so i caught this spider...

124678

Comments

  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    catefrances wrote:
    here is a funnel web:


    http://www.csiro.au/resources/FunnelwebSpiderFacts.html


    here is a white tip:

    http://www.australian.museum/factsheets/white_tailed_spider.htm


    and heres my little pretty(though not my exact one cause im shit with technology) :)

    http://www.usq.edu.au/spider/find/spiders/504.htm

    Yeah, I had a look here and posted this link a couple of pages back.

    http://www.austmus.gov.au/factsheets/funnelweb.htm

    The one on the left half way down the page looked like a possibility.

    But I agree with Zenith, it's probably a white tail.
    NOPE!!!

    *~You're IT Bert!~*

    Hold on to the thread
    The currents will shift
  • illegal pants
    illegal pants Posts: 13,471
    Super Vedder wrote:
    What if you thought it had starved to death but was just napping or put itself into some kind of shutdown until you moved the dvd case, then.....BAM!

    :eek:

    :eek:

    :eek:

    :eek:

    :eek:
    wah
  • ozsmalltowngirl
    ozsmalltowngirl Posts: 14,362
    illegal_pants wrote:


    Kylie's suggested Mortein-ing the floor near it then moving the case over it...
    Never fails :D
    I either do that or suck them up with the vacuum and then spray fly spray down the vacumm while it's still going and leave it going for a while....to be sure!!
  • illegal pants
    illegal pants Posts: 13,471
    catefrances wrote:
    nope. pink chalk cause zoe aged 9 attends the university of pink. and she was the culprit who chucked the chalk. :D

    cute :D

    why chalk though?!
    wah
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    dear lord IP. sounds like much ado about nothing. :p:D slide a piece of cardboard/thin book under the container and with your hand under the whole shebang transport the thing outside and dump it on the verge near the road. then run squealing back inside and have a stiff drink to calm your frazzled nerves. :p out of sight, out of mind. :D
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • illegal pants
    illegal pants Posts: 13,471
    ozsmalltowngirl wrote:
    Never fails :D
    I either do that or suck them up with the vacuum and then spray fly spray down the vacumm while it's still going and leave it going for a while....to be sure!!

    vacuum + mortein

    :eek:

    dear gawd

    :eek:

    can't be too careful? ;)
    wah
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    illegal_pants wrote:
    tits on a bull - L M A O

    what an ordeal Jeanie.. :o i think i may need a few jimmy beams before i start :eek:


    :D Well they are useless. :p

    Just don't get too tipsy before you start.

    I find my fight flight response kicks in pretty quick and I'm like a seek and destroy missile until I've completely anihilated the threat.

    I feel like a total idiot because the force used to kill them is a thousand times more than what is required by yeah, maybe I should get someone to videotape it next time I do it? It's really something to see. :o
    NOPE!!!

    *~You're IT Bert!~*

    Hold on to the thread
    The currents will shift
  • illegal pants
    illegal pants Posts: 13,471
    catefrances wrote:
    dear lord IP. sounds like much ado about nothing. :p:D slide a piece of cardboard/thin book under the container and with your hand under the whole shebang transport the thing outside and dump it on the verge near the road. then run squealing back inside and have a stiff drink to calm your frazzled nerves. :p out of sight, out of mind. :D

    yes.. this has dragged on quite too much, yes?

    i'm off to do..

    something
    wah
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    illegal_pants wrote:
    cute :D

    why chalk though?!

    knowing zoe she probably figured the chalk wouldnt hurt the spider but maybe just scare it enough to take off. she certainly knows i wouldnt have appproved if she had killed it.
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • ozsmalltowngirl
    ozsmalltowngirl Posts: 14,362
    illegal_pants wrote:
    vacuum + mortein

    :eek:

    dear gawd

    :eek:

    can't be too careful? ;)
    ABSOLUTELY!!! You knew about my fear of spiders before you got bitten.....after what you went through, it is my mission to eliminate all spiders on our property!! :eek: and I must be sure they're not tricking me!
    Same goes for the ones I can't reach and have to just spray....they must be white and dripping from spray before I put the can down....but whenever I catch one like you've done....it's always spray a white blob of fly spray on the floor next to the container and the slide the container over the blob of spray.
    Show no mercy babe....this could be the little bastard that got you not long ago!!
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    ozsmalltowngirl wrote:
    ABSOLUTELY!!! You knew about my fear of spiders before you got bitten.....after what you went through, it is my mission to eliminate all spiders on our property!! :eek: and I must be sure they're not tricking me!
    Same goes for the ones I can't reach and have to just spray....they must be white and dripping from spray before I put the can down....but whenever I catch one like you've done....it's always spray a white blob of fly spray on the floor next to the container and the slide the container over the blob of spray.
    Show no mercy babe....this could be the little bastard that got you not long ago!!

    :D:D:D Glad I'm not the only one!!!!

    Hairspray is handy if there's no fly spray around. :D
    NOPE!!!

    *~You're IT Bert!~*

    Hold on to the thread
    The currents will shift
  • Super Vedder
    Super Vedder Posts: 1,531
    catefrances wrote:
    dear lord IP. sounds like much ado about nothing. :p:D slide a piece of cardboard/thin book under the container and with your hand under the whole shebang transport the thing outside and dump it on the verge near the road. then run squealing back inside and have a stiff drink to calm your frazzled nerves. :p out of sight, out of mind.

    Yeah but it will see her running off and run back after her for revenge won't it???? :D

    Christ this makes me glad i live in the uk (almost), i get annoyed having a fly or two buzzing about the house let alone killer spiders!!! :eek:
    Black, the greatest without a doubt........
  • Rock on
    Rock on Posts: 216
    Before you kill it or move it, make a female decoy out of something fuzzy, insert it and see what happens. :p
  • ozsmalltowngirl
    ozsmalltowngirl Posts: 14,362
    Super Vedder wrote:
    Yeah but it will see her running off and run back after her for revenge won't it???? :D

    Of course it will!!! WITH friends and family!! :eek:
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Super Vedder wrote:
    Yeah but it will see her running off and run back after her for revenge won't it???? :D

    Yes! That's why it's always a good idea to have the back up thong!
    NOPE!!!

    *~You're IT Bert!~*

    Hold on to the thread
    The currents will shift
  • Super Vedder
    Super Vedder Posts: 1,531
    Jeanie wrote:
    Yes! That's why it's always a good idea to have the back up thong!

    im guessing the thong you keep mentioning is like a flip flop and not a pair of knickers :D

    Ha ha imagine trying to swat a spider to death with a pair of knickers, hee hee hee
    Black, the greatest without a doubt........
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Rock on wrote:
    Before you kill it or move it, make a female decoy out of something fuzzy, insert it and see what happens. :p

    :rolleyes: Don't just stand there playing silly games and toying with it, KILL THE BASTARD would ya? ;):D
    NOPE!!!

    *~You're IT Bert!~*

    Hold on to the thread
    The currents will shift
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Super Vedder wrote:
    im guessing the thong you keep mentioning is like a flip flop and not a pair of knickers :D

    Ha ha imagine trying to swat a spider to death with a pair of knickers, hee hee hee

    This is not Tom Jones! :p It's a spider! :D Of course I mean THONGS, not a g-string! :D
    NOPE!!!

    *~You're IT Bert!~*

    Hold on to the thread
    The currents will shift
  • zenith
    zenith Posts: 3,191
    Jeanie wrote:
    Oh that sounds hideous!!!!! :eek: :(

    I'm pathological about shaking out my shoes before I put them on. AND I never leave shoes outside. But then I'm forever spraying barrier spray all around the house and all the possible entry point anyway.

    Did it take long to recover zenith? That would be just awful I reckon.

    it hurt like hell for 24hours or so, then stung for days, although the salt water helped - and i still have the mark on my foot. When i got home i had to get a course of antibiotics because as my gp said 'spiders are grubby little buggers'

    its funny, cos when it first started biting me i really just thought it was a thistle or something in my shoe - and then i pulled up at mcdonalds to get the kids some breakie, and my whole leg had started to throb, so i pulled off my shoe and lo! heres this bloody red back, by now squished between my toes!

    so i went up to the local hospital - the doc said my lymph glands had started to swell, hence the pain going up my leg - he whacked me on an ecg and my heart rate wasnt up too much, and as i said i lied about the pain scale. He could tell i wanted to go, so he gave me some panadeine fortes, and told me if i started getting shakey or headachey to stop....

    i have a bit of an advantage of working in a hospital, i knew what symptoms to lie about - or disadvantage because i know what to expect - but unless you have a really unusual reaction a red back bit is just a lot of sweating and pain. The last guy in our a&e had 3 shots of anti-veneen and still screamed like a baby - so i guess my pain threshold is right up there :rolleyes:
    impatience is a gift ........
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Super Vedder wrote:
    Yeah but it will see her running off and run back after her for revenge won't it???? :D

    Christ this makes me glad i live in the uk (almost), i get annoyed having a fly or two buzzing about the house let alone killer spiders!!! :eek:

    no it'll be too busy shaking some sense into itself after being flung out of the container and dropping several feet onto the grass. by the time its got all 8 legs in gear, IP will be gone like the wind. :)
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say

Categories