# Wonderful picture of spider with babies \[Big picture of mama and many, many babies\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 17, 2008, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderful-picture-of-spider-with-babies-big-picture-of-mama-and-many-many-babies/456828 "2008-07-17T14:22:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderful-picture-of-spider-with-babies-big-picture-of-mama-and-many-many-babies/456828/21 "2008-07-17T16:53:31Z")
I fully agree, in concept, that spiders fulfill a valuable function in the glorious tapestry of life. God, I wish I hadn’t clicked on that link. There’s _objectively_ interesting and attractive and then there’s the lizard-brain, hardwired recoil of pure disgust. That picture is…interesting but mostly makes me want to unload an entire can of Raid on it. Doesn’t matter that it’s just a picture…ick, ick, oh god, kill it _now_. ::hyperventilates:: ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderful-picture-of-spider-with-babies-big-picture-of-mama-and-many-many-babies/456828/22 "2008-07-17T17:16:24Z")
Hee hee, my boyfriend once had a beard spider too! We were waiting for the hostess to finish with a phone call and seat us at a restaurant, and just as she’s looking up at us I see this little tiny green thing descend from Himself’s goatee. I think it was spinning a web. “Hold still.” “What, is there a leaf in my hair?” “No, you have a beard spider. It’s a cute little green one.” So I captured it and released it outside. I got back in and the hostess was looking at us like between the two of us we’d grown three extra heads. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderful-picture-of-spider-with-babies-big-picture-of-mama-and-many-many-babies/456828/23 "2008-07-17T20:13:15Z")
Yee-eee-ee. Reminds me of the Far Side cartoon where two female praying mantis-like insects are in the living room. One offers the other a tray of goodies, to which she responds “Oh, heavens no Gladys; I couldn’t. I just ate my young about an hour ago.” ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderful-picture-of-spider-with-babies-big-picture-of-mama-and-many-many-babies/456828/24 "2008-07-17T20:31:02Z")
Why is there a spider on what looks like a pre school rug? Is that spider near little kids? Ahh… ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderful-picture-of-spider-with-babies-big-picture-of-mama-and-many-many-babies/456828/25 "2008-07-17T20:32:46Z")
[QUOTE=wheresgeorge04] Don’t mind looking at the pics, but I’m sorry, that is horrifying. If I saw that in my house, I’d burn it the fuck down. Joe [/QUOTE] You can come stay with me. And if you see that in _my_ house, burn it the fuck down! ---
**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:** [July 17, 2008, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderful-picture-of-spider-with-babies-big-picture-of-mama-and-many-many-babies/456828/26 "2008-07-17T20:48:27Z")
The poor mother spider. “Billy’s looking at me!” “Am not!” “Are to!” “Are we there yet?” Man that’s gotta be rough. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderful-picture-of-spider-with-babies-big-picture-of-mama-and-many-many-babies/456828/27 "2008-07-17T20:59:43Z")
The **really** scary thing is reading the comments. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderful-picture-of-spider-with-babies-big-picture-of-mama-and-many-many-babies/456828/28 "2008-07-17T21:23:29Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] Why is there a spider on what looks like a pre school rug? Is that spider near little kids? Ahh… [/QUOTE] It says the spider had to be scooped out of the pool - that’s probably a poolside thing. It was evidently dicey because when frightened the babies scatter. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderful-picture-of-spider-with-babies-big-picture-of-mama-and-many-many-babies/456828/29 "2008-07-17T21:34:39Z")
Awwww. My first thought was of “Charlotte’s Web,” the book that turned me from an arachnophobe to an arachnophile. ---
**Author:** ![mmouse9799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mmouse9799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mmouse9799)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderful-picture-of-spider-with-babies-big-picture-of-mama-and-many-many-babies/456828/30 "2008-07-17T21:42:07Z")
I was house-sitting during college, and one day while swimming in the pool, I came across a very large spider. EEEK!! I ran out and grabbed the skimmer. I captured the thing, held it under for awhile trying to drown it, but it just wouldn’t die. So, I flicked it out of the pool, content now to let it live as long as it was away from me. As soon as I flicked it, what looked like a very large pouch on the spider’s back seemed to explode with a hundred baby spiders scattering everywhere!! This is probably exactly what that spider was. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderful-picture-of-spider-with-babies-big-picture-of-mama-and-many-many-babies/456828/31 "2008-07-17T23:16:43Z")
[QUOTE=Zsofia] It says the spider had to be scooped out of the pool [/QUOTE] With a crane? (Peter Jackson should have made Shelob a new parent. Imagine Frodo being swarmed by a hundred fist-sized babies.) ---
**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderful-picture-of-spider-with-babies-big-picture-of-mama-and-many-many-babies/456828/32 "2008-07-17T23:28:32Z")
[QUOTE=wheresgeorge04] Don’t mind looking at the pics, but I’m sorry, that is horrifying. If I saw that in my house, I’d burn it the fuck down. Joe [/QUOTE] My people must think I’m nutty, but this made me laugh out loud. Seriously. The spiders and I see eye to eye mostly. They stay out of the places they should stay out of, I don’t kill them. I let them hang out wherever they need to hang out, as long as it’s not on me, on or near where I eat or sleep. Other than that, meh. Now, I kills the big ones for sport, I can’t always tell what kind they are, but just in case they’re poisonous (the recluse and widow have been seen about these parts, and I’m not sure what little ones of that variety look like, so, off they go) and too small to be recognized, I make sure they don’t get bigger or make more spiders. My SIL is DEATHLY afraid of the critters, I should TOTALLY send that link. ---
**Author:** ![MadPansy64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@MadPansy64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPansy64)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderful-picture-of-spider-with-babies-big-picture-of-mama-and-many-many-babies/456828/33 "2008-07-18T01:39:57Z")
Dude! I hate spiders. Circle of life, balance, yadda yadda, squish. No really, they freak me out. If I see 'em, they should die. Except wolf spiders. Once upon a time, many, many moons ago, I watched (through a window, while I was frozen with panic and gibbering hysterically) a mama wolf spider attack and kill a HUGE black widow. Babies scattered, Mama wolf spider attacked, won the battle, babies scrambled back to the mommy butt-ride. I like wolf spiders. As long as they don’t touch me. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderful-picture-of-spider-with-babies-big-picture-of-mama-and-many-many-babies/456828/34 "2008-07-18T02:41:24Z")
I’m not touching you! Am I bugging you? I’m not touching you! ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderful-picture-of-spider-with-babies-big-picture-of-mama-and-many-many-babies/456828/35 "2008-07-18T02:50:47Z")
Those are great shots. How about some jumping spider pics? Those guys are REALLY cute! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderful-picture-of-spider-with-babies-big-picture-of-mama-and-many-many-babies/456828.md?page=1)