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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Schatzi on September 22, 2006, 07:48:34 AM
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Just took some pics outside my house.... someone need a new desktop?
(http://slowcat.de/slowcats1/films/Spider1.jpg)
(http://slowcat.de/slowcats1/films/Spider2.jpg)
(http://slowcat.de/slowcats1/films/Spider3.jpg)
(http://slowcat.de/slowcats1/films/Spider4.jpg)
(http://slowcat.de/slowcats1/films/Spider5.jpg)
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damn schatzi i dindt know your legs were that hairy:rofl
dont send them to me i hate spiders
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hehe those Golly-geen things are everywhere at the moment keep walking into thier webs at night when i let the dogs out.
Across the doors, across paths even attached to the car doors in the morning,
nothing worse than a web across your half asleep face in the morning :-)
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I saw that spider's brother in the streets here yesterday. there I was thinking that northern Yurop was safe... and i come face to face witht his kind of alien...
Blank, I must be the 1st tall person up early in the morning in the area where i live... everytime i walk the dog in the morning I get those in my face as well. thought about wearng a helmet, there's a french saying: "Ridicule doesn't kill"
<-- HATES spiders with a passion.
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Arachnophobia or whatever is a great movie dont you think Saintaw?
Mmmm... aaarachooooooophobiiiiiiiiiia aaaaaaaaa
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What kind of spider is that? I had one at my back door just like that. It was about the size of a quarter (maybe a little bigger)
I hate spiders.
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I had one appear in my slider last week.
My little girl named it 'Charlotte', made me take a solemn oath to protect her until she (the spider) finished having babies, then spent a full hour watching her make a (beautiful) perfect orb web in the doorway.
The things we do for little ones....:)
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Nilsen, fo some reason i saw that movie in the theatre... twice. :rolleyes:
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Ahhh, spiders and dragon flies. Mother Nature's equalizers. The only families of insects I like. The only ones which serve a very useful purpose. Keeping the true pests under control is a good thing.
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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.
That spide looks like our common old Garden spider - like Blank said they're everywhere !!
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Originally posted by Skuzzy
Ahhh, spiders and dragon flies. Mother Nature's equalizers. The only families of insects I like. The only ones which serve a very useful purpose. Keeping the true pests under control is a good thing.
Dont forget hornets. :)
Sparks, yes it is. It just looked kind of beautiful and photogenic hanging there in the morning sun. Trying to google for a species name right now.
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eeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!
i look at them pics and i keep hearing
help me! help me help meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!
THUMP !:O
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If it is outside and I see them first, no problemo.
If I walk into one, its time to get the bic lighter and aerosol can out.
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Originally posted by Schatzi
Dont forget hornets. :)
Sparks, yes it is. It just looked kind of beautiful and photogenic hanging there in the morning sun. Trying to google for a species name right now.
google for "eeeeeeeew" and its the first picture you see
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Ok, i think i tracked it down.... European garden spider.
Phylum : Arthropoda
Class : Arachnida
Order : Araneae
Suborder : Araneomorphae
Family : Araneidae
Species : Araneus diadematus
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Looks like the one yes.
Who, and how many does he eat?
Have never seen that brand up here.
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Originally posted by Sparks
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.
on topic
#$%^ it Schatzi! :mad: keep those evil bastages off the forum please :O
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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?
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Originally posted by Skuzzy
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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Female spiders usually eat their male partners after copulation? :t
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Originally posted by Mustaine
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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Originally posted by Schatzi
Female spiders usually eat their male partners after copulation? :t
dont all females do that in one way or another
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Originally posted by Nilsen
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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We get a spider called the huntsman over here in AUS
One Of The Subspecies Of Huntsman (http://www.usq.edu.au/spider/find/spiders/402.htm)
(http://www.usq.edu.au/spider/find/spiders/images/402A10a.jpg)
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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Originally posted by ASTAC
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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Originally posted by mussie
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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Originally posted by mussie
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.
Furball,
The huntsman isn't venemous and is very docile. You would just about have to torture one before it bit you.
(http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/education/insects_spiders/images/spider1.jpg)
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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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.
(http://slowcat.de/slowcats1/films/Spider6.jpg)
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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Originally posted by Nilsen
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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Originally posted by mussie
We get a spider called the huntsman over here in AUS
One Of The Subspecies Of Huntsman (http://www.usq.edu.au/spider/find/spiders/402.htm)
(http://www.usq.edu.au/spider/find/spiders/images/402A10a.jpg)
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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Seems fitting that Schatzi would be posting these. Sort of analogous to her in the arenas waiting for all the bugs to fly towards her in her Hurri web. (self protecting insert: I bet Schatzi in person would only look like Arachnea BEFORE she teed off the gods.)
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I must reiterate that the GIANT huntsmans we used to get in that house were NOT how big a Huntsmans should get.
On a 17" screen at 1024x768 the pic of the huntsman I posted is about the size you would normally call Big for a huntsman.
But again for some reason we used to get the GIANT ones at that house Imagine the Pic I posted about 2.5 times bigger. Its outer legs would just about cover the screen from edge to edge.
NOTE: I was looking at another subspecies of huntsman and (after seeing the picture) I think that the ones we were getting were actually this one (I can remember those hairy grey legs they were almost as thick as a small childs finger )
(http://www.usq.edu.au/spider/find/spiders/images/418A10.jpg)
Species:Isopedella flavida (QM)
Previous species name: Isopeda flavida
Family: Sparassidae formerly Heteropodidae
Body length: female:23mm male:19mm
Habitat: Under loose bark but also on walls in sheds and houses
Toxicity: Uncertain; may only induce mild illness but probably can cause necrotising arachnidism
NOTE:Huntsman spiders DO NOT build the sterotype spider web they actually hunt their prey....
NOW heres the extra weird thing
I lived in that house for about 2 Years in that time I saw 2 (maybe 3) of the Giant Huntsmans but there was this other GIANT spider.
- It was not as wide as the huntsman but Its abdomen was about the size of a lightbulb
- No one in the house could identify it.
- It had Thin legs
- It (and again I watermelon you not) hissed at us when we put a Jar over it to capture it. (I wanted to take it to the museum but the sister in law was there and she let it go in the back of the garden (Dam Hippy :) thankfully It was a big garden).
There was somthing about that house, and giant spiders.
I got a bunch more tales about encounters with spiders but I will tell ya them later.
Oh and I am sure some other Aussie is gonna read this and say I am full of watermelon but I swear this is the honest truth...
EDIT:
Personally I dont like to kill insects in the house, they are not doing any harm but if its 10 oclock at night and the kids are screaming and I just cant catch the dam thing I will kill it.
As for the GIANT Huntsmans I seam to rember catching them in a tuppawear container and THROWING the dam thing as far as I could whilst running in the oposite direction....
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Bats are better then dragonflies and are more cuddly too!
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I HATE spiders. Besides the extremely red ones you most ooften see on concrete in the summer and daddy long legs. We have black widows and wolf spiders here. Last night I took the airconditioner out of my window for the winter.When I woke up in the morning there was a effing huge nest of spiders that had moved in whike the a/c unit was there. I hadnt seen them last night because it was dark. My head is about 2 feet from the window. Ugh...
I hate these bastiges too...
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/581_1159062134_centiped.jpg)
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Spiders are evil...
Had a Brown Recluse bite on the inner left thigh..late Friday nite while sleeping... come Monday Morning I had a choice if the antibiotics didn't work it was surgery time...bye leg.
North Korea uses alotta spiders in their tunnels... most are just ugly and scary... some are hard biters.
Mac
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Erm.. Nice spread Schatzi. You could cut down the 'web' a bit though. :rofl
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Originally posted by mussie
Oh and I am sure some other Aussie is gonna read this and say I am full of watermelon but I swear this is the honest truth...
I don't think many people that have seen a big huntsman will doubt you.
The avondale spider can grow to a size of 8 inches in leg span, which just means as far I'm aware no one has yet found an avondale bigger than 8 inches. It doesn't mean bigger ones don't exist though. And that’s just one species of huntsman found mainly in a relatively small geographic area in Auckland. With your multiple species spread out over a much larger area it's not much of a leap to believe that there can be instances where the spiders exceed the normal for "big" ... like it's not as though all tall humans are pre programmed to stop growing when they get to 6' 6"
That hissing spider that you couldn't identify maybe uncommon and perhaps not even catalogued yet. Many of the less common native spiders in NZ aren’t in the "books". I have come across a few strange looking spiders over the years and failed to find any references matching their descriptions.