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    I'm just posting my reply to Brian here so I can't see that. My left thumb has always been ready to cover a poster's pic because I suspect that DaveL's seems to be one of those:facepalm:
     
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    Now I have found out that people such as Destin and Brian are arachnoPHILES, I can ask their opinion on something! Tonight, coincidentally JUST after reading the scary stuff on this thread, I was peeling the dry skin off some garlic bulbs and saw a living 'thing' on my hand ... I flicked it off and saw it was black, about 1.5 cm long and held its front legs up like scorpion pincers. I did not see any curling of the tail and so am thinking is it a 'scorpion spider' (if they exist) or a scorpion. I asked my Filipina wife to look at it and give her opinion but when she arrived the 'thing' had disappeared (where's a scorpion when you need it, huh?); having looked around nearby, I gave up and walked away ..... only (arachnophobes read no more!!!) to feel something on my back .... I brushed it off and it was that arachnid again (it must have jumped on me when I turned my back (not very sporting of it))! My wife then informed me that it was not poisonous ... and I think she was correct because at this point (0.47 am Friday) I am not dead (but will give regular updates over the next few years). I put the arachnid in a plastic container and ejected it from the house (I tend not to kill anything .... unless it kills me first, of course!!!) with the words "Get out and stay out". I think it heard me.
     
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    In the Philippines, people say the cicadas are singing. In Japan, they say the cicadas are crying. When I met my bf, he says those are lies, they're just fighting over who's going to attack me first. I didn't understand why he was so angry when I said, don't be ridiculous, they're harmless until he asked me to take pics of him in Palawan--you know...that thing on his shoulders :cry: even though I was 10 meters away. I'm still trying to overcome the fear. Weird thing is I held the baby crocodile they have for a pic!
     
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    I've seen a tarantula or two in my place in Valencia.

    Those "scorpion spiders" (looks like a scorpion without the long tail) I see quite often in the house but those are usually extremely small, about the size of a black ant. I've seen much bigger ones in Afghanistan.

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    Is this the one you are referring to mate?

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    https://www.quora.com/What-spider-is-this-Philippines
     
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    BTW: Asawa's can be VERY MEAN!

    Not long back during rain here, I saw a 'Spider' scuttling across the floor straight for me! :jawdrop: Needless to say I did a tap dance and was prancing around as it seemed to be chasing me!! :eek: Wifey was pissing herself laughing at me... :o o: NO ONE TOLD ME that the Philippines has FRESH WATER CRABS! :grumpy:
     
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    Yes, I think it is Brian. I dealt with it so quickly that I did not study it in detail, but it seems like the one. The link confirms it is not poisonous. Thanks.
     
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