Nice Big Spider - Pictures Too!

[Johnny SixPack]

Formula 440.....is that a coconut crab?   I've seen ones like that in the Marshall Islands, and thats what they called them there.

oops...the answer beat my post by a few seconds.....


Thought it looked familiar.....

HF, yup.

That's it exactly.

Did you ever see any of them up close and personal?

It'd be crazy to see a crustacean as big as a backpack just toolin' around.

Kinda reminds me of something you'd see in, "Starship Troopers".  

[ChargerBill]

  Does anyone else feel something crawling up their neck right about now?   Yeckkk, I do.... I hate spiders. Heeebiejeebies....

[73dodge]

WOAH! Now THAT's a crab!!

Looks like a bit of 'chopping there?

Dude, the scary parts is..... it isn't. 

It's an actual type of crab.

The largest of the land crabs in fact.



God bless Google:

http://images.google.com/images?q=coconut+crab&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images

Looks like a lobster that spent too much time hangin' out in the Springfield Nucular Powerplant's cooling pond if you asked me. 

Eww I hate spiders I don't care how much they eat bugs they can do that outside my house.


Now crabs I like, especially with a cup of drawn butter Mmmmmm........

[TruckDriver]

Don't forget to check under the blankets before you go to sleep. That slight itch might just be......

That isn't funny. One of the guys I work with got bit in his sleep by a Brown Recluse (spelling?) spider during the night in his sleep this past July. It bit him on the ass cheek and by morning, it was starting to turn black. By the time he got to the hospital, the doc told him in less then 24 hours, he would of been dead if he waited longer He was outta work for a month healing. He said they removed a section of his ass about the size of a softball that was all dead already. We never knew til this happened that they have made it into Wisconsin. We always thought that they were a more southern spider.

It's kinda funny in one sence though, I keep reminding the guy that, if he doesn't do something right now, least he has the excuse he's only half assed now


And 73Dodge..... All crabs are, are sea spiders

[Afflyer]

Spider scare the freakin be-Jesus outta this guy!

[Lowprofile]

My wife says the only good spider is a dead spider.



BTW...Brown Recluse Spiders are bad news.

[Brock Samson]

 ya know, after readin this freakin &%^%(!  thread, my mouse cord moved and scared the livin crap outta me! 

[dart3404]

 

[4402tuff4u]

Man!!!! that's a nasty wound. If that happened to me I think I would be killing every single spider I see. It wouldnt dent the spider population, but at least I would be taking out my aggression. I'm not of one of just killing things for the hell of it, but that would surely give me a reason. All I can picture is a spider biting a baby in it's crib. The poor baby would probably not make it.