Actually there was only one spider, Armok just kept ressurecting it for a laugh.There is only one spider in all the worlds of DF. And his name happens to be Armok.
Is it disturbing I find that cute?Cute spiders? It's more likely than you think. (http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y147/exitjmouse/misc2/Spider_CuteAlevice.jpg)
I have NEVER seen a cute spider....until now that is. D'AWWWWIs it disturbing I find that cute?Cute spiders? It's more likely than you think. (http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y147/exitjmouse/misc2/Spider_CuteAlevice.jpg)
Cute Giant Cave Spiders? THAT'S disturbing.
Ooooh.... oooze a cute widdle spider. You are! You are!Is it disturbing I find that cute?Cute spiders? It's more likely than you think. (http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y147/exitjmouse/misc2/Spider_CuteAlevice.jpg)
Cute Giant Cave Spiders? THAT'S disturbing.
On other hand, giant scorpions are pretty much harmless, since they have to grab you before using the stinger.What about a Huntsman spider? I've seen some pretty damned big ones in my time......
Anyway, someone really needs to make a giant whip spider, imagine a GCS, only with 2 whip like appendages and 2 long arms with claws.
(http://cavernicoles.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/charon2.jpg)
I think they're the closest you can get from a GCS IRL, these things can grow up to 40cm.
Hey, losing IS fun, now it'll just be a little creepier!
On other hand, giant scorpions are pretty much harmless, since they have to grab you before using the stinger.
Anyway, someone really needs to make a giant whip spider, imagine a GCS, only with 2 whip like appendages and 2 long arms with claws.
(http://cavernicoles.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/charon2.jpg)
I think they're the closest you can get from a GCS IRL, these things can grow up to 40cm.
Hey, losing IS fun, now it'll just be a little creepier!
That's a whip scorpion, and it is neither a spider nor a scorpion. They're also called vinegaroons because they can secrete a vinegary smelling chemical. And they are freakin' awesom
I wouldn't call spiders "cute", but they are kind of endearing, because they're so fuzzy.They are cute enough that I feel compelled to find a toy version of the big-eyed one to give to my 1 1/2 year old niece. She would love it.
Or be traumatized by the sight of such a large, hairy spider.I wouldn't call spiders "cute", but they are kind of endearing, because they're so fuzzy.They are cute enough that I feel compelled to find a toy version of the big-eyed one to give to my 1 1/2 year old niece. She would love it.
Or be traumatized by the sight of such a large, hairy spider.I wouldn't call spiders "cute", but they are kind of endearing, because they're so fuzzy.They are cute enough that I feel compelled to find a toy version of the big-eyed one to give to my 1 1/2 year old niece. She would love it.
QuoteThat's a whip scorpion, and it is neither a spider nor a scorpion. They're also called vinegaroons because they can secrete a vinegary smelling chemical. And they are freakin' awesom
But aren't whip scorpions the one with the whip like appendage for a tail? Also, whip scorpions are smaller then the average whip spider, but i wound't like to meet any of them to prove it.
Interestingly enough, jumping spiders are one of the few types of spiders with good vision. They are curious spiders, and if you chase them with a fingertip, they will often back away slowly while watching, as opposed to just fleeing like normal spiders will.
Also, very few spiders eat dead prey. If you kill a fly and offer it to a jumping spider, it may take the free meal.
Jumping spiders are some of the only spiders to also have what passes for lungs in spiders. Which makes me wonder if GCS has lungs. I think I'll look.
Anyways, jumping spiders are pure awesome. I don't really like spiders, but I can't help but adore those fuzzy little guys.
Interestingly enough, jumping spiders are one of the few types of spiders with good vision. They are curious spiders, and if you chase them with a fingertip, they will often back away slowly while watching, as opposed to just fleeing like normal spiders will.
Also, very few spiders eat dead prey. If you kill a fly and offer it to a jumping spider, it may take the free meal.
Jumping spiders are some of the only spiders to also have what passes for lungs in spiders. Which makes me wonder if GCS has lungs. I think I'll look.
Anyways, jumping spiders are pure awesome. I don't really like spiders, but I can't help but adore those fuzzy little guys.
...Great. Now I'm going to go and see if I can find a jumping spider as a pet.
All this talk of spiders...
I cant put my feet on the ground anymore....
CURSE YOU SIM ANT!
All this talk of spiders...
I cant put my feet on the ground anymore....
CURSE YOU SIM ANT!
Man, i remember playing Sim ant when i was like 10 years old. That game scared the BAJEEBUS out of me.
Yeah, I have several colonies(Or possibly one supercolony) of pavement ants, with entrances completely surrounding my house. Every summer they invade the house, and literally nothing can stop them. If someone by mistake leaves a food item on the counter, there will be literally hundreds of ants on said counter. If you drink pop, you have to hold it. If you set it down it will have ants in it within minutes. It's disgusting, but as I said before, nothing stops them. Traps, spray, we even ant-bombed it once while on vacation. They were still everywhere when we came back. I personally think gasoline+nest will do nicely to suffocate them, or maybe even M80+nest, if I'm feeling daring. I haven't tried yet, though.
They're savage. If they climb on you, they bite and sting until you kill them. I once saw them kill one of those gigantic black crickets(You know, the ones that are like twice as big as the normal ones?), when it was literally about 20 times larger than them.
Yeah, I have several colonies(Or possibly one supercolony) of pavement ants, with entrances completely surrounding my house. Every summer they invade the house, and literally nothing can stop them. If someone by mistake leaves a food item on the counter, there will be literally hundreds of ants on said counter. If you drink pop, you have to hold it. If you set it down it will have ants in it within minutes. It's disgusting, but as I said before, nothing stops them. Traps, spray, we even ant-bombed it once while on vacation. They were still everywhere when we came back. I personally think gasoline+nest will do nicely to suffocate them, or maybe even M80+nest, if I'm feeling daring. I haven't tried yet, though.
They're savage. If they climb on you, they bite and sting until you kill them. I once saw them kill one of those gigantic black crickets(You know, the ones that are like twice as big as the normal ones?), when it was literally about 20 times larger than them.
I know, I've actually documented the different colonies on my street just because they were so interesting. This one colony became ridiculously huge, and was basically owned two blocks. But there was this one little colony right outside my house that would always fight it, and it would always survive. Eventually, though, some redneck drove up onto the grass, and collapsed the tunnels, killing (I assume) the queen and all the nearby males, because the colony declined sharply. That, and we keep sending the Harvester ants from mail-order to fight them...
Yeah, I have several colonies(Or possibly one supercolony) of pavement ants, with entrances completely surrounding my house. Every summer they invade the house, and literally nothing can stop them. If someone by mistake leaves a food item on the counter, there will be literally hundreds of ants on said counter. If you drink pop, you have to hold it. If you set it down it will have ants in it within minutes. It's disgusting, but as I said before, nothing stops them. Traps, spray, we even ant-bombed it once while on vacation. They were still everywhere when we came back. I personally think gasoline+nest will do nicely to suffocate them, or maybe even M80+nest, if I'm feeling daring. I haven't tried yet, though.
Yeah, I have several colonies(Or possibly one supercolony) of pavement ants, with entrances completely surrounding my house. Every summer they invade the house, and literally nothing can stop them. If someone by mistake leaves a food item on the counter, there will be literally hundreds of ants on said counter. If you drink pop, you have to hold it. If you set it down it will have ants in it within minutes. It's disgusting, but as I said before, nothing stops them. Traps, spray, we even ant-bombed it once while on vacation. They were still everywhere when we came back. I personally think gasoline+nest will do nicely to suffocate them, or maybe even M80+nest, if I'm feeling daring. I haven't tried yet, though.
JESUS CHRIST cthulhu, i just bothered to read your post, and i gotta say, move.
I wouldn't tolerate that shit for a heartbeat, i'd move. i'd pawn the house off on the first sucker that'd take it and move where such a problem doesn't exist.
I once had a house like that. Except the ants weren't the problem, It was scorpions. Every single day, another one got into the house. Found one in my legobox once.Oh. My. GOD. Please help whoever lives in that house now.
Goddamnit, I know for a FACT that i have a story that blows your stories out of the fucking water.
But remembering it hurts my brain, it was too terrible.
Oh, what the hell.
This story doesn't involve ants, if you enjoy the contents of your stomach staying in your stomach then i suggest to stop reading now.
My house was besieged by this freak cloud of flies for some time in the middle of summer. The flies were aggravating at best, and insanity inducing at worst. They'd touch and crawl on me every couple of seconds, it felt as though some horrible person was poking me every couple of seconds. The assholes were healthy too, they moved far too fast for my hand or even alot of flyswatters to catch.
Thats not the bad thing though. the bad thing is that i have a particularly old trash bin in my house, it has a hole in the bottom, and... i don't know what the hell happened, i don't want to know, but at one point, my kitchen floor was covered... in maggots.
every single fucking nook, maggots, they were crawling everywhere their little fat bodies could carry them. Unfortunately, i'm the fucking man of the house so it fell on me to get rid of them. This is by far the worst job of my life. The bug spray ran out fast, and so i resorted to stomping on them with a stray piece of cardboard. Every single stomp. POP POP POP! the popping of their bodies is far louder and more disgusting than anything, it made me want to throw up just hearing it.
Their numbers didn't stop at the kitchen, their was some POPPING coming from under the nearby frontroom carpet, and upon peeling up the carpet, their were many maggots their too. Using the fucking broom to brush them over to the linoleum for easy disposal, i don't know, one of them POPPED for some reason, and it's disgusting body juice flew the 5 feet 9 inches upward and hit my fucking FACE! Nothing to date has ever happened to me that has been more disgusting.
Properly disposing of all those little fuckers was a pain in the ass that i hope never fucking happens again.
Ok guys, BEAT THAT!
You guys should look into getting a pet lizard or something.
Please refrain from calling me the "maggot guy".
I have something of a story from my youth, and to this day no one i've told it to believes me.It was probably the clock spider, off to hide behind his clock again...
When i was 8 or 9, my grandma owned a giant fridge-sized freezer. Right next to the freezer was a giant pile of clothes. Seeking fun, i climbed ontop of the clothes and got ontop of the freezer. Out from behind the freezer crawled the biggest damn spider i've ever saw or ever will see. This thing was the size of a dinner plate, i swear! When it crawled closer to me, i got so scared i jumped off the freezer (something very out of character for me) and ran to get my cousin, who was much bigger and stronger than me. When we got back up their, we couldn't find the spider anywhere, and so everyone believes i just made it up.
I have a small colonie of tiny ants in my bathroom. They only appear around summer though, and their ususlaly very small in number. I acctualy have grown to like them as they have been in there for years.
Anyway I have my own tale of insect infestations. One time when I was at my grandparents house mabey last year... Anyway I slept in my grandparents guest room, it was a very clean room. And well kept too.
I had a nice night of sleep, but then when I woke up ANTS! OH MY GOD THEY WERE EVERYWARE, most of them had wings and I HAD NO DAMN CLUE HOW OR WHY THEY GOT IN.
There were so many I threw off my blanket and got up almost instantly only to see the wall behind the bed, the bed, and most of the floor around it was covered in the basterds like some sort of satanic ritual. Surprisingly not a single ant touched me. Still to this day I have no idea how they got in, they were freaken ninja ants.
They were like thieves in the night almost literally and stole my bed. They sprayed my bed and killed them all off, I feel kinda bad about it now but then I was so scared I dident care at all.
Well at least we should all be glad we dont live in the dwarf fortress universe.
I mean, what if you went to the bathroom only to find that behind your shower curtain there is a giant cave spider watching you poop. I would feel pretty unconfertable.
I decided to see waht would happen if GCS bred like cats, not content with the previous carnage.
SWARMS.
CATFORTRESS?
SPIDERFORTRESS!
Easily. A blind monkey could mod that. A civilization of upright, strict giant spider people living in caves that only use wood, now that would be a challenge.I decided to see waht would happen if GCS bred like cats, not content with the previous carnage.
SWARMS.
CATFORTRESS?
SPIDERFORTRESS!
Hmm, I wonder if I coud mod a GCS as a dwarf pet? War GCS anyone?
You guys should look into getting a pet lizard or something.
Get me that mod BTW. I'd have quite a bit of fun with them methinks.Okay.
The phantom spiders in the age of legends mod are worse, they can ambush you from the travel map and they travel in packs of 6.