Thread about spiders (not for the arachnophobic!)

[Calamity1971]

So it was drawn to one of your sweaty crevices as it sought out humidity?

I remember once going the loo, pulled my zip down and Sammy was snuggled at the bottom of the zip. They wuz bloody huge! Must admit I jumped a little .

 

[gentlegreen]

So many fruit flies about at the moment ... and there are always moths ...
One fly could feed this lot ...

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[farmerbarleymow]

An upside down spider

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[weltweit]

Not totally arachnaphobic here but quite a bit. I met small spiders in Oz whose venom could do quite a lot of harm, but the hand sized spiders of Africa are perhaps even more vile, nope I don't like them.

 

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Spider courtship

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[tonysingh]

Not totally arachnaphobic here but quite a bit. I met small spiders in Oz whose venom could do quite a lot of harm, but the hand sized spiders of Africa are perhaps even more vile, nope I don't like them.

The hand sized Old World (African) species are amongst the fastest and most aggressive tarantulas there are plus they have very potent venom, only surpassed by some of the Indian species.


Bloody good pets though. I have a few.

So it was drawn to one of your sweaty crevices as it sought out humidity?

It was perhaps not one of my more dignified moments.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

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[moochedit]

They're hiding in crisp packets now!

Mum vows to 'never eats crisps again' after finding 'cooked spider'

Sabrina Hussain was tucking into a bag of cheese and onion when she noticed something 'stringy' hanging from one of the crisps

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A disturbing change of tactics by the evil 8 legged aliens!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

They're hiding in crisp packets now!

Mum vows to 'never eats crisps again' after finding 'cooked spider'

Sabrina Hussain was tucking into a bag of cheese and onion when she noticed something 'stringy' hanging from one of the crisps

www.birminghammail.co.uk

A disturbing change of tactics by the evil 8 legged aliens!

The lovely spiders are there to deal with any problematic insects in the bag - every single bag has a spider in it who escapes once its opened. Obviously the bag of crisps was left out too long so the poor caretaker perished.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

You may laugh Mr Moochedit, but it seems to be true. We should all give thanks to the selfless lovely spiders who sacrifice their lives for the sake of our love of bags of crisps.

spiders in bags of crisps at DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo. Privacy, Simplified.

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(((spiders)))

 

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[tonysingh]

Zombie spiders!

Awesome innit

 

[gentlegreen]

Can anyone hazard a guess as to what this is about ?
Actually scrub that it's just some poor beetle that got caught in a web and is getting its brains sucked out ...

 

[farmerbarleymow]

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Zombie spiders!

Awesome innit

Once they turn them into autonomous spiderbots I'll buy some and send them to moochedit

 

[TheWolfshead]

Not totally arachnaphobic here but quite a bit. I met small spiders in Oz whose venom could do quite a lot of harm, but the hand sized spiders of Africa are perhaps even more vile, nope I don't like them.

Did you hear the red-backed spider song while you were in Oz? "There was a deadly red-backed spider on the toilet seat last night. I didn't see him in the dark but boy I felt him bite ..."

 

[Mation]

My brother had to rescue me from this, this morning



I'm usually fine with capturing them and releasing elsewhere, but just stood staring at this one for ages, contemplating what it would do and where it would run if I didn't get it first go. Total wuss

 

[Epona]

Looks like an early indoor teg sighting...

 

[Leafster]

Looks like an early indoor teg sighting...

I think I had one in the kitchen last night. Pretty big thing, I got the impression it was just stood there on the floor staring at me.

I left it to do what ever it was going to do and it was gone this morning.

 

[Epona]

I think I had one in the kitchen last night. Pretty big thing, I got the impression it was just stood there on the floor staring at me.

I left it to do what ever it was going to do and it was gone this morning.

I haven't seen one yet this year, I am sure some years we don't get any in at all, possibly because we're in an upstairs flat - could be the ground floor flats get inundated during the autumn

My parents who live in a very rural area always get loads, when I was a kid there we once had one in the bath that was so big you could hear its feet clomping about on the surface of the bath

 

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[farmerbarleymow]

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That's perfect for Coventry isn't it moochedit

TBF - the landscape looks nowt like Cov, but beggars can't be choosers.

 

[Leafster]

I think my kitchen spider is no more.

I walked in there this morning in bare feet before taking a shower and felt something odd under my foot. I'm pretty sure it must have been dead before I stood on it as I'm sure it would have run away if it could.

 

[story]

Leafster
I accidentally trapped a spider in a door jamb a year ago and I still feel sad about it.

I have two main house spiders (Sandra and Teesha) who live in two different windows. I love the Milky Way effect of their webs against the light. (Sadly, the small huntsman that used to prowl my kitchen seems to have either left the premises or died. Same with the false widow who was tucked into the outside edge of a window so I could observe her from indoors).)

Recently I found this below Teesha’s web. I think it must be the leavings from a meal of a Jersey Tiger moth.

The plate is very small, it’s not a giant moth remains.

 

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