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OT:Rain spiders !!!!

jorge dorlandojorge dorlando Posts: 1,157
edited December 1969 in The Commons

Hello
Well, that's it, a phenomenon frightened the residents of a small town in the state of São Paulo - Brazil
a rain of spiders !!!
Although it is not the first time this has happened here in Brazil, there have been other cases.

According to biologists, their poison is of low intensity and only causes swelling and local pain
... Interesting that, here in Brazil, we are praying for rain, the country's water reservoirs are below the limit ...
... But then there was a rain ... But spiders !!!!!!

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,596
    edited December 1969

    Ewwwwwwwwwwww :sick:

  • XenomorphineXenomorphine Posts: 2,421
    edited December 1969

    While I find arachnids utterly fascinating from an engineering point of view (and, after a certain size, safely behind a sheet of glass)...

    DO NOT WANT! D:

    On the other hand, do you have a news report link? This is just amazing.

  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 5,998
    edited December 1969

    I don't mind spiders too much but ... I agree with Wendy on this one! :)

  • StratDragonStratDragon Posts: 3,251
    edited January 2015

    wendy♥catz said:
    Ewwwwwwwwwwww :sick:

    +1

    and is someone in São Paulo praying to Ananci the spider god?

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  • HoppittyHoppitty Posts: 473
    edited December 1969

    Brazil: "Please, someone send us rain!"
    Lolth, spider-Goddess of the Drow: "Okay."

  • XenomorphineXenomorphine Posts: 2,421
    edited December 1969

    Hah! :lol:

  • jorge dorlandojorge dorlando Posts: 1,157
    edited December 1969

    Xenomorphine said:
    While I find arachnids utterly fascinating from an engineering point of view (and, after a certain size, safely behind a sheet of glass)...

    DO NOT WANT! D:

    On the other hand, do you have a news report link? This is just amazing.

    Here:
    http://sao-paulo.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,chuva-de-aranhas-assusta-moradores-de-distrito-em-sao-manuel,1622480

    http://www.emresumo.com.br/2015/01/21/chuva-aranhas-assusta-moradores-distrito-manuel-sp_71830.html

    Although, I watched on television today early in the morning.

  • XenomorphineXenomorphine Posts: 2,421
    edited December 1969

    Thank you for those!

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,596
    edited December 1969

    I totally freak out if one spider drops on me or walk into a web.

  • jorge dorlandojorge dorlando Posts: 1,157
    edited December 1969

    Kaputcha said:
    Brazil: "Please, someone send us rain!"
    Lolth, spider-Goddess of the Drow: "Okay."

    I wish it would rain ... money ... but ...
    we are in need of water reservoirs in the Brazilian ...

    as the rain of spiders, I'm relieved to be in another Brazilian state (Minas Gerais)

  • TheWheelManTheWheelMan Posts: 1,014
    edited December 1969

    It rained SPIDERS??????

    I'd prefer If it rained nuclear bombs...

  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,162
    edited December 1969

    It happens every spring. The young spiders hatch and when the temperature, air pressure, breeze and humidity are right they crawl to a high point, grass, tree or bush, spray web strands into the air and hang on as the wind catches it and they are then dispersed over a wide area. I've seen it here in Scotland on numerous occasions.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003lc9z

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,673
    edited January 2015

    I'm perfectly fine with spiders as long as they are unvisible, untouchable, unpoisonous, and unalive.

    However, I did live in Florida for several decades and tolerated seeing them in my garage because they kept the palmetto bugs and small insects and small neighborhood children in check. And I also went walking in the Florida cow pastures now and then to collect psilocybin mushrooms and had to deal with great giant webs of dozens (sometimes hundreds) of baseball sized colorful spiders looming in the trees overhead. A good high is worth anything!

    But please keep in mind that if you're feeling secure, remember that your face is rarely ever more than 5 feet away from a spider of some sort. In the walls, in the floor, floating in the air, in the plants, behind things in your cupboards, in the corner above your bathtub, in the grass, you get the idea. Arachnids, I believe, are the most successful animal species ever.

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  • jorge dorlandojorge dorlando Posts: 1,157
    edited December 1969

    LeatherGryphon said:
    I'm perfectly fine with spiders as long as they are unvisible, untouchable, unpoisonous, and unalive.

    However, I did live in Florida for several decades and tolerated seeing them in my garage because they kept the palmetto bugs and small insects and small neighborhood children in check. And I also went walking in the Florida cow pastures now and then to collect psilocybin mushrooms and had to deal with great giant webs of dozens (sometimes hundreds) of baseball sized colorful spiders looming in the trees overhead. A good high is worth anything!

    But please keep in mind that if you're feeling secure, remember that your face is rarely ever more than 5 feet away from a spider of some sort. In the walls, in the floor, floating in the air, in the plants, behind things in your cupboards, in the corner above your bathtub, in the grass, you get the idea. Arachnids, I believe, are the most successful animal species ever.

    Hmmm, I've never seen up close a huge spider's web, but I know that here in the state of Amazon there are immense webs fully covering the trees
    Here's an example of what happens in the amazon

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  • jorge dorlandojorge dorlando Posts: 1,157
    edited January 2015

    Here was an old tree trunk, and my uncle was hitting the trunk with an sickle, and it was annoying a spider that lived in the trunk, until the angry spider came out of the trunk and went chasing my uncle for a few meters ahead (my uncle fled with sickle and all).
    That was many years ago, but to this day, my uncle feel chills when it comes to spiders.

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  • SlimerJSpudSlimerJSpud Posts: 1,453
    edited December 1969

    Although this has a fairly mundane explanation (it's spider season), Charles Fort would have loved this story. He was the writer who specialized in documenting rains of frogs, rains of fish, spontaneous human combustion, and the like. To some, he's the patron saint of ufologists and other kooks!

    OK, I can see it now. The latest Hollywood blockbuster will be ... (fanfare, please) ...

    ARACHNADO!!!
    Because it had to be done! :lol:

    OK, trivia time: Who played the role of the fighter pilot who dropped fire bombs on the giant spider in the 1950's movie "Tarantula"?

  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,782
    edited December 1969

    jorge dorlando said:
    Here was an old tree trunk, and my uncle was hitting the trunk with an sickle, and it was annoying a spider that lived in the trunk, until the angry spider came out of the trunk and went chasing my uncle for a few meters ahead (my uncle fled with sickle and all).
    That was many years ago, but to this day, my uncle feel chills when it comes to spiders.

    I have a very similar story from 5th grade, but with100's of scorpions. Haunts me visually to this day.

    Those images of the trees full of webs and spiders are chilling. I have never seen anything even close to that here in the U.S.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,673
    edited January 2015

    Golden Orb Web Spiders: I've seen 'em by the dozens (possibly a hundred) in groves of Cabbage Palms around cow pastures in central Florida. Webs span the distance between trees. Thankfully most of the webs are above head height. Probably because they seem to prefer to attach to the palm fronds at the top. Or possibly because the cows walk through any lower ones.

    But at least I could see them, they were not moving, and mostly out of my way. I think I'd freak if they were raining on me!!!!!

    I saw one in a house and it charged toward me AFTER I'd hit it with the business end of a broom!

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  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,162
    edited January 2015

    Tent caterpillars can cover trees and shrubs in web too.

    Long link
    I especially like the car and bike images :-)

    Edited to stop link from breaking forum

    Post edited by Richard Haseltine on
  • jorge dorlandojorge dorlando Posts: 1,157
    edited December 1969

    LeatherGryphon said:
    Golden Orb Web Spiders: I've seen 'em by the dozens (possibly a hundred) in groves of Cabbage Palms around cow pastures in central Florida. Webs span the distance between trees. Thankfully most of the webs are above head height. Probably because they seem to prefer to attach to the palm fronds at the top. Or possibly because the cows walk through any lower ones.

    But at least I could see them, they were not moving, and mostly out of my way. I think I'd freak if they were raining on me!!!!!

    I saw one in a house and it charged toward me AFTER I'd hit it with the business end of a broom!

    Hey, this "Golden Orb Spiders Web"
    I see a lot of it here in my region ... And really, she loves to dwell in orchards ... But here in Brazil this spider is a greenish color.
    is harmless, and if it drops the web, she can barely walk on the floor.
    I've lost count of number of times in which I have given to my face, covered by their webs, all because I always wanted to get the most orange orchard before my cousins or siblings

  • jorge dorlandojorge dorlando Posts: 1,157
    edited January 2015

    Fishtales said:
    Tent caterpillars can cover trees and shrubs in web too.

    Long link
    I especially like the car and bike images :-)

    That's interesting !!

    Post edited by Richard Haseltine on
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