Vaping Toxicity - Torturing Spiders

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brownbrown4

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I have a similar story to this. It was with a .44 magnum not an air rifle. I'm not even gonna go into what happened but I still feel the guilt after 25 years too.
def not goona ask..... the fifth ammendment is there for the inocent and everything in between. (i watched the dont talk to the cops video).
 

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I'd like to see someone try to blow vape on one of these!!!


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I've killed a house centipede in a container with vapor, but I had sucked the vapor into my mouth, not my lungs.

That's kind of worrying because it's suggests that second hand vapour is highly toxic....I wouldn't have expected it to have done it any harm other than make it cough!

Wiki Says: The LD50 of nicotine is 50 mg/kg for rats and 3 mg/kg for mice. 40–60 mg (0.5-1.0 mg/kg) can be a lethal dosage for adult humans.[38][39]It is impossible however to overdose on nicotine through smoking alone (though a person can overdose on nicotine through a combination of nicotine patches, nicotine gum, and/or tobacco smoking at the same time.) Spilling an extremely high concentration of nicotine onto the skin (Ahem read:1.5-2ml of 36mg juice) can result in intoxication or even death since nicotine readily passes into the bloodstream from dermal contact.

Lets say a spider/centepede weighs 2g (kinda light but idunno how much a spider weighs). Using the middle 3mg/kg which would be .003mg/g that would mean the LD50 would be .006mg.

Thats not much as 24mg juice has at least 2.4mg per drop, probably more like 4.8mg it would depend on the drop (i have no idea if this would be accurate for a insect though)

Interestingly though :
Arsenic: ORAL (LD50): Acute: 763 mg/kg [Rat]. 145 mg/kg [Mouse].

yeah nicotine's some nasty stuff. Works for me though :D
 

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My cats used to run for the hills if they accidentally got a face full of smoke when they were climbing all over me. The first time one of them got a face full of vapor he looked like he was going to jump off of me then he got a really confused look on his face and stayed right where he was. I could see the little wheels turning in his brain and it was like he was thinking "When stuff that looks like that normally hits me it's awful, this isn't bad."

Haha, my cats do the exact same thing! I think they like it actually. Whenever I sit down for a vaping session now, they all hang around sniffing the air. When they would see me light a smoke, they would scatter pretty quick.
 

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I had a huge, hairy Florida wolf spider move in with me a couple of summers ago. I told him that he could stay on the side of the house away from my bedroom, but if I woke up with him on my face he was going to be an EX-arachnid.

Saw him lurking and scurrying around (well, they don't really scurry - they don't get that excited) for about two months, and then he disappeared. Never did encroach upon my sleeping space, either.

Wasn't this an interesting post? :D

Hey, I know where he went! He lives on the side of my house. I saw him for the second time last night. The first time I did't kill him cuz he was just finishing a ginormous web and I didn't want him (well, her, actually) to have done all that work for nothing. Last night I saw it and it's web was gone, and I thought I should kill it before it ends up on my face next time I walk by.......but then we had a discussion about how if it didn't bother me, I wouldn't bother it..........watch me pay for it next time I walk by and it gets caught in my hair! It is big and brown with hairy legs...my luck, a brown recluse who just had 1000 babies, lol...........but thanks, I will look up wolf spiders and see if it's her!
 

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Yes, the spider. That's my 6yo nephew in the background. :D
BTW Linthorn, where in Bowie are you. I lived there for 20 years near Allens Pond.

I'm across town off Highbridge. My first house was a townhouse on Ephron Cir, right across from the rink. Lived there for a few years. Grew up in Bowie in fact. Mom still lives here.
 

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I'm going to have nightmares!!!!!

That's an argiope. Perfectly harmless. I hold them all the time.

Since I raise tarantulas and black widows, I'm always very careful to wash my hands after vaping, before I handle my spiders. I always assumed the residue could be bad for them.

Please don't torture the arachnids! They do you a favor every time they kill and eat a housefly or mosquito!
 
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exactly where do you live? (so I know never to go within 500 miles)
Ha Ha - We live in a very exotic place: Indiana. Fishing spiders are not at all uncommon around woodland streams and ponds. If you live in the eastern half of North America and most of the western half, I'm afraid you probably have no choice but to live within 500 miles of 'em. 8-o
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I had a huge, hairy Florida wolf spider move in with me a couple of summers ago. I told him that he could stay on the side of the house away from my bedroom, but if I woke up with him on my face he was going to be an EX-arachnid.

Saw him lurking and scurrying around (well, they don't really scurry - they don't get that excited) for about two months, and then he disappeared. Never did encroach upon my sleeping space, either.

Wasn't this an interesting post? :D

I lol'd :thumbs:
 

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Ha Ha - We live in a very exotic place: Indiana. Fishing spiders are not at all uncommon around woodland streams and ponds. If you live in the eastern half of North America and most of the western half, I'm afraid you probably have no choice but to live within 500 miles of 'em. 8-o
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nice.. why is there a finger right next to that..
 
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