Re: Freakin spiders
I'm not sure if Florida has these, but we've (East Tennessee) recently gotten Velvet Ants, also known as cow killers. They aren't really an ant at all, but a wasp. It's just that the female is wingless and therefore looks like a giant ant. They are about as thick around as your pinky finger, and are fuzzy, and crunch if you step on them hard enough to break their armor. The male which does fly, is about the size of your hand. A few years ago I was driving down the interstate with the window down, and a male struck the window jam right by my head and scared the living crap out of me. I rolled the window up and caught it trying to get in, and it was stuck between the door and window... I thought the power window would crush it, but it won that fight. I didn't know what they were at that time, and had no idea that the males are actually harmless. It's the females you have to watch out for (I've run across 2 females, but haven't been stung yet). They crawl on the ground until they find a yellow jacket nest, once they do, they kill all the yellow jackets and inject their larva in with the larva of the yellow jackets so their larva can feed off the yellow jackets. Anyhow, the females have poison in their stinger that's so painful, it's thought that the pain would be enough to kill a cow (hence the nickname cow killers). I don't know if you have those down there, but if you do, watch out.
Oh, and the fire-ants will drive you nuts, if the termites don't eat you out of house and home... which is not good, because outside, you're likely to run into aligators... But fortuneately, if you survive all that, you've only got hurricanes to face... welcome to Florida!!! Bet the spiders don't seem so bad now, do they?
Oh, and if that don't get ya, those voting machines will.
SgtMaj
