Tarantulas on Mt. Hamilton
SSDivot
recently and the other day was drivng up the road to the top of Mt. Hamilton.
I saw a tarantula crossing the road. I was surprised, not knowing that they
lived around here. I asked a couple of friends who have lived in this area
thier whole lives and they said they had never heard of tarantulas around here
and I think they believe i was seeing things haha!...I am sure it was a
tarnatula though unless there is some other type of spider that is about 6
inches across and black and hairy haha. I looked on the web and found that
they are supposed to live in the desert areas of southern california, so what
are they doing on Mt. Hamilton. He was walking in a very purposeful manner by
the way...looked like he had a destination in mind LOL.....
stephanie
carl_finch
I don't get up Mt Hamilton often, but the last time I did we saw a
good dozen on the road. B'lieve I've heard that their evening
peripatetics are indeed "purposeful"--that what we see are males
searching for females!
I've also come across a couple on Bear Creek Road in the Santa Cruz
Mtns.
Carl
John R Pierce
> I apoligize if this is the wrong place to ask this question...i moved to CA
>recently and the other day was drivng up the road to the top of Mt. Hamilton.
>I saw a tarantula crossing the road. I was surprised, not knowing that they
>lived around here. I asked a couple of friends who have lived in this area
>thier whole lives and they said they had never heard of tarantulas around here
>and I think they believe i was seeing things haha!...I am sure it was a
>tarnatula though unless there is some other type of spider that is about 6
>inches across and black and hairy haha. I looked on the web and found that
>they are supposed to live in the desert areas of southern california, so what
>are they doing on Mt. Hamilton. He was walking in a very purposeful manner by
>the way...looked like he had a destination in mind LOL.....
>stephanie
Sure. I've fished a Tarantula out of the skimmer basket of our
swimming pool here in Santa Cruz (ok, 300 feet elevation just north of
s.c. city limits). I thought the damn thing was dead, but a few
seconds after popping it on the cement, it shook itself off and
skidaddled off into the woods...
-jrp
Grouch
> I apoligize if this is the wrong place to ask this question...i moved to CA
>recently and the other day was drivng up the road to the top of Mt. Hamilton.
>I saw a tarantula crossing the road.
I do remember hearing somewhere (don't remember where) that tarantulas
were endemic around here - Santa Cruz Mountains. I do know that I
found one in my house one day and my neighbor found one in his car.
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TBO
ssd...@aol.com (SSDivot) wrote:
> I apoligize if this is the wrong place to ask this question...i
moved to CA
> recently and the other day was drivng up the road to the top of Mt.
Hamilton.
they
> lived around here. I asked a couple of friends who have lived in this
area
> thier whole lives and they said they had never heard of tarantulas
around here
> and I think they believe i was seeing things haha!...I am sure it was
a
> tarnatula though unless there is some other type of spider that is
about 6
> inches across and black and hairy haha. I looked on the web and found
that
> they are supposed to live in the desert areas of southern california,
so what
> are they doing on Mt. Hamilton. He was walking in a very purposeful
manner by
> the way...looked like he had a destination in mind LOL.....
Why did the tarantula cross the road? <heh>
I've spent my entire life in the Santa Cruz Mountain Range and I can
assure you that there are tarantulas around. I don't know about the
denizens of the Diablo Range, of which Mt. Hamilton is part, but the
guys we get around here are grey and only slightly hairy. They are
definitely not the flamboyant black-and-yellow Indiana Jones variety,
but maybe it's "fog camouflage."
What color was the specimen you saw?
Obligatory anecdote...
When I was a young(er) lad, a tarantula happened to fall into the
housing around a subterranean water shutoff valve. He either couldn't
get out, or found it to be a nice home, because he stayed there for
literally years. We'd go check on him occasionally and toss him a
cricket or grasshopper to munch on. Sometimes we'd waggle a stick in
his face and watch him strike at it.
Believe it or not, we were kinda sad when he "crumpled."
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Doug Landauer
> saw a good dozen on the road.
I saw a whole bunch of them on a drive up Mount Diablo a few
years ago.
Heh heh, next you'll be saying that there are scorpions in the
Santa Cruz Mountains! (I haven't seen any since I left Forest
Springs.)
I found one of those really big flying beetles on my doorstep
yesterday (about 2 1/2 inches long, & thicker than my thumb).
I see one of them maybe once every couple or three years.
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Jerry Durand
> I apoligize if this is the wrong place to ask this question...i moved to CA
>recently and the other day was drivng up the road to the top of Mt. Hamilton.
>I saw a tarantula crossing the road. I was surprised, not knowing that they
>lived around here.
I also found one on that road, years ago. We stopped and followed him for
a bit, then helped him off the road.
-----
Jerry Durand
Durand Interstellar, Inc.
Los Gatos, California, USA
www.interstellar.com
j d u r a n d AT i n t e r s t e l l a r DOT c o m
carl_finch
wrote:
>Heh heh, next you'll be saying that there are scorpions in the
>Santa Cruz Mountains! (I haven't seen any since I left Forest
>Springs.)
Heh, heh--nuthin'! Attached is a pic of the little guy I found just
inside my garage door the other day. He's currently occupying a petri
dish on my desk, scaring the daylights out of anyone I can coax to
peer into my stereo microscope--without first allowing them to see
what's on the stage, of course!
Carl (pardon my binary!)
TBO
Carl Finch wrote:
> Heh, heh--nuthin'! Attached is a pic of the little guy I found just
> inside my garage door the other day. He's currently occupying a petri
> dish on my desk, scaring the daylights out of anyone I can coax to
> peer into my stereo microscope--without first allowing them to see
> what's on the stage, of course!
Heck, yeah! I found a small scorpion at my place earlier this year, and
that wasn't the first time I've seen one there. I've also seen them
elsewhere in the Santa Cruz Mountain Range.
SSDivot
seeing things!!! This one was blac...t there was no where to pull off the road
at that point or i'd have gotten out and given it a closer look. Thanks again
Me Again
wrote:
>On 17 Aug 1999 04:36:55 GMT, ssd...@aol.com (SSDivot) wrote:
>
>> I apoligize if this is the wrong place to ask this question...i moved to CA
>>recently and the other day was drivng up the road to the top of Mt. Hamilton.
>>I saw a tarantula crossing the road.
>
>I do remember hearing somewhere (don't remember where) that tarantulas
>were endemic around here - Santa Cruz Mountains. I do know that I
>found one in my house one day and my neighbor found one in his car.
My "National Audibon Society Field Guide To California" [1] says
about Tarantulas:
2" (leg spread to 6") Body large, hairy, brown. Crawls on
ground; lives, lays eggs in dilk lined underground burrow;
entrance usu. has silk around edges. Siezes prey in powerful
jaws, injects venom. CAUTION Gives painful bite, not toxic to
humans; not agressive. HABITAT Dry grasslands, scrub. SEASON
Year round; most active spring - early summer.
jc
[1] nifty book, one of my better recent purchases, highly
recommended
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Me Again
wrote:
>I've spent my entire life in the Santa Cruz Mountain Range and I can
>assure you that there are tarantulas around. I don't know about the
>denizens of the Diablo Range, of which Mt. Hamilton is part,
Ob BA-mountain question:
Is the Diablo Range the mountain range that runs up the east side
of the bay all the way to Oakland? I can see Mt Diablo from my
office in Burlingame, and my orking bovines wanted to know the
name of the mountains... All I knew was "Mt Diablo" and "Oakland
Hills". For some reason, I thought Mt Diablo was on the other
side of 680, and thus the range of hills along the bay had some
other name...
jc
Grouch
>My "National Audibon Society Field Guide To California" [1] says
>about Tarantulas:
>
>
>[1] nifty book, one of my better recent purchases, highly
>recommended
>
Thanks for recommendation. I've been working off a general guide to
North America and it just isn't specific enough to ID some of the
critters around here. I've got this on order now from Amazon.
Milnsue
2.5" long that she had found. I found a beetle in my pool that measured almost
3" long and needless to say it freaked out the entire family. Thought the
roaches in Hawaii were big. Anybody have any idea what they are? I still have
the damn thing in a plastic bag.
Tim May
Again) wrote:
...
>
> posted and emailed due to flaky news server
Flaky news server? So much for rahul.net being the perfect ISP.
Got.net's news server, outsourced to "ISPNews," has been having problems
off and on for several months.
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Me Again
'Fraid I'll need a better description than 'beatle, about 2.5"
long'
The book lists 3 beatles longer than 1 inch:
Fiery Searcher (1.25") (iredescent blue-black)
Water Scavenger Beatle (.75" to 1.25") (black)
Ten Lined June Beatle (1.25") (brown with white stripes)
jc
Betty Cunningham
of death' it's a redwood root borer-adult form (the larvae chew redwood
tree roots). (they fly and make horrible buzzing noises)
if the 3 inch beetle had a triangular-shaped body and clear wings and
very round eyes that stick out of the head a little bit, it's a cicada.
Can't think of what other insects get that big in this area.
-Betty
Milnsue wrote:
>
> Hi, someone in the early part of this thread mentioned a beetle that was about
> 2.5" long that she had found. I found a beetle in my pool that measured almost
> 3" long and needless to say it freaked out the entire family. Thought the
> roaches in Hawaii were big. Anybody have any idea what they are? I still have
> the damn thing in a plastic bag.
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Doug Landauer
> Hi, someone in the early part of this thread mentioned a beetle
> that was about 2.5" long that she had found.
That was me, and I ain't a she.
In article <37BADCE3...@flyinggoat.com>, Betty Cunningham
<bet...@flyinggoat.com> wrote:
> if the 3 inch beetle was dark oak brown and had what we
> call 'mandibles of death' it's a redwood root borer -- adult form
> (the larvae chew redwood tree roots). (they fly and make horrible
> buzzing noises)
Thanks for the pointer. A bit more web searching, given your clue
about our local name for the guy, turned up the following pages:
This one has a photo:
<http://ag.arizona.edu/maricopa/garden/html/t-tips/bugs/palo-bor.htm>
This guy made "Pest Of The Month"!! in "Access-Pesticides" magazine,
June 1997. Whooppeeee....
<http://ag.arizona.edu/pito/pestofmo/pom697.html>
And sure 'nuff, that photo is my bug's spitting, buzzing image.
So they call it the "Palo Verde Root Borer", but that's the guy.
FWIW, we have pines on our side of the SLV (near Quail Hollow),
but very few redwoods.
Glen Appleby
ba.mountain-folk,mag...@rahul.net (Me Again) wrote:
>'Fraid I'll need a better description than 'beatle, about 2.5"
>long'
>
>The book lists 3 beatles longer than 1 inch:
>
>Fiery Searcher (1.25") (iredescent blue-black)
>Water Scavenger Beatle (.75" to 1.25") (black)
>Ten Lined June Beatle (1.25") (brown with white stripes)
WHAT?!! Not a single mention of a Volkswagon?
Glen "Hotwheels" Appleby
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Doug Landauer
> Betty Cunningham wrote:
> > if the 3 inch beetle was dark oak brown and had what we
> > call 'mandibles of death' it's a redwood root borer -- adult form
> > (the larvae chew redwood tree roots).
>
> ... they call it the "Palo Verde Root Borer", but that's the guy.
> FWIW, we have pines on our side of the SLV (near Quail Hollow),
> but very few redwoods.
After looking at the photos again, I thought it worth mentioning that
I found a bunch of the grubs (big, ugly white worms) from these big
bugs, in the roots of a pine tree of ours that was blown down during
a very windy, wet rainstorm one January several years ago. It took
us a couple of years to get around to cutting up and removing the
stump/roots from that pine tree (it had been over 40 feet tall), and
it was when I was chopping it up that I was finding these grubs.
Like, by the dozens.
So they may explain partly why that tree fell down in the first place.
And it's clear that they don't much care what kind of tree they go
after.
TBO
mag...@rahul.net (Me Again) wrote:
> Is the Diablo Range the mountain range that runs up the east side
> of the bay all the way to Oakland? I can see Mt Diablo from my
> office in Burlingame, and my orking bovines wanted to know the
> name of the mountains... All I knew was "Mt Diablo" and "Oakland
> Hills". For some reason, I thought Mt Diablo was on the other
> side of 680, and thus the range of hills along the bay had some
> other name...
Simple answer: yes. The Diablo Range extends from the Mt. Diablo area
to northwest Kern County at about Kettleman City, some 180 miles. The
Oakland Hills are a part and the Diablo Range is on on both sides of 680
in Dublin. Mt. Hamilton, Copernicus Peak, Henry Coe State Park, the
Pinnacles, and Mt. San Benito are all parts of the Diablo Range.
South of Salinas, Highway 101 runs between the Diablo Range to the east
and the Santa Lucia Range to the west.
As an aside, from Mt. Hamilton, with proper magnification and a
suitably clear day, you can see into Yosemite Valley and spy Half Dome.
As another aside, the Pinnacles, the core of a volcano, has been neatly
split into two parts by the San Andreas Fault. The eastern part (the
Neenach Formation) is way down south in the Tehachapi Range, 195 miles
from the Pinnacles.
gig radestou
wrote:
>
>
>After looking at the photos again, I thought it worth mentioning that
>I found a bunch of the grubs (big, ugly white worms) from these big
>bugs, in the roots of a pine tree of ours that was blown down during
>a very windy, wet rainstorm one January several years ago. It took
>us a couple of years to get around to cutting up and removing the
>stump/roots from that pine tree (it had been over 40 feet tall), and
>it was when I was chopping it up that I was finding these grubs.
>Like, by the dozens.
>
>So they may explain partly why that tree fell down in the first place.
>
Yes! Bow down before my army of trained grubs!
>And it's clear that they don't much care what kind of tree they go
>after.
They do as I say. Next target: City Hall.
Sherwood Harrington
: In article <37cd7c3c....@news.concentric.net>,
: mag...@rahul.net (Me Again) wrote:
: > Is the Diablo Range the mountain range that runs up the east side
: > of the bay all the way to Oakland? I can see Mt Diablo from my
: > office in Burlingame, and my orking bovines wanted to know the
^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^
===>> (... it took me _far_ too long to figure this one out...)
: > name of the mountains... All I knew was "Mt Diablo" and "Oakland
: > Hills". For some reason, I thought Mt Diablo was on the other
: > side of 680, and thus the range of hills along the bay had some
: > other name...
: Simple answer: yes. The Diablo Range extends from the Mt. Diablo area
: to northwest Kern County at about Kettleman City, some 180 miles. The
: Oakland Hills are a part and the Diablo Range is on on both sides of 680
: in Dublin. Mt. Hamilton, Copernicus Peak, Henry Coe State Park, the
: Pinnacles, and Mt. San Benito are all parts of the Diablo Range.
: South of Salinas, Highway 101 runs between the Diablo Range to the east
: and the Santa Lucia Range to the west.
===>> And in the Santa Clara Valley ("Silicon Valley", or "Valley of
Heart's Delight", or "The Pit"), everything is between the Mountains of
the Devil and the Mountains of the Holy Cross. Is that like the Devil and
the Deep Blue Sea?
: As an aside, from Mt. Hamilton, with proper magnification and a
: suitably clear day, you can see into Yosemite Valley and spy Half Dome.
===>> Having been on Mt. Hamilton on many, many a clear day (and night), I
can tell you that infrared vision is a _major_ help in seeing Yosemite
from there... but IR film and a 300mm lens will do the job well on a _dry_
clear day.
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Me Again
wrote:
>In article <37cc7acc....@news.concentric.net>, mag...@rahul.net (Me
>Again) wrote:
>
>...
>>
>> posted and emailed due to flaky news server
>
>
>Flaky news server? So much for rahul.net being the perfect ISP.
I'm not using Rahul's news server because I'm not dialing into
rahul.net pops. I have a Concentric DSL line, and Concentric has
had some news server glitches the past few weeks.
jc
John R Pierce
>On 18 Aug 1999 15:17:34 GMT, mil...@aol.com (Milnsue) wrote:
>
>>Hi, someone in the early part of this thread mentioned a beetle that was about
>>2.5" long that she had found. I found a beetle in my pool that measured almost
>>3" long and needless to say it freaked out the entire family. Thought the
>>roaches in Hawaii were big. Anybody have any idea what they are? I still have
>>the damn thing in a plastic bag.
>
>'Fraid I'll need a better description than 'beatle, about 2.5"
>long'
>
>The book lists 3 beatles longer than 1 inch:
>
>Fiery Searcher (1.25") (iredescent blue-black)
>Water Scavenger Beatle (.75" to 1.25") (black)
>Ten Lined June Beatle (1.25") (brown with white stripes)
also, the HUGE "Giant Wood Borer Beetle" is quite common in these
parts. brown, 2+ inches long, big fat ugly things.
-jrp
John R Pierce
><bet...@flyinggoat.com> wrote:
>> if the 3 inch beetle was dark oak brown and had what we
>> call 'mandibles of death' it's a redwood root borer -- adult form
>> (the larvae chew redwood tree roots). (they fly and make horrible
>> buzzing noises)
>
>Thanks for the pointer. A bit more web searching, given your clue
>about our local name for the guy, turned up the following pages:
>
>This one has a photo:
> <http://ag.arizona.edu/maricopa/garden/html/t-tips/bugs/palo-bor.htm>
>
>This guy made "Pest Of The Month"!! in "Access-Pesticides" magazine,
>June 1997. Whooppeeee....
> <http://ag.arizona.edu/pito/pestofmo/pom697.html>
>
>
>And sure 'nuff, that photo is my bug's spitting, buzzing image.
>So they call it the "Palo Verde Root Borer", but that's the guy.
>FWIW, we have pines on our side of the SLV (near Quail Hollow),
>but very few redwoods.
actually, I believe our local variety is a somewhat different beast,
my bug book calls it a 'Giant Root Borer'.
http://dfwpest.com/b4.htm is a pretty good pic, btw.
ah, even better!
http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/explore/Taxa/Coleoptera/Cerambycidae/Prionus_californicus/Prionus_californicusPage.htm
and a detailed description on
http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/explore/Taxa/Coleoptera/Cerambycidae/Prionus_californicus/Prionus_californicusIdentification.htm
[splice those messes together if my poster or your reader linebreaks
it...]
THAT is our local beast.
-jrp
Doug Landauer
> >Like, by the dozens.
> >So they may explain partly why that tree fell down in the first place.
>
> Yes! Bow down before my army of trained grubs!
>
> >And it's clear that they don't much care what kind of tree they go
> >after.
>
> They do as I say. Next target: City Hall.
Hey, you might be able to sell them to Tim May, over in
scruz.general. Seems like you oughta be able to undercut
the price of a couple of trucks full of fertilizer.
Mike J Oropeza
> also, the HUGE "Giant Wood Borer Beetle" is quite common in these
> parts. brown, 2+ inches long, big fat ugly things.
Don't forget the "Jumping Flesh Boring Beetles". They're about 1/2" to
6" long, and can get into an abdomen or fleshy part of an arm in a less
than two seconds. They hang around in trees, and can jump over 60'.
Victims don't usually feel much of anything until the pupa try to exit
the skin. I haven't actually seen one, but that doesn't mean they don't
exist.
--
Mike J Oropeza
Those who hear not the music, think the dancers mad ~{';'}~
Betty Cunningham
nasty when they things fly full into you in the dark.
-Betty
John R Pierce wrote:
> http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/explore/Taxa/Coleoptera/Cerambycidae/Prionus_californicus/Prionus_californicusIdentification.htm
Doug Landauer
> suitably clear day, you can see into Yosemite Valley and spy Half Dome.
>
Even farther aside, I took a one-week backpack trip from Sonora Pass
to South Lake Tahoe, on the PCT. One of the more interesting things
along that route is/are the volcanic ridge containing Reynolds Peak
and Raymond Peak. Very convoluted stuff, much like the Pinnacles,
but seemed much bigger. Cliffs, caves, spires, windows ... some
fascinating terrain.
The area can be reached in a moderate (out and back) day hike
north from Ebbetts Pass.
gz
drive up Mt Ham, I see dozens of them crossing the road.
re Beetle things: About 10 years ago, when I was living in the Summit
area, we found an insect about 5 inches long. We couldn't identify it
from books but took a photo of it on our trash can (for scale) - it was
longer than the grip-type handle on top. If I can find the photo I'll
post it on a web page in the hope someone will be able to identify it.
Doug Landauer wrote:
>
> > I don't get up Mt Hamilton often, but the last time I did we
> > saw a good dozen on the road.
>
> I saw a whole bunch of them on a drive up Mount Diablo a few
> years ago.
>
> Heh heh, next you'll be saying that there are scorpions in the
> Santa Cruz Mountains! (I haven't seen any since I left Forest
> Springs.)
>
> I found one of those really big flying beetles on my doorstep
> yesterday (about 2 1/2 inches long, & thicker than my thumb).
> I see one of them maybe once every couple or three years.
gig radestou
wrote:
>> >it was when I was chopping it up that I was finding these grubs.
>> >Like, by the dozens.
>> >So they may explain partly why that tree fell down in the first place.
>>
>> Yes! Bow down before my army of trained grubs!
>>
>> >And it's clear that they don't much care what kind of tree they go
>> >after.
>>
>> They do as I say. Next target: City Hall.
>
>Hey, you might be able to sell them to Tim May, over in
>scruz.general. Seems like you oughta be able to undercut
>the price of a couple of trucks full of fertilizer.
Well, I would, but my grubs react to fringe paranoiacs like tribbles
react to romulans. Not a pretty sight. My grubs deserve better than
that.
Martin McGuire
nos...@interstellar.com (Jerry Durand) wrote:
> On 17 Aug 1999 04:36:55 GMT, ssd...@aol.com (SSDivot) wrote:
>
> > I apoligize if this is the wrong place to ask this question...i
moved to CA
> >recently and the other day was drivng up the road to the top of Mt.
Hamilton.
that they
> >lived around here.
>
> I also found one on that road, years ago. We stopped and followed him
for
> a bit, then helped him off the road.
>
> -----
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> Durand Interstellar, Inc.
> Los Gatos, California, USA
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> j d u r a n d AT i n t e r s t e l l a r DOT c o m
>
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Dirt Devil
bizbee <tub...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>Yn erthygl <37BC4540...@goldway.com>, sgrifenws Mike J Oropeza
><moro...@goldway.com>:
>
>>They hang around in trees, and can jump over 60'.
>
What? You expect them to walk *around* the baby redwoods?
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Henri Hein
Glen Appleby wrote in message <37bb2271....@news.ihwy.com>...
>>long'
>>
>>The book lists 3 beatles longer than 1 inch:
>>
>>Fiery Searcher (1.25") (iredescent blue-black)
>>Water Scavenger Beatle (.75" to 1.25") (black)
>>Ten Lined June Beatle (1.25") (brown with white stripes)
>
It is unclear whether the VW beetle qualifies as longer than 1 inch.
---
Henri Hein
he...@got.net
Henri Hein
Scorpions was mentioned in this thread a couple of times.
I've found two big scorpions (one the size of my hand) in my
hallway within the space of a month. Does anyone know
if these scorpion bites are dangerous to kids?
- Henri
Grouch wrote in message <2Ceu3.10373$gO1.3...@news2.giganews.com>...
>On 17 Aug 1999 04:36:55 GMT, ssd...@aol.com (SSDivot) wrote:
>
>> I apoligize if this is the wrong place to ask this question...i moved to
CA
>>recently and the other day was drivng up the road to the top of Mt.
Hamilton.
>>I saw a tarantula crossing the road.
>
>I do remember hearing somewhere (don't remember where) that tarantulas
>were endemic around here - Santa Cruz Mountains. I do know that I
>found one in my house one day and my neighbor found one in his car.
>
Glen Appleby
Hein" <he...@got.net> wrote:
>Glen Appleby wrote in message <37bb2271....@news.ihwy.com>...
>>On 18 Aug 1999 08:52:53 PDT, in
>>
>>WHAT?!! Not a single mention of a Volkswagon?
>
>It is unclear whether the VW beetle qualifies as longer than 1 inch.
Especially the new "beetles". Cripes -- one needs to be greased
to fit into one of them (which wouldn't be all bad, ecxept for
the fact that there is no room left for having any kid of greased
fun).
Now the standard beetles are kinda kool. One of the few
reasonable size cars that have more than enough leg room for me.
The only other one that I experienced that had more than enough
leg room was the MGB.
Glen (if you see something that you haven't seen before, step on
it) Appleby
--
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It is your job to find ways around your boss's roadblocks.
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whr
Glen Appleby <gl...@ihwy.com> wrote in message
news:37bfe529....@news.ihwy.com...
> Now the standard beetles are kinda kool. One of the few
> reasonable size cars that have more than enough leg room for me.
>
> The only other one that I experienced that had more than enough
> leg room was the MGB.
Yeah, but the only reason the MGB had enough leg room was because you were
always outside of it. Those pieces of British-made crap spent more time on
the side of the road broken down than driving.
-whr-
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human
intelligence long enough to get money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock (1869-1944)
Glen Appleby
<whr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>Glen Appleby <gl...@ihwy.com> wrote in message
>news:37bfe529....@news.ihwy.com...
>>
>> The only other one that I experienced that had more than enough
>> leg room was the MGB.
>
>Yeah, but the only reason the MGB had enough leg room was because you were
>always outside of it. Those pieces of British-made crap spent more time on
>the side of the road broken down than driving.
I had something of an advantage.
The MGB that I got (third hand) was origonally bought to race
Showroom Stock. It was stripped of all the Lucas crap and all of
the other weighty and unreliable junk.
One of the most fun cars that I have ever owned.
I particularly liked the little feature on the starter where, if
the solenoid didn't work, you could turn on the ignition and
press the button on the starter and accomplish the solenoid
function manually.
I discovered that accidentially, one day when I was just poking
around under the hood.
Unfortunately I never had an opportunity to use it.
Me Again
wrote:
>
>Scorpions was mentioned in this thread a couple of times.
>I've found two big scorpions (one the size of my hand) in my
>hallway within the space of a month. Does anyone know
>if these scorpion bites are dangerous to kids?
My field guide says:
CAUTION Sting painful; causes swelling, numbness; not dangerous.
So expect a kid to scream if it gets bit, (and whine a lot while
healing) but not die. I'd take a kid to the emergency room
anyway, just to be safe.
In the grand scheme of things, consider scorpions like trees,
part of the neighborhood and something you *might* get hurt by.
Getting bit by a scorpion will probably be similar to falling out
of a tree and breaking an arm. Lots of tears, trip to the
emergency room, whining while healing. Part of being a kid.
jc
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blac...@dog-play.com
: Scorpions was mentioned in this thread a couple of times.
: I've found two big scorpions (one the size of my hand) in my
: hallway within the space of a month. Does anyone know
: if these scorpion bites are dangerous to kids?
Our local scorpions have a sting about comparable to a bee sting.
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John R Pierce
>Henri Hein <he...@got.net> wrote:
>
>: Scorpions was mentioned in this thread a couple of times.
>: I've found two big scorpions (one the size of my hand) in my
>: hallway within the space of a month. Does anyone know
>: if these scorpion bites are dangerous to kids?
>
>Our local scorpions have a sting about comparable to a bee sting.
Which can be QUITE serious in some folks... You can go into
an-something shock if you are sensitive to the toxins involved.
Honeybee stings are quite a bit more serious than yellowjacket or wasp
stings, bumblebee stings can be fatal. Luckily, bumblebees will
almost NEVER sting you unless you do something *really* stupid
whereupon, IMHO, you DESRVE to be stung.
-jrp
Doug Landauer
I just got the current issue of "Via" (nee "Motorland", the CSAA
magazine), and it has a small article about our local big spiders.
The autumn is the time you'll see them in the greatest numbers,
out looking for love in all the wrong places (e.g, the highway).
On October 2, there is a "TarantulaFest" and "Fall Barbecue" (and
no, I don't suspect they'll be barbecuing any of the spiders) at
Henry Coe State Park. For more info, call 408/779-2728. Also,
you could check the park's web site,
http://www.coepark.parks.ca.gov
Coe park is not too far south of Mt. Hamilton.
Geoff Miller
"Henri Hein" <he...@got.net> asked:
>> Does anyone know if these scorpion bites are dangerous to kids?
mag...@rahul.net (Me Again) replies:
> So expect a kid to scream if it gets bit, (and whine a lot while
> healing) but not die.
Uh, folks? Scorpions don't bite; they _sting_.
(Sounds like I'd better hurry up and get a screen door instead of
just leaving the front door open most of the time.)
Geoff
--
"Jesus may love you, but I think you're garbage wrapped in skin."
Dave Eaton
bizbee wrote:
>
> Tarantulas and wolf spiders are relatively common, even at the
> beaches. So are scorpions (I've found them in my bathroom...).
Yeah, it seems that the scorpions of Felton like to crawl out of
their hot sandy ground day home and onto our tile floor near a
night-light at night. I had one living in the bathroom sink drain
for a couple days. I don't think it could climb up the porcelain
(slick) bowl. Now, there's a scary movie! But, the biggest I've
seen is probably 2-inch long when tail is in its normal curved
position. And, very few people I know have seen them at their
houses in the area. Oh no! I'm in a federally protected scorpion
preserve!
So far no tarantulas or banana slugs or giant beetles! Just those
one-inch beetles and millions of "regular" spiders. :-)
-dave
prodoni
blouse in the lunchroom. My lunch partner pointed it out to me,
I immediately stripped down to my bra, in front of 200 people!
I jumped up and down and I asked her if it was gone yet. Yeah,
put your blouse back on and get back to work.
Nasty critters, I didn't need "A THIRD BOOB"
Ha, tales from Texas....
Me Again wrote:
>
> On Sat, 21 Aug 1999 13:16:27 -0700, "Henri Hein" <he...@got.net>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >Scorpions was mentioned in this thread a couple of times.
> >I've found two big scorpions (one the size of my hand) in my
> >hallway within the space of a month. Does anyone know
> >if these scorpion bites are dangerous to kids?
>
> My field guide says:
>
> CAUTION Sting painful; causes swelling, numbness; not dangerous.
>
> So expect a kid to scream if it gets bit, (and whine a lot while