The Spider Issue

[DaveM]

[quote author=Lioness link=topic=859.msg5202#msg5202 date=1217488740]
DAVEM- that is sooooo unfair. I opened this page and nearly puked. I can't even look at that picture. You deserve a good smiting!!

Heck!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Now you have given me the heeby jeebies for the whole day. :y75: :y109: :y108: :y112:
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:y24: :y24: :y24:

 

[CarlS]

LOL!! My mother had a fear and intense dislike of spiders - of which we have no shortage in Florida.

 

[CarlS]

[quote author=Lioness link=topic=859.msg5202#msg5202 date=1217488740]
DAVEM- that is sooooo unfair. I opened this page and nearly puked. I can't even look at that picture. You deserve a good smiting!!

Heck!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Now you have given me the heeby jeebies for the whole day. :y75: :y109: :y108: :y112:
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[Merlin]

 

[FarsideMichael]

You are just one big frilly blouse :y114:

 

[DaveM]

BUT in KZN you don’t need to worry about the rain spiders but more the cane spiders like this :silent:

 

[Merlin]

And thats a small one DaveM :y114:

 

[DaveM]

Yes I have heard of them getting much bigger than that. Apparently because they are so large they are attracted to heat sources at night to try and keep warm. I know buddies of mine riding down that area would come back to the tent and find then in the flaps of their sleeping bags :y115:

 

[gumpt1oo]

I'm pleased we don't have anything like that in England! My wife is petrified of spiders, and the biggest we have are about 2inches across!(and they are not common)
I have known her sit for 2 hours watching a spider until I got home to remove it. I asked her why she watches them, she says as long as she knows where they are they can't get her! h:

 

[Gromit]

[quote author=DaveM link=topic=859.msg5253#msg5253 date=1217514298]
BUT in KZN you don’t need to worry about the rain spiders but more the cane spiders like this :silent:
[$%@)*(& THAT THING IS HUGE. I grew up on a sugar farm in KZN - never saw one of these. Plenty big cane rats but never one of those monsters.

Lioness is gonna pass out when she sees that. The wedding is in.......................KZN!!!!!!!!!! :y24:

 

[grandpaul]

This is all silly.

Those are huge spiders, how can you miss them?

You ought to try living with Black Widows and Brown recluse (we have both). You almost never see them 'till they've got thier tiny little fangs in you. They like to hide way up in the toe area of your empty shoes in the closet, or up underneath the shelf where you have the parts bins for your Triumph.

They don't have "low medium and high" on thier venom dosimeter, it's full-blast every time.

When they get you, you can easily die.

AND YOU ALMOST NEVER SEE THEM.

Quit panicking and just kick the little beastie over somebody else's way when you see them crawling up to you.

 

[CarlS]

This thread is hilarious!

 

[DaveM]

The Kitty does not think so

 

[dragline]

Some spiders are hard to see
Like the one in this video clip
They like to hide @
wedding reception h: Oh my !!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJKJ_7LszU0

wayne

 

[Merlin]

:y24: :y24:

 

[DaveM]

 

[Gary]

I read somewhere that no matter where you are on land or in a human made structure or vehicle (just not in water) that there are a minimum of 10,000 spiders within a 10 foot radius of your body.

We keep several spider traps (cardboard boxes with very sticky stuff inside) in every room and closet of our house. We catch a lot of brown recluse and wolf spiders and find a lot of legs left by big wolf spiders.

Outdoors, around the house, spiders aren't much of an issue as there are hundreds of mud dauber wasps that stun spiders with their sting and feed them to their grubs; these wasps don't sting humans, so we welcome them. However, one of their favorite places to build a mud nest is inside an exhaust outlet, especially ones on small 2 cycle engines. Whenever I encounter a 2 cycle engine that will not start (like on a string trimmer), the first thing I check is the muffler.

 

[CarlS]

Wayne, that was mean! I love it!!! :y114:

 

[DaveM]

I see the Kitty is going to be doing a lot of smiting today

 

[Lioness]

You lot are a really horrible bunch of people!
Dave yesterday you cost me a fortune - I left work and did some retail therapy. All I thought about was that damned spider picture. So I come to work this morning and what do I see??????

THE WORLDS BIGGEST. HAIRIEST MONSTER.

I don't think I can go to my sons wedding.