Here’s a cozy little poem for you in this Halloweenish time of year:
Sleep well tonight my little darlings
Here’s a little factoid to dream about tonight…
Scientists say that people
during sleep
each swallow an average of
around 8 spiders yearly
A nice warm dark moist place to visit
Bon Appetit!
It’s not little spiders that will really harm you and your children, it’s miseducated, traditional, ordinary people who let the environment go to hell.
Spider on Wildflower … Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2018
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thanks for the horrible Halloween haunting, Tom.
Sorry about that, Michael!… (kind of)… 🙂
haha I try not to dwell on that fact! 😀
Sorry about putting that one in your head! (Tee hee!) 🙂
haha 😀
Well. Thanks for that! But I confess I’m not surprised — poor little spiders!
Well, that’s a different perspective, Linda! 🙂
Yikes! Nice photo though.
Thanks, Belinda! Sorry for putting that one in your head! (Tee hee)! 🙂
Sometimes they bite your feet while your sleeping too! I’ve had that happen. Beautiful spider photo and message.
Ouch! Thank you, saymber! 🙂
Read what scifihammy wrote. Thanks Tom. Hehe
What i wrote to her applies to you too, Jim! Pleasant dreams! 🙂
No wonder I’ve put on weight, I’m getting too many 🙂
Ha Ha! Good one, Paul! 🙂 You might start looking for live ones outdoors to consume if this keeps up!
Lol, a grazing I shall go. Though here I have to be careful of the two poisonous ones, and a couple of others that wouldn’t be healthy to eat 🙂
🙂
ouch!!!! is beautiful
Thank you, Leyla… and sleep well! 🙂
I’ll make a point of keeping my mouth shut at night!
Not to disappoint you, Sandy, but noses are equally available for entry… and they connect with the swallowing chamber. Bon appetit! 🙂
Guess I might as well place a bottle of mustard on the night stand!
(Please read what was written to PlantsandBeyond.) 🙂
Tom, I love your wildlife macro pictures.
Thanks Andy! Coming from you, that’s more than a compliment! Yours are magnificent and are far from what we ordinarily have here in Illinois. 🙂
Don’t know if I believe that fact; although feel bad for little spiders ;))) ✨
Personally, i don’t think that they are dumb enough to fall down someone’s throat! 🙂
Now I’m scared to go to bed. Not just from reading this post, but this morning I got up, and I have an old computer in my room I use for photos and scanning and I use it to check in at work in the morning before I go out on my walk. I plunked down on the uncomfortable little stool and I saw something move out of the corner of my eye. It was a centipede. It’s a low stool and I am 5′ 9″ tall – it’s usually a little difficult to jump out of the stool, but I was up and away from the table in 1 second at the most. I ran for a shoe to swat it. Sorry, I can’t keep it alive and cart it outside – I’d have a heart attack, if I had to touch it. I missed. I heard it say “Yay!” and it ran under the dresser. I said “please come out – I won’t be able to sleep tonight.” An hour later I saw a centipede running on the carpet in the hall – I told myself it has to be the same one, but who knows? I am surprised with all the rain we’ve had there have not been more. No, I didn’t stop to take a picture of it … not that brave. 🙂
Are you sure it was a centipede? People often confuse them with millipedes (which are vegetarians). Even carnivorous centipedes wouldn’t do any real harm to a human being. (Many species of insects, though, are fair game!) 🙂
No, it was a centipede Tom, but a fat one and dark looking body. I’m okay with millipedes – they still have all the legs but they don’t move as fast. Those long legs on the centipedes and they run like the wind just leave me hyperventilating sometimes.
Yes, we understand! They are rather intimidating. On a more positive note, i really don’t think that spiders, centipedes or anything else similar, for that matter, are foolish enough to inadvertently fall down someone’s throat at night. We heard about it on a television show (and it probably is just utter nonsense). They just are not that stupid! 🙂
Great shot
Thank you, TJ! 🙂
I will make sure there won’t be any around when i sleep..lol
I will make sure there won’t be any around when i sleep..lol