September 18, 200222 yr comment_15788 Bad thing about them is there are more than one variety. Here's a Brown Recluse. One of six poisonous spiders in the US and probably the worst IMO. Link to comment https://www.classiczcars.com/forums/topic/3039-whoa/?&page=2#findComment-15788 Share on other sites More sharing options...
September 18, 200222 yr comment_15790 Probably more widely known outside Australia is our Redback spider. These are quite small, about 2cm max, and the red stripe can vary from Red, Orange, Grey, White or be absent altogether. In Western Autralia is you see spider and guess "Redback" you will be right 90% of the time. They are not fatal (except perhaps to small children) but all the same, don't go getting bitten! Link to comment https://www.classiczcars.com/forums/topic/3039-whoa/?&page=2#findComment-15790 Share on other sites More sharing options...
September 18, 200222 yr comment_15792 This post really has caused a case of arachnaphobia hasn't it? Here's the female Black Widow, its poison is more potent than a rattlesnake, yet it injects such a small amount that it rarely causes any adverse effects with adults. Males are not poisonous. Glad I'm not a male black widow, the female eats the male after mating!! Yikes!:dead: Link to comment https://www.classiczcars.com/forums/topic/3039-whoa/?&page=2#findComment-15792 Share on other sites More sharing options...
September 18, 200222 yr comment_15794 Uughh ack gaarggghh! twitch, flinch... I'm appalled, yet I can't look away - I'll just have to pray that Mike's disks crash again to break this awful spell..! Link to comment https://www.classiczcars.com/forums/topic/3039-whoa/?&page=2#findComment-15794 Share on other sites More sharing options...
September 18, 200222 yr comment_15795 One of six poisonous spiders in the US and probably the worst IMO Rule of thumb: ALL spiders are poisonous untill stepped on. Link to comment https://www.classiczcars.com/forums/topic/3039-whoa/?&page=2#findComment-15795 Share on other sites More sharing options...
September 18, 200222 yr comment_15797 This from the University of Sydney web site: Sydney Funnel Web Spider: This is one mother of a spider! It is a large (6-7 cm), black, aggressive, ugly looking spider with massive fangs. These are large and powerful enough to easily penetrate a fingernail. When disturbed it tends to rear up on its hind legs, a defensive posture that exposes the fangs. They don't jump. During a bite the spider firmly grips its victim and bites repeatedly; in most cases the experience is horrific. The venom is highly toxic. Before an effective antivenom was developed, significant bites usually resulted in severe symptoms and death was not uncommon. Link to comment https://www.classiczcars.com/forums/topic/3039-whoa/?&page=2#findComment-15797 Share on other sites More sharing options...
September 18, 200222 yr comment_15800 Let me share a little something with all of you, FREEKY PEOPLE!I'm sitting here in my nice cozy chair, as usual being entertained by you all. Reading this little humorous post, when I get to those freeky, awful, disgusting, creepy, spider pics you all posted.Just then I feel something crawl up leg, my skin tightens and my spine twitches as I reach down to feel the uninvited now making his way up my leg. All in my head you may ask???I thought that also, until I feel it, hard round and very unexpected.So off I go, screaming like a little girl. My wife and kids in bed, me dancing around the office like a choreographer on a bad cocaine twist. After I settle down a bit, I look up at the screen and see all these nice pics of creepies, so I begin to search for my attacker. Oh I found him alright.He was a little green piece of fuzz hanging from the bottom of my chair fabric by a little string.FEEL STUPID?? Yeah you could say that!Thanks for freaking me out , love you guys. Link to comment https://www.classiczcars.com/forums/topic/3039-whoa/?&page=2#findComment-15800 Share on other sites More sharing options...
September 18, 200222 yr comment_15801 Link to comment https://www.classiczcars.com/forums/topic/3039-whoa/?&page=2#findComment-15801 Share on other sites More sharing options...
September 18, 200222 yr comment_15802 I will be checking under my sheets before I go to sleep tonight !!! Link to comment https://www.classiczcars.com/forums/topic/3039-whoa/?&page=2#findComment-15802 Share on other sites More sharing options...
September 18, 200222 yr comment_15812 Cool post however when I lifted the panels on my Z all I found was dirt and some rust thank goodness. I used to find huntsmen spiders at my old house they loved the garage there. Where I am at the moment my bed room is above my garage and I don't have problems with spiders really which is good.However I do remember when I was a kid I went to open this book and a white tail spider run down the page and onto my lap I screamed and my mum flushed it down the toilet.I don't really have a fear of spider though just snakes I hate snakes. Link to comment https://www.classiczcars.com/forums/topic/3039-whoa/?&page=2#findComment-15812 Share on other sites More sharing options...
September 18, 200222 yr comment_15818 I've got a story... Once near Sydney in a National Park I was running down a track (I was about 10 I think at the time) and I noticed my shoe was undone so I stopped and ducked down to do it up. Right there in front of my foot was a funnel-web spider's nest. They dig a hole in the ground IIRC? Not reeeeaally close, but it still scared the hell out of me. Those spiders are the most poisonous in Australia. Link to comment https://www.classiczcars.com/forums/topic/3039-whoa/?&page=2#findComment-15818 Share on other sites More sharing options...
September 18, 200222 yr comment_15825 Sat watching a huntsman devouring a black house spider the other day, (the beauty of being retired, time to watch spiders eat each other). Was quite interested to see one of the local friendly butcher birds hover at the wall just long enough to catch the huntsman then land on the railing in front of me, bash it on the rail a few times and eat it. Didn't know butcher birds did that. Good, nice, friendly, spider eating butcher birds. ROFL ROFL Rick. Link to comment https://www.classiczcars.com/forums/topic/3039-whoa/?&page=2#findComment-15825 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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