Thread about spiders (not for the arachnophobic!)

[farmerbarleymow]

This is a beautiful beast - Purple bloom birdeater (Pamphobeteus insignis)

 

[Epona]

I had a really inflamed and burning sensation on my leg a couple of nights ago, it stopped me sleeping and went on for quite a while, well over 24 hours - I was worried I might have a DVT or something but it turned out to be a reaction to a spider bite (now the inflammation has subsided I can clearly see the bite mark). I must have got into bed with one of the many false widows that have taken up residence in the landfill site that is our flat.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Spider season again - look at this beauty

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Look at this stunning spider eating frogs eggs.

 

[8ball]

Spider season again - look at this beauty

Good pic.

Dave The Ninth has been out on the prowl at my gaff recently. He's a corker.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Good pic.

Dave The Ninth has been out on the prowl at my gaff recently. He's a corker.

Pics please.

 

[8ball]

Pics please.

I kind of freeze and put my feet in the air when he’s about.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I kind of freeze and put my feet in the air when he’s about.

Don't be scared of him - he's a friendly spider who won't bite. It's a nice sensation getting a housespider onto your arm and feeling it clambering over the arm hairs.

 

[8ball]

Don't be scared of him - he's a friendly spider who won't bite. It's a nice sensation getting a housespider onto your arm and feeling it clambering over the arm hairs.

I don’t have full-on arachnophobia, probably never had a precipitating trauma as a kid, I do sort of like them from an intellectual angle but something in my brain still tells me to run.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I don’t have full-on arachnophobia, probably never had a precipitating trauma as a kid, I do sort of like them from an intellectual angle but something in my brain still tells me to run.

Just repeat to yourself 'spiders are my friends' and you'll soon overcome your instinct to flee. Put it on a tape and play it on a loop while you sleep would probably be an efficient way to do it.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

This one is beautiful - a green jumping spider.

 

[8ball]

Just repeat to yourself 'spiders are my friends' and you'll soon overcome your instinct to flee. Put it on a tape and play it on a loop while you sleep would probably be an efficient way to do it.

It’s pretty well dealt with. I watched Derren Brown doing some stuff with someone to help their arachnophobia (at the end of which she let a tarantula walk on her arm), and some of that helped (kind of a speed-CBT).

Plus I know they eat a bunch of other bugs, which is handy.

 

[moochedit]

This one is beautiful - a green jumping spider.

Jumping?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Jumping?

Yes, and like the beast in Alien it jumps onto your face and won't let go.

 

[iona]

I have a kitchen spider!

Technically it's a garden spider but it's living in my kitchen. Think it came in with some plants I'd cut down to save seed from, then it spent a couple of weeks stringing up webs between things at ankle-to-knee height (then completely relocating overnight just when stepping over them was becoming an ingrained habit for me ) before settling on its current home in the space between the ceiling and the cupboards either side of the cooker.

Just watched it finish eating a fly and start darting around like it was either having a mad five minutes like my dog used to, or some kind of seizure. Watching the patterns it's running in though it seems to be repairing its web. Never seen it this active before Usually it only moves when it's caught something to eat. Then it jumps over, grabs the food and flings itself out into space with a thread of silk to swing back into the middle of the web like it's bungee jumping

 

[farmerbarleymow]

What's it's name iona?

 

[iona]

What's it's name iona?

It doesn't have one yet. Needs to be something that starts with a hard g so it can be G— the Garden Spider.

 

[iona]

I'm happy it's there but I do wish it wouldn't keep dropping dehydrated fly husks and shitting on the cooker

 

[gentlegreen]

It doesn't have one yet. Needs to be something that starts with a hard g so it can be G— the Garden Spider.

Glenda ?

 

[Epona]

This one is beautiful - a green jumping spider.

I love that

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I love that

The glorious green colour reminds me of the Wizard of Oz.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Glenda ?

Gertrude

 

[Epona]

The glorious green colour reminds me of the Wizard of Oz.

It looks like some bonkers but friendly cartoon character - I love it

 

[farmerbarleymow]

It looks like some bonkers but friendly cartoon character - I love it

Given its colour it's probably radioactive.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Caught a big boy tonight, just the 2nd of the season and notable for leaving some sort of spider waste product in the tube.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

A friendly spider for all the arachnophobes out there.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Adult jumping spider (Pelegrina pervaga)

I like the description -

Just before it jumps, it tethers a filament of silk to whatever it is standing on. Should it fall for one reason or another, it climbs back up the silk tether with its hairy spider legs made to be be adherent to surfaces.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Another beautiful green spider.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

 

[farmerbarleymow]