Bloody Spiders!

[150D4DNikki Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close 150D4DNikki]

Holey firetruck!!!!!!!

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Yeah Yowie and I'm one of them when it comes to them things lol. I don't scream like a girl but I sure as shit move like Bruce Lee use to when I feel one on me lol. My wife does the killing and removal of them in this house, If she's not around they normally end up thinner then a bit of paper engraved onto the paint work on the walls and stay there till she gets home. Don't get me started on cockroaches, they freak me write out especially when your about to squash them into next year and the bastards fly at you, then I shit and look like some one with a mental condition swinging my arms about like a mad woman, similar to when I walk through a spider web at night time....can be amusing the wife thinks..........Cheers Steve

Oh Steve, I can soooo see this. Am crying with laughter.

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Holt shit 8608, there would be no hope in hell of me working on that thing with that amount of eggs and spiders, noooo chance...Cheers Steve

[Ozpat Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close Ozpat]

A few years back we had the wife's niece visiting from Ireland and was absolutely terrified of our spiders and would run a mile. I showed her the beauty of the orb weavers as they made and repaired their webs at sunset in the back yard. Within a week I had her gently stroking the back of an orb weaver as it sept during the day on the palm tree (it didn't wake up). If she can do it anyone can.

Cheers, Jim.

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Uuuummm ????? NO, no hell in chance of me patting something that was not meant to be patted.......Cheers Steve

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Don't get me started on cockroaches, they freak me write out especially when your about to squash them into next year and the bastards fly at you..........Cheers Steve

I here you Steve, my wife an environmental scientist - no chemicals in our household. I'm the one to kill the bugs, spiders ok for me in Perth, but when it comes to those flying f....... The European brown ones that fly freak me too.... Here a bit of roach facts

http://www.roachcom.net/rofacts/

ps - snakes a different story, remember walking a trail in south wa - snake on track ahead 3 of us turn and run- she stay to get closer to examine it??? Oh see a roach and she wakes the whole neighbourhood - we have our own roach thong for that job

Pps -don't get me started on the little black ants that get into the house - any crumb of food they onto it

[Ozpat Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close Ozpat]

The spiders I don't mind, natural pest controllers, beautiful creatures under the macro lens. The roaches? don't even like picking up the dead ones, leave that up to the missus. They look too bloody alien.

[8608 Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close 8608]

Don't worry about the Huntsman, this is a spider that you have to respect.



The Northern Tree Funnel Web.
Yes, the bloody things can climb up vertical glass surfaces too. Just remember that if you ever put one in a glass tank to study her.
This is the most venomous spider in the world. There really cunning and smart in personality as well.
The Roo.

I normally detour across 4 black soil plains and two 1 metre deep swamps and the rest when i see one hanging across the track.

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""I normally detour across 4 black soil plains and two 1 metre deep swamps and the rest when i see one hanging across the track."" Lolol........Cheers Steve

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If you see a funnel web in NSW catch it in a screw top jar (not you Steve lol) with some holes in the cap and a bit of damp soil and take it to the local hospital. It will then end up in the Australian Reptile Park near Gosford where Julie and the staff will milk the valuable venom for antivenin.

Cheers, Jim.

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Is that what we are supposed to do with them. We have had a number of people deliver them to us and never knew what to do with them.

ps We rang the reptile park once and they said they had enough of their own. I suspect its an urban myth.

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That's what they told us about a year ago. Maybe they're breeding them now. You a hospital worker Greg?

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Yeah I work in a hospital Pathology lab. I have just given them a ring and I was wrong.

Yes they are happy to take them from us if they are in a closed container. So bring them in. (When I am off the shift)

This is different to what we were told a few years ago.

Cheers

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My wife freaks out at the sight of a gecko,frogs,snakes and anything of that nature.I'm not much into spiders although I've learnt to tollerate them,snakes on the other hand....I've left the premises yesterday!.

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Many times out in the bush I have had need to take a leak. On one occasion a red bellied black, and on another occasion, a copperhead snake popped up rather close to my 'snake.'

Judging by some of the comments here, you big 'girls' would be running away in mid stream and end up pissing yourselves. Hahaha.