Thread about spiders (not for the arachnophobic!)

[farmerbarleymow]

Nice souvenir to bring back from holiday

Stowaway African huntsman spider found in Edinburgh suitcase

The Scottish SPCA has quarantined the 10cm spider that was discovered at a home in Edinburgh.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Epona]

Nice souvenir to bring back from holiday

Stowaway African huntsman spider found in Edinburgh suitcase

The Scottish SPCA has quarantined the 10cm spider that was discovered at a home in Edinburgh.

www.bbc.co.uk

tonysingh ... your next new arrival?

 

[moochedit]

Nice souvenir to bring back from holiday

Stowaway African huntsman spider found in Edinburgh suitcase

The Scottish SPCA has quarantined the 10cm spider that was discovered at a home in Edinburgh.

www.bbc.co.uk

Nuke scotland now before it's too late

 

[tonysingh]

tonysingh ... your next new arrival?

I wish. Huntsman spoods are amazing.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Nuke scotland now before it's too late

Better check your undies - they're renowned for hiding in cotton bales.

Noticed any nips to yer nads recently?

 

[moochedit]

Better check your undies - they're renowned for hiding in cotton bales.

Noticed any nips to yer nads recently?

No they don't

 

[tonysingh]

Better check your undies - they're renowned for hiding in cotton bales.

Noticed any nips to yer nads recently?

If not, do you want one?

 

[Epona]

Well my resident tegenaria is MIA.

He's been living behind some decorative bottles on a high shelf in my kitchen completely undisturbed since last autumn.

Today I heard a massive high pitched scream from the sitting room and went in there to find my husband jumping around in a state of agitation.

"A massive spider was on me" he said. "OK well where is it now?" I asked. "I don't know, I panicked and kind of flung it off my arm"

I don't know where Mr Spider is now, but he is no longer behind the bottles, and I don't know how he got onto my OH and into the sitting room or where he ended up.

I have tried to impress on my OH that next time he has a spider on him instead of screaming like a baby and flinging it across the room, he calls for me so I can remove it and put it somewhere safe.



EDIT: I hope he has survived and builds a massive web all over OH's graphic novels.

 

[tonysingh]

Well my resident tegenaria is MIA.

He's been living behind some decorative bottles on a high shelf in my kitchen completely undisturbed since last autumn.

Today I heard a massive high pitched scream from the sitting room and went in there to find my husband jumping around in a state of agitation.

"A massive spider was on me" he said. "OK well where is it now?" I asked. "I don't know, I panicked and kind of flung it off my arm"

I don't know where Mr Spider is now, but he is no longer behind the bottles, and I don't know how he got onto my OH and into the sitting room or where he ended up.

I have tried to impress on my OH that next time he has a spider on him instead of screaming like a baby and flinging it across the room, he calls for me so I can remove it and put it somewhere safe.



EDIT: I hope he has survived and builds a massive web all over OH's graphic novels.

FYI I am laughing pretty hard at your other half right now.

 

[Epona]

FYI I am laughing pretty hard at your other half right now.

Can I send him round to yours so he can have a bit of an education about what constitutes a "massive" spider?

My poor little teg

 

[tonysingh]

Can I send him round to yours so he can have a bit of an education about what constitutes a "massive" spider? S

My poor little teg

I've had a bad spot with the invertebrates, I lost a few and am down to 3. Pretty devastating.

Tell you what though, if I thought it'd survive postage, I'd send you a shed skin to scare him with. I used to do that with library staff here until one day, an old lady found it and78 promptly had a panic attack bad enough she was rushed to hospital

 

[moochedit]

Well my resident tegenaria is MIA.

He's been living behind some decorative bottles on a high shelf in my kitchen completely undisturbed since last autumn.

Today I heard a massive high pitched scream from the sitting room and went in there to find my husband jumping around in a state of agitation.

"A massive spider was on me" he said. "OK well where is it now?" I asked. "I don't know, I panicked and kind of flung it off my arm"

I don't know where Mr Spider is now, but he is no longer behind the bottles, and I don't know how he got onto my OH and into the sitting room or where he ended up.

I have tried to impress on my OH that next time he has a spider on him instead of screaming like a baby and flinging it across the room, he calls for me so I can remove it and put it somewhere safe.



EDIT: I hope he has survived and builds a massive web all over OH's graphic novels.

He needs to buy a flame thrower to protect himself

I've had the spider on my shoulder experience myself and had a simalar reaction

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Tell you what though, if I thought it'd survive postage, I'd send you a shed skin to scare him with.

Send one (or several) to moochedit - that would cheer him up.

 

[Epona]

He turned up! I found him this morning on the wall halfway down the hall making his way back to the kitchen.
I don't know what he was doing so far from his usual hangout in the first place (apparently he fell onto OH's arm from above in the sitting room), it's a bit early in the year for him to go looking for a mate (and then die, unfortunate but tis what happens to the males) but he was clearly heading back in that direction so I took him back to the kitchen and put him out of reach of the cat, who is partial to a nice crunchy teg

 

[tonysingh]

He turned up! I found him this morning on the wall halfway down the hall making his way back to the kitchen.
I don't know what he was doing so far from his usual hangout in the first place (apparently he fell onto OH's arm from above in the sitting room), it's a bit early in the year for him to go looking for a mate (and then die, unfortunate but tis what happens to the males) but he was clearly heading back in that direction so I took him back to the kitchen and put him out of reach of the cat, who is partial to a nice crunchy teg

Get him a female ASAP, you could get yourself hundreds little babies....

 

[Epona]

Get him a female ASAP, you could get yourself hundreds little babies....

Hope you mean the spider and not my OH

 

[tonysingh]

Hope you mean the spider and not my OH

Literally every response I have to that will get me in the shit.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Get him a female ASAP, you could get yourself hundreds little babies....

More than enough to send a lovely package to moochedit - it'll be like an early christmas present for him which we all know he'd love.

Or just put hundreds of spiderlings through his letterbox so he has a surprise when he gets home from work.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Have ordered this book which only cost a tenner P & P compared to the usual retail price - courtesy of being a member of the spider society. Want to borrow it moochedit?

Spider Families Of The World And Their Spinnerets

Mike Roberts's renowned line drawings combine with John…

www.goodreads.com

 

[gentlegreen]

Could this be a new segestria florentina in my bathroom ?
Hopefully at some point I will get a better photo ?
She seems unfazed by the camera flash ...

 

[moochedit]

Have ordered this book which only cost a tenner P & P compared to the usual retail price - courtesy of being a member of the spider society. Want to borrow it moochedit?

Spider Families Of The World And Their Spinnerets

Mike Roberts's renowned line drawings combine with John…

www.goodreads.com

Spiders have a society now? what is their agenda?

 

[Epona]

Spiders have a society now? what is their agenda?

To lurk in the undies drawers of spider-fearing heretics

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Spiders have a society now? what is their agenda?

To make your life hell.

 

[gentlegreen]

 

[gentlegreen]

I don't think my new spider is a segestria ...

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I don't think my new spider is a segestria ...

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That is a great photo

 

[farmerbarleymow]

My spider society books have arrived moochedit - two heavy hardbacks full of spider goodness. Just PM me your address and I'll lend them to you.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Here you go moochedit - two heavy hardbacks full of spidery goodness. Reading them you'll be wrapped in a web of silken rapture and paralysed in awe like a neurotoxin at their beauty, I'm sure.

 

[gentlegreen]

That is a great photo

It was actually a video but I can't make it short enough ...

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Anyone got a time machine so we can send moochedit back to the Carboniferous period to commune with giant spiders? The biggest spiders that have ever lived - he'd absolutely love it.