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Allan

Allan Report 28 Sep 2013 11:35

Oh oh!

Not the dreaded black widow!

I prefer Red-backs myself :-D :-D

LadyScozz

LadyScozz Report 28 Sep 2013 11:09

and what lovely hairy legs they are!

Careful......... you don't know what type of spider I may be :-0 ;-)

Allan

Allan Report 28 Sep 2013 10:25

Hello my Lady,

I bow all my eight legs to you :-D :-D

LadyScozz

LadyScozz Report 28 Sep 2013 10:22

Allan, I always knew you were a Super Hero!! :-D

Allan

Allan Report 28 Sep 2013 10:20

Leave us spiders alone!

We enjoy the web, just like the rest of you :-|

:-D :-D :-D

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 28 Sep 2013 09:59

This is quite interesting:

http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2013/07/06/weekend-diversion-spider-webs-on-drugs/


:-D :-D :-D

LadyScozz

LadyScozz Report 28 Sep 2013 04:28

How to catch a Huntsman..... first eat a Toblerone..........


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3f99HhlpTo


:-D :-D :-D :-D

and then there's this one....... how NOT to catch a spider lolol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRV4d9LCawU

:-0

or........ you could use the vacuum cleaner........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysSrHJak2gM

;-)

OneFootInTheGrave

OneFootInTheGrave Report 26 Sep 2013 08:34

How about this one :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klHDzIIrsjY

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LadyScozz

LadyScozz Report 26 Sep 2013 01:02

Would you like some Aussie spiders?

Pics of some of them......

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=australian+spiders&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=
G3lDUvT1HIH5kAXYo4HYAw&ved=0CEUQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=739&dpr=1

Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 26 Sep 2013 00:06

you mean the guests smelled worse than the skunk?

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 25 Sep 2013 20:17

Just as a side note ........................

the next time we went down to that town for a rugby game, we were invited to someone else's house.

That guy had a de-skunked skunk as a pet.

It was running around the living room quite freely.

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 25 Sep 2013 20:15

we lived in Texas for a year in the mid-60s

One evening, we were driving out of the shopping centre parking lot around dusk, and felt this "bump" as we went over something

OH stopped, got out to have a look at what had happened, and then called me to get out also


it was a "medium sized" tarantula :-S


Some years later, up here by then, we went to a small town in Washington State for a rugby game, and were then invited back to one of the other players' house for the evening.


He had a HUGE tarantula in a glass aquarium in the living room. The top of the aquarium was only covered by a sheet of glass.


Tarantulas are occasionally found in bunches of bananas up here. That could also happen in the UK

Island

Island Report 25 Sep 2013 15:38

I don't think you'll find any of those trotting round your house Mersey :-D :-D

I'd like to see one :-D

Mersey

Mersey Report 25 Sep 2013 15:36

Huge tarantulas *scarey*

Island

Island Report 25 Sep 2013 15:22

Big hairy ones Mersey? :-0

Mersey

Mersey Report 25 Sep 2013 15:20

I love spiders...apart from big hairy ones *squirms* :-)

Island

Island Report 25 Sep 2013 14:55

It throws the first thread.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/zoology/insects-arachnids/spider5.htm

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 25 Sep 2013 14:40

I don't mind spiders at all - I think they are fascinating

Island

Island Report 25 Sep 2013 14:31

They wait for the wind direction to be right and leap.

That spider is fab OFITG :-D - they're not moving very fast though are they? :-(

RolloTheRed

RolloTheRed Report 25 Sep 2013 14:27

Ah the beauty of the sun shining through a spider's web on a dewey autumn morning!

The technology of spiders is well beyond any materials know how of homo sapiens. They have a lot of other secrets as well as spinning webs.

Spiders were around on earth hundred of millions of years before men. They are among the most likely candidates to voyage off to G Heather's brave new world.

We never bother them, shoo them outside, poison them or squash them.