to look it up. The pictures are scary! LOL

Joy said...

Told you. I knew y'all would go look this up but warned you, didn't I?

Mr.Mischief said...

Don't let Mrs Miss Alaineus see this either!!!

Kyle Leach said...

Joy, thank you for not putting up a photo! :)