The biggest fucking spider in the WORLD...

Heineken Helen

was in my house last night :eek:

Got a text from my housemate just when I was dropping off at about 12.30 saying 'huge spider come see'. I replied 'and why would I wanna do THAT?' and he said he needed help :eek:

so I went down the stairs saying 'this better be good' and my other annoying housemate thought he was missing out on something so came out to see... he's an arachnaphobe

It was fucking HUGE... I've never seen a spider so big. Eventually he trapped it in a fishtank he had... and added another big spider (what I would USUALLY call huge). Within a few minutes, the big one caught the littler big one and started EATING it. It had big fangs and hairy legs and a face with big eyes that actually follow you and everything. One of the creepiest things I've ever seen.

It was like national geographic in my own living room

dunkman

Heineken Helen wrote:

It was like national geographic in my own living room

you were all spearing fish with your tits out?

reeferchief

dunkman wrote:

you were all spearing fish with your tits out?

Oooo people pay good money to see that sort of thing.

Shazanawoo

Ehhhh I hate spiders with a passion. But you could have atleast got photo's!

Heineken Helen

Shazanawoo wrote:

Ehhhh I hate spiders with a passion. But you could have atleast got photo's!

I took some with my digital camera but I dunno how to upload them and they weren't coming out great either I don't think it's obvious how fucking big that thing WAS :eek:

ClimberInOz

We get some biggies around North Queensland...

The Bird Eating Spider:

http://www.bugman123.com/Bugs/Photos/BirdEatingSpider.jpg

They are mostly quit mellow- just some mild local pain if you get bitten. And a small chance of cardiac arrest if you are an arachnaphobic...

Heineken Helen

ClimberInOz wrote:

We get some biggies around North Queensland...

The Bird Eating Spider:

http://www.bugman123.com/Bugs/Photos/BirdEatingSpider.jpg

They are mostly quit mellow- just some mild local pain if you get bitten. And a small chance of cardiac arrest if you are an arachnaphobic...

:eek: that one's BIGGGGGGG... this one was skinnier and more menacing though... and almost as big as my hand.

I'm gonna have to change the thread title now :(

ClimberInOz

Heineken Helen wrote:

:eek: that one's BIGGGGGGG... this one was skinnier and more menacing though... and almost as big as my hand.

I'm gonna have to change the thread title now :(

No don't... I am sure that yours was more of a bastard than the bird eaters are.

It's all relative isn't it- what we find scary. I have worked with dangerous animals for years, including 600kg crocs, all sorts of snakes, cassowaries etc, and when I was on my road trip through the US and Canada I was scared of dying in the snow.

I kind of like spiders though.

surfanddestroy

Just thinking of spiders I get all paranoid and start feeling things crawling on me

catefrances

ClimberInOz wrote:

No don't... I am sure that yours was more of a bastard than the bird eaters are.

It's all relative isn't it- what we find scary. I have worked with dangerous animals for years, including 600kg crocs, all sorts of snakes, cassowaries etc, and when I was on my road trip through the US and Canada I was scared of dying in the snow.

I kind of like spiders though.

spiders are beautiful creatures. i have one that's spun the most fabulous web on my laundry window. takes up half the bottom pane.

Heineken Helen

http://static.flickr.com/63/219543347_37f2d32d43_o_d.jpg
It looked quite similar to that one.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37996646697@N01/219540685/

dunkman

Heineken Helen wrote:

I took some with my digital camera but I dunno how to upload them

its fucking easy.. put the cable in the camera and then put the other end of the cable into a computer.. and thats it.. plus you have a photobucket album.. bung it on there

ClimberInOz

Heineken Helen wrote:

http://static.flickr.com/63/219543347_37f2d32d43_o_d.jpg
It looked quite similar to that one.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37996646697@N01/219540685/

A quick search- I know very little about spiders outside of oz. Toward the bottom of the page- giant house spider. Could it be that one?

http://www.kendall-bioresearch.co.uk/spider.htm

Heineken Helen

dunkman wrote:

its fucking easy.. put the cable in the camera and then put the other end of the cable into a computer.. and thats it.. plus you have a photobucket album.. bung it on there

Dunk, I have had 7 or 8 people I know, who KNOW stuff about computers try that and it didn't work so shove it up your arse

Well it appears it is an American spider :eek: could i have brought that home with me??? Cos we were all wondering where the fuck it came from and how THAT coulda been in the house without us seeing. It's bigger than a fucking mouse... although I'm not sure cos on the website it says they grow up to 10mm... that's fucking tiny... it was DEFINITELY much bigger than that.

eMMI

euuuggghh.. I hate spiders.

I had a moth-type-a-creature in my bedroom last night. :eek:

fecking hate those things.

and it's probably still in my room actually. there was no way I could've caught it or anything so I just had to go to sleep with that thing mucking around my lamp.

Heineken Helen

ClimberInOz wrote:

A quick search- I know very little about spiders outside of oz. Toward the bottom of the page- giant house spider. Could it be that one?

http://www.kendall-bioresearch.co.uk/spider.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_house_spider

JUST found this... and I'm pretty sure that's what it is PHEW... indigenous to NW Europe the thought of THAT thing having been in my suitcase was kinda freaking me out... apparently they come out looking for a mate around the end of the summer/early autumn and tend to freak people out then... that would also make sense. It can't hurt us either

http://www.zoo.org/factsheets/spiders/giant.html

'When they appear, most people describe them as huge!'

ClimberInOz

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I think that 'Biggest fucking spider in the WORLD' is a far more eloquent explanation that just plain old 'huge'...

Hitch-Hiker

Heineken Helen wrote:

'When they appear, most people describe them as huge!'

So much innuendo, so little time.

PJ_Lukin

Heineken Helen wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_house_spider

JUST found this... and I'm pretty sure that's what it is PHEW... indigenous to NW Europe the thought of THAT thing having been in my suitcase was kinda freaking me out... apparently they come out looking for a mate around the end of the summer/early autumn and tend to freak people out then... that would also make sense. It can't hurt us either

http://www.zoo.org/factsheets/spiders/giant.html

'When they appear, most people describe them as huge!'

Funny thing is there indigenous to NW Europe and Seattle!

Northwestern U.S., including Seattle area, indigenous to western Europe

Heineken Helen

ClimberInOz wrote:

I think that 'Biggest fucking spider in the WORLD' is a far more eloquent explanation that just plain old 'huge'...

well ya know me... I don't like to exaggerate :rolleyes:

PJ_Lukin... what do ya mean?

Collin

You didn't kill it, did you?

I'd keep it as a pet. Well, not exactly as a pet, but I'd keep it and feed it. And give it a cool name like Vincent.

Heineken Helen

Collin wrote:

You didn't kill it, did you?

I'd keep it as a pet. Well, not exactly as a pet, but I'd keep it and feed it. And give it a cool name like Vincent.

My housemate already called it 'death' :rolleyes: boys, eh?

I texted him saying it's just a giant house spider and said we can probably expect more of them and he replied 'cool so we can keep it and have a proper battle?'

That's fine with me... once they're all in that fish tank I'm happy He may have gotten it stoned last night though.

Collin

Heineken Helen wrote:

My housemate already called it 'death' :rolleyes: boys, eh?

I texted him saying it's just a giant house spider and said we can probably expect more of them and he replied 'cool so we can keep it and have a proper battle?'

That's fine with me... once they're all in that fish tank I'm happy He may have gotten it stoned last night though.

My brother and I used to capture spiders and let them fight, or feed them flies and little spiders.

Oh and battles between big spiders and wasps, you have to make them mad, though.

dunkman

Collin wrote:

My brother and I used to capture spiders and let them fight, or feed them flies and little spiders.

Oh and battles between big spiders and wasps, you have to make them mad, though.

i used to do that with pythons... actually it was 2 worms... and i would draw zig-zags onto their backs in felt-tip

Collin

Up until 1987, the Giant house spider held the record as the fastest spider in the world. The record has since been awarded to a species of African Sun Spiders, which aren't actually spiders at all.

This is pretty weird, if you ask me. The fastest spider in the world is not a spider at all?

Heineken Helen

Collin wrote:

My brother and I used to capture spiders and let them fight, or feed them flies and little spiders.

Oh and battles between big spiders and wasps, you have to make them mad, though.

:eek: we need a wasp!

Although, I felt a bit sorry for her (I've decided it's a female... just cos) last night, stuck in that tank... I'd rather they let her go somewhere FAR away from the house... he could get a lead and bring her for a walk perhaps

SomethingCreative

PJ_Lukin wrote:

Funny thing is there indigenous to NW Europe and Seattle!

Northwestern U.S., including Seattle area, indigenous to western Europe

goddamnit

Heineken Helen

SomethingCreative wrote:

goddamnit

but they're harmless apparently... they CAN bite but it just leaves a red mark for a while... they kill the hobo spiders which have a MUCH worse bite.

See I know it all now

Bwalker545

Old, but still really creepy!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v340/magus545/clock_legs.sized.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v340/magus545/IMG_1773.sized.jpg

ScottandPearlJam

Heineken Helen wrote:

was in my house last night :eek:

Got a text from my housemate just when I was dropping off at about 12.30 saying 'huge spider come see'. I replied 'and why would I wanna do THAT?' and he said he needed help :eek:

so I went down the stairs saying 'this better be good' and my other annoying housemate thought he was missing out on something so came out to see... he's an arachnaphobe

It was fucking HUGE... I've never seen a spider so big. Eventually he trapped it in a fishtank he had... and added another big spider (what I would USUALLY call huge). Within a few minutes, the big one caught the littler big one and started EATING it. It had big fangs and hairy legs and a face with big eyes that actually follow you and everything. One of the creepiest things I've ever seen.

It was like national geographic in my own living room

Like National geographic?......do you walk around topless like they do in the magazines too?

Heineken Helen

So I got home last night and he'd collected a few other pretty big spiders from the shed and put it in the tank with it :rolleyes: It's turning into a spider zoo... better than big brother though they really do fight eachother, lol.