6 Cute Spiders

[Cebu_4_2]

6 Terrifying Spiders That Will Haunt Your Dreams By CRACKED Staff (http://www.cracked.com/members/cracked-staff_contributor) September 01, 2012 502,919 Views
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They're bite-sized and terrified of us, and they keep the mosquito population from obliterating mankind. In return, we rank them somewhere between bears and serial killers on the list of things you don't want to see in your home. We're speaking, of course, about spiders.
That's not to say we're overly sympathetic, though. After all, if spiders didn't want us to be terrified of them, they wouldn't run around looking so damn terrifying. Here are six terrifying spiders that will haunt your dreams ...
#6. Scorpion-Tailed Spider
http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/quickfix/1/8/0/144180.jpg?v=1
RealMonstrosities.com (http://www.realmonstrosities.com/2012/06/scorpion-tailed-spider-arachnura.html) The scorpion-tailed spider (http://www.ozanimals.com/Spider/Scorpion-Tailed-Spider/Arachnura/higginsi.html) is so named for the weird, elongated abdomen of the female, which may not sting like a scorpion, but can wiggle and curl around to presumably confuse its predators. You don't have to do the whole routine, honey, we were already confused enough.
#5. Ravine Trapdoor Spider
http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/quickfix/1/8/3/144183.jpg?v=1 Looking like its body was sliced off and tattooed with some kind of satanic gateway, Cyclocosmia truncata (http://bugguide.net/node/view/174739) actually uses its manhole-cover backside like, well, a manhole cover, sealing off its burrow from potential predators.

http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/quickfix/1/8/2/144182.jpg?v=1 You know we're dealing with one hardcore fucker when its instinctive response to an attack is to present its ass.

http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/quickfix/1/8/1/144181.jpg?v=1 #4. Blind Cave Huntsman
http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/quickfix/1/8/5/144185.jpg?v=1 Sinopoda scurion (http://www.livescience.com/22232-eyeless-spider-adapted-darkness.html) was discovered only this year, and is considered the first known example of a "huntsman" spider completely losing its eyes. It doesn't need eyes to hunt in the perpetual darkness of its subterranean world, but we're not entirely convinced it doesn't at least want eyes.

http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/quickfix/1/8/4/144184_v1.jpg What's to stop them from coming after ours?
#3. Tree Stump Spider
http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/quickfix/1/8/6/144186_v1.jpg What "tree stump spider"? Is it behind the stick? Is it inside the stick? Is it behind the camera, photographing sticks? We don't under-

http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/quickfix/1/8/7/144187.jpg?v=1 Oh. Oh no. How is this even a thing (http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/7121696)? This isn't a spider. It's a wang with a whole spider for testicles. Kill it dead. Now.

[Cebu_4_2]

#2. Horned Spider
http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/quickfix/1/8/8/144188.jpg?v=1 So it's a spider that wears a Satan mask (http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebooks/spiders/text/Gasteracantha_arcuata.htm)? Seems about right to us. And it also comes in a variety of terrifying shapes ...

http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/quickfix/1/9/0/144190.jpg?v=1 ... and colors, you say?

http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/quickfix/1/8/9/144189.jpg?v=1 Fantastic. Now if you could please see to it that we don't wake up next to one ever, that would be great. It's bad enough that we'll have them in our nightmares for time eternal.
#1. Ladybug Mimic Spider
http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/quickfix/1/9/1/144191.jpg?v=1 Oh, hey there, adorable little ladybug. It sure is nice seeing you after this nonstop parade of terror. Let's get a look at your pretty face.

http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/quickfix/1/9/2/144192.jpg?v=1 Damn you, Mother Nature. Damn you (http://sgmacro.blogspot.com/2011/06/beauty-of-ladybird-mimicry.html).

[StreetsOfGold]

Damn you, Mother Nature. Damn you.

I think this is really cool, my God is UNlimited in his designs

The people (CRACKED Staff) who put this out think "mother nature" did this? You'll notice that these types of Bible rejectors are Damned, it comes out of their mouth

[Hitch]

I think this is really cool, my God is UNlimited in his designs

The people (CRACKED Staff) who put this out think "mother nature" did this? You'll notice that these types of Bible rejectors are Damned, it comes out of their mouth

God's magnificent creation. These spiders show that, though I found the comments amusing in a sarcastic way, for some reason.

[Bird dog]

Very cool! Spiders are very neat to look at, just keep your distance. Nothing like walking through a spider web in the woods to make me scream like a little girl.....

[Cebu_4_2]

Ravine Trapdoor Spider is what caught my eye, didn't think it was real until I looked it up. Looked like some Illuminati doorknob.