# A Mundane Tale of Scorpions and Spiders and Armadillos

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 22, 2008, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-mundane-tale-of-scorpions-and-spiders-and-armadillos/464725 "2008-09-22T19:23:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2008, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-mundane-tale-of-scorpions-and-spiders-and-armadillos/464725/21 "2008-09-23T12:17:45Z")

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> [@missred](#):
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> lest we wake our heathen father, who liked to use the seventh day to rest.

An outstanding turn of phrase there.

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**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2008, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-mundane-tale-of-scorpions-and-spiders-and-armadillos/464725/22 "2008-09-23T13:00:52Z")

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Did you know that some spiders aid their movement by a process known as ballooning, which is to say they launch themselves laterally through the air from tall vegetation? I suppose if you live in an area with such spiders and have tall vegetation about it’s not unreasonable to assume that if you feel something lightly brush your noggin that a spider has just used you as a landing strip. I couldn’t though find any respectable literature that suggests they’ll immediately then make a beeline to crawl inside your ear.

Walking across our place in S.E. Colorado in the late summer and fall, we’ll see hundreds of tarantulas in an afternoon just wandering about. Commonly referred to as a “tarantula migration”, what I’ve read suggests they’re really just looking for a mate and not in fact trying to distance themselves from winter’s approach.

[http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA\_free/JoA\_v27\_n2/arac\_27\_02\_0503.pdf](http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v27_n2/arac_27_02_0503.pdf)

[http://www.spiderzrule.com/tarantulas.htm](http://www.spiderzrule.com/tarantulas.htm)

> **[An interesting and itchy discovery...](http://denverexcursions.blogspot.com/2007/09/interesting-and-itchy-discovery.html)**
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> I was recently down in southeastern Colorado....As I was driving on a back road looking for highway 50, I saw up ahead of me, a black tiny c...

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