OT-For Fun- "Itsy Bitsy" or "Teensy Weensy" ?

[blandino]

Spiders are fine with me but moths give me the heebie jeebies!

For me it's grasshoppers.

[BumbleBee]

If it's a spider (teensy weensy or itsy bitsy) it better be dead.

You'd hate my house then! Every June we have jumping spiders everywhere. We watched one catch a daddy long legs spider the other day. It was quite educational.

The kids catch the jumping spiders and take them outside to release them.

[mamac]

You'd hate my house then! Every June we have jumping spiders everywhere. We watched one catch a daddy long legs spider the other day. It was quite educational.

The kids catch the jumping spiders and take them outside to release them.

After coming across a very large black jumping spider in my living room and having to abide by my "spiders are our friends" policy, I found out that jumping spiders rarely bite people (unless held too tightly) and can actually be prompted to jump from hand to hand. I didn't have it in me to try though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSV_ti6ll2c

[BumbleBee]

After coming across a very large black jumping spider in my living room and having to abide by my "spiders are our friends" policy, I found out that jumping spiders rarely bite people (unless held too tightly) and can actually be prompted to jump from hand to hand. I didn't have it in me to try though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSV_ti6ll2c

Cool! Our jumping spiders can fit on a penny - not very big at all.

I will admit, anything that looks remotely like a brown recluse gets squashed immediately. Basically if it's brown it's dead.

[luv2teach]

itsy bitsy here

[Childminder]

Another curious soul found the following Google data 5 years ago:

* itsy bitsy spider - 6,890 hits
* eensy weensy spider - 838 hits
* eency weency spider - 489 hits
* itty bitty spider - 478 hits
* eentsy weentsy spider - 238 hits
* incy wincy spider - 233 hits

and

incy wincy spider - British E
itsy bitsy spider - American E
eensy weensy spider - AmericanE
itty bitty spider - American E
eentsy weentsy spider ?
L'araignée Gipsy - French
Cicci Ricci Ragno - Italian
Lille Peter edderkop - Danish
Hanse-panse-kevertje - Dutch
Hämä-hämähäkki kiipes langalle - Finnish
Die kribbel-krabbel Spinne - German
Minimus araneus compluvium ascendit - Latin!
Lilla Petter Edderkopp - Norwegian
Imse vimse spindel - Swedish
Itzi, bitzi araña - Spanish

[Blackcat31]

You'd hate my house then! Every June we have jumping spiders everywhere. We watched one catch a daddy long legs spider the other day. It was quite educational.

The kids catch the jumping spiders and take them outside to release them.

Nope.
No thanks.
Uh Huh!
No way!
Not me.


I HATE spiders.

Daddy Long-legs are the ONLY ones I really don't mind.

They don't creep me out and we don't kill them here because then it will rain and we've had enough of that lately.

[GoodKarma]

Itsy bitsy. I seem to be in the majority . It's interesting how popular this song is and how unpopular spiders are!

[originalkat]

Itsy bitsy here also.

We don't get many spiders in my home except for daddy long-legs but that's probably because we don't kill the daddy-long legs, they are our friends. All of our daycare kids and our own kids leave them alone because they are used to them. They eat other spiders and insects that we don't like so they are welcome in our home .

Us too!

[daycarediva]

Itsy Bitsy.


And, while I am not super fond of spiders, we don't kill anything in my house. Bugs are gently caught and released.