The Spider Issue
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That is not nice!! Y114:
I think Lioness is going to buy one of these Spyders:
[quote author=Dilligaf link=topic=859.msg5114#msg5114 date=1217443402]
Is that Leno's garage?
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No, his closet.
Is that Leno's garage?
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No, his closet.
I wanted to try one of those Spyders at Daytona; but I chose not to fight the lines.
Lon, a PGR rider out of the Jacksonville area has one and rides it to PGR missions. It is definitely cool looking.
This is what happens when you try and make an epic out of it, :y114: now tell us about the spider
[quote author=Lioness link=topic=859.msg5190#msg5190 date=1217484196]
Hey you guys hijacked my topic!
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You're in SA. What did you expect? Everything's hijackable. :y114:
Hey you guys hijacked my topic!
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You're in SA. What did you expect? Everything's hijackable. :y114:
[quote author=Gromit link=topic=859.msg5196#msg5196 date=1217485370]
You're in SA. What did you expect? Everything's hijackable. :y114:
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Excellent humour
:y18:
You're in SA. What did you expect? Everything's hijackable. :y114:
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Excellent humour
:y18:
As has been mentioned before, my life is defined by my fear of spiders and their cobwebs. I'm not scared of any other living (or dead) creapy or crawly thing except spiders. They rule my life.
My son is getting married to this rich chick in October and her family own a game reserve in KZN. Now she knows very well that I am petrified of spiders to such an extent that I DO NOT do the game reserve thing. That is sooooo not me!!!
Guess where they are getting married? Yep you got it right! They are having the ceremony at their game reserve and the reception at the adjoining one. (She did it on purpose to piss me off).
My son is not scared of spiders but he has told me that they have these great big fat hairy rain spiders that infest the place. Rain spiders are what star in slow motion horror movies. When i finally got to meet her mother on Monday (and thats another long story) she said that the spiders only make an appearance after the first rains. Excuse me but the wedding is in October in KZN. Of course the first rains would have come and gone by then!!!
We are staying in a thatched roof rondavel on the adjoining game reserve. Thatched roofed!!! Thats a spider heaven. The mother said that they will spray the room before we get there - that means that the spiders won't just be living there they will be pissed off as well!
The wedding sounds really nice and they have gone to a lot of trouble. The reception will be held in he bush, with lights in the trees, candles and a big bomb fire. We have even organised the "singing rat" as the entertainment. BUT what about the spiders under the chairs, tables and trees wating to ambush me?
I don't understand why everyone is getting so pissed off with me because I am going to sleep in my sleeping bag in the back of my car. What is their problem?
My son is getting married to this rich chick in October and her family own a game reserve in KZN. Now she knows very well that I am petrified of spiders to such an extent that I DO NOT do the game reserve thing. That is sooooo not me!!!
Guess where they are getting married? Yep you got it right! They are having the ceremony at their game reserve and the reception at the adjoining one. (She did it on purpose to piss me off).
My son is not scared of spiders but he has told me that they have these great big fat hairy rain spiders that infest the place. Rain spiders are what star in slow motion horror movies. When i finally got to meet her mother on Monday (and thats another long story) she said that the spiders only make an appearance after the first rains. Excuse me but the wedding is in October in KZN. Of course the first rains would have come and gone by then!!!
We are staying in a thatched roof rondavel on the adjoining game reserve. Thatched roofed!!! Thats a spider heaven. The mother said that they will spray the room before we get there - that means that the spiders won't just be living there they will be pissed off as well!
The wedding sounds really nice and they have gone to a lot of trouble. The reception will be held in he bush, with lights in the trees, candles and a big bomb fire. We have even organised the "singing rat" as the entertainment. BUT what about the spiders under the chairs, tables and trees wating to ambush me?
I don't understand why everyone is getting so pissed off with me because I am going to sleep in my sleeping bag in the back of my car. What is their problem?
I don’t know why you should be afraid of these furry little creatures. After all the ones you find in the bush are only as big as a hand. Oh and by the way they are more attracted to motor cars, something to do with the oil smell that attracts them. Remember there are plenty of opening under the car that they can slip into. They also love and are attracted to the light so they should be coming out to see what the candles and light are all about.
Oh and please enjoy the wedding
Sleep in the car. Those rain spiders are seriously EEEEEEEEK! Horrible damn things. Scare the bejeebers out of me. And they bite too!
An article I found on the web:
It's that time of year, the gentle sounds of summer approaching, lawnmowers, crickets, birdsong, the fizz of beer cans opening, and the shrieks of suburbanites confronted by rain spiders.
"They are among the biggest non-tarantula spiders in the world," said amateur arachnologist Astri Leroy, of the fat-bodied long-legged Sparassidae often found indoors in the last parched weeks before the summer rains come.
Nestled behind alarm sensors, they set off burglar alarms when stepping out for a nibble on a passing insect, and plunge households into turmoil through arguments over who is going to remove them, reducing strapping alpha males into Tupperware-clutching wrecks.
"None of the ones I know do any harm at all, but they are pretty big," said Leroy, a founder member of the Spider Club of Southern Africa.
They can have a legspan of up to 7cm and a head to abdomen measurement of about 3cm
They can have a legspan of up to 7cm and a head to abdomen measurement of about 3cm. They are spread from Cape Town in the south to Kosi Bay in the north and appear to like bushed areas with grass and gardens. They like to live among leaves and take two to three years to grow to adults, with the female fatter than the male, who is brighter with longer legs.
The males are slightly mottled, and the females a grey brown with dull yellow and black stripes under their front legs.
As nocturnal hunting spiders, they do not make webs and tend to hunt in the garden.
They can bungee down from the ceiling, but as they are heavy they prefer to run along the walls.
"They wander inside for insects that flap around the house after we have switched the light off, they find this very interesting, it is nothing malicious," said Leroy.
Occasionally they are trapped indoors and build their nests out of shreds of tissue
They also do not like being outside in the rain and are seen as a sign of approaching rainfall.
They sleep during the day but cannot close their eyes.
"We mostly have pale coloured walls, so we see a blob curled up on the walls, or hiding in the curtain."
When they are ready to lay eggs they go outside and build their egg cases out of silk, but occasionally they are trapped indoors and build their nests out of shreds of tissue.
The egg cases are guarded by the mother spider and, said Leroy, exhalation by a human inspecting the spiderlings, can bring the mother out to protect them.
"She comes out with her front legs out and it looks scary. I have been bitten by them but it was like a pinprick," Leroy said.
"It is a very scary thing to happen, I still jump and shriek."
The spiders are believed to be harmless to humans, saving their energy instead to catch their feast of insects, among their favourites, the Parktown prawn.
According to "Iziko Museums of Cape Town", guinea-pigs bitten by the spider died within three minutes, but this was found to have been from shock and not the effects of any venom.
The website said they are often confused with baboon spiders which are fatter and hairy.
To remove it from the home, Leroy says the brave can coax it out of a window with a feather duster, but it could run towards your arm.
Otherwise invert an empty coffee jar over it, slide a piece of paper underneath and carry it off.
To discourage rain spiders from entering the house, spray windows, doors and bricks with an insect spray or citronella.
"Teach your children to react slowly around it," said Leroy, who believed this would encourage children to become interested and not just squash them on sight.
It's that time of year, the gentle sounds of summer approaching, lawnmowers, crickets, birdsong, the fizz of beer cans opening, and the shrieks of suburbanites confronted by rain spiders.
"They are among the biggest non-tarantula spiders in the world," said amateur arachnologist Astri Leroy, of the fat-bodied long-legged Sparassidae often found indoors in the last parched weeks before the summer rains come.
Nestled behind alarm sensors, they set off burglar alarms when stepping out for a nibble on a passing insect, and plunge households into turmoil through arguments over who is going to remove them, reducing strapping alpha males into Tupperware-clutching wrecks.
"None of the ones I know do any harm at all, but they are pretty big," said Leroy, a founder member of the Spider Club of Southern Africa.
They can have a legspan of up to 7cm and a head to abdomen measurement of about 3cm
They can have a legspan of up to 7cm and a head to abdomen measurement of about 3cm. They are spread from Cape Town in the south to Kosi Bay in the north and appear to like bushed areas with grass and gardens. They like to live among leaves and take two to three years to grow to adults, with the female fatter than the male, who is brighter with longer legs.
The males are slightly mottled, and the females a grey brown with dull yellow and black stripes under their front legs.
As nocturnal hunting spiders, they do not make webs and tend to hunt in the garden.
They can bungee down from the ceiling, but as they are heavy they prefer to run along the walls.
"They wander inside for insects that flap around the house after we have switched the light off, they find this very interesting, it is nothing malicious," said Leroy.
Occasionally they are trapped indoors and build their nests out of shreds of tissue
They also do not like being outside in the rain and are seen as a sign of approaching rainfall.
They sleep during the day but cannot close their eyes.
"We mostly have pale coloured walls, so we see a blob curled up on the walls, or hiding in the curtain."
When they are ready to lay eggs they go outside and build their egg cases out of silk, but occasionally they are trapped indoors and build their nests out of shreds of tissue.
The egg cases are guarded by the mother spider and, said Leroy, exhalation by a human inspecting the spiderlings, can bring the mother out to protect them.
"She comes out with her front legs out and it looks scary. I have been bitten by them but it was like a pinprick," Leroy said.
"It is a very scary thing to happen, I still jump and shriek."
The spiders are believed to be harmless to humans, saving their energy instead to catch their feast of insects, among their favourites, the Parktown prawn.
According to "Iziko Museums of Cape Town", guinea-pigs bitten by the spider died within three minutes, but this was found to have been from shock and not the effects of any venom.
The website said they are often confused with baboon spiders which are fatter and hairy.
To remove it from the home, Leroy says the brave can coax it out of a window with a feather duster, but it could run towards your arm.
Otherwise invert an empty coffee jar over it, slide a piece of paper underneath and carry it off.
To discourage rain spiders from entering the house, spray windows, doors and bricks with an insect spray or citronella.
"Teach your children to react slowly around it," said Leroy, who believed this would encourage children to become interested and not just squash them on sight.
