My spider pic made the net

“Memorial Day weekend I went to Sipsey with my 6 year old son, a friend, and his 4 year old son. We camped on a creek about 100 yards upstream from a nice falls. At night we were in the creek with flashlights looking for crawdads when the other dad noticed pin pricks of light on the creek back. It was light reflecting from spider eyes. The spiders were about 3.5" long and were everywhere. I sent a pic to www.discoveringalabama.com and they sent a reply with a description of what the spider was because I had no clue.

http://www.discoveringalabama.org/discovery/details.php?item=235

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“Cool. Creepy but cool.”

“Hebe Gee-Bees!!

I don't generally mind bugs. Something about seeing that thing filling a 15" screen makes me feel squeamish.”

“Dang, it's 20" on my screen. I didn't realize it would come in that big. Freaky.”

“Yep, big screen + huge spider pic = yikes!”

“Here's my spider pic from a couple years ago....

http://community.webshots.com/photo/1093588197037037243JdHwQv”

“Black widows are just creepy looking.”

“Thanks for the heebie jeebies! I hate spiders but I have a fuzzy shot of one of those from the mid 90's. It was either in Ithaca or Stony Brook, biggest spider I had ever seen. Never new what it was until now. Thanks for the ID.”

“Think about a dozen or so glowing points of light on a creek bank and knowing each one is a big old spider.”

“Yeah. I think I would go hide in my tent with my headlamp on for the night. On another heebie jeebie front; DC seems to have had a "waterbug" explosion. I'll see if I can find a photo.”

“I was tent camping that trip. The other two were tarping it with mosquito netting it. Ya think they checked the netting a time or two during the night?”

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less(?) well known as the American Cockroach.

I see them almost exclusively outside. We had problems with them at my first apt in DC, between the Potomac and C&O Canal. They can be up to 1.5 inches and they're frikken dumb as doorknobs.”

“I'll bet my bug would each your bug.”

“In a heart beat. Unfortunately, I've had both spiders and "waterbugs" on me. In my current apt. I see more House Centipedes than anything else. Since they can and do kill everything else in a house I leave them be..............for the most part.”

“Cool. I had always heard people on here talking about seeing spider's eyes reflecting at night and I thought they were nuts! Until coming from the beach at Cumberland Island to our inland camp at night with gojo. Heebee jeebees is right!! All kinds of tiny blue-ish specs reflecting.”