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Last night when i was lying in bed, I turned on my little reading light and there was a weird looking spider on my bed head. I tried to squish it with my deodorant can but it fell underneath my bed.

I also crushed a red back which was sitting in a pair of red back boots this morning. :p
 
Been bitten twice by white tails while sleeping, once in bed & once on the couch. Didn't notice until I jumped in the shower and the water running over the wound stung like I'd been stabbed with a needle.

The first bite was below the knee - skin shrivelled up over an area ~1cm square and it was painful to touch for several weeks. Over the next 18 months, the skin kept dying and and a hollow developed at the bite area. Four years on there is still a dark mark on my leg. Second bite was on the other leg but had no lasting symptoms after a week or so. Maybe I've developed some sort of immunity.

Saw two large ones last week - one in the lounge and one in a bedroom - and emptied a can of fly spray on the ****ers. Must've done the job as I haven't seen them since.

On the subject of scary-looking spiders, saw a pic of this critter in the Sunday HS about eight years ago. It's a mouse spider; they live in Victoria and are as deadly as all ****.

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This thread makes me laugh and at the same time, gives me the jeepers.

Everytime i have killed a massive bastard, I've always had ****en 100's of them bastards come out of the massive knob. Just awful!!
 
I found an odd insect in my bathroom last week, i thought it was a spider.... but it may not have been (it had a slightly yellow back, i wasn't interested in studying it in case it jumped on me and tore me a new one :p), grabbed some toilet paper and flushed it away.


On saturday night i was minding my own business lying down, when i felt a tickle on my right shoulder. I turned my head slightly towards it, and damn near shat myself - it was a white tail spider!!! :eek:. As soon as i saw it i jumped up - ran for the fly spray, sprayed the crap out of it. Picked it up with some toilet paper and sent it on its way.
 

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Ron The Bear said:
Been bitten twice by white tails while sleeping, once in bed & once on the couch. Didn't notice until I jumped in the shower and the water running over the wound stung like I'd been stabbed with a needle.

The first bite was below the knee - skin shrivelled up over an area ~1cm square and it was painful to touch for several weeks. Over the next 18 months, the skin kept dying and and a hollow developed at the bite area. Four years on there is still a dark mark on my leg. Second bite was on the other leg but had no lasting symptoms after a week or so. Maybe I've developed some sort of immunity.

Saw two large ones last week - one in the lounge and one in a bedroom - and emptied a can of fly spray on the ****ers. Must've done the job as I haven't seen them since.

On the subject of scary-looking spiders, saw a pic of this critter in the Sunday HS about eight years ago. It's a mouse spider; they live in Victoria and are as deadly as all ****.

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I know a bloke who owns a farm at Anglesea who has been pulling those suckers out of holes in the ground. Generally they head down a field mouse or bush rat hole and eat whats in there and live there for a while. You can always tell if there is one in there by the web at the 'front door'. Big suckers !
 
NeRFaHoLIc said:
I just thought I'd post a picture of a Wolf Spider.

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I saw a doco that Wolf Spiders in Australia, their venom is so bad that if bitten, they can kill the skin cells around the wound.

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But Wikipedia said that wasn't the case.
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I want to throw up.

A few mates of mine stole a fire hydrant from around Elwood way a few weeks ago. They found it lying in the middle of the road and thought it would be a good present for my birthday (what the ****). So they picked it up, chucked it in the back of their car.

When they gave it to me i chucked around the side of my house. Next day i looked at it and started dragging it inside. I accidently dropped it. As i went to pick it up i looked at the hollowed out inside...my GOD. There must have been 10 red back spiders inside it. As someone said previously, their webs are unmistakable. What made it even worse was there were a fair few orbs (what i presume are its egg sacks) in the webs.

And i was about to drag that inside my house...
 
Just dispatched a white tail from the kitchen wall down the sink, didn't really want to put a hole in the wall with the golf club and he got wise to me nudging him downards by running side to side and then rearing up at the stick where I managed to wedge it underneath him for a quick transfer to the sink. Only part that freaked me out was that my mother tried to grab the club mere millimetres from the spider and since I pissed him off, well, that could have ended extremely badly if she had of grabbed it.

Had a jumper deciding to make my venetian its home last night as well, he lasted all of 3 seconds.

Anyway, second white tail we've dispatched today, looks like I'm going hunting tomorrow around the house, pretty sure they've set up shop again in the laundry. Didn't see any spiders before I entered this thread either... bloody cursed.
 
dmc333 said:
Anyone know what the orangey ones with the white body are?

It's not the St.Andrews Cross btw.
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Golden orb spider? we have some of those at my place they sound about right description wise, the things are massive but harmless, they spin these huge elaborate webs overnight then take them down just before sunrise. Also killed off a rather large house spider the other night, nothing really to report except the thing was f**king vicious, sitting on the couch looked over and the thing was on the floor all reared up waiting to fight, still had my shoes on so i just crushed it, not really a fair fight but it was an angry little bastard! Has anyone else seen a spider all reared up with no-one around to have pissed it off? Freaked me out a bit.
 
phantom13 said:
Has anyone else seen a spider all reared up with no-one around to have pissed it off?
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Had a very large brown spider on my wardrobe door ~20 years ago. Never seen one like it before or since, or even a picture. Uniform light brown colour, with enormous abdomen. This thing oozed aggression and gave me chills just looking at it. I used to sweep huntsmans into a bucket with a broom and put them outside, but I was afraid to go near this one. Never saw it again.
 
Ron The Bear said:
Had a very large brown spider on my wardrobe door ~20 years ago. Never seen one like it before or since, or even a picture. Uniform light brown colour, with enormous abdomen. This thing oozed aggression and gave me chills just looking at it. I used to sweep huntsmans into a bucket with a broom and put them outside, but I was afraid to go near this one. Never saw it again.
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Pregnant wolfies look like that.Used to get them at the start of summer at my old house.It's like stepping on a mouse.
 
phantom13 said:
Also killed off a rather large house spider the other night, nothing really to report except the thing was f**king vicious, sitting on the couch looked over and the thing was on the floor all reared up waiting to fight, still had my shoes on so i just crushed it, not really a fair fight but it was an angry little bastard! Has anyone else seen a spider all reared up with no-one around to have pissed it off? Freaked me out a bit.
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Years ago as I waited to pick up my car from K-Mart autos at Forest Hill Chase, a spider 'loitered' nearby, so I figured it must've hitched a ride in one of many cars in the car park. I was sure it was a huntsman - big, brown and ominous... but as I taunted it by stomping/retreating, it reared up its front legs and fangs and walked towards me wherever I went, so I thought it couldn't be, as they are shy and non-aggressive. I thought "you cheeky bugger", so I played the matador and teased it some more then walked backwards in all directions as it kept following me.

Either it was a huntsman with some anger mgt issues, or a wolf(?) but as I taunted it with the confidence of stomping it in no time, I got distracted by my old man who finished his shopping, and the bugger quickly escaped and headed towards the K-Mart workshop, never to be seen again. :mad: It didn't help that the mechanics were too busy to find it as I told them where it went. Well, **** me!~ As much as the little David and Goliath skirmish kept me amused, I got a little freaked, and ultimately pissed that the ****er escaped. Gotta hand it to the critter though... it was a pretty ballsy effort.
 

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bleh, yuck.

I remember when I was about 7 or 8, my family had just come back from a dinner (may or may not have been at Pizza Hut) and for some reason I was walking backwards towards the back door...talking to my folks I think....then my Dad freaked and said 'dont move another step' so I stopped and turned around....huge bloody spider loitering near the back door. Dad stomped on it and what looked like 100s of little spiders went everywhere.

Maybe thats where my phobia comes from.
 
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Just walked into my bedroom and found a quite sizable (about 10cm in diametor leg to leg) spider hiding in the corner. After taking up the courage to get within 2 metres of it, i chucked a book at it and hit it. It was lying on its back for about 15 seconds before it does an intense riggle, rattling the wooden floor, but i chucked another book at it with a more direct hit and saw it seeing fairies.

I then settled down, watched the first 30 seconds of a scrubs episode on my computer when i here the unmistakable pitter patter of little spider feet again. I look up, and theres another one in the opposite corner of the room. I go back to the old spider, pick up the book that is furthest its corpse and walk over to the new spider. I get within abouter 2 metres (i was pretty freaking scared by now) and launch the book as hard as i can at it. Direct hit, spider guts all over my book.

Since then, my host dad has told me that they were both tarancellas (spelling).
I don't think i'm going to sleep well tonight.
 

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I just did a google search for spider bites trying to find something disgusting to post up here and came across this pearler... Those massive camel spiders that the soldiers in Iraq were holdig up will do this to you if you let them...


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I got a black one living on the light in my bedroom whom i have named Sergio. Hes been there for a few months now. I might take a pic and upload it.

Ill edit this when its uploaded

Ive claimed it as a pet

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Ill prob get rid of it soon cos it freaks people out and makes an otherwise tidy room look a bit feral.
 

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