"Ticks" (pic )

[jonny_redhorse]

the little demons from hell are "out and about" ...had 5 of the little blood suckers on me today ....my wife spotted this one on my back(she had me take my close off in the garage )...of course she handed me a change of clothes!... ...hate these things!

[Steve Foss]

Oh, sheesh! Thanks a lot, Jonny. I hate those guys too!

[MN Shutterbug]

They send shivers up my spine. I'm shocked that anyone would actually take a picture of one. You're going to have nightmares tonite.

[Dbl]

I am not a tick fan, not that I know anyone that is

[Steve Foss]

Yeah, and I just watched a rerun of "Arachnaphobia" on Showtime a couple hours ago. I ain't gonna get much sleep with all those creepy crawlies looking for fresh blood after hibernating all winter.

[Dbl]

Dang Steve, don't encourage jonny to start showing us spider macros again!

[Steve Foss]

Oh, you mean like THIS one? This is the 4-inch-long fishing spider I saw on my pillow six inches from my sleeping wife's face two summers ago. Golly, that was a wild few minutes in the middle of the night. She never kills these things. Instead, once she got over the shock of being pulled bodily out of a deep sleep and out of bed, she went downstairs for a jar to catch it in.

She came back up with a pint canning jar and I took one look at it.

"Uh, honey," I said, "I think we're going to need a bigger jar." (picture here Chief Brody in "Jaws" saying the same thing about a bigger boat.)

She came back with a gallon pickle jar. We put a really big flat rock over the top of the jar after we snagged the big bloody arachnid, and I took this shot the next day after we let it go in the back yard and pointed it AWAY FROM OUR HOUSE.

[jonny_redhorse]

ok ok no more 8 legged creature photos ....I promise ....6,4 and 2 but no more "8"s

[Dbl]

Thanks jonny, no sleep for me, I'll be looking at the pillow all night long