OMG...when I first moved to Florida in 1997, I was renting a home in Vero Beach. There was a population explosion of them that year, and their webs were across power lines, trees, everywhere. I was doing some yard work in the property I was renting, and ran right through a web, wrapping the web around me with the spider trapped against my chest.
Needless to say, I had nightmares about that for years!
Okay, fine, I'll share a spider story. Yours was great by the way. And by great, I mean it freaked me out. Not cool at all to have a spider strapped to your chest by its web.
A good rule of thumb when you are camping is to zip your tent shut, and then kill all the mosquitoes so you don't get poked by them at night.
So, I did my business, used a light to attract them, and I killed them all. Then I turned in for the night.
As I was laying on my side with my head on my pillow, I felt one last mosquito on my cheek and quickly slapped the little punk.
I expected the sweet splatter of the little sucker.
To my surprise, I cupped something. Freaking out, I clenched my fist and threw whatever it was into the corner of my tent. I grabbed my flashlight to see what the hell it was, and it was a huge spider with a gigantic sack belly!
To this day, I have nightmares about that situation. Totally unexpected and I can't believe that thing was on my face!
I grabbed a lighter and torched that spider. I was so pissed off at it that I burned it to ashes. And then I burned its ashes to make sure it was dead, dead, dead.
And honestly, to this day, I still don't care that I burned a hole in my tent doing that. I would do the same thing today. 🦟🕷☠
I was bitten on my EYELID by a spider when I was a kid. We had camped out and I woke up the next morning with a huge swollen eye. Dr said spider bite. I share your nightmares.
I had one of those suckers (I've always called them Banana Spiders) build a web that spanned MY ENTIRE BACK SLIDING DOOR. BOTH SIDES. And I wouldn't have seen it walking to the door directly. I only spotted it looking diagonally at it and seeing the spider itself and then taking a closer look.
Silk spiders can get huge...If you’ve ever walked thru a silk spider’s web you know! Eeeeccckkkkkkk!
OMG...when I first moved to Florida in 1997, I was renting a home in Vero Beach. There was a population explosion of them that year, and their webs were across power lines, trees, everywhere. I was doing some yard work in the property I was renting, and ran right through a web, wrapping the web around me with the spider trapped against my chest.
Needless to say, I had nightmares about that for years!
Okay, fine, I'll share a spider story. Yours was great by the way. And by great, I mean it freaked me out. Not cool at all to have a spider strapped to your chest by its web.
A good rule of thumb when you are camping is to zip your tent shut, and then kill all the mosquitoes so you don't get poked by them at night.
So, I did my business, used a light to attract them, and I killed them all. Then I turned in for the night.
As I was laying on my side with my head on my pillow, I felt one last mosquito on my cheek and quickly slapped the little punk.
I expected the sweet splatter of the little sucker.
To my surprise, I cupped something. Freaking out, I clenched my fist and threw whatever it was into the corner of my tent. I grabbed my flashlight to see what the hell it was, and it was a huge spider with a gigantic sack belly!
To this day, I have nightmares about that situation. Totally unexpected and I can't believe that thing was on my face!
I grabbed a lighter and torched that spider. I was so pissed off at it that I burned it to ashes. And then I burned its ashes to make sure it was dead, dead, dead.
And honestly, to this day, I still don't care that I burned a hole in my tent doing that. I would do the same thing today. 🦟🕷☠
You get the prize for post of the day!
I was bitten on my EYELID by a spider when I was a kid. We had camped out and I woke up the next morning with a huge swollen eye. Dr said spider bite. I share your nightmares.
Oh no! Brutal! Thanks for sharing.
AHHH FLORIDA SPIDER STORY TIME!
I had one of those suckers (I've always called them Banana Spiders) build a web that spanned MY ENTIRE BACK SLIDING DOOR. BOTH SIDES. And I wouldn't have seen it walking to the door directly. I only spotted it looking diagonally at it and seeing the spider itself and then taking a closer look.
OMG! How terrifying- spider nightmares are the worst...we lived in northern FL in the woods and they were everywhere...