Am I the only person who doesn't hate Creepy Crawlies?

[LtRipley]

Like spiders, snakes, insects, lizards, rodents, things like that. They don't bother or scare me at all. And I honestly find it disturbing how many people I know that would rather just kill them than let them go about their lives.

I don't own any as pets, though I wouldn't mind having a California King Snake one day, and I'm not really into holding spiders and stuff, but I don't go around killing them all the time. I leave them alone for the most part. The only time I kill anything is a cock roach if it's in my house but mostly just the german red cock roaches because they actually carry diseases. But I almost never see them, just the big ones from outside that will get in after a big rain. Then they leave again. I grew up out in the woods with snakes and spiders and rodents so maybe I just got used to them.

But really, why kill something just because it creeps you out a bit?

[Oniya]

I've been known to catch-and-release bees and hornets (I use a cup and a postcard).  I also toss earthworms into the grass after it rains.  I've held a praying mantis in my bare hands before (it had gotten into the stairwell for the campus computer lab).  Web-spinners get left alone, but hunters get cup-and-carded outside.  Ants, flies, and roaches get the boot.  The big heavy one.

[LtRipley]

I save anything that will let me save it, people think I'm so weird for that, good to know I'm not the only one.

Flies get killed though yeah, they're annoying, they populate like mad, and you can open a door or window and try to herd them out but they will not leave, they just want to buzz around your freaking face. but i don't hate them because they're creepy, just annoying

[Oniya]

I went to a 'women's college', so there was also the benefit of seeing faces of fellow students as I walked out of the door holding this big-ass bug! in my hands.  ;D  (Hey, we didn't have frat boys.  Something had to fill the void.)

Oh!  And caterpillars - I haven't outgrown the fascination of watching them grow and pupate.  I do try to keep those rescues along the 'less destructive' species (Monarchs get helped, Gypsy moths can go it alone.)

[Observing Trifles]

I try not to hurt the creepy crawlies when I can avoid it. Case in point, if I find a moth or something in my living room, I'll try my best to catch it so I can bring it back outside. Also, when I'm at the pool and see that a bug of some kind has fallen into the water, I try to save it from drowning.

The only exception to my no-squish rule is when I find a spider or mosquito inside my apartment, and that's only because I don't want to get bitten.

[Oreo]

I try to leave the creepy crawlies alone. The only time I go into kill mode is when the extra large piss ants invade my bed room. Or if I find a black widow inside the house. Outside I leave them all alone. I once had a black widow as a pet for nearly two years. I have had scorpions, snakes, rats, mice, lizards and dragonfly pupae for pets...though there wasn't much petting involved, more just feeding and cleaning the cages and aquariums.

All in all bugs are cool so long as they are not on my person.

[LtRipley]

I had a black widow that lived in a hole in the brick mortar outside my apartment door for years, she'd make a web every night and I'd just sit outside and chill and watch her. I also made sure all the neighborhood kids stayed the hell away from her. She died but a different widow took over, i like to think it was her daughter.

I remember one time as a child saving a praying mantis from a group of kids on the play ground who were planning on pulling it's legs off.

So I've kind of always been like this. I just don't like the thought of things suffering, so even when i do kill something, i try to make it quick. I know that most insects are biologically so simple they don't really feel pain like we do, but i still don't like it.

And Oni - i love caterpillars too lol I want to raise some but don't have the time or means for a butterfly house right now. I do mount butterflies though, I have a small collection going from dried specimens I've bought. I don't have the heart to catch and kill butterflies myself to mount. It involves paralyzing them by pinching their thorax and putting them in a jar with cotton balls soaked in alcohol so that they suffocate to death. You have to paralyze them so that they don't don't damage their wings as they thrash about in their death throws ;-; i couldn't do that. at least by buying dried specimens I'm supporting butterfly farms, which releasing 25% of the butterflies they raise back into the wild to help keep population levels healthy.

[King Serperior]

I like all creepy-crawlies.......except ants.  I have a very big phobia of them that comes from watching too many documentaries about them  *shudders*

[Oniya]

I use the tried and true method of 'quart jar with Saran wrap'.  (At one point I even used a gallon jar for making sun-tea.  That was for a Polyphemus caterpillar - it was huge!)  You can hold the wrap in place with one of those canning lids that has the bit in the middle that comes loose, or a rubber band; punch a bunch of holes in it for ventilation, and put in twigs and leaves from the area you found the caterpillar.  When they finish pupating, open the jar and set it outside.

[Oreo]

>_> I planted myself a butterfly bush, and have all manner of visitors each year. ;D One year I even managed to see one of these Hummingbird Moths (a few seconds into the video). It freaked me out, wondering what it was.

[LtRipley]

My dad has a butterfly bush lol it's super popular! All dem butterflies :3 Be careful though they get HUGE his is as big as a tree now, he had to move it from beside the house to the corner of his yard. I love his garden, I used to go out and photograph all the insects and humming birds that would turn up out there

At work, at night we have loads of insects everywhere because it's right by a marsh (which i love working by, i see so much wildlife) and my job entails taking a lot of paper work from people through a window in my little shack outside the main building. So many bugs x.x they kind of get on my nerves but just because they fly right into my face when I open the window. But I almost never kill them and I'm not running around freaking out because they're flying around. People find that so strange for some reason. I guess because I'm a girl, it's pretty interesting to see some of these full grown men start flipping their shit because i a little moth flew in their face XD

[Oreo]

Oh my. Reminds me of the time I transferred my black widow from one jar to another. Hubby said he could do it. Five minutes later I went outside to find him, my son and my brother prodding the jar with a five foot stick like the spider was going to leap out at them. I managed to move her in about 30 seconds, with a bit of twig. :P

PS We trim the butterfly bush every year, but you're right, they do get big.

[Neysha]

If you like creepy crawlies so much, WHY DON'T YOU MARRY ONE? HUH?

Yeah... that's what I thought.

/endofthread

*walks out*

:P

[Oniya]

If you like creepy crawlies so much, WHY DON'T YOU MARRY ONE? HUH?

Yeah... that's what I thought.

/endofthread

*walks out*

:P

...You haven't met Mr. Oniya, have you.

Yeah, I thought so.

(In other words, WTH was that for?)

[LtRipley]

Yeaaaah... Was there a point to that other than trying to be a bit of a troll?

[Neysha]

Yeaaaah... Was there a point to that other than trying to be a bit of a troll?

I thought the smiley face would've made it apparent if the juvenile tone and phrasing did not do so, that it was an attempt at non-trolling humor. Reckon I was wrong in that regard.

[Mathim]

Fuck creepy crawlies. You invade my homestead and you forfeit your existence. End of story.

I killed an earwig the other day (fucking HATE those because they don't drown easily) and whatever cockroaches are in the kitchen I always spray, squash or flush. I hate spiders too, have gotten bit one too many times (the bite spot swells up to the size of a golfball and itches like a motherfucker) and their legs crawling on me tickle so it feels horribly creepy since I don't know if I can brush them off without getting bitten.

Furthermore, if you just leave them be they tend to multiply, possibly in some place you'd prefer not to (cockroaches are very good at that) so you invite that on yourself by being merciful. Let's also not forget the ones who crawl into your ear while you sleep and lay eggs in your brain. They could be doing harm to you without you knowing til its too late. They are NOT your friends and don't deserve a live and let live policy because they can't be trusted to honor it.

Reptilian things, I've just seen to many killer snake movies and the like to ever trust not to get bitten without a guarantee in writing from a trainer or something.

[Tsenta]

I live in the middle of nowhere, so all the creepy crawlies get huge here. I tend to relocate them unless they're a pest insect (cockroaches for example are crush on sight) or if they're dangerous to humans (widows, recluse, etc).

About a year after moving here, my aunt's telling me we have tarantula and having never seen one I'm all "yeah right." About a week later I wake up in the middle of the night...WITH A TARANTULA SITTING ON MY CHEST!    My sheets almost needed changed. >_>;

[Oniya]

In all fairness, I probably would have shattered glass at that point, too.  Either with hitting the C above high C in a scream, or by hitting Mach 1 in my night-clothes. 

[LtRipley]

Fuck creepy crawlies. You invade my homestead and you forfeit your existence. End of story.

I killed an earwig the other day (fucking HATE those because they don't drown easily) and whatever cockroaches are in the kitchen I always spray, squash or flush. I hate spiders too, have gotten bit one too many times (the bite spot swells up to the size of a golfball and itches like a motherfucker) and their legs crawling on me tickle so it feels horribly creepy since I don't know if I can brush them off without getting bitten.

Furthermore, if you just leave them be they tend to multiply, possibly in some place you'd prefer not to (cockroaches are very good at that) so you invite that on yourself by being merciful. Let's also not forget the ones who crawl into your ear while you sleep and lay eggs in your brain. They could be doing harm to you without you knowing til its too late. They are NOT your friends and don't deserve a live and let live policy because they can't be trusted to honor it.

Reptilian things, I've just seen to many killer snake movies and the like to ever trust not to get bitten without a guarantee in writing from a trainer or something.

Wow lol paranoid much? I hope it doesn't take a couple of urban legends and scary movies to make you that scared of everything, you wouldn't be able to leave your house!

and fyi, technically we're the invaders here since insects have been around since before mammals even existed ;)

I live in the middle of nowhere, so all the creepy crawlies get huge here. I tend to relocate them unless they're a pest insect (cockroaches for example are crush on sight) or if they're dangerous to humans (widows, recluse, etc).

About a year after moving here, my aunt's telling me we have tarantula and having never seen one I'm all "yeah right." About a week later I wake up in the middle of the night...WITH A TARANTULA SITTING ON MY CHEST!    My sheets almost needed changed. >_>;

Ohhhh yeah no way! lol I don't mind seeing spiders around and stuff, but touching me? no thanks!

I once went camping and got up in the middle of the night to take care of business, came back and noticed something dark on my pillow, grabbed a flash light to take a look and it was a scorpion about the size of my hand lol needless to say I didn't sleep very well that night, I kept feeling like things were touching me, I wouldn't even get back in my sleeping bag!

[Formless]

Where I live. The climate is too hot for crawlies to survive , with the exception of Ants , Roaches and Scorpions.

Ants are harmless until they start invading the kitchen.

Roaches are roaches. They get the boot.

Scorpions are harmful , so if some scorpion is brave enough to walk out the desert and into downtown where I live , they will get the boot.

[Oreo]

I have come a long way from the arachnophobe I was as a teen. A harmless little spider would send me leaping to the counter screaming for my dad to "COME KILL IT, NOW!!!!".

The black widow I kept as a pet was a form of self therapy to help overcome that irrational fear. Yes, I have been bitten by one so I know exactly what they can do. I also remember my mother panicking when she found me trying to play with some when I was about three years old. (Probably the origin of the irrational fear.) I was eight before I poked my first rattlesnake with a stick. >.< Haven't been bitten by one of those, but I did soon learn to avoid any snake with a triangular shaped head. They are the poisonous ones. It is good to know how to recognize your enemy.

The spiders I 'do' allow to remain in my home are actually far more venomous than black widows, but their stingers aren't tough enough to break human skin. They remain in the corners as my alarm system since they will not co inhabit with a black widow. Their webs sound and feel different to the touch. A black widow web literally crackles when the strands are broken. The other -more deadly spiders? are your ordinary daddy long legs. Not too creepy while they destroy flies and ward off the black death biters.

On to tarantulas. I still can't bring myself to hold one, but my brother was fascinated by them. He used to go out and hunt for them come mating season when they would be out in droves. Only the females are dangerously poisonous, however you almost never see those because they stay in their underground nest waiting for the visiting males to bring on the party. The females are red, compared to the brown males (at least the California version are.) As for the male bite/sting, according to my brother it is much along the lines of a bee sting as far as pain goes.

Creepy crawly lesson over for today.

All that said, I still shriek if a spider runs across my chest and dives under my laptop. :P

[Oniya]

The spiders I 'do' allow to remain in my home are actually far more venomous than black widows, but their stingers aren't tough enough to break human skin. They remain in the corners as my alarm system since they will not co inhabit with a black widow. Their webs sound and feel different to the touch. A black widow web literally crackles when the strands are broken. The other -more deadly spiders? are your ordinary daddy long legs. Not too creepy while they destroy flies and ward off the black death biters.

Actually busted.  (Link goes to Mythbusters video in which Adam Savage allows the little guys to bite him.)

[Oreo]

Actually busted.  (Link goes to Mythbusters video in which Adam Savage allows the little guys to bite him.)

Cool. Though I am still convinced that they keep each other at bay. I have been living amongst them both for 40+ years and have never seen them in the same area. For some now unknown reason they avoid each other. :-\

[Oniya]

Spiders are normally very solitary critters, with bigger ones having no problem with eating smaller ones (even among the same species - there's a reason for the 'widow' name)  If I were a relatively tiny black widow, I'd be staying away from the bigger Pholcidae species, too.  ;)

[Oreo]

*has to giggle a bit* If I had to estimate from walking around my house there are approximately 20 times the amount of daddy long legs as black widows, and there is no lack of either. If I lived in a swamp you'd think the house belonged to Black Water Haddie. There are spiders here, spiders there, spiders lurking every where. I don't even turn on the water faucet without running a twig around behind it..just to make sure something is not lurking. Pump house and water heater sheds, it's either black widows or long legs, never both in the same enclosure. Maybe they got some prejudice of their own going on. (Imagines mama spider talking to her babies about urban legends of the black widow... little multi-faceted eyes wide in terror staring around at her..."They eat their own babies?" *gasp, gulp, legs trembling*)

[Formless]

* Wants to concentrate on the topic ... but with Oniya's boing boing boing avatar and Oreo's avatar ... His mind isn't thinking about the crawlies. * ::)

[LtRipley]

I always had wolf spiders all over the place when I was growing up, they're poisonous but no more than like an ant bite, they're small tarantulas, but huge compared to most house spiders. Never bothered me. I have never actually been bitten by a spider.

Actually the only insect I've been bitten by are ants and wasps... I hate wasps with a passion. those sucks are MEAN.

And the cock roaches that would come into our house (which was in the middle of the woods) were like super buff forest roaches that weren't scared of anything! They'd even try to chase you!

[Observing Trifles]

And the cock roaches that would come into our house (which was in the middle of the woods) were like super buff forest roaches that weren't scared of anything! They'd even try to chase you!

The ones around here are incredibly hard to kill. I used to spray with a bug barrier that, in Arizona, would do a good job of discouraging roaches and other nasties from coming into the house. The roaches around here in Florida, on the other hand, are much hardier. I'm convinced that they take shots of the same bug barrier when I'm not looking.

[LtRipley]

When I'm in Alabama, southeastern cock roaches are no joke! They're tough little bastards... in Louisiana (where my family is from) they these giant pine beetles that look like cock roaches on steroids and those things really will run at you x.x

[Oniya]

I always had wolf spiders all over the place when I was growing up, they're poisonous but no more than like an ant bite, they're small tarantulas, but huge compared to most house spiders. Never bothered me. I have never actually been bitten by a spider.

Those get the cup-and-card.  It's probably best for everyone, as they tend to run around at floor level - which is prime hunting territory for the local fuzz-bucket.

Oh, and jumping spiders are just plain adorable.

Just look at this face!

[Oreo]

*squeeees* I love those little jumping rascals. I shouldn't be mean and make them jump though. I have never had one jump toward me.

We also have these little buggers:Dasymutilla. I see maybe one a year, but they are so pretty. I never tried touching or catching one though since their sting is supposed to be quite painful.

[LtRipley]

Those get the cup-and-card.  It's probably best for everyone, as they tend to run around at floor level - which is prime hunting territory for the local fuzz-bucket.

Oh, and jumping spiders are just plain adorable.

Just look at this face!

We left them alone, they killed the mean cock roaches... though I will say I killed one once when I opened my bed room door and one was sitting on it so it ended up just a few inches on my face, happened to have a book in my hand and smack!. Scared the bejeezus out of me. We didn't have cats, just outside dogs, so didn't really have to worry about that.

I love jumping spiders! So cute!

Look at this little guy!

*squeeees* I love those little jumping rascals. I shouldn't be mean and make them jump though. I have never had one jump toward me.

We also have these little buggers:Dasymutilla. I see maybe one a year, but they are so pretty. I never tried touching or catching one though since their sting is supposed to be quite painful.

Oh yeah, cow ants/velvet ants (which are actually wasps), we get those around here, I've seen a few but not many and I've never been brave enough to mess with them, interesting to watch though, they're not scared of anything!

[Oreo]

Herman took up residence about three weeks ago, living in the cranny of my espresso machine. ;D

HERMAN

[Sabby]

Dude. Where I live, you can't afford NOT to hate them. The fear keeps me alive >.> I actually got trapped inside my home for a few days because a Golden Orb Weaver had set up camp in my doorway. I even tried climbing out my balcony, but I wouldn't be able to get back up.

[rustytiger]

Once in a while if they catch me off guarded I will be frighten but most of the time no. I'm playing on being a zoo keeper so I really can't have such fears about animals because well then I won't be able to work with them. Though I will say that spiders give me the creeps all the time especially when they make webs over my bed.  ;D

[Braioch]

Rodents I'm cool with, I mean in the pet sense. If they're in the house, I'm off to get traps, the non-killing humane ones that is. I'll find a grassy, tree covered area and let 'em go there...away from my house. I've had pet rats before and they're nifty, occasionally mischievous and crafty, but hey.

Reptiles and Amphibians don't bother me at all, I like snakes and it's neat watching them eat. Most lizards I'm just wary around because I've known a few aggressive ones, so I just watch myself. (Funnily, it's hamsters I'm not fond of, every single one I've ever been around has bitten me, EVERY ONE) Other than that I don't mind them in the least. It's just in the wild, I'll avoid any snakes as ya never know...unless they're garter snakes, then I'm gonna get 'em and hold 'em, because I never outgrew that 8 year old who liked catching snakes, handling them, scaring people with them, and releasing them.

Insects. The stinging kind, being bees, wasps and hornets, I just avoid them. Not out of fear or anything, I'm just not really keen on pissing one off, so I'll just go around and leave 'em be. They come near me, I wave them lazily away and they leave me be. Flies in the house die, as do ants, they're insects that will infest the shit out of your house, so they die. Spiders I typically leave alone unless they're particularly gross and especially on me, I tend to react with squishment, but that's not always the case, sometimes I just leave 'em be. Earwigs die because eww.

Centipedes?

If I can, I will burn their little hell spawn ass with fire and send them back to the pits. Hate.

[Zekromnomnom]

For me, I'm not so much scare of creepy crawlies as I am paranoid about them touching me. And I like to qualify my fear by usually explaining that it's not so much fear as being startled. Most of the time, when I see a particularly big spider, I will try to avoid it or take it outside. If it's small, I leave it be. The exception to this is like when I go to my aunt and uncle's house where in the summer, there are SO many spiders. And these particular ones are ugly/creepy because they look hairless and their...ass part (don't remember what it's called) looks big and bloated disproportionate to the rest of their bodies and it makes me think of pictures I've seen of ticks that were full of blood. I had to go get something from a shed on their property once and when I looked out the window it was covered in layers of web and I saw like twelve of these spiders, which gets to my second rule. If there is a swarm of them, if the means is available to me, I will kill the shit out of them. Because then it doesn't startle me anymore, it's just fear, and often irrational fear of solitary creatures ganging up on me.

For instance, one of my old apartments had an ant problem and I couldn't figure out where they were getting in. But when I saw one ant, I knew there would be a shitload more, so I would always kill them. Earwigs? Those little fuckers have bitten me on several occasions, and when I find one, say taking a lawn mower out of a shed, I find a LOT of them usually. My new apartment seems to have a few centipedes/silver fish (the lighting is bad and I can't tell the coloring usually) and with centipedes, I just kill because I never felt like looking up which ones are deadly to humans and just err on the side of caution. Also, one time when they were doing this dumb ass construction project on the town square, there were these giant halogen lamps that were like stadium lighting that they left on at night for NO FUCKING REASON for months and months while they finished the project. And it attracted praying mantises. And seeing one of two occasionally would have been fine, but there were some nights where I would be hanging at my friend's apartment adjacent to the square and just going up the stairs and to the car, we would see like three scattered around the sidewalk, two on his car, and then like three more just hanging around the deserted street. We would shoo them if they were in the way, but sometimes they would fly at us an it would freak me out, so I would kill them if they did that.

As for cockroaches, I would here all the horror stories and sayings and urban legends and would never bother to research what was true, so I would just kill them if I saw them.

Reptiles don't freak me out, as I had a lot of exposure to them when I was young. Rodents kind of freak me out, but again, I imagine swarms of them. Also, I've heard them movie through walls in houses and that was unsettling.

[Sody]

I don't get scared of bugs or reptiles unless they are something that could kill me. Most spiders and bugs are easily swept outside or captured in a plastic cup and dropped in the bushes. I would rather take the minute to let the critter outside than spend a minute cleaning a dead critter. My Dad always taught me that it was mean to kill something if I did not have to.

[Lilias]

I don't hate creepy crawlies, I just don't want to share living space with them. I can sit and watch ants march in line, or caterpillars do that funny slidey walk thing, but I don't want them anywhere near my family's food or beds. Cockroaches do exactly that kind of poaching, so they die on sight - thank goodness we don't get them here in the UK. A gecko has taken residence in my mum's kitchen, back in Athens, and is allowed to stay because it takes on some of the exterminating work.

We live in a semi-rural area, so there are obviously lots of little critters scuttling about, and my son loves them, like any five-year-old. We get snails everywhere when it rains; generally we step around them, but just five minutes ago I had to take one off the inside of our front window - little scamp climbed up through the little opening I had left for air through the rainstorm. It will be safer on the front lawn. It's almost the time of year when field spiders get really busy, and I'm fascinated by their work, especially those webs that seem suspended in mid-air. (But if Incy Wincy decides to swing down from the ceiling instead of the waterspout, it goes splat!)

[Oniya]

A gecko has taken residence in my mum's kitchen, back in Athens, and is allowed to stay because it takes on some of the exterminating work.

I would find this terribly adorable.  Unfortunately, the cat would view it as a new toy.  >.<

[Serephino]

I don't mind spiders as long as they stay a decent distance away from me.  It's when they try and land on me in the shower they die.  Anything that crawls on me dies.

[Madriv]

A truly ugly little common house spider took up residence in my bathroom window, in the space between the actual window and the exterior storm window. I didn't pay much attention to her at first. She spun ugly little cobwebs and somehow managed to catch enough prey to make two egg sacs. Both hatched into clouds of tiny spiderlings but they all died. It started to bother me.

When she made a third one that failed, I decided to figure out how to get her more prey. I tried to adjust the storm window from the outside and ended up discovering a GIANT WASPS' NEST tucked up in the frame. I got stung quite a lot and it sucked big time. In the dark of night I returned and killed the wasps, but I didn't disturb the spider.

Wasps gone, I opened the storm window so more bugs could get into the spider's area. I left my bathroom light on at night to attract moths & gnats and she had some significant meals. Then she made a fourth egg sac and disappeared.

The last sac hatched a few days ago and it looked like all the spiderlings died again. But last night, as I was about to turn off the bathroom light, I saw one teeny, tiny spider enjoying a gnat that had been buzzing against the glass a minute before. And like a total goober I threw my hands triumphantly up to the heavens and cried, "MY BABY! I'M SO PROUD OF YOU!" and scared the hell out of my cats.

So that's what I'm like with spiders.

[RedPhoenix]

I'm honestly not sure if I find that adorable or horrifying. :)

[Braioch]

I'm honestly not sure if I find that adorable or horrifying. :)

Bit from column A, bit from column B

[Madriv]

[Oniya]

I'm honestly not sure if I find that adorable or horrifying. :)

I'm going with adorable.  I grew up with the animated version of Charlotte's Web and a little book called 'Be Nice to Spiders' (about a boy who gives his pet spider, Helen, to the zoo.  At first the zookeeper is upset about the spider webs everywhere and orders them 'cleaned up', but then the animals start suffering from the flies and he has a change of heart, so that Helen and all her children end up as welcome guests and helpers.)

[Lilias]

and ended up discovering a GIANT WASPS' NEST tucked up in the frame.

Yikes! :o I love honeybees and (especially) bumblebees, but just mention wasps and hornets and I reach for the hairspray-turned-flamethrower.

At my grandparents' house, they used to make fast the shutters in the upstairs windows at the end of the summer, when the kids and grandkids left, as the old folks lived mostly downstairs. One year, one window was overlooked, and next summer there it was, a papier-mache colony the size of a dessert plate. >_< The house was inaccessible on that side, so there was no choice but to (try to) spray the wasps from the inside. We were extremely lucky that nobody was stung and no wasps escaped into the house.

[RedPhoenix]

Oh and on the subject of crawly things in general. I'm usually okay with spiders, as long as they stay away from me. Tarantulas are too big to be trusted to stay away from me. I don't kill them, but I do beg people to help me catch them and get them outside, far away from me. I am even okay with scorpions. Sort of.

But when I see one of these things....



...yeah, the entire area code knows about it from how loud I scream.

[Lilias]

o_O

As if I needed more arguments in favour of living in a cold climate...

[Oniya]

Relative of the true scorpion, the whip scorpion does not have venom sacs, but instead has a deterrent spray that smells like vinegar.

[RedPhoenix]

Relative of the true scorpion, the whip scorpion does not have venom sacs, but instead has a deterrent spray that smells like vinegar.

Yes, they are basically the monster from alien.