Millipede Madness

[crazycanuck]

Oakleaf eeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwww..yuuiuuuccckkk

Long post sorry...

Speaking of being eaten alive..Some of our company's scientists do varying field surveys in the NE of Western Australia and one of thier main safety issues is..crocs.. Yep..not the sun, not weird insects or jellyfish...crocs..

The small spiders that inhabit the dark areas of our fence are normally Redbacks or Whitetails.. Cool but not as freaky as a Huntsman spider.. I've heard although 'huntsman''s aren't poisonous, they kill more people than other spiders each year..becuase of fright!!!

There's a "lake" (Herdsman lake)near our old neighbourhood(not in the boonies) and there are warning signs around the lake that say "beware of tiger snakes". Ian came accross one while biking around the lake one day & he moved out of it's way rather quickly..esp after he read more about them online!!!

Yes Australia has some rather poisonous creatures but you need some excitement in life right?

If you don't bother the creatures, they won't bother you..

*phew* long post over

[Starfish]

Yes Australia has some rather poisonous creatures but you need some excitement in life right?

I would rather get mine in the form of wildlife found in pics on the Have We Done It Yet? thread.

That said, just to stick up for myself, I will mention (but save you a long boring story) about my brave night alone in Texas in a bug/scorpion/mouse infested cabin.

[Trekhawk]

I would rather get mine in the form of wildlife found in pics on the Have We Done It Yet? thread.

That said, just to stick up for myself, I will mention (but save you a long boring story) about my brave night alone in Texas in a bug/scorpion/mouse infested cabin.

YIKES!!
Scorpions freak me out - you are a very brave girl.

[Tuckervill]

Or how about the time I woke up in a tent, in Maryland, literally blanketed by grandddaddy longlegs?

Karen

[Wahine]

I was living on the Island of Maui for a short period in a cockroach and centipede infested dorm apartment. I felt something crawling up my leg while I was in the shower one night and it was a poisonous centipede that had come out of the drain.

Ever since then, centipedes and millipedes creep me out. Better you than me TH.

Oh, it looked like this and was about 6 inches long. That was a tinyone by Maui standards.

[Trekhawk]

I was living on the Island of Maui for a short period in a cockroach and centipede infested dorm apartment. I felt something crawling up my leg while I was in the shower one night and it was a poisonous centipede that had come out of the drain.

YUK!!!!
That story and pic make me feel a little ill. Thank goodness the Millipedes are pretty small.....lots of them but small.

[Jen-Jen]

This grossed me out when I heard about them several years ago: Camel spiders in Iraq. They are not true spiders. Story is that they run after you screaming at you the whole time. I guess their bite contains a numbing effect and they chew on at night and you don't even know it! Till you wake up in the morning and you have large open wounds!



The picture contains two of them. One biting onto the next one.

Now that is creepy! I can't even handle the small ones, I can't imagine trying to take a shoe to that!

[Jen-Jen]

Or how about the time I woke up in a tent, in Maryland, literally blanketed by grandddaddy longlegs?

Karen

Did you know that granddaddy longlegs are VERY poisonous! I alway pick their little butts up and put them back out side!!!! Then my dad was watching a animal program and he learn this fact. However, my dad is a trickster and sometimes he lies to get you going, but I believe him on this. The reason no one dies from them and thankful for it is because their fangs are so hooked and too short that they can't straighten them enough to sink them into our flesh. Okay all one one....EEEEWWWWWW!

By the way....I no long pick up daddy-long-legs anymore.