I can manage being in the same room as a spider, but if it heads my way it's in for a whole world of pain My 4yr old daughter even managed to make me look a right herbert a few months back, we went with her and her school class to a local wildlife park, and they had some sessions with insects. I was about 2 minutes aways from freaking out with this centipede or millipede, but my daughter loved having it in her hands. If it's got more than 4 legs, has hairy legs or body, then it will be getting damaged if it comes near me. I do try not letting my kids see that insects freak me out, but I can't help feeling like that.
I found a fairly large spider at work today. Poor guy had fallen into a box of dry ice and was frozen solid, had some very nice ice crystals on his legs though. There's another one around though that is literally the size of half a tennis ball - just a normal house spider, but I've never seen one that size before.
Awww I love millipedes! They're so cute (Centipedes aren't so cute and they're a bit aggressive). I'm pretty sure someone on these forums had one that used to sit on his knee while he watched TV. I really want some, but apparently they're really hard to sex until they're adults and even then it's not 100% and their babies are practically invisible meaning you'll end up throwing loads out when you change the substrate. The thought of accidentally killing baby millipedes really puts me off.
There was a neat little insect zoo in Canada of all places I went to once. Held a de-fanged tarantula and a centipede and a couple millipedes. It's the small spiders crawling around on my body that really gets me. The millipede was the cutest thing ever, for the record.
I was working in a lumber yard as a kid at weekends (17), got the fright of my life when I found some wood wasps. The dam things flew at me. The buggers are 50mm long (2 inches) and a 1/3 of that is the "stinger" (used for laying eggs in wood apparently, I didn't know that, I just legged it)
If you say "Violin Spider" in a South African accent it sounds like "Violent Spider" which is quite appropriate.
I really hate the kinda midway spiders. Tiny ones don't bother me, and ones like this: don't bother me either. We had a nest on our front gate a couple of years ago, come September it opened with a good hundred or so. The garden is always full of webs and various sized beasties.
Things like that dont scare me so much, its just like a furry glove- its house spiders or things with spindly legs that creep me out. A word/video of caution though if you're thinking about trying to catch any spiders you find on your homes: Dont have nightmares...
thank god for canadian winters ... Here all we have are very small spiders. I think the biggest I have ever seen was about 3 or 4 cm in diameter. I can stay next to a spider and look at it but I hate touching them. I remember that once, as a kid, I drowned a spider in a puddle of WD40 on my bedroom floor
Hah, out of interest does anyone know what spiders in the UK are ~3-5cm big inc legs, brownish colour with a red patch (bit like a dot) on their back? Found one in the hallway a few months back, went to get stuff to move it outside and it disapeared, saw it again a few weeks later but I havent seen it since.
I'm checking my book now. (I secretly love spiders, I just hate this time of year when they start trying to claim dibs on our baths, beds, windows, floors, doorhandles, monitors, homes and hearts.) In other news: tegenaria duellica are still way too fast for comfort. It also turns out that if they get big enough, they can bite humans. Learning is fun! edit - didn't find it, but I did discover this "rare but thoroughly distributed" spider which I have never seen but really want to: WANT
haha thanks, A friend of a friend commented saying it was a redback but I doubt it as they're black as far as I know? Then a website said a funnel web but I havent seen any webs :/
Thanks you ****ers. I am now checking every godamn corner and the ceiling above every five friggin seconds. I hate them with a passion. If there was someway to create a toxin which could released into atmosphere which kills all spiders and wasps then i seriously, seriously would. And don't come the 'they eat flies' argument, as proven so do mantis, lizards, birds etc. I'm more afraid of spiders than wasps but i hate wasps more. Wasps just serve no purpose other than to be dicks who sting you and make picnic tables a no-mans land. Every wasp which gets close enough dies.
