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(08-23-2012, 05:51 AM)
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#53
Originally Posted by Bombadil:
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Has problems recognising girls
(08-23-2012, 05:54 AM)
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#55
I pick up the small ones and such. The big ones tend to freak out and run all over the place so it's best to try and get them in to a container before they flip out.
If it's a certain species that I know will eat other spiders or cockroaches then I leave it alone. The geckos do enough damage to other more annoying insects outside, I need further protection inside. |
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(08-23-2012, 05:58 AM)
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#56
Originally Posted by yn-neko hates a cat:
I work under the assumption that every living thing in Australia is venomous. Even the plants and people's pets. But a genuine answer to your question, is there are several common spiders that you can find in and around your home that are venomous. Even deadly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-tailed_spider http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_house_spider http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redback_spider http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austral...nel-web_spider I've never seen a Redback, but have encountered the other three.
Last edited by SPE; 08-23-2012 at 06:02 AM.
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(08-23-2012, 06:03 AM)
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#59
A lot of harmless spiders like money spiders , Daddy long legs etc i have no problem with if i need to relocate them by hand. Wolf/Huntsman spiders I use a container and put them outside if they don't stay on the ceiling and come down to where the couch line is.. Red backs, white tails etc i spray and squish.
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(08-23-2012, 07:38 AM)
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#62
I always try get a glass or something to capture them in then let them loose in the backyard or garage if it's too cold, don't touch them though never know when you might run into a brown recluse. I have no problem killing the useless insects like mosquitoes or flies but spiders are worthy insects.
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(08-23-2012, 07:40 AM)
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#63
I sat here on my sofa reading this thread, my dad walked in the room and killed a daddy long legs.
Anyway, I used to be a bit fearful of spiders bigger than a 2p coin. But one day I decided to not be anymore, so now I'm not. Depending on the type, I will kill or pick up and throw out the window. We only get daddies and house spiders round 'ere.
Last edited by SixFourMike; 08-23-2012 at 07:43 AM.
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Magnificent Eager Mighty Brilliantly Erect Registereduser
(08-23-2012, 07:49 AM)
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#68
With my hands? Fuck no. I usually use something like a pringles can to scoop em up if they are rather large. I scooped up a huge wolf spider a few months ago while on vacation and went to show my sisters. While they were freaking out I accidentally dropped the can and I thought they were going to implode in fear.
I let daddy long legs chill wherever they are though, same thing with mosquito hawks. They wont bug me and they are great at eating other insects that would be a bigger pain. |
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(08-23-2012, 07:54 AM)
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#70
I'll admit it. Sure. As long as it's not poisonous, why not? I occasionally pick up daddy long legs (I know, not real spiders, but close enough) to move them from by bathroom to the back yard. Garden spider, not a big deal.
If I suspect a spider is poisonous, then I'm going to be 20 feet away from it until I rack up the courage to get close enough to whack. Edit: I'll usually get a can or jar, but if neither is close... |
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(08-23-2012, 07:57 AM)
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#71
Sure, if they're a type I recognize not to be aggressive/highly poisonous, otherwise I leave them alone. I like to pick up the spiders that some people call "daddy long legs," they're pretty cool.
If it's inside my house and it's highly poisonous, I'll take it to some woods far away from my house. That's only happened once, though.
Last edited by abusori; 08-23-2012 at 08:08 AM.
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When keepin it real goes wrong. Very, very wrong.
(08-23-2012, 08:13 AM)
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#74
Originally Posted by Yaceka:
If it doesn't move then i move in for the extermination. 
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(08-23-2012, 08:14 AM)
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#75
Originally Posted by yn-neko hates a cat:
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re-sign Martin Rucinsky
(08-23-2012, 09:10 AM)
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#84
The vacuum head is about as close as a spider usually gets to me.
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(08-23-2012, 09:22 AM)
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#87
Originally Posted by SPE:
Would pick up a daddy long legs. Redback? Not so much. Shit hurts. When I was a little girl, I got bitten on the leg by a whitetail. Leg swelled up like crazy |
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(08-23-2012, 09:25 AM)
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#89
Redbacks are pretty harmless. Sure, they can give a nasty bite and some people can be hit pretty hard by them - usually old or very young people. Or unlucky people. But its very rare for someone to die from one, despite their reputation.
The worst spider, indeed I believe it is one of if not the most dangerous in the world, is this relatively innocuous looking thing: the Sydney Brown Funnelweb spider.
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They also wander around, and in suburban areas they can fall into swimming pools. If they do, they curl up underwater and can survive several days at the bottom of the pool. Then someone cleans it out or goes for a swim, brushes past it and gets bitten. Sneaky bastards they are. Also they can bite through leather shoes and big toenails. At once. |
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re-sign Martin Rucinsky
(08-23-2012, 10:05 AM)
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#92
Originally Posted by G_Berry:
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(08-23-2012, 10:24 AM)
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#95
Originally Posted by Fiction:
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(08-23-2012, 12:21 PM)
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#98
Short answer: Fuck no.
Long answer: I live in Australia. One summer evening, there was an adult brown huntsman (example picture below) above my fridge which I immediately noticed when I went to fill up my water bottle. In a calm manner, I proceeded to spray, said spider, with some surface spray. This normally kills insects and spiders very quickly. It's my preferred weapon of choice against their kind. Quick. Easy. Probably painful. $12 at your local Supermarket. In this instance, this huntsman held its position on the wall -while I painted it with acid fire- like it was no thang. After 30 seconds of minimal movement, it dropped from the wall and behind my fridge. My superior genetics and mighty human brain assumed that all was well and that it was suffering a quick death in the dark depths of the space between the wall and the fridge unit. In this space, no one can hear spiders scream. I had no doubt it had assumed the typical upside-down spider pose with its legs curled. Mwuhah. Lui Kang wins. Flawless victory. Feeling somewhat content with my predatorial instincts and ability to have such dominance over something a hundredth of my size, I proceeded to go back to the fridge and fill up my water bottle. After filling up my water bottle, the running water from the tap induced a sudden need to relieve myself. So I left my water bottle and made the trip to the first floor of my home and entered the downstairs bathroom. Little did I know, the huntsman had decided to shrug off the acid fire and exact vengeance on my pale-fragile-manchild-body. It accomplished the first goal of its attack plan by running under the fridge and up the leg of my jeans. It did this while I was occupied by the mentally taxing process of filling up my water bottle with chilled water. It then proceeded to hitch a ride on me while I traversed half the length of my house, down some steps and laid in wait for the moment that I was going to be at my most vulnerable. I had no knowledge of this ofcourse until I had my wang in my hands and I was relieving myself in the bathroom. Several seconds into the process, I felt the weight of the spider on the back of my neck and the tickle of its legs. At this point, my superior intellect and all-powerful man-brain returned to its primal instincts and acted in a base manner that only someone that has had their life threatened would be privy to. This primal human survival instinct included actions such as: screaming like a harpy, tearing off my clothes faster than a coked-up stripper, slapping at every imagined 'tickle' that could potentially indicate that a spider had attached itself to my body with its fangs, losing my footing and cowering naked in the shower. In this calm and calculated act of survival I had managed to get bitten once on my neck and once on my finger in my vain attempt to vanquish evil. Staring back at me, minus one leg, was the huntsman in the opposite corner of the bathroom besides my pile of hastily removed clothes. Spider = 2, Human = 1. I actually don't even remember how I got out of the bathroom afterwards as the spider was in the corner where the exiting door was. However, I did realise at that point that spiders were the dominant species on the planet. For all the animal lovers, I don't even recall killing the spider after that so I'm assuming that I didn't. It is certainly within my morals to leave a ferocious, vengeful predator in my bathroom for another family member to discover. But the fact that a spider potentially identified me as its attacker, hunted me down and then counter-attacked me while I was at my weakest will never ever leave me. It's extremely unnerving. There's a chance that it lucked into that situation. But I'm not putting myself in a man-vs-spider scenario again. The next time there's a spider of considerable size above my fridge, I'll be sleeping in my car. For reference: 
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