dpb

Lockpicker spider - deadly

Matthew Gill

Tegenaria Domestica, they are related to the Hobo Spider, a British spider which makes the False Widow seem like a Highland Biting midge. Luckily because False Widows and the common house spider live in households we'll never have a problem with the smaller but more sinister Black Widows and Hobos.

LSherratt

iTrader: (1)

Those are just bog standard domestic house spiders/barn funnel spiders... totally harmless and on the very rare occasion that they do try to bite, you won't even feel it.

I wish humans weren't so scared of spiders. My girlfriend is literally petrified by spiders, it's honestly her worst fear. Even small spiders and she'll run a mile, but if she sees a house spider like the ones pictured above, she'll almost cry

I'm pretty sure it's to do with how you've been brought up. My Dad used to pretend to "stroke" a spider when I was a kid and make it seem nice and make me hold them in my hands which I was more than happy to do as I guess no fear was passed onto me. If you see your parents ranting and screaming at spiders, then I guess you'll learn that they're not nice and grow up being afraid of spiders too.

On another note, a couple brought their kid (probably about 7 years old) to my farm to purchase some chickens.... My 2 little dogs (a terrier and a timid cavalier king charles spaniel) were out running about and the young girl started really crying, running around and trying to climb up to her parents. It was my 2 little dogs that she was afraid of. I asked the couple if they had any pets/dogs and they said no, so I guess she was scared of the dogs as she hasn't had much contact with animals before. Then I thought, why the **** don't the parents use the great opportunity they had in front of them to introduce the girl to my soft little dogs, just to give her more experience with dogs/animals, etc. Instead they did absolutely nothing I really couldn't understand it, it's sad really.

ScoobyDoo69

iTrader: (17)

You guys may laugh at this, but when cleaning my windows of some mould on the outside I used this:



There were a few small spiders which I suddenly saw falling off their webs and dying.

Tried it again on a spider I saw and it pretty much killed it instantly, it was a decent sizet oo. Powerful stuff.

So there you have it, buy Dettol to kill your spiders.

LSherratt

iTrader: (1)

^You evil man

What's wrong with catching them in a cup and tossing them out into the garden?

dpb

How can a full grown man be afraid of something an 1"across

Matthew Gill

Some spiders you should keep in the home, they are like little cats destroying pests on sight!

My sis said a house spider gave her a painful bite once but luckily Tegenaria Domestica/common house spider often dry bites non-prey so you won't feel the effects of agatoxins.

There's about 15 spiders in the UK that can inflict a nasty bite, the bite is usually painless but the venom can produce wasp sting like pain leaving stiffness in the bitten limb after. Most are outdoor spiders that are killed by house spiders if they come indoors. One spider that can kill a house spider is the mouse spider, these are extremely fast spiders that grow to the size of wasp, I'd hate to be bitten by one but large ones are rare due to them being killed by bigger spiders when they are small.

TBH the Cardinal house spider(UK) and Goliath Bird eating spider (world) are classed as the spiders with the largest leg span but in fact in the UK the much-maligned phlocus phalangioides is the largest and the world's biggest land spider is the Giant Huntsman.

jameswrx

iTrader: (4)

I really don't like those big common house spiders. I don't know what it is about them, but I'd rather hold a tarantula than one of those. I think it's the way they move. I used to have them in the Ivy over the whole back of my house and at the end of summer I'd get no end of them making their way indoors. Ripped the whole lot down and it's much better now. They also seem very aware of humans, if you notice most other spiders will just sit in their web but the house spiders see you when they're moving & stop dead waiting for your move.

The look of all the others I don't mind, I'd happily handle the garden spiders and that false widow looks fine.

Only other spider that makes me feel the same as the house spider is the Huntsman spiders, but guess that's because they pretty much look like bigger versions.

jameswrx

iTrader: (4)

This is the sort of movement I mean..

just me

iTrader: (3)

Its their legs, all skinny and gangly then they move at 100 mph!

Have a spider that has moved into my nsf mirror, tried drowning it with a pressure washer, every morning I come out to a fresh cob web. Makes the car look crap.

Matthew Gill

AFAIK the common house spider is the fastest moving spider on Earth. Unfortunately, unlike the Widow, its bite doesn't cause Priapism.

LDNSTi

I'm reading this and the more I read, I'm sure i can feel one on me!!!!

Raptorman

iTrader: (1)

I just laughed out loud as I have the same problem, every day I wipe the web away and every night the little bugger spins a new one. To be honest I am getting used to him now.

Jamie

http://news.sky.com/story/1153770/fa...-red-raw-wound

ditchmyster

iTrader: (7)

Living mostly in the Croatian countryside i've spent the last few years conquering my fears of bugs and snakes that were handed to me as a child by the various adults in my family, mostly an aunt who was petrified of anything from thunder to snails, I now live in harmony with nature and am in constant amazement at how well it works.

Most of the locals have a fear of snakes and keep cats to keep them away and are amazed that I won't have a cat near the house, when i try to explain that I won't have one because it will destroy the natural balance they think i'm mental, although the odd one is starting to see what i'm on about as I have a "pond" (well it's actually going to be the swimming pool) but unlike most people I don't have infestations of flies, mosquitoes and a general assortment of small bugs , because I have frogs, lizards, newts and a healthy snake population.

I had this once while out walking my Jack Russells so offered to let the little girl to stroke the female who loves any kind of human attention, which she did after some cajoling, it was the first time she had stroked a dog, she was maybe 7 or 8, but the interesting thing was the body language of the parents as the dogs approached them in the beginning, you could see they were afraid but chilled a bit when they saw the dogs leave them alone on my command as they were off the lead, just shows the effect nurture can have.

As for killing things I view it as bad karma and try to avoid it at all costs unless they are a real nuisance.

As for the pussies afraid of the false widow, I have the real deal European Black Widow and loads of scorpions along with a plethora of biting stinging nasties out here, Nose Horned Viper being the nastiest, one of the most aggressive snakes on the planet with a proper painful life threatening bite, house spiders are pitchkin dim (pussie smoke) as the say out here.

ditchmyster

iTrader: (7)

Just to add;

The deadliest spider on the planet is the humble daddy long leg, you know the one with the tiny round body and really thin long legs that are everywhere, but their fangs can't pierce human skin.

jonc

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...st_read_module

dpb

One spider caused that quantity of surgery,

I smell bull****.

ditchmyster

iTrader: (7)

Indeed, read the comments below the article.

Worlasshasansti

Interesting thread this, I love spiders, they're good at what they do!

I found a couple of woodlouse spiders last week while taking a wall down, they can give a good nip as they have massive fangs for piercing through the woodlouses armour.

Wor lass hates spiders so occasionally I like to mention that I've just seen a spider ion the bedroom just before we go to sleep then wake her up in the middle of the night buy tickling her face with her hair, she doesn't tend to find it as funny as I do

Mick

Matthew Gill

That's a Harvestman, it's not a spider, the daddy long-legs that is supposed to be lethal is the pretty common 'Cellar Spider.' Like most UK spiders it gives a superficial bite that some people can have an allergic reaction to.

scooberuni

http://elwellpress.wordpress.com/201...e-false-widow/

CREWJ

Glad this forum isn't full of gullible people. There's so much bad and false press.

pimmo2000

iTrader: (6)