Spiders

adam5016

Sealiner
***Galjoen*** wrote:
Wie's bang???

:D:D:D:D

Dis presies wat met daai nes gebeur het wat ek afgeneem het. Al verskil is dat toe ek hom wil afhaal, bars hy oop met honderde klein spinnekoppies wat oor my hardloop terwyl ek bo teen die leer probeer vasklou.

sies, voel nou nog hoe hulle oor my hardloop, moes maar gespring het
 

sharkie7

Member
Ek het laas week een aand hout van buite af ingedra. Gooi die hout binne in die braai en steek 'n stuk blits aan en gooi dit onder die hout in. Terwyl ek so staan en staar vang my oog beweging en toe dop een van daai menere daar uit. Ek was yskoud gevries en toe besef ek waar daar een is kan daar nog een wees, dit was 'n kwessie van twee sekondes toe is ek uit al my klere (sokkies inkluis) uit. Toe ek weer by die braai kom toe is hy weg en ek dink toe hy het seker uitgebrand. Seker so uur of twee later toe ek die tjoppies spice sien ek weer beweging en daar staan wena en weer vir my kyk. Hardloop om die doomblik te kry en spyt hom dat hy soos sneeuwydtjie lyk en gryp hom met die tang en gooi hom in die vuur. Wat noois so bang vir hulle nie, maar die afgelope tyd kan ek hulle nie vat nie. Slange sal ek enigedag voor 'n spinnekop vat. Dan se hulle ons eent ook nog so paar van hulle in ons slaap deur ons lewens. Grillerig...
 

spirits

Senior Member
Funnel web spider no thanks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
very aggressive
 

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DocPhil

Senior Member
So..
Happily driving along when my attention is drawn to movement about 20cm from my head.. blood pressure goes right up..

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Pull over and thinking.. how am I going to get it out? Any movement and she might jump down on me..

So I grab a sunshade from the other side open the window and shoo it out of the car.. ever so gently..
 

DocPhil

Senior Member
Ja those are Huntsmen, they have a painful bite but are docile and not venomous, still makes a man sweat when they appear close-up like that as they are quite large and can move very quickly.

No harm done, I shoo'ed it out of the car.

We have one living in the sunroom of our house named George, it's probably George the VII'th by now as it's been there since we moved in 9 years ago, the kids love it but no-one dares go near when it appears.
 
Cool, George the VII..cracked me up..:)
This morning was wildlife central in the lounge, flycatcher at the window, geckos on the wall and a huntsman stalking them..a nest of wasps outside the door in front of the window..and the resident friendly oriole just smashing them, eating the larvae and seeminly unaffected by the angry wasps and very effective at letting them know who's boss. The most beautiful loeries having a complete party in the plum tree, this year I got maybe 3 plums myself. But hey. Sometimes I miss having DSTV and sometimes I don't..

I got up and got out the camera and they were all gone! Shy buggers :)

What are the spiders like in Auz, the snakes are hectic I hear..?
 

DocPhil

Senior Member
Not too bad where we are, cold winters you see. Further north the dreaded Sydney funnel web spider is deadly, and very aggressive.

Not as many dangerous snakes as in SA far as I know but of course the sea north if Brisbane has all sorts of nasties and salty crocs make swimming out of the question in Darwin and the top end
 

rbacht

Sealiner
DocPhil wrote:
So..
Happily driving along when my attention is drawn to movement about 20cm from my head.. blood pressure goes right up...

Boet - at the very same time my O ring will release!

Encountered a rain spider at my house the other day. I was very close to burning the place to the ground and start again!
 

JD

Sealiner
mmmmm, I have a wife who adores spiders, I'm not allowed to kill them, so we regularly have resident pets.
 

Houtarm

Moderator
Those Red Romans are the worst,super quick and aggressive.

Don't think they are classified as a spider though, but I could be wrong.
 

Houtarm

Moderator
"Despite the common names, they are neither true scorpions (order Scorpiones) nor true spiders (order Araneae) – though they are more closely related to scorpions than to spiders." according to wiki
 

DocPhil

Senior Member
Those red romans freak me out.
Can still remember a massive one chasing my mum on the farm till my dad bashed it with a cricket bat.
In the army we would put one in a shoebox and pit them against a scorpion. Made for some fun matches, although the scorpion usually won.
 
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