White Tail Spider

[Virgil]

http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2008/10/23/34261_todays-news.html

Relived for awesomeness .

 

[Armitage2Riewoldt]

Looked outside last night; orb spider, small black one with big abdomen (think its just a garden spider) And two immense looking beasts which I couldn't get a god look at. Either white tails or just extremely large garden spiders.

We got a moth infestation, so I threw a few moths onto the orb spiders web. Was a pretty good show...

 

[Macca19]

Yeh, believe it or not I was in the process of reading this thread a couple of nights ago.

Take a quick look towards my right and i see one of these clowns on the wall, go to hit it with my thong eek and what do you know, I have missed.

Theres nothing worse than that. If ive missed, then I cant rest until I find it and destroy it, because no doubt it will be plotting my downfall and seeking revenge.

 

[morell]

The Goliath Spider can reach up to 28 cm or that of a large plate.

Oh shit, I think something just touched my foot.

Is it weird that I don't find big Tarantulas anywhere near as scary?

Don't get me wrong, I still don't like them but as someone else said about snakes they are kind of ... obvious. They don't seem to have the treacherous streak the other ****ers have.

 

[morell]

I KNEW it would happen after I read this thread.

Haha, this thread has had a real negative effect on people, quite eerie, but it's sadly a reflection of the fear that spiders implant into us all.

Just killed a spider straight after i was on this thread a few hours ago

funny you talk about flea's you start iching you talk about spiders you start seeing them i got off the computer yeatersday and went to my room put my bag on the bed and yes you guessed it a spider [ not a white tail] was walking along my bag weird all these spiders coming out after we read about spiders on the net

Take a quick look towards my right and i see one of these clowns on the wall, go to hit it with my thong eek and what do you know, I have missed.

He then jumps behind the curtain never to be seen again.

I have a feeling he will come back for revenge and maul me while I'm sleeping

I just killed one of those evil little pricks. SMASHED HIM IN HALF with my drumstick (not a euphemism). Check him out!

SEE! They are probably monitoring this thread from their secret underground lair. I am deadly serious, they are smarter than we think. Maybe its like that quirky space war movie and they have one central being controlling all the other minions.

We need an anti-spider alliance to combat their tyranny.

 

[Armitage2Riewoldt]

I think it's cos they look big and slow. I prefer big spiders.

The spindly (is that a word?) ones with thin legs are fast, and I can just imagine one scuttling up my arm. You can't really imagine a tarantula doing that.

 

[ripitup27]

Don't go trusting that Spiderman bastard either. Comes across as helpful but I don't believe him. He's their leader...


Off that topic I had to talk to a snake catcher today, top bloke, had a good look at a Tiger snake which I didn't mind...then he offered me the chance to have a look at the Australiam Tarantula...no...bloody...way. Snakes yes, spiders no.

 

[ripitup27]

I think it's cos they look big and slow. I prefer big spiders.

The spindly (is that a word?) ones with thin legs are fast, and I can just imagine one scuttling up my arm. You can't really imagine a tarantula doing that.

I'm the complete opposite, hate the big ones, can handle the small ones. Big ones are just creepy.

 

[Macca19]

I think it's cos they look big and slow.

It also looks like it could jump 6 feet in the air and devour your face. The bigger, the worst for me.

 

[Mattlowry]

Real nasty little bastards. Moral of the story:Check your bed before going to sleep! I found the spider in my bed 24 hours after i'd been bitten!

This will probably make me sound borderline crazy but if some spider bit me and caused me that much pain i'd probably put it in a jar, fill itwith deodorant and flick a lit match in there.. Burn baby burn..

 

[Armitage2Riewoldt]

It also looks like it could jump 6 feet in the air and devour your face. The bigger, the worst for me.

Haha, maybe a Funnel Web or Mouse Spider. But a Tarantula looks...friendly compared to those two...

 

[crazyman27]

This thread is cursed!!

After being an interested reader of this thread for a while I wondered when I would see another spider. Barring the many daddy-long legs in my house I was happy to see none.

Yesterday I've opened the the back door of my house, stepped into the house and a large house-spider spider has fallen and landed on my forehead. It bounced right off and scuttled away.

Be warned.

 

[Armitage2Riewoldt]

I found a crushed daddy long legs on a trial exam I was doing on my desk.

I asked my mum and sis who were both using my computer, no one said anything about crushing the spider...

I feel this thread is not only a curse for us.

 

[Strike Swiftly]

i ride motorcycles, and one night i was riding along and saw a massive huntsman silouette on the inside of the windscreen. I stopped on the side of the freeway, jumped off and looked for the bugger but couldnt find him. i got the torch out of the pannier and went looking for the bugger. found him behind the instrument cluster. a f*&kin almighty huntsman. i flicked it off the bike using a stick, dont know exactly how i mustered the courage to do it cos i hate spiders. the whole ride home i was picturing this spider flying off the screen and into my helmet. yuk! when i got home i hosed the bike down just in case (on the grass of course and during watering hours ). Since then i have found 3 huntsmans on my bike. i think its the dead bugs on it that attract the buggers. otherwise its got me stumped.

 

[BlueFan4]

or maybe its just these threads.

 

[Thrawn]

Daddy long legs are known to eat white tails, so don't kill them.

 

[DeadlyAkkuret]

I once bit an apple and found half a spider inside it. Luckily it was still attached to the other half, so I didn't have anything to worry about.

 

[Jimi]

i ride motorcycles, and one night i was riding along and saw a massive huntsman silouette on the inside of the windscreen. I stopped on the side of the freeway, jumped off and looked for the bugger but couldnt find him. i got the torch out of the pannier and went looking for the bugger. found him behind the instrument cluster. a f*&kin almighty huntsman. i flicked it off the bike using a stick, dont know exactly how i mustered the courage to do it cos i hate spiders. the whole ride home i was picturing this spider flying off the screen and into my helmet. yuk! when i got home i hosed the bike down just in case (on the grass of course and during watering hours ). Since then i have found 3 huntsmans on my bike. i think its the dead bugs on it that attract the buggers. otherwise its got my stumped.

The ex missus waited 30 minutes for me to get home from work one night because she refused to get out of her car due to a huntsman being on the windscreen.
I spend a bit of time walking around at night out bush, and even though it happens every 10 minutes you just cannot get over walking through a spiderweb. Whenever I go under a tree I use my rifle as a sort of guard to brush through any potential webs.

 

[Strike Swiftly]

walking around the bush at night with a rifle...

hope you dont carry a shovel and bag of lime as well. your full name isnt jimi "ivan" milat is it?

 

[Hard Ball Get]

Put my foot in my moccos one day and felt a pain on my toe. ripped it off to find a crushed spider there.
Thought it was a white tail and kept it in a tissue... Looked up their pic on the net to confirm my thoughts.

I was shitting myself for a while because I had heard bad things but nothing eventuated. Must have been lucky.

 

[Thrawn]

I was shitting myself for a while because I had heard bad things but nothing eventuated. Must have been lucky.

That's because their bites do not cause necrosis. It's a silly myth.

 

[Thrawn]

I wouldn't want to meet or get bitten by a Brazilian wandering spider. They're highly aggressive, are not reluctant to attack humans and have one of the most painful and venomous bites in the world when it comes to spiders.

Apparently it's the world's deadliest spider.

 

[emuboy]

Didn't a landscape gardener die a few years ago from complications after he was bitten by many white tail spiders at once, when he disturbed a colony of them in a hollow log? Or is this an urban myth?

On the subject of urban myths, I once worked with a girl who actually did get bitten on her bottom by a redback spider while she was in the toilet.

 

[BigBadCam]

I wouldn't want to meet or get bitten by a Brazilian wandering spider. They're highly aggressive, are not reluctant to attack humans and have one of the most painful and venomous bites in the world when it comes to spiders.

Apparently it's the world's deadliest spider.

My money would still be on the funnel web.

 

[morell]

I wouldn't want to meet or get bitten by a Brazilian wandering spider. They're highly aggressive, are not reluctant to attack humans and have one of the most painful and venomous bites in the world when it comes to spiders.

Apparently it's the world's deadliest spider.

Its time to ramp this thread up a notch with some video.

[YOUTUBE]SMiPJD0yrKM[/YOUTUBE]

Wandering Spider bit starts at about 1.45.

Venom is twice as powerful as the black widow family (redbacks).

You can tell by the way the **** moved that he would be a sneaky ****er too...

Geez I hate spiders.