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Spiders in your bedsheets *shivers*

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mace_ecam

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here is a few of my encounters during my time in oz

the harmless (unless you're a bird) golden orb web spider: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_silk_orb-weaver
i didn't know that it was harmless when i ran at midnight into her web, almost pissed my pants back then...

the funnel web spider: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_funnel-web_spider
i had friend that shared they their flat with them...

the huntsman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntsman_spider
was sitting really stoned on another friends couch one day, then he said "don't move..."

nasty little spiders are the redbacks, if you have a pool in sydney, you can be sure that they are around: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-back_spider

sweet dreams,

mace
 
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Sativa_Fan

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sogman said:
Yeah actually those giant house spider's are exactly what I was killing in my bathtub the other day. Fucking bastards like the dampness or something. Either that or the porcelin is too slippery for them to escape from and I give them their death via tilex mildew remover.
It paralyzes some, other run their asses off right into the drain.
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Yea, they are famous for getting into bathtubs, sinks, etc. Around here we the males sometimes get into houses and have a nasty habit of running lightning fast across the floor when you're sitting there watching TV, all you see is a really fast shadow :fsu: :yoinks: And I can't ever seem to kill them because they're so damn fast. It's like they teleport somewhere else before whatever you're going to kill em with actually hits 'em. When I was going out to smoke the other night there was one on the outside of the front door. I tried to sneak back in the house and get some Raid. Well I did, but wouldn't you know the first shot of Raid he drops ON MY FUCKING FOOT (i'm already stoned) and within the blink of an eye he darts through the door and inside the house. Now he knows what I look like :yoinks: :yoinks:
 
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Sativa_Fan

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The most a spider ever scared me was with my very large breeder female Usumbara Orange Starburst baboon. They are a medium-sized tarantula but have an extreme attitude and are lightning fast as well for being such a big spider. I was cleaning out uneaten crickets from her cage when she did her typical threat posture where hisses and strikes at me and leans back to expose her fangs so much that she almost flips over. That's their nature so I ignored it. Next thing I know is she LEAPS (yes they jump...WELL) onto my arm, runs up it, circles around my neck and chest and all the way down my body until she jumped on the floor and ran hissing into a corner. I tried to get her but she got away from me and she was loose in the house for a month! I did one of those odd, scared-shitless screams when she was running all over my body LOL. Think how Cartman screamed when Jimmy opened the door while they were trying to summon Biggie Smalls :-D

A website with Orange Starbursts:

http://www.eightlegs.org/usambara/usambara.html
 
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sogman

sogman

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Whoa! Sativa he took a blast of raid and kept going ey? I'd shit myself If a spider ran around my torso and neck hissing. Infact I think that's what will happen to me when I eventually make it to hell.

I'm looking at pix of those orange starburst's and ur telling me their medium size! How big are large ones? Are those usually wild mexican tarantula's? I hear their huge!
 
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Sativa_Fan

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The largest spider that I ever kept was a female Indian Ornamental.

http://animal-world.com/encyclo/reptiles/spiders/OrnamentalTreeSpider.php

She grew to have an almost 8" legspan. I also had a King Baboon, http://www.petbugs.com/caresheets/C-crawshayi.html reach around the same legspan. There are larger ones. In South America a male Pink Foot Goliath, http://www.petbugs.com/caresheets/T-apophysis.html (female pictured) can have a legspan of over one foot.

sogman the Baboon spiders are African tarantulas. Almost all African and Asian species have a tendency to be extremely aggressive, but the Orange Starburst is one of the meanest. The ones in Mexico and the American southwest are medium-sized, docile, furry little buggers. Tarantula species extend as far as the Mississippi river divide. When I was visiting my aunt in the Missouri you can see some big males running across the roads at night if it's in the late summer/early fall.
 
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Nikijad4210

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Ugh, this thread reminded me of the critters at my brother & sister-in-law's old house. Her dad built it by hand (one of 2 rickety dumps he built) and was proud as hell of it....Well, the property's GORGEOUS, some of the biggest Live Oaks in that area on the property, couple of fruit trees, large front and back yards---Loved the property, hated the fucking house.
When we were moving a few years ago, the house was vacant, so they let us stay there for a while before we got a new place.
After a couple of weeks of chasing the biggest fucking roaches I'd ever seen (there was a loud "POP!" when you killed them, ugh) Dealing with a flea infestation in the yard that spilled indoors (with no carpet or furniture for them to hide in, no less) Some snakes ventured indoors, some scorpions, ugly-ass bugs we couldn't identify...Rats ran through a couple times a week...Killing---or, at least, attemping to---some of the largest spiders FL has to offer. After a few weeks of that, we said, "Thanks guys, but we're just going to rent a room somewhere...."

Oh yeah, and there was a HUGE hole in the laundry room wall, and 'coons were hiding out in there.....

Lovely dump that was.....Rotting roof, rotting eves, cracks and holes in the walls, door didn't fit the frame--and it was a jealousy door, not a REAL front door, and damn near all the glass panes were busted...Someone had the bright idea to staple chicken wire to it and tack up a sheet over that on the interior....And someone else busted part of the chicken wire when they forgot their key, so go figure on the useful aspect of that, heh...We couldn't fathom how my brother and wifey lived there for so many YEARS, no one ever fixed anything in that place.
We did some minor fixes, like finishing the peel-n-stick floor tile job in the kitchen someone started almost a decade earlier (nobody in her family really has any motivation to finish what they start) SECURED the crapper to the floor---no one ever did that when it was installed 20 years ago...Nothing more fun than going #2 on a very wobbley toilet....Fixed the badly leaking sink pipes in the kitchen and bathroom, fixed/replaced window screens that were popping out (how hard is it to fix THAT???) Tried to block the hole in the laundry room wall with leftover bricks from the walk path....Damn 'coons still got in....Actually put the back door on the hinges, rather than letting it lean up against the doorway...There's a septic tank somewhere in the back yard, but since no one's sure where it is (lovely) the back yard's pretty much always been off-limits...There were numerous spots sinking, and no one dared go out back and find out where the damn thing was, and no one wanted to pay for a septic company to do it, so out of pure laziness, no one ever replaced the septic tank....

One of the relatives actually managed to RENT the place after we left! Under-the-table renting, of course, god forbid anyone in that family does something that requires shelling out to get up to code. As far as anyone knows, no fixes have been made, the septic tank's still sitting there as a major hazard...More than likely still overrun with various critters...I don't understand how someone was willing to shell out $1200 a month for that hellhole, they offered it to us at that rate and we balked, "You want THAT MUCH for the shape it's in??? Hell no!!" Fuck, the mortgage on the land's only $400 a month....
 
Nikijad4210

Nikijad4210

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Oh god, Syrinx, I'd make damn sure than thing was dead before anything else first....

Had a week long cat-and-mouse chase with a roach in our room last year....Fucker hid under the bed, kept coming out right before we went to sleep and darting across the wall, and dropping behind the dresser, and running acoss the floor back under the bed....Bastard did not die easily...Took 1/2 a can of Raid, which it didn't react to at all, and a nice experiance with a solid metal free-standing toilet paper holder (I knew that thing was worth keeping!)
 
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I ordered a tent cot soon there after and slept much better.

The last time I tried to kill one of the bastards out of the 20-30 scurrying around outside while we were sipping some beers attacked me after I leaped as high as I could to stomp it.

Thought I got it but when I lifted my foot it wasn't there and suddenly came hauling ass up my leg at which point I starter screaming like a little girl and doing the hampster dance.
 
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