Leccy-Lee

Any idea what spider this is? Looked kinda menancing on my bedroom ceiling when i woke up today!
I am not usually worried about spiders, but i hear some here cant cause problems still!

Thanks

teambwr47

Bet he didn't look so hard squashed flat by a shoe..............

Leccy-Lee

Actually it perished in a bucket of water...

teambwr47

You should have tried drowning it first then tipped it out of the water and splatted it to make sure as spiders have a canny knack of surviving for a fair while in water....

We had a rather creepy crawly surprise a few weeks back when in the evening darkness i pulled a large bush root/log out of part of our garden and thought 'i'll stick that on the fire'.

I put said root on fire only to realise a short while later it had an ants nest plus numerous American Cockroaches and other assorted crawlers living in it which i didn't see before putting it on the fire. With it getting a tad warm at home the ants and cockroaches decided it was time to move out of their log home and onto the fire surround and mantlepiece...........

I spent the next few hours squashing what seemed like a million little crawling things..........

Boy those American Cockraoches are hard bar stewards........they take some serious killing.

BEVS

Fair play to you mate.

julesnye

can you put up a thumbnail of the little blighter as I cant get to the link due to office firewall?

misterjingo

It looks like a black headed jumping spider:

http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/re....asp?Bu_Id=227

julesnye

Cheers Misterjingo.
Did the right thing then, by killing it

misterjingo

lol. I'm not a fan of jumping spiders after being on the toilet once and having one suddenly jump at me

julesnye

I'm not a fan of any spiders. I think if they're in my house they're unvited and therefore trespassing, thuwp goes my boot....and the funny thing is they dont do it again...

ned

You're all a bunch of Puffs

RobClubley

We get loads of those - they're harmless.

http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/TePapa/Eng...pingSpider.htm

Freaky looking though!!

zoej

some one told me the other day that these jumping spiders are the most intelligent of spiders - well the one it my bathroom wasn't - I squashed him silly thing not intelligent enough to know not to come into my house!!!!

Kiwiprincess

the words Jumping and Spider are never ever ever a good combination.

Oddly enough, jumping, spider, and huge boot are perfectly fine

Maz

I'm no great fan of spiders but will leave them alone outside. They eat other bugs I don't particularly like.