Spider...

Hell no, I'm not afraid of a lot of things in this life, but when it comes to spiders , I will run and scream like a little girl, like garth said you just keep them over there, we have enough spiders over here as is...
 
I have a bit of fascination with spiders.

Found this little girl while making a fire last summer. Pulled up a log and she was under there hanging out.

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First time I have seen one at my house.

We get these every fall without fail, hundreds of them.

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Not a spider but I still don't know what this is. It's got a bumble bee.

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-Nick
 
OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry, I am not a spider type of girl. . . . . :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
 
Pokey1 said:
OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry, I am not a spider type of girl. . . . . :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
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I had to kill the widow and the egg sack because I didn't want that around my dogs but I leave the wolf (I think) spiders alone, there is just too many of them and they are harmless.
 
neverdie36 said:
I had to kill the widow and the egg sack because I didn't want that around my dogs but I leave the wolf (I think) spiders alone, there is just too many of them and they are harmless.
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I would be moving. . . . LOL That is a really big black widow. Do you see many of them where you live? Are wolf spiders poisonous? I'd like to say i'm only afraid of the poisonous ones but that would be a lie. . . . ANY spider will just about do it LOL
 
Andy the Aussie said:
.....just out working on the bike and this little girl decided to take a stroll up my arm as he had a little spot picked out under the seat.... :D

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Did it have a screw loose? :D
 
Pokey1 said:
I would be moving. . . . LOL That is a really big black widow. Do you see many of them where you live? Are wolf spiders poisonous? I'd like to say i'm only afraid of the poisonous ones but that would be a lie. . . . ANY spider will just about do it LOL
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In my life I've seen 3 in our area so they're not super common. Wolf spiders are ground hunters, they burrow in the ground and hunt their prey without use of a Web, my dog loves to chase them though lol.

I am actually arachnephobic, I had a bad experience when I was little, and I think that's part of why they fascinate me. I can go near them and as close as I want but I can't stand them to touch me.
 
Ick! When I first moved to Perth I got an old 10-speed to get to and from work, when I was first cleaning it off I noticed a Redback under the seat, when I tried to get her out she ran into the seat tube. That bike remained where I was cleaning if from then on. There were Redbacks all around our apartment block, and even some Funnel webs. The ones that got to me the most were the Huntsman spiders, I know they are harmless, but in Canada the biggest spider I see is the diameter of a silver dollar, going from that to a spider that is diameter of a beefsteak tomato was a bit too much. Australia is beautiful, but everything there wants you dead.
 
infocus2006 said:
Looks like a black widow to me.
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.... in fact that is just what they are, just the Aussie version (which includes the super cool red racing stripe) ... :D

I had bit of a look around last night and found a nest of these under the lip of my Wheelie Bin.... maybe five or six along the length of it.... I decided to just fall back and nuke it from space.... really... it is the only way to be sure.... ;)

I have never been bitten by any of the real nasties out here and will try not to be.. !! I have twice found Funnel Webs in the garage in prime spots for me to stick my hands and get bit and more than one I have had a White Tip around the bedrooms .....but most places do, it is just if you see them or not. Snakes are a fact of life and it is just a mater of not doing stupid things (like reaching under a sheet of iron in the yard or sticking your arm up a hollow log etc)... !!

One of my good mates lives in Alaska (Sitka Island) and he gets all nervous and such about the little bitey things here.... I just don't get it... he has BEARS.... great big hairy things that will run you down and eat you.... how does that not trump a snake... ????
 
Andy the Aussie said:
One of my good mates lives in Alaska (Sitka Island) and he gets all nervous and such about the little bitey things here.... I just don't get it... he has BEARS.... great big hairy things that will run you down and eat you.... how does that not trump a snake... ????
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You can make bears aware of your presence and they will tend to avoid you. Bears leave tracks and signs of their presence. Bears have tale tell signs that they are going to attack. Spiders hide is places they know you are going to be and will bite at any chance. Plus, I've never been afraid of finding a bear in my shoe, my house, or under a toilet seat :eek: :D
 
Andy the Aussie said:
.... in fact that is just what they are, just the Aussie version (which includes the super cool red racing stripe) ... :D
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The thing that scares the crap out of me in Aus are those tiny Irukandji jellyfish. They make the spiders look harmless It has got to be the most horrible scary thing on the planet. You cannot ever see it and the sting is almost always lethal after days and weeks of protracted pain that no drug can abate.......... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irukandji_jellyfish

Even by African standards Aus has some weird critters..............
 
Andy the Aussie said:
.... in fact that is just what they are, just the Aussie version (which includes the super cool red racing stripe) ... :D

I had bit of a look around last night and found a nest of these under the lip of my Wheelie Bin.... maybe five or six along the length of it.... I decided to just fall back and nuke it from space.... really... it is the only way to be sure.... ;)

I have never been bitten by any of the real nasties out here and will try not to be.. !! I have twice found Funnel Webs in the garage in prime spots for me to stick my hands and get bit and more than one I have had a White Tip around the bedrooms .....but most places do, it is just if you see them or not. Snakes are a fact of life and it is just a mater of not doing stupid things (like reaching under a sheet of iron in the yard or sticking your arm up a hollow log etc)... !!

One of my good mates lives in Alaska (Sitka Island) and he gets all nervous and such about the little bitey things here.... I just don't get it... he has BEARS.... great big hairy things that will run you down and eat you.... how does that not trump a snake... ????
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I see these all the time in Padmount transformers. I have seen them in my wood piles every so often and in my cellar. We also have a lot of brown recluse or (fiddle backs) around my house. I was bitten by one several years ago while messing around the attic and I got extremely sick and was in the hospital over night.
 
I work at a GM car dealership in Michigan and when the Pontiac GTO first came out(they are imported from Australia) another technician was prepping one and found a redback spider under the car when he was looking it over. He kept it for a few months, I don't know what he ended up doing with it.
 
GregS said:
My worst nightmare... looking at this gif made my butt hurt.
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LOL. Brings to mind the Aussie classic:

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am i the only one who experienced extreme sphincter contraction when i looked at this thread?

Seriously, spiders... not my bag
 
It's a reddie. We have about eighty thousand of those under our house. I was bitten once a few years ago relighting the pilot light in my gas hot water system. Got a nasty headache from it.
 
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