bundy

If you live anywhere even remotely rural (and in most of the cities too), spiders are part of daily life. We had redbacks in the dunnies, whitetails in the woodpile, wolf spiders on the verandah and huntsmen in the living room. We had one particular huntsman who lived in the eaves in our living room - he had a leg span the size of a big outstretched hand. He would spend all day up in the eaves and then at about 7pm, he'd come down the wall to eye-level for an hour or so then go back up. I loved him! Huntsmen aren't dangerous.

I got bitten by a white tail - I've mentioned it many times in other spider threads. Formed a nice ulcer but I lived to tell the tail!

Most spiders are shy and retiring critters. Leave them alone and they won't bother you.

artep

ENCOURAGE them to run towards you????

Are you COMPLETELY insane???:scared:

ANA123

Get yourselves one of these :http://www.spidercatcher.com.au/faq.html

I was sent one by a friend in Sydney when we arrived (being famously arachnophobic) and have proudly dealt with our ownly huntsman with it.
Cant help thinking they'd make a terrible mess if you tried to squash them, they're so big and meaty looking:scared:

artep

I want one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

An aussie mate of mine (another fellow arachnophobe) always told me to keep a good supply of telephone directories to lob at them Apparently tho...the only downer to that style of spider disposal is that I'm told they leave a bit of a bluey gungy mess :x

Can anyone comfirm this??...no pics of squashed spiders tho please!! I've not long had my brekkie

bundy

Why squish 'em if they're not doing you any harm? Fair enough to squish the ones that could kill you, but leave the others alone!

ANA123

Only had the one so far Petra, but he was a big meaty looking thing, it would've been like trying to squash a mouse (and dont forget they jump if you miss!). The spider catcher comes with a little plastic spider to practice on so by the time you meet the real thing its easy and nothing can get out, it doesnt kill it either so you just dump it far away from you and it can carry on eating mossies.
Best pressie I ever had!

artep

Think one of them spider catcher thingys are gonna be a 'must have'.

Bundy - I wouldn't kill a huntsman....I hate cockies even more!!!

I'll quite happily share my house with a huntsman or 2 if they're gonna eat the other nasties!! Not sure I'd be too impressed waking up beside one tho

ANA123

Not as many as I thought, only seen one in 3 months so far, and 2 cockroaches, having said that I use a LOT of surface spray

bundy

Glad to hear it! I continue to champion huntsmen's rights! Not too keen on cockies myself, so I can understand that one.

I woke up with a white tail scuttling across my face once which gave me a fright, esp after the biting incident! I miss our huntsmen though

johanne

[aren't dangerous.

I got bitten by a white tail - I've mentioned it many times in other spider threads. Formed a nice ulcer but I lived to tell the tail!

Most spiders are shy and retiring critters. Leave them alone and they won't bother you. [/QUOTE]


Who was that who got bit by a whitetail spider a few weeks ago? i have done a search but nothing came up...

bundy

It was Loopy...

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...ghlight=bitten

bundy

All about the Huntsman...

http://www.amonline.net.au/factsheet...an_spiders.htm

And jumping spiders...

http://www.amonline.net.au/factsheets/

Wolf Spiders

http://www.amonline.net.au/factsheets/wolf_spiders.htm

White tails

http://www.amonline.net.au/factsheet...led_spider.htm

And the rest!

http://www.amonline.net.au/factsheets/

Jensen Healey

Whoa! Back up the truck there bub. No-one said anything to me about jumping! That's it, I'm withdrawing my application!:scared:

bundy

And what to do about the common ones...

http://www.amonline.net.au/factsheets/spiders.htm

artep

:scared: :scared: :scared: I'm afraid that would have totally freaked me for quite some time...