Giant Golden Orb Spider

in Lincoln, Ne. we get widows and brown recluses in the house. recluse will charge-they are roving wolf spiders. a woman in iowa was bit and sent into a coma for 6 months. she lived because of hyper-baric treatments; the poison does several things, but one is causing a type of spreading necrosis-you know-gangrene. when the woman awoke after six months they had amputated both arms, both legs, and her nose. who likes spiders in their houses again? they also crawl on you at night to warm up when you are asleep-you move, they bite.
thanks, Neal
 
I see why you went with a MOAB.. I hope you didn't let that thing live:(
if you did...im glad there is an ocean between that and me..
 
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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Then that is an auto expansion of the kill zone to the garage!!
 
larstetens said:
And don't even get me started about Drop Bears......[emoji15]
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.... no doubt the most fearsome Aussie critter..!!

evltcat said:
Then that is an auto expansion of the kill zone to the garage!!
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.... it really is funny, clearly I have them living there and under the house but without the pest spraying I think I have seen two maybe three since I have lived there, the most recent was residing near the front sprocket of my dirt bike along with two Red Backs under the seat and a frog... what a strange little community.
 
neal70 said:
in Lincoln, Ne. we get widows and brown recluses in the house. recluse will charge-they are roving wolf spiders. a woman in iowa was bit and sent into a coma for 6 months. she lived because of hyper-baric treatments; the poison does several things, but one is causing a type of spreading necrosis-you know-gangrene. when the woman awoke after six months they had amputated both arms, both legs, and her nose. who likes spiders in their houses again? they also crawl on you at night to warm up when you are asleep-you move, they bite.
thanks, Neal
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Yikes, I have a similar story, a woman who used to come to a resort I worked at every year stepped into a concrete cinder block trying to reach over her fence to open the gate and was bit on the big toe by a recluse...the 3 years I worked there she visited 3 different times, each time she came back they'd taken another chunk off her foot. She used to love surfing but couldn't anymore. By the third time she came back she had only the right side of her foot and her pinky toe left...the rest was still bandaged up. I never saw her after that. Recluse are everywhere but fortunately I've never seen one where I live. I don't think they're very common in SoCal. What a horrible spider!
 
One of my favorite movies is "Sirens" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111201/). An English couple is visiting an Australian 'family' and one of the girls is warning the English wife about the spiders in the "thunder bucket" (outhouse). "How do you know that they're there?" "By the screams!"
 
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.
rolf
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I've tried to convince my wife of this, but she won't hear it! She swears all spiders are "our to get" her! That they actually can sense that she is afraid of them and they "hunt" her on purpose. I know that isn't true, but there is no way to change her mind. She has her "belief" and she is NOT about to change it! I must admit, she has had some unusually bad luck with getting bit by spiders over the years - almost makes you want to believe her - but just "almost". :D
 
Andy the Aussie said:
........ pfffft not in the same league as Yowies !!!!!
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We have many of those around here. They rattle the chain on the back fence at night trying to lure us out into the dark. They make a weird throaty hooting noise when they call to each other through the bush. They never seem to get the courage to actually to come near the house though. The hoop snakes however are fearless. I had one rolling about on the roof a few weeks back, looking for a gap in the gutter guard to get into the house. But I think one of the resident Gubbi Gubbi Witch spiders snared him in its trap coz he suddenly fell silent. Thank goodness for those Gubbi Gubbies!!!
 
ALTHOUGH - if you've ever encountered an aggressive roo, you tend to not even think about such trivial arachnids like the male Sydney funnel web-especially the big Red or Grey ones [emoji15]
I was at the hunter a few weeks ago for a conference and they gave us "advanced warning" that some of the big Roos are aggressive and to "keep clear" of them.[emoji15]


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I grew up in the Hunter, I learned how to fight proper by heading down along the river below my high school, pulling on some boxing gloves and punching it out with big buck 'Roos... !!
 
Andy the Aussie said:
I grew up in the Hunter, I learned how to fight proper by heading down along the river below my high school, pulling on some boxing gloves and punching it out with big buck 'Roos... !!
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Dude you've got some seriously BIG BALLS-LOL-I generally take solace in the fact that that I'm capable of outrunning certain things....but Roos ain't one if them-I'm happy to "observe from a distance" -except petting zoos.....but don't tell anyone.....its a secret....shhhhhhhhh[emoji15]
 
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