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Isn't that the award-winning picture of the year?Exactly! And most spiders are so usefull. They reduce the population of insects that cause way more harm to humans (and our crops and our animals). And since our lights attract insects and we build structures that are awesome to attach nets to or hide in spiders love us. We should be the best of budies and coexist peacefully.
Here's one for you, Classik.
I might be wrong but I seem to recall we live close to one another and what you're describing sounds like the South American Banana Spider. They are so called because they arrived, all over the Gulf Coast, on boats carrying loads of Bananas from South and Central America. If my tricky memory is not playing with me again, you live in Harris County and I am just north in Montgomery County. That means, if true, the more common spider looks like a small Tarantula, is brown with two Longitutal black stripes. As a kid, growing up in the Wards, these Wolf Spiders were my favorite pets. I would sit under the house for hours, according to my mother, and play with them.
The unfriendly ones were a good deal more common in 'Nam than the 12 foot gold colored constrictor that tried to run me away from refilling my fuel tank during the Post Lunar New Year attack in 1969. Him I sprayed with JP-4, with the engine running, and he, wiser than I, vacated the A. O. I was even bitten, for the first time, after growing up among them, by a Brown Recluse in 'Nam. We an the Vietnamese have some. very, bad boy and girl, Black Widow, members of our state.
See, I was a spelunker when I was in school at Ft. Rucker and I was all over the Indian Caves in Florida and being born in SE Texas, the only thing you folks have on us are the Salties. We got stuck with only Gators to play with. Some time's I wonder why god cheated Texas that way.
See, this is the image I tried to project when I, at twenty, when I played Goalie for the twelve and thirteen year old Germans when the team practiced. and by Reveille, Monday Morning, Top often asked me if I had been in a fight with the locals and if so, did I win,Exactly! And most spiders are so usefull. They reduce the population of insects that cause way more harm to humans (and our crops and our animals). And since our lights attract insects and we build structures that are awesome to attach nets to or hide in spiders love us. We should be the best of budies and coexist peacefully.
Here's one for you, Classik.
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See, I was s spilunker
LOL! The thing I dislike most is the German Cockroach.
Hey, be nice, we did let you have rabbits so that you have reason for a shotgun.
Mexican Red Legs look much like this friendly little guy and the only bad I know of them is when the cross the highway at dusk and I was on my motorcycle. It is just impossible to approach a lady with Spider Goo hanging from your chin and chest.
That's our famous palmetto bug.
Sounds like you were a Grunt, serving near the Iron Triangle. When we moved in to Dau Tieng we had that problem, I'm betting, to a lessor part. when we were in the Central High Lands and when we were at Camp Evans they were much less of an issue.
We eat those and they are known as Jack Rabbits. They are tender and melt in your mouth when cooked at about 250 for a couple or more hours. they I l;ike to place them in the fridge over night, cut them into pieces, bread them with egg and flour seasoned with salt, garlic powder and any other seasoning available, and then fry for 10 to 12 minutes. That'll fatten any old man up, right away. If you whistle at them they will stop, rear up with their long ears straight up and if you put a .20 caliber through the ears they die of a heart attack and, thus, no damage to any of the meat and it is much more sports-manlike.
A shau valley.
Bless your pea picking heart. On our first venture into Ashau, five of the Yellow flight and all six of the White Flight were blown out of the sky by the AAA fire. And after we secured it and evaced or destroyed all the Ammo and Weapons systems we gave it back to them...stupid move by the president. I belie it was six to nine months later that th e Screaming Eagles took the valley again and then gave it back to the NVA. Shortly after that I was at china Beach, trying to die with falciparum malari, and the division moved into the Iron Triangle. As a medic you had zero business in that valley and yet, like my MOS, those grunts were so in need of you there.
Very few folks ever realize the real; danger they swim with. We can walk about a hundred meters off the shore and then fish in the Ship Channel. When I could still fish I often had to smack the Tiger Sharks in the nose with my fist to prevent them tasting and spitting part of me into the ocean. Once I introduced a Red Neck friend to the pleasure and after I had bopped a 4 and a half to 5 footer in the snout, he must have made the stomach deep run back to shore in less than thirty seconds as I stood there laughing at him. He told everyone at the bar I was singing at that I was nuts. I was told he never took another lass swimming in the moon light at Galveston or Chrystal Beach. He knew what was in dem dar waters after that. ;-)