Can anyone identify this spider?
Oct 21st 2007, 10:57 pm
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Re: Can anyone identify this spider?
They're one of the things I'm dreading when I get out there. But I'm sure I'll get used to them. As people have said they do more good than harm. Hopefully I won't see one on my shoulder when I'm driving - I'm bad enough with wasps in the car now! 
Check out this link on youtube for a slightly larger hunstman found in the shower.
typed in 'huntsman spider'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67aL4K7EPdc
Check out this link on youtube for a slightly larger hunstman found in the shower.
typed in 'huntsman spider' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67aL4K7EPdc
Oct 21st 2007, 10:59 pm
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Oct 21st 2007, 11:21 pm
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Re: Can anyone identify this spider?
Everyone else has answered what it is. Don't worry too much about them, they are good to have around apparently as they eat the redbacks. If spiders really bother you then get a big carton of Mortein and go around and spray the outsides every 6 months and that will keep them at bay. Available at Bunnings in a big grey carton. Kills cockies, ants and other creepys too.
A police car pulls in behind you and two policemen ask if there's a problem........... you explain.......they ask you to blow in a bag!!!! Then one of coppers opens the drivers door and sees the huntsman on the headrest of your seat, he cups his hand and brushes it towards the open door......... it lands on his boot.......... Arghhhh. We all scream!!
Oct 21st 2007, 11:26 pm
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Wait till you're driving up the freeway at 110 kph and you sense something moving on the driverside window. You turn to see a huge huntsman 4 inches from your nose ......... you scream!! It leaps onto your leg and you are wearing shorts............You scream even louder......... brake (really hard) and end up on the hard shoulder. Your turn to leap now.......... out of the car!!!! As you do so you brush it off your leg and and it falls into the drivers well and scuttles under the seat. You slam the door shut!!
A police car pulls in behind you and two policemen ask if there's a problem........... you explain.......they ask you to blow in a bag!!!! Then one of coppers opens the drivers door and sees the huntsman on the headrest of your seat, he cups his hand and brushes it towards the open door......... it lands on his boot.......... Arghhhh. We all scream!!
A police car pulls in behind you and two policemen ask if there's a problem........... you explain.......they ask you to blow in a bag!!!! Then one of coppers opens the drivers door and sees the huntsman on the headrest of your seat, he cups his hand and brushes it towards the open door......... it lands on his boot.......... Arghhhh. We all scream!!
Oct 21st 2007, 11:27 pm
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Oct 21st 2007, 11:53 pm
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Re: Can anyone identify this spider?
I am so skeeved out by all this talk of spiders! AGH!
Although i was quite disappointed after my recent trip to Oz that I didn't see a single thing that could kill me! I even went to the zoo and they had nothing!
T
Although i was quite disappointed after my recent trip to Oz that I didn't see a single thing that could kill me! I even went to the zoo and they had nothing!
T
Oct 21st 2007, 11:57 pm
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However, I shouldn't tempt fate because I'm moving this weekend and need to clean out the storage area under the house - worried!
Oct 22nd 2007, 12:08 am
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I've been in my current house 18months and rarely seen anything......literally one encounter that required a change of underwear in all that time - i posted some photos in another thread (of the spider not the underwear).
However, I shouldn't tempt fate because I'm moving this weekend and need to clean out the storage area under the house - worried!
However, I shouldn't tempt fate because I'm moving this weekend and need to clean out the storage area under the house - worried!
rather you than me, I don't think you could pay me to do that!
Oct 22nd 2007, 12:11 am
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Oct 22nd 2007, 12:12 am
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Oct 22nd 2007, 12:34 am
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Oct 22nd 2007, 12:36 am
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I check the shades every time I get in the car (had to remember in Ireland recently that it wasn't necessary )
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Oct 22nd 2007, 12:44 am
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She screamed & lost control of the car as she tried to swap it off & nearly wrote the car off! 
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Oct 22nd 2007, 1:03 am
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OMG..........Were hoping to move to perth next year i didn't realise they had the huntsman in WA.I am so bricking it now.
