White Tail Spider

[Roos4eva]

God dammit, why did this thread have to be bumped?

Seriously.

 

[Strike Swiftly]

Had a rather 'intelligent' spider the other day...

He thought he would try and attack my anus whilst he sat in my toilet bowl... in the water.

However being a pretty large spider, I quite easily spotted him.

I honestly don't know what he was thinking, so I just flushed the toilet, and itsy bitsy spider went down my shitter.

haha pissa! Never seen that before. The buggers are getting smarter. The big ones up north will start weaving silk jackets soon so they can migrate into the colder climates down here. Full on invasion of the spiders, bringin out the big guns.

 

[ssfc0203]

There's a small family of redbacks right outside my house.. walk home every day to see their new kill, eating themselves slowly bigger..

Thank god I'm moving out.

 

[rdhopkins2]

Welcome home after your summer hol

After take off from Singapore on the way to London you notice this. Then wonder where the Mummy and Daddy spiders are!

 

[NeRFaHoLIc]

Welcome home after your summer hol

Wow...

Have fun getting rid of that?

 

[Armitage2Riewoldt]

Had a rather 'intelligent' spider the other day...

He thought he would try and attack my anus whilst he sat in my toilet bowl... in the water.

However being a pretty large spider, I quite easily spotted him.

I honestly don't know what he was thinking, so I just flushed the toilet, and itsy bitsy spider went down my shitter.

Did it scare the shit out of you?

Hehe, any1 c wut I did thar?

 

[ripitup27]

That second photo just looks like the shadows of cracks in the window or something. Last time I checked spiders legs didn't vary between four and nine legs.

 

[drew_j]

That second photo just looks like the shadows of cracks in the window or something. Last time I checked spiders legs didn't vary between four and nine legs.

Yeah, but that's probably somewhat scarier.

 

[Hard Ball Get]

Had one in my room the other night. I took a few pics with this thread in mind. I'll upload them when I can be arsed.

 

[Ghostwriter]

Hate spiders too, but Huntsmans eat baby cockroaches so I let them live, I've got some pics of spiders here somewhere if I can find i'll post.

 

[Stenglein's a Champ!]

OK seriously, f**k this thread, especially everyone who decided to post pictures.

I left the room halfway through this thread and as I was walking my paranoia slowly built, by the time I got to the loungeroom I was running and had chills right down my spine.

Also, for those of you intending to post in this thread in the future, please keep your posts relatively short. Some of us use the time in between posts to look around for spiders, and if you're typing long posts, you're increasing my likelihood of death by spider. kthxbi.

 

[Armitage2Riewoldt]

There actually was a small male white tail just lying on the floor a couple days back. Scared the crap outta me. I figued if I ran for the fly spray it would run away and I'd never see it again till it bit and killed me. So I grabbed a shoe and crunched the bastard.

Hopefully my only encounter with one of these bitches this year.

 

[fryingpan]

Unbelievable !

Reading thru this thread has got me paranoid, so I've looked around the room and there's a ****in huntsman in the top corner of the room staring right back at me

Luckily my female boss killed it for me.

 

[NeRFaHoLIc]

Yeah nah... the curse of this thread is ridiculous...

Got in my car this morning, to find... a swarm of ants... I'm like wtf... my car is actually clean for once and there's ants... when there's shit lying everywhere... no ants... so I'm never cleaning my car again. I douse my car with Mortein to kill the little ****ers.

About 45 minutes into my car trip, and now on my way home, I think I figured out why they were in my car...

Perhaps they were hiding from the huge ****ing Wolf Spider that was waiting for them outside.

I'm at the traffic lights, turning right, it goes green, I look to my right and I see this massive spider on my window. Thank God it was outside though. I'm normally not scared of spiders, but that scared the shit out of me.

I pull into a petrol station to try and get it off my car. I open my car door as wide as possible... commando roll out of my car, and see it on the roof near my boot.

Before I could try and get him off, the little shit hides under the boot crack.

As I'm putting petrol in my car I can see him putting a leg out, almost as if he was taunting me. I felt like spraying petrol down there and lighting a match to burn the ****er. However I didn't think he was worth destroying my car over.

So now I'm eating lunch, when I'm done, I'm going to try and find him, and maybe snap a picture.

 

[Strike Swiftly]

good luck with that.....

 

[NeRFaHoLIc]

good luck with that.....

Found him.

Fricken big spider.

I could hear his foot steps when we was running across the leaves.

 

[Armitage2Riewoldt]

Looks like a hunstman to me.

Didn't know we had Wolf Spiders in Melbourne? Never seen one lol.

 

[NeRFaHoLIc]

Looks like a hunstman to me.

Didn't know we had Wolf Spiders in Melbourne? Never seen one lol.

I was kinda thinking that too after looking at photos, but it did have markings on it's back similar to a wolf spider (which aren't visible in the photos).

Either way. Scared the crap out of me.

 

[Macca19]

I hate going into the port shed at work. Hate it. All walls are covered in cobwebs, including the doors. All cobwebs are filled with at least one big ugly black ****er. The one in the door I think has figured out I hate it as it tends to follow me...he knows im looking at it and will watch my every move. Gives me the bloody shivers.

Then the other day I was in there...all looks normal...get what I need then turn to go out and there is the biggest ****ing spider ive ever seen live on the edge of the door. It was green and was the size of my outstretched hand. Scared the crap out of me. Quickly bolted out the door...forgot something in there, went back in, had a look and it was gone. Nowhere to be seen. That was worse as I had no idea where it went so quickly.

Havent been in there since.

 

[Stenglein's a Champ!]

Then the other day I was in there...all looks normal...get what I need then turn to go out and there is the biggest ****ing spider ive ever seen live on the edge of the door. It was green and was the size of my outstretched hand. Scared the crap out of me. Quickly bolted out the door...forgot something in there, went back in, had a look and it was gone. Nowhere to be seen. That was worse as I had no idea where it went so quickly.

Havent been in there since.

Yeah, I had a similar run-in with a huntsman.

Be a few months ago now, I walked into my room and turned on the light without looking at the actual switch. In my room, did what I needed to do and when I looked up, this f**king big hunstman is sitting max. 10cm underneath the switch.

I honestly struggled to get out of the room, I could barely bring myself to get through the door. I don't really know why, feared it would jump I guess (yes, yes I know). Eventually I got out and stood in the kitchen for a good two minutes before diving back into my room for my thongs. Managed to coax the spider out with Pea Beau, I swear it charged me, fangs on show and everything. Anyway got it onto my side of the wall and had to throw my thongs at it 'cause there was no way I was going to let my hand be within centimetres of that thing. Of course they were after when I preceded to belt the shit out of the thing when it was down.

Also, for those of you intending to post in this thread in the future, please keep your posts relatively short. Some of us use the time in between posts to look around for spiders, and if you're typing long posts, you're increasing my likelihood of death by spider. kthxbi.

I know I said this, but....shutup, I haven't just spent the past hour reading through people's horror encounters with spiders.

 

[Schism]

Killed a couple of monstrous wolf spiders a couple of weeks ago,both at night,about 3 days apart.Both looked identical in size and colour,they come in after the heat.I don't know whether they are trying to cool down,or looking for food or what.Didn't take pics but this is what they looked like,more or less.Had like white lightning stripes down either side of the abdomen,and jumped a few cm's in the air if the first hit didn't kill them.Crazy ****en things.

Since then,have killed a couple more that were only about half grown.Still big spiders by any standard though.

edit:Actually looked closer to this:

 

[StFly]

Woken up once with one latched onto my neck, dunno how it got there but I didn't even notice until I had got up, walked down the passage, taken a leak, gone to wash my hands and saw him in the mirror sitting there having a look at the side of my neck wondering if he should move or not. Since I've handled spiders before didn't quite freak me out but I wondered wtf was going on then flicked him off and beat the snot out of him with a deodorant can. Didn't bite me or even come close and haven't been bitten by a spider to date *touches wood*

Closest I came was with a white tail in the laundry, decided to hide in footwear and freaked my mother out so we had to move most things around him to get a clean shot, reared up while I was moving a shoe so I dropped it and back off just as it lunged and struck the shoe then my other hand came down with a thong and counterpunch'd.

Actually had to kill a small nest of Red backs on our shed door 2 days ago since they like to connect the web tot he lavender bush in the garden (which I hate, because it's bees I hate, bees are nasty) and decided to kill the red backs with a 9 iron. So yeah, lucky thing I suck at golf I suppose since the 9 iron now is designated for clearing paths of things that don't want to gtf out of my road.

 

[Poptart]

I get quite a few white tails in my place in Mornington, you'd see at least one in the house once a week walking up the wall or along the floor, tough buggers to kill, they crunch and have to stomp HARD.

Found this bad boy in my back yard doing some gardening, so i took a snap, is this just a tree spider? It was quite large, about the size of a large huntsman, my hand was literally 5 cm's away when i first saw it.

 

[Poptart]

Scary thread. I hate spiders!

Anyway, I found one of these hanging outside my window about 12 months ago:

A 'St Andrew's Cross Spider' according to Museum Victoria. Its meant to be harmless, but I didn't know it at the time. Saw the f&cker and nearly pooped myself from the fright it gave me. I emptied half a Mortein can on the thing, but it just sat there unmoved. I didn't have the balls to try and squish it. This things body looks almost plastic, and I had this weird (irrational) feeling that if I tried to squish it the thing would just casually bench press the shoe/newspaper off itself.

So I grabbed some deodorant, a lighter, and fried the little bastard with my flame thrower!
Take note kids: Half a can of mortein stuck to the web & house wall + flamethrower = big focking fire! Probably lucky I didn't burn down the house in the end.

I had one very similar to that, was a red spider fall from my sun visor whilst i was driving, scared the absolute $%$# out of me, i had to pull over.

 

[borgsta2006]

Got heaps of em in town area and they are always crawling around when you least expect em.