Tidgy

another vote for a cat,, lol

porthos loves to have a munch on spiders, full of protein you see,,,, lol

urban

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What makes you come to that conclusion?

My cat used to/tried.
You'd find the remains, but now it sort of just kills the smaller ones
And just like most humans, give the big ones a bi-ball

Leslie

They do munch up a whole lot of other irritating creatures.

Les

rogos

my nan goes awol if she see's me splat a spider and all she ever says about them is "if you want to live and thrive let a spider run alive" . yeah easier said than done when you have one crawling up your leg!!!

Myles

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I think the myth that they will run after you stems from the fact that they run for the shadows and your shadow is probably the closest when you have disturbed them. I never saw any in Kabul because it was -28 deg. But I did see some frozen Scorpion type things!

Jamie

urban

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Run for your shadow - **** that, bayonet or round in the head

Leslie

My dad woke up in an Army tent once in the Sahara Desert to see a dirty great scorpion sitting on his bare arm. He had the presence of mind to flick it off rapidly before it could sting him!

Les

dnc

You, obviously!

ratboy

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An old biddy at work told me that a few months back....said it worked....thought yeah right....lost her marbals.
But have since seen spideraway spray made from conker extract...apparently they hate the smell of it.
Got lots here at home...they love living around the wood beams above....not keen on them either

Leslie

I prefer spiders to flies.

Les

jameswrx

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I really hate those big house spiders, we get a lot like that. I'd actually rather hold a tarantula than a large house spider, I don't know what it is about them, I think it's the way they move. I carried my boy up to bed the other night and there was a monster on the wall over his cot, I had to lower him in as my head ducked down past it. I stood there thinking of what to do as it eyeballed me..

lil_me

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Definately conkers or chesnut oil, they hate it

wrxsti280

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one of these little ******* crawled across our front room carpet and up the wall behind my arm chair last night, i havnt sat in the same chair since, it was fookin huge and im sorry, but anyone who says there aint poisonus spiders in this country is lying, there aint no chance they have found and tested every species of spider in the country, so until they have im steering clear of anything i suspect may be!!!!

i feel your pain maggy, horrible little ******* and almost on the same par as wasps, dont get me started on them *******s though, id be here all night!!!!

velohead66

We get these where we live, they are very fast, squeeze thru very small spaces.
The bite is "painfull" - but i've never been bitten, as yet.

Adults tend to be the size of a medium sized adult hand with fingers spread apart.

It's called a huntsman....taken in our bathroom.

http://i1011.photobucket.com/albums/...smanSpider.jpg

oldsplice

I think I'm going to cry!

Last night I found three hairy legs at the bottom of the stairs. Rosie (our cat) must have had a snack earlier. As for conkers..........we have a house full of them! New ones will be ready soon.

markr1963

Apparently they are responsible for a fair number of car accidents in OZ as they like to roost (for want of a better word) behind sunvisors in cars. So, driver lowers the visor, spidey lands on lap, driver freaks out, car rolls over.

Not got 'em in my house, just red backs, white tails, wolf spiders, orb weavers plus the occasional visit from stranger looking beasties such as

WRXBOB

Had a monster spider yesterday morning, same type as the one in your wineglass (made me foofin jump when I saw it).
Got the measure out, its body was approx 22mm long and the legs spanned a diameter of ~125mm and I swear its bl00dy huge eyes were watching me measure it.
Both dogs that normally eat spiders/flies etc wouldn't go near it (wimps) so got the misses to get rid of it as she didn't want me to squish it on the wall. So just just grabbed it with her hand and threw it outside! Wouldn't of got me picking that thing up!

M444GY

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well thanks . i am very atractive


found another in my bed on sat night should have seen the missus run like **** out of the room lol

Leslie

The bigger the spider the more pests it will eat.

Les

TonyBurns

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Ones we have (or had) in our house were about 3 inches in size, real big buggers, even the dog left those alone lol, think they had babies so smaller ones around now, hope they go up the chimney and stay there (or fall out when the fire is lit ) you are always seeing something out of the corner of your eye (and they dont half move!
They keep the fly population down though which is good

Tony

lozgti1

Great Thread!

My wife is still standing on the kitchen table clutching her skirt after reading this over my shoulder

Ste RB5138

I hate house spiders, especially this time year when then they start running across the floor.

My missus house is full of them

chrispy200+

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Just had a fight with a big bugger of a spider that was hiding in the curtain, wasn't a house spider like in the pictures at the start, had a big **** body on it and all black, nasty looking ****er, sprayed it with insect spray and it raised it's back up and legged it, not seen it since

oldsplice

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...-a-spider.html

mamoon2

I'd love to live is Australia but this is the reason i'll never consider it

dpb

FOOKIN HILLARIOUS ,


guess hell leave the buggers be next time . Jus how many cans would you have to empty for that to happen tho ?

JonMc

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Spiders are nothing to be afraid of, it is the idiots that try and kill them that need to given a wide berth

MICAWRX

It took me a while to get over that photo ... it is clever.

If you look at the guys sleeve holding it and compare that rather than the blokes leg.