Home & Garden Spiders can get ****ed

[Poseidon]

You're a better man than i , Gunga Din

Not really. I use the watered down Listerine for sensitive men because the normal stuff burns my mouth too much

 

[Lach72]

Had to put the gas on in my new house. Opened meter box and stuck the hand in, flicked the lever...red back the size of a small car runs across hand. Bricks were shat.

 

[Yellow Feathers]

This is probably the only "cute" spider in existence. Can't help but love him.

Crazy how the patterns on his back are in the shape of a spider... I'm all for evolution, but I can't help but be amazed when those kind of adaptations appear on creatures supposedly through a number of small mutations over millions of years. What was the evolutionary equivalent of "half way"? Half a pattern of a spider? I believe there must be some kind of sub-conscious altering of DNA through life experiences, and that evolution isn't just purely by chance. Could be why some animals are born with highly developed instincts- for example a bird knows how to make a nest without ever seeing one built before. Meh, rambling off topic but anyway?

 

[The Dice Man]

Funnel Webs are only in Sydney.

Got bitten by a white tail a few years back, thought it was nothing, then it got infected and I woke up in agony one morning, it got infected. Left a little a scar but apart from that I was fine.

Funnel Webs have been moving north, and have been found on the Gold Coast Hinterland.

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

I have to move some old furniture on to the nature strip that's been sitting in a dirty old garage for a year.

This thread isnt helping me get the desire to complete this task.

 

[HoldenMagroin]

The sky is falling and I want my mommy.

This video was shot recently in some lucky neighbourhood in Santo Antônio da Platina, Brazil. It's amazing how working in co-operative mode working at building a network of webs and being the 'sociable' type would scare the bejeezus of people.

 

[Flawed Genius]

Brazil's off the travel list.

 

[Shaucob_Burjan]

The 4 legged Spider

 

[Hatchy1992]

The sky is falling and I want my mommy.

This video was shot recently in some lucky neighbourhood in Santo Antônio da Platina, Brazil. It's amazing how working in co-operative mode working at building a network of webs and being the 'sociable' type would scare the bejeezus of people.

That's like something out of a movie.

 

[Ron The Bear]

The sky is falling and I want my mommy.

This video was shot recently in some lucky neighbourhood in Santo Antônio da Platina, Brazil. It's amazing how working in co-operative mode working at building a network of webs and being the 'sociable' type would scare the bejeezus of people.

Wow, isn't nature awesome?

Nuke the joint.

 

[MisterMarcus]

Why are people scared of spiders? Don't they have an antidote for every single spider bite now?
I'm not some brave bush warrior but I have no problem grabbing any spider and throwing it outside if I find one.

That's why it's called a phobia!

I'm scared shitless of spiders and have got no idea why.....not worried about snakes or any other creepy crawlies, just those big 8-legged muthas.......

 

[Jackfrost]

My 3 year old has now been bitten by a White Tip and a Red Back. The reputation of both these spiders proceeds them.

 

[Tiff]

****in hate this time of year.

Those big red cockroaches that fly invade my suburb.

I think some are "Australian cockroaches" and some are "American cockroaches". From what I understand neither of them come from the places their names suggest.

Either way I hate them. They're massive, fly and go like the clappers.

Every time one appears I think my girlfriend is dying due to the horrible screech that she emits. Then comes the half hour rescue mission trying to coax her from wherever the beast has cornered her.

I really should be smarter about this and allow the pest to hold her captive, crack a beer and enjoy the silence for a while.

 

[Varcoe2Chapman]

I've noticed that each morning in the shower there is a different Daddy-Long legs or something similar. Do they kill each other for prime real estate or just have short lives? I despise spiders, but these guys don't bother me.

The past couple of nights i've been dreaming about a spider crawling over my head when sleeping. The other night i actually woke up turned the light on and flipped the mattress over. C***s f***ed.

The worst incident was a couple of months ago. I am up at 5am to go to work but realised i needed my shirt off the line. I walk through the gate and my shirt, no worries. As i am walking back, i notice there is one of those monsterous effers with all its babies on the back. It was the size of coaster! RIGHT NEXT TO THE LATCH. Right where my hand was a few seconds ago. I ended up jumping the fence in my Reg Grundys and almost did an ACL. All to avoid going near this thing. Fair to say i didn't go to the line until either the fence was burned down or SWAT team was called in.

 

[Damp Squarie]

I had a frightening experience with a spider.
After not riding my pushy for awhile, I dusted off the helmet, donned it, and then after about 200 metres of pedalling I had these big hairy legs crawl down over my forehead

After crushing my nuts on the crossbar pulling up abruptly and tearing my helmet off doing the three stoogees face slap for about 30 seconds...I discovered the harmless monster scurrying across the road.
heck it scared the shit outta me.

 

[edgie]

Is it worth paying for a professional pest removal company just to clear out our 2 sheds? I mean sure, I could buy some bug bombs and get in there with one of those spider web brush things for a day, but... there's like 8 foot tall webs from floor to ceiling! And there's red backs in there the size of a thumb, and white tails, and all colours of the rainbow

 

[Marklar_33]

I don't know, do pest companies supply nuclear weapons?

 

[Xtreme]

Caught a white tail last night, it was crawling along on my ceiling while i was about to fall asleep on the couch. Needless to say i woke up in a hurry, grabbed some spray and a jar, sprayed it, watched it fall and land on the couch, then made sure it ran straight into the jar. Captured with little fuss, other than the fact that it woke me up.

 

[Cruyff14]

Caught a white tail last night, it was crawling along on my ceiling while i was about to fall asleep on the couch. Needless to say i woke up in a hurry, grabbed some spray and a jar, sprayed it, watched it fall and land on the couch, then made sure it ran straight into the jar. Captured with little fuss, other than the fact that it woke me up.

Spray doesn't kill white tails.

 

[BigLefty]

The past couple of nights i've been dreaming about a spider crawling over my head when sleeping. The other night i actually woke up turned the light on and flipped the mattress over. C***s f***ed.

i had the same dream years ago but in mine i greabbed it off my face and chucked it down the side of my bed. woke up thinking it was all too realistic. In the morning i checked and there was the dead spider sitting next to my bed.

i also suspect i got bitten by a white tail that in bed one night after i discovered a squashed one on the sheets in the morning. then mysteriously 2 days later i had a tennis ball sized heamatoma on my back that had to get drained.

i've heard some awful stories about what white tail bites can do, seems to vary from dissolving flesh, to nothing.

 

[Xtreme]

Spray doesn't kill white tails.

May not have killed it but it helped to lure it to the jar so i am happy

 

[Marklar_33]

Mrs came screaming out of the toilet last night, demanding I catch this huge Huntsman. I know they're harmless, but this ****er was behind and under the loo, forcing me to lay on my back to coax the prick out. I'm just not keen on it being 2 inches from my eyeball!

Anyway, catch and release. He can now happily take up residence in the bush land across the road!

 

[mantis]

Mrs came screaming out of the toilet last night, demanding I catch this huge Huntsman. I know they're harmless, but this goose was behind and under the loo, forcing me to lay on my back to coax the prick out. I'm just not keen on it being 2 inches from my eyeball!

Anyway, catch and release. He can now happily take up residence in the bush land across the road!

It will come back.

 

[Marklar_33]

Better not! There's 4 houses closer than ours! Usually I dump them straight under next door...they probably dump them back!

 

[Smoooothy]

time to napalm the crap out of the house man..