Whats this?
#2
Re: Whats this?
Originally Posted by debsy
Anyone know what this lovely creature is?
I found it in my place this morning.
I found it in my place this morning.
don't know, but what a pretty one it is
#3
Re: Whats this?
Pretty??? That's bloody ugly!!! Look at the light glinting off its 8 evil little eyes!!!!
Did you call the fire brigade? The SES? At least call the cops - that thing is big enough to be arrested as an intruder!!!!
If I EVER find one of them in my house.....I...I...I have no idea what I'd do. Probably have hysterics.
YUK!!!!!!!!
W.
Did you call the fire brigade? The SES? At least call the cops - that thing is big enough to be arrested as an intruder!!!!
If I EVER find one of them in my house.....I...I...I have no idea what I'd do. Probably have hysterics.
YUK!!!!!!!!
W.
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Re: Whats this?
Originally Posted by mancity
Think this post is staying away from my wife
welcome to the forum.... its not just about the spiders I promise
#6
Re: Whats this?
It was my first encounter with a spider. I thought that I would be terrified but I was ok. No Panic It was very large about the size of four fingers though. Could it have been a hunstman?
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Re: Whats this?
Originally Posted by debsy
Anyone know what this lovely creature is?
I found it in my place this morning.
I found it in my place this morning.
Ummmmmm.....I might be wrong...but to me....it looks like a spider??
Its not the bigguns ya need to watch out for....they are usually harmless...
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Re: Whats this?
Yuk - wouldn't want to meet him in a dark alley!!!
Could be a huntsman......here's what they are like
Could be a huntsman......here's what they are like
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Yee haa.
Put a saddle on it Debs and ride it Cowgirl !!
Warren & Jill
Put a saddle on it Debs and ride it Cowgirl !!
Warren & Jill
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Re: Whats this?
Originally Posted by debsy
Anyone know what this lovely creature is?
I found it in my place this morning.
I found it in my place this morning.
Actually I think it is time. We've been in the house almost 2 years now.
#12
Re: Whats this?
Originally Posted by debsy
Anyone know what this lovely creature is?
I found it in my place this morning.
I found it in my place this morning.
This is a useful fairly objective one:
http://www.avru.unimelb.edu.au/avruweb/otherspiders.htm
This one is trying to scare you sh*t less so you spend money on pest control services:
http://www.termite.com/spiders/spide...on-chart.shtml
The one in your pic looks like a Huntsman to me - can bite but apparently not really a dangerous bite. The *really* nasty ones are funnel webs, redbacks & white tails. However deaths are apparently very rare from the latter two, and the evidence about ulcerated bites & necrosis from white tails is a bit iffy.
If you are the kind of person who is allergic to these things (it took me 3 years to lose the scarred skin and irritation from a mosquito bite), it is worth getting the house 'bombed' (ie sprayed to get rid of the things). We've been discussing this on Sunny Samantha's thread about 'ANTS & How to get rid of them:
http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=269427
Cheers
Anya.
Last edited by anya4oz; Dec 1st 2004 at 7:06 am.
#13
Re: Whats this?
Looks like a Huntsman - I'm often told by Aussies that they're harmless.......I recommend Mortein.
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Re: Whats this?
these are big buggers and quite scary, they are harmless, and I have tried to live with them before, but they spook me too much, it's possible to catch them and put them back out in the garden, or just leave them where they are, but they do raom. I tried to catch one once and it jumped down onto me and reared up and waved it's arms and scared the living daylights out of me. If you're really that terrified about catching them, the non enviromentally friendly way is to suck it up the vac, you can do it at arms length and it suffocates in the dust in the bag, makes a huge noise going up the hose though
#15
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remember, the hunstman spider is in your house as it's hunting cockaroaches.... and mossies and whatever else it can get it's chompers into!!! I remember seeing a giant huntsman out in the garden (in Brisbane) pounce on one of those little skinks lizards that lurk in the garden, and run off with it clamped in it's fangs!!!
I'd rather have the huntsman than a cockaroach!!
and it apparently is true about the ulceration/necrosis of the skin from white-bummed spiders.. these spiders tend to hang about in the garden, so just be aware the little buggers are there. When I was in High School, my best friends dad got munched by the white bummed spider and had a nasty wound for many months...
but it's part and parcel of living in Oz
I'd rather have the huntsman than a cockaroach!!
and it apparently is true about the ulceration/necrosis of the skin from white-bummed spiders.. these spiders tend to hang about in the garden, so just be aware the little buggers are there. When I was in High School, my best friends dad got munched by the white bummed spider and had a nasty wound for many months...
but it's part and parcel of living in Oz