Big bad bug thread...

I'm going to bookmark this thread and look at it on those 20-below winter days. The cold weather kills off those big scary bugs...

 

I went through a major bug obsession as a child. When I was 8 I wanted to be an entomologist. I don't think I'd particularly like to handle these big guys, but they still fascinate me. I have 2 daughters and they think I'm nuts.

I had no idea that a spider could handle a bird or a bat, though. (except for Shelob or whatever the hell her name is.)

 

That spider taking down the bird is pretty incredible. As a kid, searching for spiders was one of my favorite activities. I grew up in Colorado, and we would usually getting some really large (relatively, not by the photos in this thread) black widows in the garage each year.

My wife and I just moved and in our new building, the basement has more wolf spiders than I think I've seen anywhere. Each glass block window has one in each corner. And a stray one already traveled upstairs with me last month -- must have been on my head, but I noticed it when it crawled on my arm.

 

I love those funnel shaped webs. I used to spend hours watching those waiting for the spider to come out.

 

Amen!

 

With bugs that big, I guess you can protect yourself at night by sleeping inside a chain link fence.