Lord Pom Percy

When your asleep at night they crawl in through your nose and lay eggs in your brain and when the eggs hatch the babies eat your brain as their food source.

GreenSauce

AAAHHHH :scared: :scared: :scared:
I can cope with seeing a spider at a distance longer than my arm, but to think it touches or even invades me is intolerable!!!!!
Saw a redback on a campingsite in Geraldton, when we asked the local tourist shop man all he said was - "I don't worry about the redbacks, the bats come in every night and eat them for me..." AAAAAHHHHHH Ozzies are some straaange people!

iPom

I ate my 8 spiders in the uk. I'm done now.

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iPom

Not that I've heard, but give him time.

iPom

Oh, that's another thing, if you have outdoor furniture, red backs really like the little nooks and crannies underneath and so you need to turn them over every so often and give them a brush down.

Actually at my MIL's place, she doesn't bother. We've had lunch sitting above some very interesting wildlife, I'm sure.

Out in the bush in the morning, there are some spectacular webs, especially after heavy dew or rain, which is when they show up best. The other day we say a web that looked like a box on a plant. Others are like lovely sparkling trampolines and there's a myriad of different shapes to see. Really fascinating. Of course, the spiders are long gone as most spin a new web every day, but there's really no need to fear these creatures. They're really quite fascinating.
Still, I did squash one in the kitchen yesterday, with a palate knife. Jumpy little bugger.

jayr

I've got a Mango tree in the frontyard and this is very attractive to fruitbats. They have a wingspan of what looks like over 1m and come swooping in at dusk. My wife is scared of bats so I pretend that the large black objects flying overhead are nocturnal crows.

iPom

What does she think they'll do to her? I like the bats. I like how sometimes they brush my hair with their wings in the evening.

jayr

She's a bit scared of all flying objects. She won't even pass the caged sleeping bats at Lone Pine Sanctuary.

She also runs indoors when magpies land in the backyard. With magpie swooping season soon upon us (that's right Poms, even magpies in Aus will try to attack you) I suggested that she sticks some fake eyes on the back of here head and carries a large orange flag.

She wasn't amused.

annqldau

I was just amazed to see spiders that bounce plus the fact that spiders seem obsessed with pool filters.

We brought our garden orb spider from our rental house (it was outside our front door for 6 months so seemed a shame to leave it for new tenant to kill) to our new house but haven't seen it since.

We did however leave the numerous huntsman we encounted.

iPom

LOL - what did you put it in? A tuppaware box?

Kelli28

omg if huntsmen dont do the aggresive thing then funnel webs are lose in brisbane!!! :scared: :scared: i think i was better off just pretending it was a huntsman in the pantry to know it was a funnel web is too scary!!

annqldau

strangely enough yes... sort of sneaked up box one side lid the other and went snap then taped lid on till we got 15 mins down road to new house where I let it out. Was a big one bigger than a marble seemed such a shame to leave it. Lots of trees here so has probably found a nice tree house now.

iPom

Well you're alive, aren't you? So next time you'll do even better.

Can't imagine what it was doing in your pantry - prob came in during the rain and got trapped. It's not their natural environment. They prefer to hang out in their holes in the garden. I imagine you'd do some arm waving if you were trapped in a pantry with some big predator coming to squash you.

Most spider bites occur when people garden without gloves on.

iPom

LOL - that's great.

My MIL's place has a golden orb spider in the trees in her front garden. It's huge and the web is really something to see as it covers a massive span.

Kelli28

omg a scorpion in bed and your still here well done i think i might of had a some sort hysterical fit. i know someone that woke in the night with a cockroach in her cleavage i thought that was bad enough