Creepy Crawlies in the UK
Oct 15th 2013, 6:03 pm
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Re: Creepy Crawlies in the UK
A big jumping one was one of the first big spiders I saw in South Australia. It was in my sister's lounge and I tried to catch it using a broom. However it jumped over the broom head and disappeared at speed.
My worst experience was when a big spider landed on my face at night when I lived alongside Adelaide's Anzac Highway. I had seen it on the high ceiling at the other end of the room and thought I would be safe. But apparently not, it focussed on my breath and dropped!!
My worst experience was when a big spider landed on my face at night when I lived alongside Adelaide's Anzac Highway. I had seen it on the high ceiling at the other end of the room and thought I would be safe. But apparently not, it focussed on my breath and dropped!!
Oct 15th 2013, 6:13 pm
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Re: Creepy Crawlies in the UK
The biggest jumping spider is still very small, one as big as a 20p piece would be a big one.
Oct 15th 2013, 6:15 pm
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Oct 15th 2013, 11:56 pm
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I recall seeing Huntsman on Kangaroo Island. The horror for me was that he was so large that I could see his eyes, and his act of eating the flies he had trapped. It made my skin crawl.
But he was a tinker in comparison to what I thought was a mouse in my letterbox in Murray Bridge. The body of the thing was dove grey and was the size of a mouse.
My neighbour was a burly fellow, but even he was unnerved moving this thing that gripped the stick he proffered.
As it scuttled up the stick he dropped the thing and ran!
Oct 16th 2013, 12:03 am
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Spoiled for choice. A real dilemma
I recall seeing Huntsman on Kangaroo Island. The horror for me was that he was so large that I could see his eyes, and his act of eating the flies he had trapped. It made my skin crawl.
But he was a tinker in comparison to what I thought was a mouse in my letterbox in Murray Bridge. The body of the thing was dove grey and was the size of a mouse.
My neighbour was a burly fellow, but even he was unnerved moving this thing that gripped the stick he proffered.
As it scuttled up the stick he dropped the thing and ran!
I recall seeing Huntsman on Kangaroo Island. The horror for me was that he was so large that I could see his eyes, and his act of eating the flies he had trapped. It made my skin crawl.
But he was a tinker in comparison to what I thought was a mouse in my letterbox in Murray Bridge. The body of the thing was dove grey and was the size of a mouse.
My neighbour was a burly fellow, but even he was unnerved moving this thing that gripped the stick he proffered.
As it scuttled up the stick he dropped the thing and ran!
Did you ever find out the species of the big grey one? The biggest ones I see over here are the wolf spiders but they're only about 1/2" across and they don't tend to come indoors. Bigger spiders are found father south.
I do encourage a colony of cellar spiders in our basement though, for effective annoying flying insect control.
Oct 16th 2013, 12:27 am
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Re: Creepy Crawlies in the UK
I take it you'd have the little one, then?
Did you ever find out the species of the big grey one? The biggest ones I see over here are the wolf spiders but they're only about 1/2" across and they don't tend to come indoors. Bigger spiders are found father south.
I do encourage a colony of cellar spiders in our basement though, for effective annoying flying insect control.
Did you ever find out the species of the big grey one? The biggest ones I see over here are the wolf spiders but they're only about 1/2" across and they don't tend to come indoors. Bigger spiders are found father south.
I do encourage a colony of cellar spiders in our basement though, for effective annoying flying insect control.
In the hoose? All bets are off, that's my patch. No paper/glass jar method for me, just something to send them to God.
I spray around my bed legs to ensure I don't get the company I once had.
As for the big grey-I never found out. That bloke was walking compared the warp speed I was going at as I overtook him!
Oct 16th 2013, 12:42 pm
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Oct 16th 2013, 12:44 pm
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Oct 25th 2013, 4:47 am
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The news of the so-called deadly spiders made it over to Luxembourg and when I first heard of it, I thought they were reffering to the City Bankers 
Oct 26th 2013, 5:04 am
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Feb 4th 2014, 6:51 pm
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The creepy crawlies are getting bigger...........
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...n-Bristol.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...n-Bristol.html
