Home & Garden Spiders can get ****ed

[vealesy]

oh **** off

 

[de_LICA_ish18]

I've never seen a snake other than at zoo's and stuff. That makes spiders scarier, they live amongst us.

I'll probably see a snake tomorrow lol

 

[moistie]

oh **** off

I aim to please

 

[Mcveigh]

Found this guy eagerly waiting for me when I got home from work.... Kinda like a dog waiting for you at the front gate.

I chopped 3 of his legs off trying to catch him though but he/she should be able to survive till they grow back.

 

[policegetthatman]

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[edgie]

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[kaysee]

I hate this thread... but can't stop reading.

 

[Andre]

I hate this thread... but can't stop reading.

Agreed. I hate this thread, I hate spiders and yet are drawn back to it every time I see a new post.

 

[The Big Sticks]

 

[triplejdude]

Not sure if this has been posted yet.

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Enjoy.

 

[BarneyBent]

Haha, I love this.

 

[SugarShane]

I read a whole heap of them once and had to stop once i started empathising with the buggers.

 

[aussierulesrules]

I spend a lot of time outside, so I come across them all the time. We have an understanding. I leave them alone, so they leave me alone. Works well.
If they're in my way, I move them someplace else. If they're pitch black, with a red mark on their back, I move them well away!

If I see a big Huntsman on the wall inside, I catch it in a container and take it back outside once I could be bothered. If it stays there overnight, so be it. Chances are it will be in the same spot tomorrow morning.

If any of them get on you, you just need to relax and wait for an appropriate time to get them off.
In my experience, they're not out to get you and will only attack/try to bite if you really aggravate them, out of fear. They just want to be left alone. If you do that, they will leave you alone, in my experience.

 

[Cruyff14]

Pretty sure Funnel Web's don't need to be aggravated to attack

 

[aussierulesrules]

Don't they? I don't have any experience of them (that I'm aware of), so I'm not going to comment.

As far as the various ones I come across goes, I'm at the point now where I could be working in the garden a few inches away from them and I don't even bother to move them. I just go about doing my thing and they just hide/try to stay still, or they take off in the other direction. Even if they have eggs there they can take off and leave them. They don't go out of their way to attack, that's for sure. Even Redbacks take off and hide.

I'm careful if I'm walking outside at night though, especially if I'm walking between two things that aren't far apart, like branches of a tree, or whatever. They can build big webs between them and they usually sit smack bang in the middle, waiting for prey. As a result, when I'm walking between things like that at night, I walk with my hand, or torch, or a stick, or something like that out in front of me, so that I don't walk face first into a web. That is not pleasant, as you can have the web all over you and you're wondering where the hell they are on you!

 

[ioppolo]

Came across a Huntsman in the pool yesterday. Wasn't nice diving in and suddenly having a spider pop up next to your face underwater.

 

[aussierulesrules]

Was it doing laps, or what?

 

[ioppolo]

Think it managed to fall in somehow.

 

[aussierulesrules]

It's pretty hot over there at the moment, isn't it? Maybe it was just in there to cool down.

 

[Simple Jack]

Was it doing laps, or what?

lol'd.

 

[Eagle Empire]

A friend of mine works as an arborist (tree surgeon). During the hot season, he has frequent encounters with tree spiders whilst on the job. At times, they frighten him. For a means of amusement during work breaks, he and his workmates pick up Huntsman spiders and place them on each other when they are unaware.

 

[Wallaby]

I've heard about (not seen) huntsman sandwiches....................

Now that's a joke, that even the courts would say justifies cold-blooded, planned revenge murder.

There's a scene in Red Dwarf (almost my favorite TV series) where the bad guys make Lister eat a giant spider - I don't re-run that scene much.

 

[edgie]

Not spiders, but tonight at work I seen the biggest cricket in my life, must have been about 3 times the size of a regular one, was roughly the size of a cockaroach or a human thumb. Will edit with an uploaded pic when it isn't 2am and I figure out how to connect the phone to the computer.

 

[red+black]

****ing **** spiders

At work about to enter the car park, have my proximity card in hand to swipe for the boom gate, and at the last second I notice there's a big ****ing spider on the card reader. I ****ing shat myself. After I parked I went back and it was still there, 2 or 3 more cars had passed through, not sure if they noticed. So I had some paper and I was trying to swat it off, but it kept running around the top of the card reader thingy. Eventually I got him off, then I hear a security guard on a loudspeaker who must have seen all of this transpire and thought wtf. I told him about the spider and how I was trying to get him off the card reader.

To make matters worse when I swatted him off, I didn't see where he went and I thought **** he's on me somewhere. Eventually saw he was on the ground, but I didn't step on him.

EDIT: I still feel violated. I can constantly feel the spider on my hand, even though he didn't touch me.

 

[Blues_Man]

If you see a spider, kill the bastard. Don't put it outside like a pussy. They all deserve to die.

Any grown man that is scared of an insect is a girls blouse