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2024-06-05 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Big Yellow and Black Flying Spiders To Invade East USA

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Posted by Lord Garth 2024-06-05 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [140 views ] Top

#1 Banana spider,
biggins pretty common around here,
as is riding the web thread.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-06-05 11:33|| 2024-06-05 11:33|| Front Page Top

#2 So I don’t need to purchase the Elven sword out of my Amazon basket.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-06-05 12:18|| 2024-06-05 12:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Frank T. Hopkins : Once you get past the legs, it ain't too bad.
Movie: Hildago

Posted by Skidmark 2024-06-05 14:25|| 2024-06-05 14:25|| Front Page Top

#4 If they can survive a “brief freeze” then they have no chance in a northeast winter.
If they somehow do- well we kept a tasteful arrangement of flyswatters in a vase in our Bronx apartment, and that solved most problems like this.

Posted by Ululating Platypus 2024-06-05 21:29|| 2024-06-05 21:29|| Front Page Top

#5 Rumor has it, there is a newly-developed spider bite vaccine coming out. As one might expect after the COVID thing, there is some concern about side effects which at this point seem mainly to involve growing a chitinous exoskeleton.

Posted by SteveS 2024-06-05 22:06|| 2024-06-05 22:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Good for eradicating those new Asian "parachute-flying" spiders, though

Posted by Frank G 2024-06-05 22:30|| 2024-06-05 22:30|| Front Page Top

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