I can't find the word on Google, so I thought I'd give it a shot here. There is a word for a big pile of snakes. I think it might be a Greek word or something. Anyone know?
http://www.rinkworks.com/words/collective.shtml Gives a bed, den, nest or pit of snakes. Personally, I've always used nest.
The only greek word I know that's associated with snakes is "Ouroboros", and that's just the word for a snake eating itself starting at the tail.
Ok I found the word I was looking for. The term is Hibernaculum, but it does not only have to do with snakes. http://www.vernoncounty.org/lwcd/snakeHib.htm My sister told me that in ancient times, a hibernaculum of snakes was considered a bad omen. I've looked around the 'net for something related to this, but can't find anything, which probably means the person she heard it from was full of shit. You can also have a hibernaculum of bats, or insects. Here, you can see a bunch of rattlesnakes emerging from their hibernaculum. If you dislike snakes at all, I don't recommend you click on the spoilers. To read about what happened here, go to: http://planetstrong.wordpress.com/2008/05/31/amazing-pics-a-heaping-pile-of-rattle-snakes/ (It has all the pictures in it, and is not for the faint of heart.) =Don't say I didn't warn you! =Ok, that other one wasn't so bad, but it gets worse! =turn away now!!! =Abandon all hope!
Imagine hiking at night and thinking you found a great natural hole in which to take a dump! I bet it would assist in a smooth BM though! Once my father-in-law and his hunting partners put up a tent at night in Arizona (during the fall) over what they thought was a soft mound of pine needles. Throughout the night they felt bugs crawling on them, so they swatted them off and went back to sleep. When daylight broke they saw some dead tarantulas on the tent floor. Turns out they had pitched their tent on a hibernaculum of tarantulas, and their body heat attracted them into the warm tent! :IMHO!: Imagine if one of them had turned on a flashlight to go outside to take a leak or something, and saw what was going on! Talk about a mass freakout from Hell!
All over the place. I've even seen them pretty high up in the mountains, as well as in the desert. They don't bother me as much as house spiders, because it's not like a huge tarantula can hide too well, plus they would never come int a house (that I've ever heard of). Black widows won't come into a house either, only a garage now and then.
No, black widows are all over the damn place. We used to have 'em in every nook and cranny when I lived in Nevada. Had 'em in Australia too, only there they are 'redbacks' and although they look exactly the same, the spot on them is red instead of white like it is on the widow. Same nasty ass poisonous bite, though. None of us ever sat on the outside benches at school because there were colonies under each one.
When I was a kid black widows were pretty rare. I don't know how, but sure enough they are spread all over the place now it seems. Here is a comment saying there are different types of them. I never knew this! I thought the only kind was red or orange on the underside...and they always hang upside down in their webs to attract bugs with the bright color. This pic is the type I see a lot.
^ That looks like an ace on it's abdomen. I bet he picks up a lot of chicks. Black Widows are up here in Canada too. They are all over B.C. Not so much in Alberta, except for this little town to the east of us called Medicine Hat. They have all sorts of creepy ass shit like scorpions, tarantulas, snakes, etc. Fuck Medicine Hat!
White? Never heard of a black widow with a white spot. Out here they're all black with a red hourglass on the underside of their abdomen.
Yeah, I went hiking in the desert with a biologist friend when I was 19, and she reaches down, picks something up, says "hold out your hand", plops a big hairy spider in it, then says "now, don't freak-out or make any sudden moves or it could bite". But hey, now they don't scare me at all anymore. I love to pick 'em up.
