An extract:

"Huntsman Spider

A full-grown huntsman spider can be as big as an adult hand. The spider typically has a crab-like set of legs and can sprint up walls and across ceilings with surprising speed. Huntsmen are known to bite and may cause mild local pain. etc etc etc"


well F**K THAT!!!!!

I purchased the above book from Sandown at the weekend. I read the above extract and nearly crapped my pants!!!!

Just to recap "can be as big as an adult hand. The spider typically has a crab-like set of legs and can sprint up walls and across ceilings with surprising speed"

HOLY S**T

Think of all the horrible insects they eat though!

i dont give a sh** mate - big as a human hand!!!! (and i forgot to mention they are hairy). after i read it i sat all night looking at the size of my husbands hands and nearly started to cry!!!! and they can sprint!!! not as bloody fast as me they cant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :scared:

They really are harmless, and they have lots of bonuses, like - they eat cockroaches which are far more yucky. (I am setting up a Huntsman Post at the door of our new house to keep out the cockies!!!! )
The first couple you see are scary cos they are so big, they make you jump; after that things improve, though they still make you start a bit if you aren't expecting to see them. Biggest one I have seen was in the bathroom on enight after I had prayed to God to eliminate our roach problem somehow....walked in the bathroom and I swear the spider waved at me from its perch on the side of the bath. It was easily the size of a side plate - bread and butter plate, sort of size. Ate the roaches and left, not seen spider or and Yuckies since......

OMG!!!!! :scared: :scared: :scared:

I am lost for words!!!

It has been a learning experience for us too. I was always taught to kill anything that didn't belong in the house, so that meant spiders, insects, anything.

Here, I've been slowly getting more tolerant. Geckos (or chit-chats) are now good, in moderation. I haven't seen a huntsman yet, and I really hate spiders, but I will try and convince myself its good when I see one.

Roaches on the other hand, are, and always will be bastards, and the brave Mrs JTL stamps on them and squishes them. I'm not good with insects But they do all deserve to die.

Its all new and interesting, I hear rats scurring around in the garage roof these days, thats my next bit of 'interesting work'

Cheers,
JTL

Hi there,
do u get huntmen spiders in sydney?
cheers

Pollyanna

Whereabout in Oz are you living ?

Polly Dont forget they also JUMP.

When I was over your way a couple of years ago one litterally jumoed after me down the path.

Weird how unafraid of spiders you get isn't it, I was petrified of spiders in the UK and now they are all my little friends. We have massive golden orbs in our garden they look so scary but then I look at the big trail of dead fly and mossie carcasses behind them so I wave at them everytime I go past and tell them what a good job they are doing. Same with red backs, loads in my garden but they are so dopey that they wouldn't know how to bite if they tried, they also look realy really good.

Honestly dont worry the mossies, sandflies and cockroaches are much more of a problem and they realy do piss you off.

Kala

Yes

Huntsman spiders

Sleep well, don't have nightmares

Cheers,
JTL

NOWHERE IS SAFE!!!!!! :scared: :scared:



D D

Holy Mother of God - size of a plate!! im sure i would faint

Hi

when we got the keys to our rental, we thought we'd clean prior to moving in!

We walked through the front door and I went straight to open the sitting room blinds and let in some daylight, I opened the 1st blind - stood back and saw something wrapped in the muslin curtains like a shroud! :scared: :scared: I screamed, laughed, cried, screamed, shook, cried - then my husband appeared with a broom and bucket and took the dear 'little' spider out to the back of the garden.

Ten minutes later I was walking through the hall with a brand new bathroom cleaner spray, when there was a strange, strangled, high pitch scream - my husband had picked up a couple of buckets left in the hall and had been bitten on a finger (he must have squashed the Huntsmans head or something), the buckets went flying, the air turned Blue and I jumped so much that I the cleaner top flew off and the liquid squirted up the hall walls!!

hi DollyDaydream,
please tell me that your picture is a plastic spider, or i wont sleep for weeks-months-years
please put me out of my misery-its not real surely?
OMG

HOLY F**KING SHITE

no way, forget it. keep it, shuv it im staying put. i thought you only saw those on tv!!!!! its straight from harry potter!!!