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Biggest Bloody Spider I've Ever Seen!
I get itchy just reading this thread! During a tour (out of an AI) we stopped at a house and a fellow came out with a Cacata in a large plastic jug. It was about the size of my hand and it walked up my arm. It was extremely light and it tickled.
When one of the girls in our group first saw the spider, she flipped and nearly required oxygen to recover! It was the first time she realized she was scared to death of spiders. Is it the Cacata spider that tourist shops sell mounted in glass covered boxes?
jbhermes ... you might want to buy one when you go to DR in February ... it might help you get over your fear of them?
When one of the girls in our group first saw the spider, she flipped and nearly required oxygen to recover! It was the first time she realized she was scared to death of spiders. Is it the Cacata spider that tourist shops sell mounted in glass covered boxes?
jbhermes ... you might want to buy one when you go to DR in February ... it might help you get over your fear of them?
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Chris said:
When I worked for Hotel Gran Bahia, my responsibilities included making a nature trail. I worked along with the Dominicans I supervised. When I went to move some rotted palm fronds and other debris of the intended trail, I was bitten by a cacata underneath. I haven't been bitten by a red wap, so can't compare. I knew immediately I had been bitten, but it was not terribly painful. Of course, it was not too big. The Dominicans were very worried and the hotel urged me to see a doctor. He gave me a shot of gamma globulin as a precaution. There were no after effects.
Point of information.
Cacatas usualy move about during rainy periods or if construction is disturbing their habitat,although the bite can be painful it is not deadly,it may cause fever and discomfort to young children or sickly adults,Much more fearsom is the cienpieds.
J.H.:bandit:
Cacatas usualy move about during rainy periods or if construction is disturbing their habitat,although the bite can be painful it is not deadly,it may cause fever and discomfort to young children or sickly adults,Much more fearsom is the cienpieds.
J.H.:bandit:
I have been very friendly to spiders since an incident about 20 years ago.
I noticed that cockroach carcasses were accumulating just inside a door which opened into a hallway. A full time janitor cleaned the hallway and most of the building, but not that particular room. I thought that he was sweeping them under the door to get rid of then. After a week or so, I investigated and found that a spider had its web directly over the area. The "carcasses" were actually only the shells of the cockroaches after their insides had been eaten.
Now, whenever I see cacatas in the DR I want to pick them up and put them in strategic places, like the kitchen cabinet for example. I usually chicken out because using a cap or other object is too awkward and may even injure the cacata, but I'm afraid to pick them up barehanded.
Someday, I'll probably try it anyway. I think the odds are overwhelming that I won't get bitten at all, but if so, ...well, I've been stung by big, mean, red wasps many times already.
I use the red wasp because it's just about the worst insect sting that I know of. For those who have been deprived of this experience, it reminds me of some of the immunization injections that I had as a kid - instant pain, followed soon by red discoloration and egg sized swelling - itching after a couple of days - about a week to disappear.
I noticed that cockroach carcasses were accumulating just inside a door which opened into a hallway. A full time janitor cleaned the hallway and most of the building, but not that particular room. I thought that he was sweeping them under the door to get rid of then. After a week or so, I investigated and found that a spider had its web directly over the area. The "carcasses" were actually only the shells of the cockroaches after their insides had been eaten.
Now, whenever I see cacatas in the DR I want to pick them up and put them in strategic places, like the kitchen cabinet for example. I usually chicken out because using a cap or other object is too awkward and may even injure the cacata, but I'm afraid to pick them up barehanded.
Someday, I'll probably try it anyway. I think the odds are overwhelming that I won't get bitten at all, but if so, ...well, I've been stung by big, mean, red wasps many times already.
I use the red wasp because it's just about the worst insect sting that I know of. For those who have been deprived of this experience, it reminds me of some of the immunization injections that I had as a kid - instant pain, followed soon by red discoloration and egg sized swelling - itching after a couple of days - about a week to disappear.
Johnny Honda Tell us about the "cienpieds". What do they look like and what do they do to you?
I find that I've just learnt so much from everyone after finding this massive old spider that I'm quite thankful that it came around my kitchen.
Ken, I would have had a heart attack on the spot after the spider bit me- they would have had to treat me for cardiac failure. You sound so calm about the whole affair.
I find that I've just learnt so much from everyone after finding this massive old spider that I'm quite thankful that it came around my kitchen.
Ken, I would have had a heart attack on the spot after the spider bit me- they would have had to treat me for cardiac failure. You sound so calm about the whole affair.
Loving arachnoids
Please save these guys, they hurt nothing
<img src="http://www.worldisround.com/photos/334/99.jpg"> <br>A rosehair variety<br><br><img src ="http://www.worldisround.com/photos/334/100.jpg"><br>The starburst Baboon<br>Save the arachnoids.
Please save these guys, they hurt nothing
<img src="http://www.worldisround.com/photos/334/99.jpg"> <br>A rosehair variety<br><br><img src ="http://www.worldisround.com/photos/334/100.jpg"><br>The starburst Baboon<br>Save the arachnoids.
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just when I think
So, I'm reading through this again after having been away for the weekend...I'm scrolling down, scrolling down, scrolling...carefully...and wham! There it was...bigger than life...and I almost jumped right out of my skin. See?? I just KNEW someone would post a picture! Hlywud--you must have a mean streak in you
In any case, I managed to quickly escape...but still had to come back to see what else had been contributed and was able to see Hlywud's last line of saving the skeletons for me! Okay see? It's a true sickness...because I'm still involved in this thread. I think I'm done now since that picture almost did me in. I mean it...my heart rate is about 225
So, I'm reading through this again after having been away for the weekend...I'm scrolling down, scrolling down, scrolling...carefully...and wham! There it was...bigger than life...and I almost jumped right out of my skin. See?? I just KNEW someone would post a picture! Hlywud--you must have a mean streak in you
In any case, I managed to quickly escape...but still had to come back to see what else had been contributed and was able to see Hlywud's last line of saving the skeletons for me! Okay see? It's a true sickness...because I'm still involved in this thread. I think I'm done now since that picture almost did me in. I mean it...my heart rate is about 225 jbhermes,
Aren't you glad that they're so small.
The body alone, not counting the legs, of the really big one I saw would have covered his whole hand. Cacatas are a lot hairier than those, too.
By the way, I'm still trying to find out what it would be like to be bitten, if worse came to worse. Nobody cares to relate it?
Aren't you glad that they're so small.
The body alone, not counting the legs, of the really big one I saw would have covered his whole hand. Cacatas are a lot hairier than those, too.
By the way, I'm still trying to find out what it would be like to be bitten, if worse came to worse. Nobody cares to relate it?
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