glassgrl
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posted on October 29, 2004 08:29:01 AM
aka Jumping Spider!
The guy at Florida State Collection of Arthropods, FDACS, Division of Plant Industry wants me to mail it to him! Says he'll keep it alive for the museum. Weird.
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classicrock000
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posted on October 29, 2004 10:26:47 AM
all I can about that frog is..
SUCKS TO BE HIM !
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glassgrl
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posted on October 29, 2004 10:39:41 AM
so I'm sure you're wondering...just how do you pack a spider?
"I would like to have the specimens to put in our museum for future reference. I’ll keep the spider alive to use for displays until it dies naturally. Could you possibly mail them to me?
Actually, no holes are necessary. I would like you to put the frog in a film canister with a cotton ball and a little rubbing alcohol. Put the canister inside a Ziploc bag in case it leaks. The spider should go in a clean plastic pill bottle with a loose wadded piece of tissue paper to fill the space and keep the spider from banging around. Put a drop of water on the tissue make it slightly damp so the spider won’t dehydrate (but you don’t want it wet either). You can substitute other containers as long as the principle remains the same. In a cover letter or note, put your full name, date of collection, and location of collection so I can make a collection label."
G. B. Edwards, Ph.D. [Your Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman]
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Curator: Arachnida (except Acari), Myriapoda, Terrestrial Crustacea, Thysanoptera
Florida State Collection of Arthropods, FDACS, Division of Plant Industry
P.O.Box 147100, 1911 SW 34th St., Gainesville, FL 32614-7100 USA
(352) 372-3505 x194; fax (352) 334-0737; [email protected]
http://www.fsca.entomology.museum/Arachnida/ArachnidaFrame.htm
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President, Center for Systematic Entomology: http://www.centerforsystematicentomology.org
Editor, Peckhamia; Membership Secretary, Peckham Society
Co-Coordinator, Florida Arthropod and Arthropod Pathogen Introduction Committee
Courtesy Professor, Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida
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Roadsmith
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posted on October 29, 2004 12:19:12 PM
Jeez. Have fun packing the little guys. Is there any liability if they arrive dead?
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trai
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posted on October 29, 2004 12:24:48 PM
Great picture!
The frog is only one of its natural prey in its home turf just like small mammals and birds.
Have fun.
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ltray
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posted on October 29, 2004 12:44:13 PM
UCK, how big is that sucker?? Give me a snake anyday.
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sparkz
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posted on October 29, 2004 12:49:19 PM
Put him in a #4 Priority box. Mark on the outside: Contents - Gold Jewelry. Insure it. Then wait for some sticky fingered person along the line to stick his hand inside to pilfer the loot.
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
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replaymedia
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posted on October 29, 2004 01:03:29 PM
"just how do you pack a spider?"
1) Set spider on the ground.
2) Take a thick yellow-pages phonebook and set it on top of the spider
3) Jump up and down on top of the book ten times.
4) Peel the spider off the back of the phonebook
5) fold it up and stick it in with your phone bill.
Optional: If your phone bill is unusually high this month, repeat steps 1-5 with the frog for next month.
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We do not stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing -- Anonymous
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paloma91
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posted on October 29, 2004 11:19:21 PM
Is this a joke? Well, if it's not, you might want to really research the packing and shipping of this little guy. If I remember right,if you ship it through USPS, you need to ship this little guy over night and label the package that it contains live spider or something like that.
I know a wild life rescue person who I have seen ship tortoises through the mail (small ones). I was really surprised.
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CBlev65252
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posted on October 30, 2004 04:33:26 AM
Yuk! We have wolf spiders in our backyard right now and they scare the bejesus out of me. I hate spiders. I agree with Itray. I'd take a snake over a spider anyday!
Cheryl
Protect the environment. Plant a tree and remove a Bush.
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glassgrl
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posted on November 1, 2004 01:53:08 PM
Just received word, the Spider arrived safe and ALIVE!
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ltray
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posted on November 1, 2004 02:30:50 PM
Yeah! One less of those in Bay county is fine with me!
I have spent the day cleaning the garage and vacumning spider webs off the ceilings, corners and even out of the light fixtures. UCK! I HATE spiders!
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sparkz
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posted on November 1, 2004 02:49:51 PM
You'd be surprised at some of the stuff that goes through the mail. In this area, it's not at all uncommon for someone to mail a swarm of honey bees to a farmer in another part of the country. Also, a few months ago, when I was at FedEx, a person came in with a specially constructed and ventilated package to ship. I looked through the screen on the side, and it was full of crickets. There are a few cricket farms in the area, and this is how they wind up in bait and tackle shops in areas where there are no crickets.
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
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tomwiii
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posted on November 1, 2004 03:08:03 PM
"Grab the pebble, Grasshopper..."
FLIP-FLOP...FLIP-FLOP...FLIP-FLOP:
http://www.seanbonner.com/flipflop/
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glassgrl
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posted on November 1, 2004 03:10:19 PM
ahhh. thank GOD tomorrow is election day and tomwiii will be over it!
What in the world is he going to do?
tomwiii...you missed your calling.
and it wasn't on Ebay or VD.
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mcjane
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posted on November 1, 2004 03:34:44 PM
I think she's a beauty & you have my absolute admiration for doing the right thing.
Hey guys, keep this in mind. Without spiders you would soon die. They kill trillions & trillions of insects everyday. If it were not for them, insects would quickly over run the Earth & eat everything green. It would take about 2 to 3 months to wipe out all vegetation & the entire population would starve to death.
So leave these wonderful creatures alone & let them do their work. 
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sparkz
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posted on November 1, 2004 03:46:53 PM
And those insects would look like a mere annoyance compared to the creatures that would take over if it were not for snakes.
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
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glassgrl
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posted on November 1, 2004 04:22:50 PM
actually, I had a bite on my ear no less....that my DH said looked like a recluse spider bite. Don't go looking on the internet for what a recluse spider bite looks like! Just don't!
But anyway...in the research process, they cautioned about killing ALL the spiders at your house. Because if you try or do kill all of them, the bad spiders that the good spiders kill - take over. And then you end up with trillions of bad spiders.
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Kevinatgrannys
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posted on November 1, 2004 04:44:47 PM
Actually, I don't have to go looking for the results of a Brown Recluse spider on the Internet, all I have to do is look at my arm. I got bit by one many years ago and have a crater on the side of my arm to show from it.
On a more pleasant note, how big was that spider in the picture?? We have some here that look a lot like that one but it would take 3 or 4 of them to bring down even a tiny frog.
Kevin
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sparkz
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posted on November 1, 2004 04:56:24 PM
It looks a little like some of the tarantulas we have here in California. Some of those things are HUGE!
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
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glassgrl
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posted on November 1, 2004 05:27:19 PM
it was about the size of my thumb - the body part. The legs were longer of course. And they do bite so I didn't think twice when the guy asked me if I could mail it to him. Female = babies!
I did think I would hate to be that guy's mail person!
oh gee Kevinatgrannys..I feel for you. I was shocked to find there's no treatment for a recluse spider bite other than a modified stun gun and pain pills! And they say it never really goes away, that it can resurface or something like that because the venom stays in your body? The pictures were astounding. I'd heard of someone having a spider bite before and I (like most of us I think) thought "gee whiz - how bad can a spider bite?" But that was before I saw the pictures! Some people actually have body parts amputated! Made me a little leary of any and all spiders!
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