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stevenglish

Jul 22nd 2011 8:24 pm

Spider alert

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Found this bugger in my pool, how brave am I for saving his life??

Taking him up Sutherland hospital tomorrow for their antivenim thingy

ponyrama

Jul 22nd 2011 8:30 pm

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Originally Posted by stevenglish (Post 9513456)

Found this bugger in my pool, how brave am I for saving his life??

Taking him up Sutherland hospital tomorrow for their antivenim thingy

Funny colour. Have never seen one that browny red colour before. :eek: Is it definitely one of them? Sure looks scary enough. What if it escapes in the car on the way to Sutherland? :huh:

Lorna at Vicenza

Jul 22nd 2011 8:38 pm

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That's a swimming pool? :eek:

stevenglish

Jul 22nd 2011 10:02 pm

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Originally Posted by Lorna at Vicenza (Post 9513477)

That's a swimming pool? :eek:

No that's an old baked bean container :p

Lorna at Vicenza

Jul 22nd 2011 10:54 pm

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Originally Posted by stevenglish (Post 9513565)

No that's an old baked bean container :p

Dorothy

Jul 23rd 2011 12:00 am

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Originally Posted by stevenglish (Post 9513456)

Found this bugger in my pool, how brave am I for saving his life??

Taking him up Sutherland hospital tomorrow for their antivenim thingy

What kind of spider is that?

tonyk38

Jul 23rd 2011 12:31 am

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It's a member of the family Mygalomorphae, so called Bird-eating Spiders or Whistling Spiders.

Funnel-Webs belong in this family, and this may well be one.

Dorothy

Jul 23rd 2011 12:40 am

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Originally Posted by tonyk38 (Post 9513725)

It's a member of the family Mygalomorphae, so called Bird-eating Spiders or Whistling Spiders.

Funnel-Webs belong in this family, and this may well be one.

Thanks. While being really hideous, it's still kinda neat.

stevenglish

Jul 23rd 2011 12:43 am

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Everything about it says funnel web, even had it rearing up, never seen pics of one that wasn't black though. Looked as dead as a dodo in the pool, good job I listened to them stories cos sure enough he sprung to life soon after. Wierd thing is I didn't shit myself as I would have with a huntsman:blink:

stevenglish

Jul 23rd 2011 12:55 am

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we have a positive I.D. a sydney brown trapdoor spider, not as nasty as a funnelweb, but big choppers none the less :)

ponyrama

Jul 23rd 2011 1:15 am

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Originally Posted by stevenglish (Post 9513754)

we have a positive I.D. a sydney brown trapdoor spider, not as nasty as a funnelweb, but big choppers none the less :)

Well bless his little cotton socks - it's a good job he met you and not me or else he'd have been going to the morgue not the hospital. I don't murder spiders often - but I reckon he'd have got it good and proper due to a severe case of mistaken identity!

chris1386

Jul 23rd 2011 12:55 pm

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I was once filling a bath in the uk with hot water and left it to fill, on returning to said bath found a large house spider curled up in water, which was scalding hot at about 70 degrees, must have fallen in poor thing, retrieved it and dont know why but I put it on tissue paper to dry it off and left it. It was there overnight and I swear this is true, the following morning i watched it 'wake up', stretch and wander off. Could not believe it, spiders are awesome.:thumbup:

tonyk38

Jul 23rd 2011 9:02 pm

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Originally Posted by chris1386 (Post 9514676)

400 million years of evolution has made them born survivors.:thumbup:

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