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White tailed spiders...

Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
edited November 2011 in All Encompassing Trip
One thing about summer that I hate.
Found one in the kitchen yesterday, killed it.
They bite me during my sleep and leave me with massive welts, always on my back.

http://www.csiro.au/en/Outcomes/Environ ... iders.aspx

http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv ... pider?open

http://health.ninemsn.com.au/family/fam ... ider-bites
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  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    i have to confess if i see a white tipped spider i kill it. i cant have that nastiness feasting on my kids.
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  • ZiggyStarZiggyStar Posts: 14,328
    Wtf? They bite you in your sleep? Fuck that!
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  • faceinthecloudsfaceintheclouds Posts: 1,739
    Whoa. I like all insects, but spiders are my least favorite. Love to look at em, but FML; could not handle knowing those bastards were with me when I sleep.
    Just, not enough.
    I need more.
    Nothing seems to satisfy.
    I said, I dont want it.
    I just need it.
    To breathe, to feel, to know Im alive.
  • Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    ZiggyStar wrote:
    Wtf? They bite you in your sleep? Fuck that!

    Every summer I cop about 2-3 bites on average.
    Hurt as hell.
    At first I thought it was mozzie bites.
    Last summer the welt lasted over a month and turned hard, worst I've copped thus far.
    I am shaking my bed sheets well from now on, but then again they are hunters so they probably crawl in after I have already gone to bed.
    Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  • Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    faceintheclouds wrote:
    Whoa. I like all insects, but spiders are my least favorite. Love to look at em, but FML; could not handle knowing those bastards were with me when I sleep.

    It freaks me out, I am scared of spiders, to know they are crawling around at night makes my skin crawl.
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  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    Thoughts_Arrive wrote:
    faceintheclouds wrote:
    Whoa. I like all insects, but spiders are my least favorite. Love to look at em, but FML; could not handle knowing those bastards were with me when I sleep.

    It freaks me out, I am scared of spiders, to know they are crawling around at night makes my skin crawl.

    imagine what you dont know is crawling around while you sleep. ;) :P 8-)
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  • ZiggyStarZiggyStar Posts: 14,328
    Are they like those videos I've seen on youtube where they get those MASSIVE welts and then they squeeze them and it's like toothpaste coming out?
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  • Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    catefrances wrote:
    Thoughts_Arrive wrote:
    faceintheclouds wrote:
    Whoa. I like all insects, but spiders are my least favorite. Love to look at em, but FML; could not handle knowing those bastards were with me when I sleep.

    It freaks me out, I am scared of spiders, to know they are crawling around at night makes my skin crawl.

    imagine what you dont know is crawling around while you sleep. ;) :P 8-)

    Who knows, night bugs having fun whilst we sleep.
    The white tails are hunters and hunt other spiders, so there is probably a chase every night followed by a killing.

    Huntsmans! Fark they are too fast, by the time you get the vacuum cleaner out it's gone.
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  • pandorapandora Posts: 21,855
    ok ... won't be needing breakfast this morning :sick:
  • Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    ZiggyStar wrote:
    Are they like those videos I've seen on youtube where they get those MASSIVE welts and then they squeeze them and it's like toothpaste coming out?

    Nah, it's massive red welt, like a mozzie bite but way bigger, no puss.
    I always get bitten on my back, so it hurts to sit back on a chair.
    A few times I've been bitten on my legs.
    I fucking hope they never bite me on my face, I have been bitten once on my forehead years ago, thought it was a pimple lol
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  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    Thoughts_Arrive wrote:
    ...
    Huntsmans! Fark they are too fast, by the time you get the vacuum cleaner out it's gone.


    the vacuum cleaner???? :lol: seriously huntsmans wont hurt you. theyre pacifists. ;)8-)
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  • BLACK35BLACK35 Hanover, Ontario Posts: 22,853
    ZiggyStar wrote:
    Are they like those videos I've seen on youtube where they get those MASSIVE welts and then they squeeze them and it's like toothpaste coming out?

    Aren't those zits :lol:
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  • Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    catefrances wrote:
    Thoughts_Arrive wrote:
    ...
    Huntsmans! Fark they are too fast, by the time you get the vacuum cleaner out it's gone.


    the vacuum cleaner???? :lol: seriously huntsmans wont hurt you. theyre pacifists. ;)8-)

    Insect spray could not even kill that whitetail in the kitchen yesterday, let alone a huntsman lol.
    I almost touched it/got bitten, I was wiping the bench clean and lifted this glass board to wipe underneath and it was close to my hand.
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  • Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    Once I had a huge huntsman outside my car door on the window, had to crawl to the other side to get out. :shock:
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  • Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    It's funny yet freaky removing a huntsman with a broom, last summer this big one was on the door, I swept it away to the lawn, a few mins later it was back!
    I then kept sweeping it and it ran fast then would stop and turn around in a ready to strike pose!
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  • ZiggyStarZiggyStar Posts: 14,328
    BLACK35 wrote:
    ZiggyStar wrote:
    Are they like those videos I've seen on youtube where they get those MASSIVE welts and then they squeeze them and it's like toothpaste coming out?

    Aren't those zits :lol:

    LOL :lol: Not the one I saw on Youtube....there would have been a cup of shit coming out of this guy's welt....so fucking gross! He would have had the biggest hole in his cheek afterwards. I feel a bit sick even thinking about it again.
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  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    Thoughts_Arrive wrote:
    catefrances wrote:
    Thoughts_Arrive wrote:
    ...
    Huntsmans! Fark they are too fast, by the time you get the vacuum cleaner out it's gone.


    the vacuum cleaner???? :lol: seriously huntsmans wont hurt you. theyre pacifists. ;)8-)

    Insect spray could not even kill that whitetail in the kitchen yesterday, let alone a huntsman lol.
    I almost touched it/got bitten, I was wiping the bench clean and lifted this glass board to wipe underneath and it was close to my hand.


    did you try stepping on the bastard??? not sure what insect/arachnid survives being crushed underfoot... 'cept maybe a funnel web or giant tarantula... or maybe one of them awesome bird eating spiders. 8-)
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  • Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    It was on the bench lol.
    I sprayed it, didn't work, it then crawled onto the stove.
    It was on the grill thing, so I lifted it slowly and moved it to the sink where I flushed it down the drain!
    Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  • Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    I'm off to bed, hopefully no bites, bit cool tonight hopefully not active tonight.
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  • ten2o3ten2o3 Wausau, WI Posts: 225
    Wow that's a wicked ass spider! I heard a few years ago that the average person swallows something like 2 spiders per year in their sleep. Never really believed it, but it's a disturbing thought non the less.
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  • B-RockB-Rock Posts: 149
    I once had a Funnelweb crawling a long my foot and i didn't even realise.

    LUCKILY i didn't panick and got it off with ease haha


    Also had a Huntsman lay its babies in my loungeroom once, whole roof was covered :shock:

    Got to love Australia :D
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  • vedderlover1vedderlover1 Posts: 178
    I should have known better than to read these posts. Spiders are my worst fear and I will now have nightmares tonight. Scary little sons o' bitches
  • Monster RainMonster Rain Posts: 1,415
    Those are cysts. I can't stand those videos at all. My girlfriend and her friends all love watching that stuff on Youtube. I don't get it.
    ZiggyStar wrote:
    BLACK35 wrote:
    ZiggyStar wrote:
    Are they like those videos I've seen on youtube where they get those MASSIVE welts and then they squeeze them and it's like toothpaste coming out?

    Aren't those zits :lol:

    LOL :lol: Not the one I saw on Youtube....there would have been a cup of shit coming out of this guy's welt....so fucking gross! He would have had the biggest hole in his cheek afterwards. I feel a bit sick even thinking about it again.
  • unlost dogsunlost dogs Greater Boston Posts: 12,553
    Sweet Jesus! Such angry insects!
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