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Love spiders - always catch them and put them outside (even white tails). I can understand the irrational fear, but if you kill them, expect many more insects (flies, mosquitoes) in your house.

Female wolf spiders are even maternal, carrying their young on their back and feeding them to give them a better chance of survival:
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Shell said:
I kill spiders and I have no flies and no mozzies in my house, ever.
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That's probably because your house is full of organochlorate and organophosphate pesticide and insecticide residue from excessive spraying. Most of these compounds are bioaccumulative, so they can build up and affect biochemical pathways within organisms. The dose rate is small for smaller organisms (flys, mozzies, spiders), so they die, but humans don't immediately notice the effects as they ingest small amounts from airborne droplets and surfaces.

However, over your lifetime, exposure to these chemicals can damage your internal organs, especially your liver, which has the unenviable task of trying to process these largely unbreakable molecules, so ends up "storing" them in fatty deposits around the body, where they accumulate and increase in concentration as you age. These compounds are, of course, damaging to human tissue and cells and highly carcinogenic. :-)
 

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Two in my house today, big hairy huntsmen, the rain brings them in I think. Got rid of one and the other one just went behind the air-conditioner when I went to knock it down with the broom. No doubt it will re-appear somewhere else later on :rolleyes:
 
Woke up with a spider in the corner of my room. Reasonably sizeable, but more legspan than fat body. Leg span quite comfortably bigger than a male wallet, but the body would've only been the size of a 20 cent piece. Pretty standard house spider.

Didn't mind him sitting there all day. Came back in about 10 minutes ago and he had moved to about a foot above my pillow. Not so cool when it's about an hour or two before I'm going to bed. Caught him and took him outside. Got no real issues with spiders. They're pretty cool.
 
The Passenger said:
Woke up with a spider in the corner of my room. Reasonably sizeable, but more legspan than fat body. Leg span quite comfortably bigger than a male wallet, but the body would've only been the size of a 20 cent piece. Pretty standard house spider.

Didn't mind him sitting there all day. Came back in about 10 minutes ago and he had moved to about a foot above my pillow. Not so cool when it's about an hour or two before I'm going to bed. Caught him and took him outside. Got no real issues with spiders. They're pretty cool.
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There should be no such thing as a standard house spider :thumbsdown:
 
The Passenger said:
black house spider says hey

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that's not what my spider looked like. that looks a little too similar to a funnel web spider for my liking.
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Have you come across any funnel webs out of curiosity (being in Sydney)?
 
this was my spider.

huntsmen. i always thought huntsmen were a lot hairy-er and "scary" looking

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Cruyff14 said:
Have you come across any funnel webs out of curiosity (being in Sydney)?
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not in the house no. nor outside anywhere but the spider exhibition at toronga zoo.

but i must admit i'm not great with identifying species of animals outside of dogs and cats, and outside of the really obvious species like a baramundi, red back spider or a blue whale. to me 90% of animals are just a spider, or a snake, or a bird, or a fish. and i really should be better than that because i do watch a lot of doco's on animals and it does interest me.

people could really take the piss out of me because if someone turns to me and says "that's the east coast blue belly yellow fin shit eating european carp" i'd believe them and be quite impressed with them.
 

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Shell said:
We got Blue tounge lizards living under our front porch. :)

They eat spiders by any chance??
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they'll eat anything if they can catch them. they're slow movers so they can't be picky.

but unfortunately (for you) they wouldn't be quick enough to catch too many spiders.

we get blue tongues in our joint as well. they always get attacked by cats. went for work mid year and there was one completely gutted and beheaded right next to my car. it was a pretty gruesome scene. if it was a human in a movie it would've been an automatic R rating.
 
The Passenger said:
they'll eat anything if they can catch them. they're slow movers so they can't be picky.

but unfortunately (for you) they wouldn't be quick enough to catch too many spiders.

we get blue tongues in our joint as well. they always get attacked by cats. went for work mid year and there was one completely gutted and beheaded right next to my car. it was a pretty gruesome scene. if it was a human in a movie it would've been an automatic R rating.
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I know. And my flatmate "ran" into this young one sitting right in front of our front door. Was not scared of her at all, just sat there until she shooed it away. Dumb thing, hope it doesnt get caught by the cat next door. :(

The good thing is, there is absolutely no possible way the cat can get under the porch. There is one tiny gap which we think they get in thru, but there's no way the cat can fit thru that gap. If they stay under there, they'll be pretty safe.

Also if they are just eating all the ants, that is fine by me. We haven't had one ant in our flat for about 4 years. Before that they were a constant problem through out summer.
 

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Big Sauce 21 said:
Under your pillow i'd say
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Actually it crawled out a few minutes later fortunately and I got rid of it. I'm not scared of them as such but I don't like the idea of them scuttling over me in the middle of the night so they have to be removed one way or another.
 
Bumpswithagrin said:
Actually it crawled out a few minutes later fortunately and I got rid of it. I'm not scared of them as such but I don't like the idea of them scuttling over me in the middle of the night so they have to be removed one way or another.
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i'm about on a par with this

my old man on the other hand is shit scared of creepy crawlies.

my cousins even more so. had an "infestation" of cockroaches (whatever that entails) and actually moved him, his wife and their 2 or 3 kids (can't remember how many at the time) out of their house and into a hotel for a week and got fumigators in. it's been some great comic relief in our family over the last few years.
 
The interesting thing is that people are worried about necrotising fasciitis, although the best data I could find is that it kills less much less than 100 people a year, the vast majority of whom contract it via means that are not spider bites (predominantly in hospitals as a secondary infection, or in similar ways to tetanus). Yet 1,193 people died in car accidents in 2013 and people happily get in their cars and drive around all day.

And between 2000-3000 people commit suicide every year. Based on that statistic, the most dangerous organism in your house by a comfortable margin is you.
 

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