A most unwelcome guest

[ozpete]

Once the weather starts warming up, I'll post some pics of the Huntsman, or badge spiders that share the house. One we would call a typical size would be over 6" across. They have the run of the place, so long as they stay high up on the walls. If I can reach them, it's game on!

 

[alanf]

a friend of mine was holiday in the Maldives, one night this large spider appeared in their bathroom! he sent me a picture of it and yes it was bloody big! :shock: so being the man he left his then girlfriend in the room with it while he went to reception to see about getting it shifted
when they got back they found the girlfriend standing outside the room,
she said it moved towards her so she ran away the receptionist asked what the spider looked like? so my friend grabbed his camera and showed him the shot of it...... after a few quite words on his walkie talkie three guys turned up and stripped the room of my friend kit, took it all out side, shook it all and inspected it for signs of life! and then moved them to another room, he never did find out what the spider was but they slept in shifts for the rest of the holiday and with the lights on [/img]

 

[tintin40]

SPIDER :shock:

as it goes in our house

looks like a wolf spider , but might not be
good things to have around

Correct. All spiders are good to have around (unless they are hanging above you while in bed)

 

[IDB1]

We leave the harvestmen alone, they do quite well..

But anything chunkier (spider-wise) gets thrown to the frogs...

 

[The Ken]

This is my bathroom and that skirting board is 4" (100mm) :shock:

I'd be more frightened of the abundance of pubes on your skirting board.

 

[tintin40]

This is my bathroom and that skirting board is 4" (100mm) :shock:

I'd be more frightened of the abundance of pubes on your skirting board.

Thats a male spider. Males have longer legs, longer mandibles and smaller body. Plus males are out looking for girls to makes babies with. Females have shorter legs and larger bodies oh and live longer than the males who die after puberty either loosing his 'cherry' or not. I hope you didn't kill him Make good pets

 

[alanf]

this was around 7-8" across the width of the third set of legs back from the front of it!

 

[alanf]

and when my brother in law was in the RAF and out in South Africa on exercise, they stayed out in this bush camp that was a left over from one of the wars out there, the good thing was that it had a toilet and shower block, above one of the cubicals was a spiders web! with a spider in it :? so they adopted it, catching flies and throwing them into web and sitting there on the can chatting to the damn thing and apparently they even got round to nameing it!
all was well, till a group of SA special forces soldiers turned up and stayed for the night, the toilet block was suddenly illuminated by a massive ball of flames :shock: one of them went in to water the horse...took one look at the web and the now fat over fed spider and decided to torch it with a can of deoderant...turned out it was one of SA's most venomous spiders! the black button spider! needless to say they were a little more careful of what species of local wild life they adopted next

 

[tintin40]

and when my brother in law was in the RAF and out in South Africa on exercise, they stayed out in this bush camp that was a left over from one of the wars out there, the good thing was that it had a toilet and shower block, above one of the cubicals was a spiders web! with a spider in it :? so they adopted it, catching flies and throwing them into web and sitting there on the can chatting to the damn thing and apparently they even got round to nameing it!
all was well, till a group of SA special forces soldiers turned up and stayed for the night, the toilet block was suddenly illuminated by a massive ball of flames :shock: one of them went in to water the horse...took one look at the web and the now fat over fed spider and decided to torch it with a can of deoderant...turned out it was one of SA's most venomous spiders! the black button spider! needless to say they were a little more careful of what species of local wild life they adopted next

A member of the Black Widow family of spiders. In the USA most people were bitten when they went to out side toilet. Things improved once the loo moved in doors
I think they over reacted a little bit

UK airports & ports are a good entry port for Black Widows oh and grapes. So check you black grapes carefully. Please send me a pm if you get one free with your grapes and i'll pop over and take away. I love em you can keep the grapes Wash grapes can wash the spiders off but not a 100% way to remove them

 

[Easy_Rider]

I keep spiders in the house - the catch all the flies, don't they?

Ditto! I've got no probes with them.

Only the other week I saw one sneak out from behind the skirting board and then pounced on a fly that was sat on the floor and then dragged it behind the skirting, what a star!