# After landing on you...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-landing-on-you/631118>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 10, 2012, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-landing-on-you/631118 "2012-08-10T19:56:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-landing-on-you/631118/1 "2012-08-10T19:56:02Z")

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…I must determine whether you are prey or not by building a suitable image in my head to identify what you are…[completely by touch](http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120809090431.htm)…my, you’re a big one, this might take a while…good night!

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**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-landing-on-you/631118/2 "2012-08-11T04:46:47Z")

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OMG what is it with spiders and creepy crawlies today?! I have avoided most of them today, but you got me. DAMNIT, ARGHH!!!

I need a drink! Right after I deal with the kitty’s ear mites.

Ok, maybe BEFORE. Ugh.

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**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-landing-on-you/631118/3 "2012-08-11T06:02:31Z")

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i hate you

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**Author:** ![StrangerThanFiction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f05b48/32.png) [@StrangerThanFiction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StrangerThanFiction)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-landing-on-you/631118/4 "2012-08-11T13:25:01Z")

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> The spiders are in good company: fish, scorpions and crabs that have adapted to caves have already been found in the caves of Laos.

Sounds like a nice place to hang out…

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**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-landing-on-you/631118/5 "2012-08-11T13:47:32Z")

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Cicadas are pretty big eh? at least an inch an a half and half as wide. So how big does a hornet have to be to pick one off midair and carry it away, HUGE! what is it that? a super big hornet with wings like a dragonfly?

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-landing-on-you/631118/6 "2012-08-11T15:16:35Z")

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I wonder if the spiders have any other means of detecting light. Do they sense it on their, um, skin? Do they avoid it, move toward it, or remain completely oblivious to it? Also I wonder how an experimenter could determine whether any reaction they saw was due to light, or the heat generated by it?