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Offline Nilsen

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« Reply #15 on: September 22, 2006, 10:00:53 AM »
Looks like the one yes.

Who, and how many does he eat?

Have never seen that brand up here.
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« Reply #16 on: September 22, 2006, 11:13:13 AM »
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so what DO dragonflies eat - must have been a good year coz the garden at home has been full of them.

IIRC they eat mosquitos.






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#$%^ it Schatzi! :mad: keep those evil bastages off the forum please :O
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« Reply #17 on: September 22, 2006, 11:18:58 AM »
It depends on which dragon fly we are talking about.  Some eat mosquitos, some eat wasps, yellow jackets and so on.  All are meat eaters and remove the bad guys from the equation.  They do not eat spiders or earth bound insects (earthworms, ants, ...).

Ever notice when dragon fly activity is high none of the 'bad guy' bugs can be found?
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« Reply #18 on: September 22, 2006, 11:37:39 AM »
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It depends on which dragon fly we are talking about.  Some eat mosquitos, some eat wasps, yellow jackets and so on.  All are meat eaters and remove the bad guys from the equation.  They do not eat spiders or earth bound insects (earthworms, ants, ...).

Ever notice when dragon fly activity is high none of the 'bad guy' bugs can be found?
yup :aok

also don't "daddy long legs" eat other spiders?
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« Reply #19 on: September 22, 2006, 11:40:44 AM »
Female spiders usually eat their male partners after copulation? :t
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« Reply #20 on: September 22, 2006, 11:54:22 AM »
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yup :aok

also don't "daddy long legs" eat other spiders?


possibly 73, but I DO know they also eat on average 400 mosquitos a night.   I don't mind spiders, they are cool.

Now cockroaches, that is my one fear, I can't explain it, I've only seen a handful in the South.
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« Reply #21 on: September 22, 2006, 05:20:32 PM »
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Female spiders usually eat their male partners after copulation? :t


dont all females do that in one way or another
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« Reply #22 on: September 22, 2006, 07:03:46 PM »
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google for "eeeeeeeew" and its the first picture you see


That was just wrong. Did a google image search..and It wasn't no damned spider, but it definetly was eeeeeeeew!
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« Reply #23 on: September 23, 2006, 03:47:20 AM »
We get a spider called the huntsman over here in AUS

One Of The Subspecies Of Huntsman



Now normally a big Huntsman is the size of you hand (fingers spread apart)

But I used to live in this house that for some GODONLYKNOWS reason used to get MASSIVE spiders.

Every now and then we would get Huntsmans that were (And I **** You NOT) the size of a larg dinner plate....

The first time I saw one I had to look twice cause I did not beleive my eyes

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« Reply #24 on: September 23, 2006, 04:20:38 AM »
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That was just wrong. Did a google image search..and It wasn't no damned spider, but it definetly was eeeeeeeew!


LoL :D

remove two "e"s and youget somthing even grosser
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« Reply #25 on: September 23, 2006, 04:52:55 AM »
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Every now and then we would get Huntsmans that were (And I **** You NOT) the size of a larg dinner plate....


i think i would cry....

can they bite you? will it kill you?  what did you do to get rid of it?

if i lived there i think i would keep a shot gun by my side at all times.

bout the most dangerous thing we have in this country is diseased rabbits.
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« Reply #26 on: September 23, 2006, 05:32:44 AM »
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We get a spider called the huntsman over here in AUS


The Huntsman is in NZ as well, although here it's been named the Avondale spider after the suburb in Auckland where it's predominately found. Apparently it hitched a ride across the ditch early last century on timber imported from Oz.

The biggest one I have seen would have been about 6" or 7" across. It was making enough noise as it scurried across the gritty floor of my tool shed that I actually heard it before I saw it. And because they are so leggy they can really motor as well, so if the size of the thing doesn't startle you the speed at which it can move probably will, especially if they're moving toward you.

Btw, hundreds of juvenile Avondale spiders were bred here in NZ and exported to the US to be used in the movie Arachnophobia, and even though they're harmless I thought they gave a pretty convincing performance.

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The huntsman isn't venemous and is very docile. You would just about have to torture one before it bit you.

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Pupils at New Lynn Primary School, West Auckland, having turns at handling a live Avondale spider, an Australian huntsman spider established in the Avondale region of Auckland since the 1920s
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« Reply #27 on: September 23, 2006, 06:16:20 AM »
OK, I got to admit my arachnophobia is rearing its ugly head now :).

I can live with those buggers as long as they are small and stay mostly outside or hidden. Size of a dinner plate would DEFINITLY be outside my comfy range.... i guess id move out and leave the house to the spider .....


This one, despite appearences is about the size of my thumbnail.



Curious story: We once had an "emergency" at the zoological institute... someone came home from a holiday and had a small black spider running out of his suitcase. He put a glass on top of it and called the fire department, fearing it was a dangerous species... turned out he was correct... was a black widow, one of the rather dangerous ones. We wished he wouldve just flattened it instead of calling the firemen... it was sitting in a jelly jar, inside a glass terrarium, inside another glass terrarium, not even the size of a small fingernail. Noone wanted to feed it... :).
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« Reply #28 on: September 23, 2006, 06:31:50 AM »
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LoL :D

remove two "e"s and youget somthing even grosser


I found myself trying variations of that just out of curiosity, but those two were the worst.
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« Reply #29 on: September 23, 2006, 06:41:07 AM »
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Originally posted by mussie
We get a spider called the huntsman over here in AUS

One Of The Subspecies Of Huntsman



Now normally a big Huntsman is the size of you hand (fingers spread apart)

But I used to live in this house that for some GODONLYKNOWS reason used to get MASSIVE spiders.

Every now and then we would get Huntsmans that were (And I **** You NOT) the size of a larg dinner plate....

The first time I saw one I had to look twice cause I did not beleive my eyes



Frikken yikes:eek:
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