# Aragog's children invade North Texas **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 31, 2007, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aragogs-children-invade-north-texas/417565 "2007-08-31T01:56:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aragogs-children-invade-north-texas/417565/1 "2007-08-31T01:56:12Z")
[I don’t think I’m going to be going to Lake Tawakoni anytime soon](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20514703/) ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aragogs-children-invade-north-texas/417565/2 "2007-08-31T02:13:45Z")
Ick. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aragogs-children-invade-north-texas/417565/3 "2007-08-31T03:14:05Z")
That’s cool! I wonder if I could get some of them to set up a screen between the swamp at the back of my property and the barns and house? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aragogs-children-invade-north-texas/417565/4 "2007-08-31T08:04:04Z")
**blondebear** mentioned this over in a thread in Cafe Society. I saw, I looked, I regretted it. > **[Thanks to Charlotte's Web I am a little less arachnophobic.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=434836)** > > Not that I was particularly arachnophobic before I watched this film. My excuse for watching a kids film is that I’d read the book as a kid. At the risk of spoiling the film for anyone I’ll include a huge spacer… A particular example of my... ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aragogs-children-invade-north-texas/417565/5 "2007-08-31T11:58:30Z")
Between this, the humongous cockroaches, and the summers full of high heat _and_ high humidity, I’m thinking I’m probably not going to be visiting Texas. Ever. ---
**Author:** ![Tully\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@Tully\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tully_Mars)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aragogs-children-invade-north-texas/417565/6 "2007-08-31T12:03:07Z")
[QUOTE=Diceman] Between this, the humongous cockroaches, and the summers full of high heat _and_ high humidity, I’m thinking I’m probably not going to be visiting Texas. Ever. [/QUOTE] Don’t forget the fire ants, ticks, and mosquitoes. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aragogs-children-invade-north-texas/417565/7 "2007-08-31T16:58:42Z")
[QUOTE=Tully Mars] Don’t forget the fire ants, ticks, and mosquitoes. [/QUOTE] Once you step in a fire ant nest, you forget all about the ticks and mosquitoes. ---
**Author:** ![LonesomePolecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aragogs-children-invade-north-texas/417565/8 "2007-08-31T20:08:23Z")
[QUOTE=Zyada] [I don’t think I’m going to be going to Lake Tawakoni anytime soon](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20514703/) [/QUOTE] That is SO COOL!!! ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aragogs-children-invade-north-texas/417565/9 "2007-08-31T22:09:03Z")
Don’t forget tornadoes. You wouldn’t want to miss those. Or maybe, if you’re sane, you would. ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2007, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aragogs-children-invade-north-texas/417565/10 "2007-09-01T15:41:55Z")
The pride Texas takes in the number electrocutees has generally been my favorite argument against visiting. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2007, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aragogs-children-invade-north-texas/417565/11 "2007-09-01T20:43:02Z")
Here’s the 3000x2000 pixel version of the photo in the article: [http://media.star-telegram.com/Multimedia/News/Photos/Bigweb.jpg](http://media.star-telegram.com/Multimedia/News/Photos/Bigweb.jpg) With a little resizing, great wallpaper. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2007, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aragogs-children-invade-north-texas/417565/12 "2007-09-02T00:01:50Z")
I posted [another thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=434833) on this topic because I didn’t find this one in a search. You know why? Even though this thread is about SPIDERS, not one of the posts in this thread mentions SPIDERS even once! Well, guess what? It does now! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2007, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aragogs-children-invade-north-texas/417565/13 "2007-09-02T00:36:33Z")
Oh, it gets much better. Texas also has flooding. The fire ants form giant balls and float around on the floodwater. I’ve seen islands of them that were 15 feet across. Links not for the squeamish: [Here’s a small version of floating ants.](http://bugguide.net/node/view/30113/bgpage) [What fire ants can do.](http://www.desertmuseum.org/invaders/invaders_fireant.htm)