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Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
Originally Posted by Rooksie
believe me, i had no idea...!!!! :confused:
12.22 am Easter Sat, Australia, and almost time for my bedtime.I've put logs in the heater and they will smoulder and the room will be quite warm when I surface in the morning.It is Autumn here. In Australia we put our clocks back for winter tomorrow and Tasmania is a different climate to many parts of the Mainland thus the logs and the heater. Cheers Oldgit |
Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
Originally Posted by carolinegorka
Not bothered about Huntsman now, as they eat Cockroaches. I've had both btw, but never at the same time :)
BUT one thing I was told by a woman at work here in Australia, was that male redbacks DO NOT always have a red mark on their backs. While not quite as dangerous as the females, they can still make you pretty poorly. Cas cheers Oldgit |
Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
Originally Posted by oldgit
Yes just about everybody is chipping in on this one.
12.22 am Easter Sat, Australia, and almost time for my bedtime.I've put logs in the heater and they will smoulder and the room will be quite warm when I surface in the morning.It is Autumn here. In Australia we put our clocks back for winter tomorrow and Tasmania is a different climate to many parts of the Mainland thus the logs and the heater. Cheers Oldgit Sounds divine!! :) |
Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
Originally Posted by oldgit
Seriously thanks for that as I have yet to see a redback but know of the females reputation.There is some illuminating stuff on this thread.I am really enjoying all the contributions. We aren't mad are we!!!!
cheers Oldgit No, not mad - though I'm madly in love with this country. Haven't seen a redback yet - or at least I don't think I have, taking into consideration what my mate told me :eek: |
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My partner here in Belfast has asked me to relate his 1st encounter with a huntsman in Australia. I still repeat the story... with a kind of whispered awed and reverent overtone and somehow manage to smile through gritted teeth with each telling. Growing up in Oz, I was never afraid of spiders... until this...
Melbourne - Flemington - Summer - 2003. Late at night, too hot to sleep we sit watching telly in the living room. I notice a black dot on the ceiling; just a baby huntsman to be ignored. 10 mins later - at least 20 black dots on the ceiling. Hmmm, now that's strange. I shrug. Nothing to worry about I assure my partner who is now getting squirmy in his seat and cramp in his neck from continual glances up at the ceiling. 15 mins later - around 100 black dots on the ceiling. Starting to get really concerned now. 20 mins later - 300 plus dots on the ceiling! Panic sets in. I dash to the kitchen to grab the new can Mortein. There are now at least 500 baby huntsman spiders crawling across the ceiling and down the walls! Holy crap... where's their Mum? For the next half hour I am spraying the life out the huntsman - they fall to the floor where ultra brave partner stomps on them. His trainer soles are caked and sticky with squished spiders. 'They are coming from the Vulcan wall heater,' he squeels in a high pitched falsetto. I aim the Mortein at the bars on the heater and for 5 mins direct a continual stream of eye watering insect killer spray at it. More and more and then more baby huntsman pour out... there seems to literally be thousands. I'm shaking and can't control it. The Mortein spray is almost empty so I grab the Aerogard and continue to spray. By now our throats are constricted, our eyes are watering... neither one of us can breathe... we are both panicked to the max. It's an invasion! 'Can these bloody things kill you?' he asks. Not normally... they do bite and make you feel bad for a while BUT in these numbers, who can say! Finally we seem to have got them all... we pull up the rug, pull the curtains down, move all the furniture round to make sure we got them all... then sit back with a welcome coldie and have a laugh. Phew (!)... or so we thought. Partner relaxes then suddenly clutches at his chest and points back to the heater. Oh... my... gawd! The mother huntsman! One leg appears at 1st and it's at least 10 centimetres long. Then the whole body appears. It's massive! :scared: Bigger than a plate... bigger and more hairy than any spider I have ever seen in 30 years of growing up in Oz and we are out of insect spray. Looks like we are going to need a flame thrower! It's moving down the wall and straight for us... it knows we've just wiped out all it's kiddies. I try hitting it with the now empty can. It shrugs and keeps coming. :eek: Partner drops a heavy duty world atlas on it, then jumps up and down on the book a dozen times. Carefully we lift the book... and out crawls the spider. Right, I've bloody well had enough now! Back to the kitchen for a bowl in which we capture the freakin' thing. We dump it out on the bricks of the back porch... keeping it trapped at a distance and cornered with a broom. Back to the kitchen I grab a can of lighter fluid and spray the huntsman frozen. Partner drops a lighted match on top and (I swear this is true!) it dies SCREAMING in a ball of flames. Now when he relates the story, my wonderful partner comments: remember that movie "Arachnophobia?" Piece of piss mate! |
Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
Originally Posted by Iolair
My partner here in Belfast has asked me to relate his 1st encounter with a huntsman in Australia. I still repeat the story... with a kind of whispered awed and reverent overtone and somehow manage to smile through gritted teeth with each telling. Growing up in Oz, I was never afraid of spiders... until this...
Melbourne - Flemington - Summer - 2003. Late at night, too hot to sleep we sit watching telly in the living room. I notice a black dot on the ceiling; just a baby huntsman to be ignored. 10 mins later - at least 20 black dots on the ceiling. Hmmm, now that's strange. I shrug. Nothing to worry about I assure my partner who is now getting squirmy in his seat and cramp in his neck from continual glances up at the ceiling. 15 mins later - around 100 black dots on the ceiling. Starting to get really concerned now. 20 mins later - 300 plus dots on the ceiling! Panic sets in. I dash to the kitchen to grab the new can Mortein. There are now at least 500 baby huntsman spiders crawling across the ceiling and down the walls! Holy crap... where's their Mum? For the next half hour I am spraying the life out the huntsman - they fall to the floor where ultra brave partner stomps on them. His trainer soles are caked and sticky with squished spiders. 'They are coming from the Vulcan wall heater,' he squeels in a high pitched falsetto. I aim the Mortein at the bars on the heater and for 5 mins direct a continual stream of eye watering insect killer spray at it. More and more and then more baby huntsman pour out... there seems to literally be thousands. I'm shaking and can't control it. The Mortein spray is almost empty so I grab the Aerogard and continue to spray. By now our throats are constricted, our eyes are watering... neither one of us can breathe... we are both panicked to the max. It's an invasion! 'Can these bloody things kill you?' he asks. Not normally... they do bite and make you feel bad for a while BUT in these numbers, who can say! Finally we seem to have got them all... we pull up the rug, pull the curtains down, move all the furniture round to make sure we got them all... then sit back with a welcome coldie and have a laugh. Phew (!)... or so we thought. Partner relaxes then suddenly clutches at his chest and points back to the heater. Oh... my... gawd! The mother huntsman! One leg appears at 1st and it's at least 10 centimetres long. Then the whole body appears. It's massive! :scared: Bigger than a plate... bigger and more hairy than any spider I have ever seen in 30 years of growing up in Oz and we are out of insect spray. Looks like we are going to need a flame thrower! It's moving down the wall and straight for us... it knows we've just wiped out all it's kiddies. I try hitting it with the now empty can. It shrugs and keeps coming. :eek: Partner drops a heavy duty world atlas on it, then jumps up and down on the book a dozen times. Carefully we lift the book... and out crawls the spider. Right, I've bloody well had enough now! Back to the kitchen for a bowl in which we capture the freakin' thing. We dump it out on the bricks of the back porch... keeping it trapped at a distance and cornered with a broom. Back to the kitchen I grab a can of lighter fluid and spray the huntsman frozen. Partner drops a lighted match on top and (I swear this is true!) it dies SCREAMING in a ball of flames. Now when he relates the story, my wonderful partner comments: remember that movie "Arachnophobia?" Piece of piss mate! Bugger off!!!!! you got to be shi**in me???? :o actually, i feel really sick now and wish i hadnt just eaten that cadburys cream egg............ urgh my fingers are frozen to the keyboard...... speachless .... |
Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
Originally Posted by Rooksie
Bugger off!!!!! you got to be shi**in me???? :o
actually, i feel really sick now and wish i hadnt just eaten that cadburys cream egg............ urgh my fingers are frozen to the keyboard...... speachless .... Wonder what would happen if a dangerous spider's babies appeared ! |
Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
OMG!!!! :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared:
I was feeling ok that I could handle seeing a Huntsman when I move down there, but after that baby story, NO F***IN WAY!! Ugh! |
Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
hi there jocky boy herre joined only been on a couple of times well i'm coming over next year january probably so is there a good chance i will see a hunts or the red back, oh and what about those slithery reptiles the snake. if there any other things could you warn me now before i get there..
cheers jocky boy :cool: |
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Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
christ so this means i see one :scared:
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Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
Originally Posted by Rooksie
Bugger off!!!!! you got to be shi**in me???? :o
actually, i feel really sick now and wish i hadnt just eaten that cadburys cream egg............ urgh my fingers are frozen to the keyboard...... speachless .... We had a HUGE one in my boys bedroom and he sleeps on a high bed and woke up with it above his face. Its the ONLY time hes ever been scared to tears by an animal and he even asked me to kill it (he hates trading on ants this kid :rolleyes: ) Me absolutely shitting my self was nearly hysterical when it legged it when i sprayed it, gave the can to my 10 year old girl and she finished the job off properly ;) This huntsman was bigger than my hand! I have to admit by NOT getting used to them. However smaller spiders that used to make me freeze get the sole of my show pretty sharpish now as in our house they are mainly white tails and i'm not getting another bloody bite from one of those :mad: |
Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
Originally Posted by carolinegorka
No, not mad - though I'm madly in love with this country.
Haven't seen a redback yet - or at least I don't think I have, taking into consideration what my mate told me :eek: Gosh we are both at the bottom of Aus so far away. But it is nice I do agree It seemed for me like an Age had passed when the plane finally landed at Tullamarine I was soooo grateful to be at the main journey's end. The Virgin Blue tiny flight to Tassie was like "up/down!!" have a nice Easter... Oldgit |
Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
Originally Posted by Rooksie
Sounds divine!! :)
cheers Oldgit |
Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
Originally Posted by hevs
Apparently the mummy carries them around on her back when thy're wee. If you go stomping on one the babies leap off and scatter round really fast apparently :scared:
We had a HUGE one in my boys bedroom and he sleeps on a high bed and woke up with it above his face. Its the ONLY time hes ever been scared to tears by an animal and he even asked me to kill it (he hates trading on ants this kid :rolleyes: ) Me absolutely shitting my self was nearly hysterical when it legged it when i sprayed it, gave the can to my 10 year old girl and she finished the job off properly ;) This huntsman was bigger than my hand! I have to admit by NOT getting used to them. However smaller spiders that used to make me freeze get the sole of my show pretty sharpish now as in our house they are mainly white tails and i'm not getting another bloody bite from one of those :mad: I'm toast!! :scared: D D |
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