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Laser blind? (Spiders!)

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Re: Laser blind?

00Giorge said:
He sure didn't act blind, he ran behind the file cabinet.
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How can you tell if a spider acts blind, especially if its only partly blind? I supose that it could still run for cover with hardly any vision left - probably to the darkest spot it could find.

Also, spiders usually have about 8 eyes. Most of them aren't really image forming, but only determine the direction light is coming from, which helps to find cover quickly.

When it comes to insects, like flies, i suppose their compound eyes are much more resilient to laser damage than our eyes: They would probably be blinded literally by the pixel, and they don't have a defined sharp vision spot like we do, so whatever remains is still quite useful.
 





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Yeah I know that they have multiple eyes and I hit him when he was facing towards me, I just didn't have it focused to small dot. But he was still able to see where to go, he crawled up the wall and was right by the fax machine and when he seen me he ran under it and down the back of the file cabinet. He is now dead, thanks to brake cleaner, it's not just for brakes and wasps anymore! :evil:
 
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Tech_Junkie said:
Yeah spiders suck. We used to have 4-5 inch centipedes too. They are aggressive also. One ran up the arm of my couch, bit me on the arm, and screwed once. You can hear them walking around too. Used to drive my GF insane.

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If you think those were bad...

Check out this
A Huge Centipede Fighting A Snake - YouTube

This one took down a snake!
 
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^ forget <kw lasers...

time to switch to the shotgun.
 
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Speaking of huge ass spiders, yesterday when I was working downstairs on my nixie clock a spider the size of a quarter flew out from under my workbench... it surprised the hell out of me!

I could hear it skitter across the paper I had on the floor... I trapped it, and well, we couldn't identify it but there's no poisonous spiders in Western NY, (other than black widows/brown recluses...)

Ended up letting the fat guy go outside in the cold snow.
 
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A biker friend of mine in Florida had a huge black spider living in his overhead light. It wasnt a black widow, but it had a huge arse. I asked him if he was ever afraid of it coming down and biting his family. He said it never came down because every week he'd throw a piece of raw hamburger in its web, and the spider would rap it up, and eat it. I didnt believe him, so he threw a piece up there, and sure enough the spider was all over it.

I tried the same with a little spider we had living in our plant. It worked. He got big very fast. So fast that he had to go outside. :whistle:
 
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Tech_Junkie said:
A biker friend of mine in Florida had a huge black spider living in his overhead light. It wasnt a black widow, but it had a huge arse. I asked him if he was ever afraid of it coming down and biting his family. He said it never came down because every week he'd throw a piece of raw hamburger in its web, and the spider would rap it up, and eat it. I didnt believe him, so he threw a piece up there, and sure enough the spider was all over it.

I tried the same with a little spider we had living in our plant. It worked. He got big very fast. So fast that he had to go outside. :whistle:
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that's the craziest thing I've heard on the internet in a while!
 
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LMAO, you need to start following my posts.

Although after 3 years of sharing my experiences I dont post most of them anymore. There has been very few dull moments in my life.
 
Wolfwood

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will do!

i just went beetle hunting a moment ago, had to use the boot in the end - they are to quick to really get a good burn going with a 300 mw red.

(i dont know what they are but they bite)
 
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I have a friend that I used to work with when I worked in a gold mine, he lived I Reno. He went to put on his work boots on a Monday morning and when he put on his left boot he felt something poke the top of his foot, he took the boot back off and found a Black Widow which had bitten him on top of his foot, directly into one of his veins. He went to the ER and almost died, he was in the hospital for 8 weeks. That was in 1998 and to this day he has twitch.

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The second pic is a Black Widow and a Brown Recluse.
 
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I found a spider in my shower and wondered if anybody has seen one of these, they are very aggressive and will bite a coat hanger. I know that from experience, this is the second one of these and they are quite big.
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Sorry for the crappy pictures I took these with my phone.
 
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So, I've been reading all these posts and it has gradually been derailing from if lasers make spiders blind to pictures of spiders.
 
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