annqldau

We have had red backs out of the light fittings, huntsman by the dozen and wolf spiders and garden orbs and also strange yellow cross spider not the normal st. andrews cross...lots of daddy long legs (used to look for UK ones then found out the assies ment the spiders with long legs) and lots of little boring looking spiders as well as black house spiders.

See attached :scared: .

Meryn & Steve

I had a nasty feeling someone might put some photos on. Nearly gave me heart failure when they popped up!!!!! :scared: I think I could maybe handle them. I have just got visions of spiders the size of dinner plates. Aren't there bird eating spiders in Queensland? NO NEED FOR A PHOTO - guess I am asking for it now aren't I???? Should never have started this topic!!!

milliesmum

No you should not have :scared:

Meryn & Steve

END OF TOPIC - (please???????????) I think we all have all the info we need. Still want to go though!!

annqldau

All of those photos are from around my house and so far I haven't found a bird eating one on the premesis... :scared: .

Have found so far if you don't bother them they seem to leave you alone don't seem to sneak in during the day but if they see an open door at night the huntsman and wolf spiders will be straight in.

ClareW

Get a good pest company in to treat your house regularly (spraying round skirting boards, doorways, under cupboards etc etc) and you shouldn't have too much problem indoors. This should keep away spiders, ants and cockroaches. Had my house done just before we moved in a month and a half ago and have only seen a couple of dead ones cockroaches.

Also, keep plugs in plugholes at night to stop any visitors coming up there.

Can't stop 'em in the gardens though. Just don't pick up old boxes, logs, leaves etc without giving them a nudge with your foot first!!

annqldau

Uuuugggghhhhhhh... what's coming out of the plug holes the cockroaches or the spiders???

ClareW

Friend was telling me of a cockroach coming up into the bath through the plug so I decided not to take any chances.

stevenpoole9

Hi all, don't mind spiders, crocs or snakes too much but there is something I absoloutly detest. Rats.
On a recent visit to some friends in Sunnybank (southside) We were TREATED to a few photos of a python eating a rat about a foot long (including the tail) non their outside barby. I know they live on the edge of bushland, so a certain level of wildlife is to be expected, but the thought turned my stomach, and still does.
I know that possums get into the roofs over there but what about rats? Are they everywhere, or are my friends just trying to scare the living daylights out of me?

Mctree

So what happens when you take the plug out in the morning? Is there a que? :scared:

benny the ball

Sounds a bit of an urban myth this one, as all baths and sinks should have a water trap/u bend.

berndbrot

The last person to die from a Spider bite......1979!

Mel n Daz

Thanks for that! :scared: NOT, help, please! I hate bloody ants, never mind
anything else

We are moving to Deception Bay too!

I think i will book myself in with a hypnotherapist now

Melissa

Tony Po

I spent 3 months in Oz and only saw 1 big spider... Couldn't tell you what flavour it was coz woke up to find it on ceiling above me :scared: so jumped out of bed and threw all the shoes I had at it till it cleared off!!!! That was in Melbourne.
I'm not even scared of spiders, it was just the size and shock...

I stayed with my aunt in Queensland... When I went out and she went out she would leave the key to her back door in the garage in a gardening glove!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My aunt never liked me much

T

meelie

:scared: Take a look at this itsy bitsy spider then. Hubby called me out to the garage to show me it! Don't worry it was dead otherwise I would have been long gone!