Arizona Jumping Spiders: Good luck sleeping tonight

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[BoneKracker]

I didn't even notice.
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[BonezTheGoon]

Tangled != Caught.

I was about thirty pounds lighter, but still considerably taller than average when it happened to me.

So, in short, no. No one I know considers me a little person.
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[BoneKracker]

In the woods at night, a spider web in the face sucks almost a much at a twig up the nostril.
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[pjp]

[BoneKracker]

[sikpuppy]

I say, I say, I say...my girlfriend has a twig stuck up her nose. (Oh no, how does she smell?) Awful.

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[BoneKracker]

They eat birds too. I don't think tarantulas are scary (and wolf spiders are often mistaken for them). I do find large orb weavers to be creepy, though. There are these big black-and-yellow ones around here, but a spectacular color pattern and a big round abdomen the size of your thumb. To me, they look poisonous. Apparently they're not harmful to humans, though.
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[pjp]

A lot of spiders look nasty. And since so many of them look poisonous, it's best to play it safe. Besides, non-poisonous bites don't exactly tickle.
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[BoneKracker]

What a weird coincidence. I just went into the kitchen to get a drink, and near the sink I saw something move, and it was a spider that I see a lot inside the house, but that I once checked out and I know to be mildly poisonous. I think it's a yellow sac spider (can't really identify it because I smashed it too badly).

It's funny because you just mentioned it, and it's 14 degrees outside right now. They seem to like to hang around the kitchen sink at night, but I've never seen one in the Winter before.

What sucks is that they look like a brown recluse, which is a nasty spider to get bitten by because it creates a MRSA-like infection and people often end up with a good-sized chunk (go on, click it; you know you want to) of their body having to be removed.

The charts showing the ranges of various creatures and plants are all wrong now, because of global warming. We've had a lot of brown recluse bites up here, and blue mud dauber wasps started showing up all over the place a few years ago (cool-looking and harmless metalic blue wasps, and their favorite food is brown recluse for some reason).
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[BonezTheGoon]

Meh, it's mostly all the shipping activity moving these species around now. We suddenly have "Brown Widows" now which we never had before. (Looks just like a black widow, only in brown -- just like it sounds.) I had foolishly assumed it was not poisonous because I've lived in this area for so long I thought I knew all the dangerous spiders there were here and so I handled it barehanded. I looked it up after getting it out of the house because I hadn't seen one before, only to find out that they are not "supposed" to be in this region, but are in fact poisonous.

Also around these parts there are apparently some mutated/hybrid/some-freak-thing spider that looks like a "Daddy-Long-Leg" spider but has a bite that doctors diagnose as a "brown recluse" bite. So all daddy-long-legs are presumed dangerous in my household now.

Regarding pjp's comment about non-poisonous bites -- they are all poisonous really, it's just a matter of scale. One of the longest to heal skin injuries I have EVER had was from just a little jumping spider almost exactly like the ones in the OP link, it had somehow made it's way under my shirt and onto my belly at a backyard BBQ (likely he was on the lawn chair I was sitting in and made his way onto me) and without knowing what was tickling my belly I absentmindedly went to scratch at it and essentially smeared his fangs into my own flesh. It was a bit of a feat getting the damned fangs out, but it took months for the skin to fully heal. There was really very little pain though, less irritation really than mosquito bites.
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