Giant Golden Orb Spider

That's ridiculous. I'd hit that thing with a baseball bat!


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Garth Reckner said:
Spiders don't normally bother me, but that one, that scares the crap out of me.

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Hmm. My advice: stay out of the Brazilian jungles.

The natives there would not even consider the Orbweaver a challenge (well ... unless they knew about the poison).

I've seen some 8-legged horrors there that made me jump. And I'm not afraid of spiders.
 
JDE101 said:
My wife has always wanted to visit Australia. It is highly unlikely that we will ever be able to afford to do so, unfortunately. However, my wife is also deathly afraid of even the tiniest little spider! She swears that they are all out to "get her". She is totally unreasonable and irrational about them. If I show here these pictures, I'm certain I'll never hear another word from her about ever wanting to visit Australia again! For that matter, little spiders I don't mind, 'cause they eat "bad" bugs, but those creatures you guys have down under even freak ME out! I'd want a 1911 on one hip, my ASH-2 or TGLB on the other, my Colt M4 for distance work and my Remington 870 for closer work!!!! Those things down there are absolutely FREAKY!!!!!!:eek:
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If you can ... do. It's a wonderful place to visit. Much to see that can't be seen elsewhere.

And yes, the natives are friendly.:)

Both kinds.
 
OldPhysics said:
Hmm. My advice: stay out of the Brazilian jungles.

The natives there would not even consider the Orbweaver a challenge (well ... unless they knew about the poison).

I've seen some 8-legged horrors there that made me jump. And I'm not afraid of spiders.
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Brazilian wandering spider, aka banana spider, arguably the most poisonous spider on earth, wanders around the jungle floor looking for food and mates, and also wanders around cities looking for people to bite. Not only that but it'll actually charge at you...and it causes horrible priapism. Look it up [emoji529]

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So pissed!
 
If I may... spiders only bite when they are trapped, like in a towel, or when they are hurt. Spiders just don't look for people to bite.
Just ask a spider expert.
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I actually do love spiders. Pisses my wife off, me picking up spiders in the house and letting them go outside. She's screaming. ...it's just gunna get back in......I say they eat the bugs that really do bother me.....Mosquitoes. ....I hate those guys.
 
Lycosa said:
If I may... spiders only bite when they are trapped, like in a towel, or when they are hurt. Spiders just don't look for people to bite.
Just ask a spider expert.
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I beg to differ just a bit...while this is true with 99.99% of spider species, but I've heard the wandering spider and the Sydney funnel web have been known to actually charge at people to bite them. Very territorial! Also the Sydney funnel web spider can survive under water for 24 hours and will wait until you swim by and latch onto you and bite the hell out of you.
 
One of the few things I'm positively sure of in this life is that if spiders were big enough, they would without fail hunt me down and eat me. Also pretty sure they'd do a bunch of creepy stuff to me first like stare at me with way too many eyeballs and walk around with way too many feet! Aghh!
 
RobStanley said:
A mate took this shot last night. At a guess the hand is approx 30cm (1 foot) behind the spider. I guess the spider's legs would be approx 8" to 10" span.

We get many around at our place too, but this looks to be the largest one I've seen. I went through one's web once whilst mowing the lawn and it crawled around on my head and gave me a nip on the back of my neck. Apparently they have a potent venom, but luckily it didn't affect me.

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Beautiful! So amazing. Venom notwithstanding, that guy looks like if you slapped at him, he'd just slap you back!
 
And then there are their webs. Don't get me started on webs. Amazing feats of mother nature, indeed. I'd prefer if mother nature's amazing feat didn't wrap around my face when trying to navigate to my front door after work. And the artist that builds it like to sit dead center, right at face level so that when I level his work he knows that I know that he's on me. Yay, Spiders.
 
crowbardog said:
And then there are their webs. Don't get me started on webs. Amazing feats of mother nature, indeed. I'd prefer if mother nature's amazing feat didn't wrap around my face when trying to navigate to my front door after work. And the artist that builds it like to sit dead center, right at face level so that when I level his work he knows that I know that he's on me. Yay, Spiders.
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Haha! Do you break into some martial arts moves when you feel that web like I do?
 
dkblade said:
I beg to differ just a bit...while this is true with 99.99% of spider species, but I've heard the wandering spider and the Sydney funnel web have been known to actually charge at people to bite them. Very territorial! Also the Sydney funnel web spider can survive under water for 24 hours and will wait until you swim by and latch onto you and bite the hell out of you.
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..... and their fangs can penetrate some footwear....just to further freak people out.. ;) I only see them stumbling around inside my garage when I have a pest spray done, other than those times they happily hide somewhere in there I have yet to locate. Shoe banging (shoes left outside) is a given here in the warmer months (to ensure no spider resides within).
 
Andy the Aussie said:
..... and their fangs can penetrate some footwear....just to further freak people out.. ;) I only see them stumbling around inside my garage when I have a pest spray done, other than those times they happily hide somewhere in there I have yet to locate. Shoe banging (shoes left outside) is a given here in the warmer months (to ensure no spider resides within).
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Ahh! To hell with all that. I had a brown widow in my shoe the other day but I've heard mixed reports about their toxicity...smaller than a black widow and freaking everywhere in Southern California as of maybe the last 10 years. I have seen some big ones though...and they have a red hourglass so I don't mess around with em. Fortunately even the big ones roll into a ball and play dead if you so much as blow on em. Rattlesnakes and black widows are about the deadliest things in this part of the world. Gotta hand it to you Aussies for handling all the crazy ass critters that share your continent!
 
I've yet to see a funnel web "in the wild " I've seen then at Taronga Zoo though[emoji51] I here-they are easily agitated & very aggressive though-apparently they're so angry that as soon as they sense a threat their fangs literally are dripping with venom-so when they do bite someone -their actual delivery amount of venom is only a fraction of what they're capable of delivering.

And don't even get me started about Drop Bears......[emoji15]


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Lots of black and yellows here. I love spiders since I was a kid, I used to catch big black army ants to feed them. had my fair share of tarantulas and black widows as pets, but not no more , My wife freaks out . That's one mighty fine female spider.
 
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