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Hal-9000
09-03-2011, 07:16 PM
Yesterday, Minz made a somewhat disturbing post telling us that - a tarantula just walked across her bed :shock: :shock: :shock:

Since she and her housemates don't own a tarantula, this horrible occurrence must be investigated.Are tarantulas indigenous to Britain? Was Minz the butt of a cruel joke? Or was she snorting some prescription medication and that,
coupled with a few glasses of wine, is what caused the hallucination?

Pls discuss

Teh One Who Knocks
09-03-2011, 07:28 PM
http://i.imgur.com/MzIoU.jpg

Hal-9000
09-03-2011, 07:48 PM
I recently killed a couple of large spiders down here...they were about the size of a dime and that's big enough thank you :hand:


*shudders*

minz
09-03-2011, 08:15 PM
It was huge :(

RBP
09-03-2011, 08:18 PM
It was huge :(

That's what she said.

minz
09-03-2011, 08:20 PM
That's what she said.

I screamed and woke up the munchkins, who then proceeded to laugh at me. :sad:

RBP
09-03-2011, 08:24 PM
Damn kids!

minz
09-03-2011, 08:35 PM
Damn kids!

I had the last laugh though, I wouldnt let them go back to bed until they caught it and put it outside. :mrgreen:

JoeyB
09-03-2011, 10:38 PM
I had the last laugh though, I wouldnt let them go back to bed until they caught it and put it outside. :mrgreen:

Did you ever relent and let the kids back inside?

minz
09-03-2011, 10:38 PM
There's another one in the lounge this evening, I must be disturbing them packing the house up, I'm being plagued by spiders. :hills:

minz
09-03-2011, 10:59 PM
Look how big this spider is :shock:

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a302/Minni_the_minx/358.jpg

minz
09-03-2011, 11:06 PM
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a302/Minni_the_minx/356.jpg

RBP
09-03-2011, 11:07 PM
Why would you catch and release? I'd be smashing them!

RBP
09-03-2011, 11:07 PM
Those are pretty big spiders Minz!

minz
09-03-2011, 11:10 PM
Those are pretty big spiders Minz!


Why would you catch and release? I'd be smashing them!

Its a huge spider, its terrorising me at the minute. :lol: I just cant bring myself to kill it though, I dont like killing anything, I prefer to repatriate it.

Griffin
09-03-2011, 11:11 PM
what th.....we have tics that big. :lol:

minz
09-03-2011, 11:16 PM
what th.....we have tics that big. :lol:

We're not used to big ones over here, that ones a monster spider. :shock:

RBP
09-03-2011, 11:21 PM
We're not used to big ones over here

That's what she said

minz
09-03-2011, 11:22 PM
Did you ever relent and let the kids back inside?

Sadly yes, they're bigger than me :(

minz
09-03-2011, 11:24 PM
That's what she said

I know its just awful :lol:

Foxdana
09-04-2011, 01:35 AM
Remember the story when huntsman spiders were brought over to Britain in bananas a few years ago! They are some big spiders and people were freaking about them being in their food! Understandably! :lol:

Foxdana
09-04-2011, 01:39 AM
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a302/Minni_the_minx/356.jpg

That's not a spider!

http://www.thelostogle.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/huntsman-spider.jpg

That's a spider, and a moron holding it! :lol:

MrsM
09-04-2011, 01:42 AM
:nothankyouverymuch:

Southern Belle
09-04-2011, 01:45 AM
*shudders*

Hal-9000
09-04-2011, 07:04 AM
That is not a tarantula Minz [-(

I'm very disappointed

minz
09-04-2011, 08:57 AM
That is not a tarantula Minz [-(

I'm very disappointed

It’s a tarantula when it’s terrorising you :sad2:

spud
09-04-2011, 10:28 AM
agreed it certianly would terrorise you anyway!

Hal-9000
09-04-2011, 06:12 PM
It’s a tarantula when it’s terrorising you :sad2:

That's what books and shoes are for....excellent tools to bring home a point about where they're allowed to live.NOT HERE, WHACK! :lol: ...now go tell your little friends

Noilly Pratt
09-04-2011, 06:23 PM
Minz...guess what? You have the Canadians to thank for that spider. During WW2 us nice Canucks provided those who were back from the war free housing...trouble was, it was called Nissin (sp?) Huts...and they were stored somewhere in the Canuck wilderness, so some spiders tagged along for the ride.

It's called a Wolf Spider, and they can be really mean and actually try to go after you -- but they aren't poisonous. My dad was a UK Royal Navy vet of WW2, was given a Nissin Hut for his family and was plagued with these things. He even fashioned a corrogated "squasher" so that he could squash them when he saw them on the roof of the place.

They apparently love the English weather, similar to Canada's and thrived and because your winters are less harsh, so now you guys have more of them that we do.

I just saw one of these big guys on my desk...I was going to smother it with my regular sized coffee cup, but the cup wasn't big enough. :O I made 2 attempts at trapping him but he scurried behind...so I left it.

*It's a Nissen Hut BTW - just googled.

Hal-9000
09-04-2011, 06:24 PM
I had to use a pail bottom on the last spider down here...it was a monster

Loser
09-05-2011, 12:11 AM
It's a giant house spider, relatively harmless, and indigenous to U.K.

While they "could" bite you, they generally don't bite, and are harmless.

They did hold the guiness record for fastest spider though. Just thought I'd let ya know. ;)

minz
09-05-2011, 10:42 AM
That's what books and shoes are for....excellent tools to bring home a point about where they're allowed to live.NOT HERE, WHACK! :lol: ...now go tell your little friends

There will be no killing/squishing of spiders in my house. :hand: It's just trying to stay warm. :(

minz
09-05-2011, 10:43 AM
It's a giant house spider, relatively harmless, and indigenous to U.K.

While they "could" bite you, they generally don't bite, and are harmless.

They did hold the guiness record for fastest spider though. Just thought I'd let ya know. ;)

Jeeezus your not wrong, that thing moved like lightening. :huh:

Teh One Who Knocks
09-05-2011, 11:30 AM
So....this whole tarantula thing was a false alarm? :-s


:facepalm:

Loser
09-05-2011, 12:58 PM
They are pretty fucking huge actually. :lol:

Teh One Who Knocks
09-05-2011, 01:06 PM
But it still isn't a tarantula :nono:

Loser
09-05-2011, 01:07 PM
Three to four inch leg span, big enough to make me shit my pants screaming :lol:

Teh One Who Knocks
09-05-2011, 01:09 PM
We have native tarantulas in southeast Colorado, so I was trying to figure out how there could be tarantulas in England with their climate :shakehead:

Loser
09-05-2011, 01:15 PM
I have recluses and widows that I have to deal with pretty much daily.

When I pull my pier sections up each spring and winter, they are covered in widows, but 1700 psi power washer > than any spider. ;)

dmni
09-05-2011, 01:16 PM
You could always catch it and keep it as a watch spider to scare off any other spiders?

Teh One Who Knocks
09-05-2011, 01:20 PM
I have recluses and widows that I have to deal with pretty much daily.

When I pull my pier sections up each spring and winter, they are covered in widows, but 1700 psi power washer > than any spider. ;)

We have tons of black widows out here. Recluses are rare here, but they turn up occasionally.

When I was working out east of Denver, it was in a new industrial park built out in the middle of a field basically. One day in the building we found a couple of black widows, so the company decided to call an exterminator. When he arrived and started spraying, he made sure to get up in between the walls outside (it was a steel building). Once the poison was up there, there were literally thousands, if not tens of thousands of black widows that fell out from between the walls. :wha:

Teh One Who Knocks
09-05-2011, 01:21 PM
http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/insect/05512.html

Colorado spiders

redred
09-05-2011, 03:14 PM
http://i.imgur.com/grHXm.jpg

minz
09-05-2011, 06:59 PM
Look, it was a fuggin big spider and I was scared :(

Hal-9000
09-05-2011, 07:15 PM
Little know fact about tarantulas...their internal pressure is not quite balanced against the outer atmosphere so if you push them against a wall or drop them to the floor, they're pretty much toast.
They won't blow up or anything cool like that.


*this applies to tarantulas only, not ghey little spiders like Minz complained about

minz
09-05-2011, 07:17 PM
Little know fact about tarantulas...their internal pressure is not quite balanced against the outer atmosphere so if you push them against a wall or drop them to the floor, they're pretty much toast.
They won't blow up or anything cool like that.


*this applies to tarantulas only, not ghey little spiders like Minz complained about

:slap: It wasnt so little.[-(

Hal-9000
09-05-2011, 07:19 PM
You saw the second post in the thread?

THAT'S a tarantula :thumbsup:

Teh One Who Knocks
09-05-2011, 07:22 PM
Little know fact about tarantulas...their internal pressure is not quite balanced against the outer atmosphere so if you push them against a wall or drop them to the floor, they're pretty much toast.
They won't blow up or anything cool like that.


*this applies to tarantulas only, not ghey little spiders like Minz complained about

:puke:

minz
09-05-2011, 07:23 PM
You saw the second post in the thread?

THAT'S a tarantula :thumbsup:

It was as big as a trantula, it just had less hair. :meh:

Hal-9000
09-05-2011, 07:25 PM
:puke:

Dropping them from a height is supposed to work wonders :thumbsup:






....Like I'll ever get any closer than baseball bat range :lol:

Hal-9000
09-05-2011, 07:26 PM
It was as big as a trantula, it just had less hair. :meh:

It was not, you're being a girl about it

minz
09-05-2011, 07:28 PM
It was not, you're being a girl about it

*looks under uniform* Hmmmm, I think I qualify to be a girl about it. :lol:

Hal-9000
09-05-2011, 07:29 PM
*looks under uniform*

http://i.imgur.com/JhPqj.jpg

Teh One Who Knocks
09-05-2011, 07:30 PM
Dropping them from a height is supposed to work wonders :thumbsup:






....Like I'll ever get any closer than baseball bat range :lol:

Exactly, I don't care if they bite or not, I'm not getting anywhere near one. I wouldn't even wanna step on one, can you imagine how much of a gooey mess it would make? :puke:

Hal-9000
09-05-2011, 07:31 PM
I stepped on a beetle the other night (Ringo) and he was like a golf ball.I heard the crunch, then looked back and he was dragging his damaged carcass off of the sidewalk :shock:

that dude was thick :shudders:

minz
09-05-2011, 07:35 PM
Niiice, those mental images have just put me off my tea, or dinner to you lot over there.

Teh One Who Knocks
09-05-2011, 07:37 PM
I stepped on a beetle the other night (Ringo) and he was like a golf ball.I heard the crunch, then looked back and he was dragging his damaged carcass off of the sidewalk :shock:

that dude was thick :shudders:

When I worked at the gas station in the summer back when I was in high school, in early summer once it got dark, the lights would attract June bugs by the hundreds and when cars would pull in for gas, you could hear them crunching under the car tires.

Hal-9000
09-05-2011, 07:38 PM
I used to catch and release...until they started showing up in the basement, always late at night and always right after I turn on a light...


it's like they know..:shock:

minz
09-05-2011, 07:42 PM
I dont kill them.

Hal-9000
09-05-2011, 07:42 PM
When I worked at the gas station in the summer back when I was in high school, in early summer once it got dark, the lights would attract June bugs by the hundreds and when cars would pull in for gas, you could hear them crunching under the car tires.

I've related the story about working in Banff as a chambermaid at a hotel.A giant June bug was on the door frame of a unit, I must have stood outside for 10 minutes debating whether to go in....I cross the threshold and the damn thing flies right at my chest, clicking loudly the whole way.I felt the bugger hit me....

I threw down my cleaning supplies and vaccuum, jumped up and down shrieking like a little girl at a Backstreet Boys concert and was flailing my arms.

I peed sitting down on the toilet that night :oops:

Teh One Who Knocks
09-05-2011, 07:43 PM
I've related the story about working in Banff as a chambermaid at a hotel.A giant June bug was on the door frame of a unit, I must have stood outside for 10 minutes debating whether to go in....I cross the threshold and the damn thing flies right at my chest, clicking loudly the whole way.I felt the bugger hit me....

I threw down my cleaning supplies and vaccuum, jumped up and down shrieking like a little girl at a Backstreet Boys concert and flailing my arms.

I peed sitting down on the toilet that night :oops:

:lol:

I hate them too...beetles, especially giant ones just freak me out

http://i.imgur.com/Gk0BV.jpg

minz
09-05-2011, 07:44 PM
:puke:

JoeyB
09-05-2011, 10:00 PM
*looks under uniform* Hmmmm, I think I qualify to be a girl about it. :lol:

Needs more details...


I peed sitting down on the toilet that night :oops:

So that's when you picked up the habit.

Teh One Who Knocks
09-06-2011, 07:45 PM
http://i.imgur.com/eHiRJ.png

minz
09-06-2011, 07:49 PM
:shock:

Teh One Who Knocks
09-06-2011, 07:54 PM
N. komaci females are the largest Nephila yet discovered. Displaying sexual size dimorphism commonly observed in various species of spiders, the size of a male reaches a leg span of only about 2.5 centimetres, with a body length of about 9 mm,[2] roughly one fifth of that of a female. The tip-to-tip leg span of a female is about 12 cm (5 inches) (body length c. 4 cm (1.6 inches)), with a web that is equally impressive in size, measuring more than a metre in diameter.

:)

minz
09-06-2011, 07:59 PM
Did you also know that most house spiders are male (big softies) the females prefer to stay outside to lay their offspring in bushes and shrubs.

minz
09-07-2011, 11:59 PM
Oh ffs, another spider. :huh: where do they all come from?

JoeyB
09-08-2011, 12:05 AM
where do they all come from?

The same place as all the lonely people?

Softdreamer
09-08-2011, 12:48 AM
Ladies and gentlemen.. The 'Camel Spider'

http://hostingc.hotchyx.com/adult-image-hosting-03/7506camel-spider.jpg (http://hotchyx.com/)

minz
09-08-2011, 01:04 AM
Ladies and gentlemen.. The 'Camel Spider'

http://hostingc.hotchyx.com/adult-image-hosting-03/7506camel-spider.jpg (http://hotchyx.com/)

Jeeezus, it wasnt that big :shock:

Softdreamer
09-08-2011, 10:05 AM
They are normally about the size of your hand, but very aggressive and strong.

Soldiers in Iraq said you could hear them running across the desert at night.
And their screeches when they fight are like something from SciFi..

Teh One Who Knocks
09-08-2011, 11:55 AM
They are normally about the size of your hand, but very aggressive and strong.

Soldiers in Iraq said you could hear them running across the desert at night.
And their screeches when they fight are like something from SciFi..

Internet rumors ;)

http://www.snopes.com/photos/bugs/camelspider.asp

I didn't realize that they weren't even actually spiders tho :-k

Noilly Pratt
09-08-2011, 03:53 PM
I beg to differ...My friend just came back from Afghanistan 6 months ago...he said he saw something that resembled a spider, and it did scream when running at about 5mph. A couple of his troop-mates are up on charges because they got scared and withdrew their weapons and killed them. He said they didn't bite, but they definitely weren't scared of people at all.

If it scared this guy, believe me it's real. This guy I know is as cool as a cucumber normally.

I'll add a Cicada story too...I was vacationing in Malaga, Spain enjoying the beautiful sunshine. A friend rented a villa just north of a bunch of olive groves. The olive trees appeared black and moving and there was this constant "wheeeeeee" noise -- it was all the cicadas on them. Occasionally you'd get one make a beeline for your head - they were about as big as your fist!

The only way to avoid them was to dip yourself in the pool, which I did frequently. Couldn't believe my friend got this place for about the equivalent of $900 bucks a month...I had my own "wing" of the place, and it had an unblocked view of the Mediterranean Sea, plus a full-size pool that was 1/2 plexiglass, so you could see the Sea. And, next door his friend had a very nice bistro. You can live like a king there, but watch out for the creepy crawlies!

Hal-9000
09-08-2011, 10:30 PM
:shock:


Any bug larger than my fingernail, just got a step closer to the endangered species list

DemonGeminiX
09-08-2011, 10:32 PM
Ha! You guys should come down here and check out the Florida Woods Cockroach. Those things are freakin' huge.

:lol:

Teh One Who Knocks
09-08-2011, 10:33 PM
Ha! You guys should come down here and check out the Florida Woods Cockroach. Those things are freakin' huge.

:lol:

I hate the palmetto bugs down there :wha:

Hal-9000
09-08-2011, 10:37 PM
Ha! You guys should come down here and check out the Florida Woods Cockroach. Those things are freakin' huge.

:lol:

I'm normally a life lover....and leave things alone no matter what species they are.

But when I see bugs like that, my passive nature vanishes and the more creeped out I am, the more militant I get towards killing them :lol:

DemonGeminiX
09-08-2011, 10:38 PM
I hate the palmetto bugs down there :wha:

:lol:

When we moved down here, my brother and sister didn't come down with us. The first Christmas here, they came down to visit. When they left and got back home, my sister called my Mom, screaming bloody murder. It seems a palmetto bug got into her luggage somehow before she left and hitched a ride back to her home... and she found it in her clothes in her suitcase.

She hadn't seen one while she was down here but we warned her about them.

It took her a while to muster up the courage to come back down again.

:lol:

Hal-9000
09-08-2011, 10:39 PM
I'll just slip into my big boots...



http://i.imgur.com/QcVfO.jpg