# Tonight I am releasing three huntsman spiders in the lab **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 26, 2007, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-am-releasing-three-huntsman-spiders-in-the-lab/413211 "2007-07-26T12:03:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Acid\_Lamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Acid\_Lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acid_Lamp)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-am-releasing-three-huntsman-spiders-in-the-lab/413211/61 "2007-07-26T19:13:51Z")
[QUOTE=bluethree] This sounds like great material for an “Ask the guy who cleans out spider tanks” type of thread. I want to know more about what you do! [/QUOTE] I used to be the general manager and curator of an exotic pet store. We carried a lot of invertebrates as well as reptiles and amphibians. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-am-releasing-three-huntsman-spiders-in-the-lab/413211/62 "2007-07-26T20:34:51Z")
[QUOTE=Arnold Winkelried] Gaah! My eyeballs are bleeding! I don’t mean to play the grammar Nazi too much, and your post was interesting, and I own a Macintosh so I have sympathy for you based on your poster name, **but** … **It’s** means it is! **Its** is the possessive pronoun! I need a cup of tea now. [/QUOTE] Aargh, he said the word I cannot hear 😉 as far as the grammatical error, I blame coffee (either too much, or not enough, I’m never sure which…) ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-am-releasing-three-huntsman-spiders-in-the-lab/413211/63 "2007-07-26T21:57:11Z")
Just to connect the last few remaining dots on thsi nightmare for me: can these giant tarantulas make any sound? Leg-rubbing sounds would be bad, but a vocal apparatus would be worse. Anyone? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Parker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@Richard\_Parker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Parker)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-am-releasing-three-huntsman-spiders-in-the-lab/413211/64 "2007-07-26T22:04:22Z")
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp] Just to connect the last few remaining dots on thsi nightmare for me: can these giant tarantulas make any sound? Leg-rubbing sounds would be bad, but a vocal apparatus would be worse. Anyone? ☹ [/QUOTE] They have been known to lurk on the edge of groups of humans. Listening. Then, they will imitate the sound of your name to lure you into the darkness. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-am-releasing-three-huntsman-spiders-in-the-lab/413211/65 "2007-07-26T23:07:16Z")
[QUOTE=Richard Parker] I’m a little surprised that so many in this thread are taking the OP seriously. Isn’t it clear that he’s kidding? [/QUOTE] Yes I am kidding. [QUOTE=Maastricht] I think this so-called " prank" is incredible mean and cruel and dangerous. [/QUOTE] I agree with your entire post. ---
**Author:** ![Frosted\_Glass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frosted_glass/32/3926_2.png) [@Frosted\_Glass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frosted_Glass)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-am-releasing-three-huntsman-spiders-in-the-lab/413211/66 "2007-07-26T23:24:16Z")
Stupid bird eating spider is going to give me nightmares and I’m not even afraid of spiders. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-am-releasing-three-huntsman-spiders-in-the-lab/413211/67 "2007-07-26T23:51:35Z")
As an interesting piece of trivia, “Itching Powder”, sold in joke shops, is mostly tarantula utricating hair, most likely sourced from the more docile tarantulas like the Pinktoe tarantula and the Chilean Rosehair tarantula, as their hairs are less irritating ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-am-releasing-three-huntsman-spiders-in-the-lab/413211/68 "2007-07-27T00:22:15Z")
If the OP is serious, it’s a bad idea; if the OP is joking, it’s a bad idea. Thread closed. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-am-releasing-three-huntsman-spiders-in-the-lab/413211/69 "2007-07-27T11:18:53Z")
Thread opened. Moved from IMHO to MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-am-releasing-three-huntsman-spiders-in-the-lab/413211/70 "2007-07-27T13:19:44Z")
Yay, fight the power! Okay, sorry guys, but I had to delay my spider ambush for a day. One of them did successfully escape so I had to try to track it down before I brought them in. I still haven’t found it, but what harm could a loose spider do in my small apartment? Oh, and I decided that even though I only have three spiders, my farewell note from work would indicate that I left six. Ha! ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-am-releasing-three-huntsman-spiders-in-the-lab/413211/71 "2007-07-27T13:28:50Z")
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp] Just to connect the last few remaining dots on thsi nightmare for me: can these giant tarantulas make any sound? Leg-rubbing sounds would be bad, but a vocal apparatus would be worse. Anyone? ☹ [/QUOTE] As a matter of fact…[they do.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntsman_spider#Sound_production_in_mating_rituals) Sailboat ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-am-releasing-three-huntsman-spiders-in-the-lab/413211/72 "2007-07-27T13:31:28Z")
[runs screaming, esp. after looking at the bird eating spider] Dude, I like spiders but if I saw that mofo behind a clock in my office, I’d be out the door so fast I’d leave warp trails. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-am-releasing-three-huntsman-spiders-in-the-lab/413211/73 "2007-07-27T13:43:04Z")
[QUOTE=Sailboat] As a matter of fact…[they do.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntsman_spider#Sound_production_in_mating_rituals) [/QUOTE] Different species, but here’s a lovely video/audio of a horny spider: [Jumping Spider Mating Ritual With Super Audio](http://www.videosift.com/video/Jumping-Spider-Mating-Ritual-With-Super-Audio) ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-am-releasing-three-huntsman-spiders-in-the-lab/413211/74 "2007-07-27T15:44:41Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by **bigbabysweets2000** > Oh, and I decided that even though I only have three spiders, my farewell note from work would indicate that I left six. Ha! I read that when he was in high school, Chris Farley released 3 pigs into his school and painted the numbers “1”, “2”, and “4” on them. Brilliant! ---
**Author:** ![BooBoo316](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e0b2c6/32.png) [@BooBoo316](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BooBoo316)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2007, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-am-releasing-three-huntsman-spiders-in-the-lab/413211/75 "2007-07-28T02:47:04Z")
[QUOTE=bigbabysweets2000] I still haven’t found it, but what harm could a loose spider do in my small apartment? [/QUOTE] Well, I would have to move or burn it to the ground. > [@](#): > > Oh, and I decided that even though I only have three spiders, my farewell note from work would indicate that I left six. Ha! This is really funny. Evil, but funny. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonight-i-am-releasing-three-huntsman-spiders-in-the-lab/413211.md?page=3)