2 hours ago i tried to kill a spider

[Papewaio]

So was the spider the size of a dinner plate?

[HopAlongBunny]

Actually I think A Nerd has the best approach.

Most spiders (here at least) are harmless and they will search and destroy other insects. A net benefit I think.

[naut]

Actually I think A Nerd has the best approach.

Most spiders (here at least) are harmless and they will search and destroy other insects. A net benefit I think.

I would do that, but, most of the spiders I find here are either White-tailed or Redback. And I'm not going near them without pesticide and a yellow pages to crush and destroy!

[Papewaio]

Daddy long legs meh
Baby huntsmen I'll let stay around
Adult huntsmen... To Arms! ... Preferably 18 foot pike

[HopAlongBunny]

Daddy-long-legs and wolf spiders describe 99% of what I see around here. While staining the fence I saw a very peculiar spider I cannot identify: mainly brown with what looked like a pup-tent on its back (it seemed a lil pissed when I was sweeping loose dirt and cobwebs out of the way).

[InsaneApache]

Just so you know what to expect...

[Voigtkampf]

Game over, man. Game over!

[Martok]

I have just one rule:

If it has eight legs (and I can reach it), it dies. Period.

[Monk]

I have just one rule:

If it has eight legs (and I can reach it), it dies. Period.

Two legs good, eight legs bad.

[Tuuvi]

My friend had an 8 inch long scorpion in his closet once. It was sitting really still, and because of the weird texture and color of it's skin I thought it was a toy at first, until I got really close...

[Kralizec]

Two legs good, eight legs bad.

Nice Orwell reference

We don't have dangerous spiders here. But the animal I can't stand and groses me out are tics.



I don't mind pulling them out of my dog so much, but I'd freak if I was bitten.
It's really the only animal I find really disgusting. I've hold snakes and tarantulas in my hands and work with wild animals at the wildlife rescue center. But I hate ticks, hate them with a passion.

Yeah, ticks are probably the most dangerous creatures you can find in the wild over here. I've removed many of them, both from pets and humans. For some reason they rarely attach themselves to me. Get them early enough and you're okay, sometimes I fear though that a small one will clamp itself on my head beneath the hair and stay hidden until I'm infected - and the hair will cause the usual red circles to go unnoticed.

[Moros]

We don't have dangerous spiders here. But the animal I can't stand and groses me out are tics.



I don't mind pulling them out of my dog so much, but I'd freak if I was bitten.
It's really the only animal I find really disgusting. I've hold snakes and tarantulas in my hands and work with wild animals at the wildlife rescue center. But I hate ticks, hate them with a passion.

[Memnon]

We don't have dangerous spiders here. But the animal I can't stand and groses me out are tics.

I don't mind pulling them out of my dog so much, but I'd freak if I was bitten.
It's really the only animal I find really disgusting. I've hold snakes and tarantulas in my hands and work with wild animals at the wildlife rescue center. But I hate ticks, hate them with a passion.

I found six of them on my legs yesterday after my run and promptly freaked out... The only thing worse than ticks for me are internal parasites. If I even think of them, I shudder.

[Fragony]

We don't have dangerous spiders here. But the animal I can't stand and groses me out are tics.



I don't mind pulling them out of my dog so much, but I'd freak if I was bitten.
It's really the only animal I find really disgusting. I've hold snakes and tarantulas in my hands and work with wild animals at the wildlife rescue center. But I hate ticks, hate them with a passion.

How do you like these http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&tb...vTs-LlzQl8oIM:

Hurray! After at least a century doing fine without them... these.... THINGS are back in our rivers.

Edit: tics you can just tear out with a pincet, that drawing it in whatever direction is bull.

[Sp4]

I just ignore spiders lol. Once in a while, I clean up the mess they leave behind but I I just ignore them when they are sitting in some corner.

[Fragony]

I would do that, but, most of the spiders I find here are either White-tailed or Redback. And I'm not going near them without pesticide and a yellow pages to crush and destroy!

Don't you Australians have an awesome collection of things that can hurt you!

[Papewaio]

Don't you Australians have an awesome collection of things that can hurt you!

And that's just the wives...

Most of the deadly animals can be found in outside the cities. But there are plenty of national parks in and around Sydney. Only things I've been bitten by are mossies and in Ku-ring-gai national park a black and red striped leach.

I've seen a large goanna at one park looking for scraps. It was about 1.8m from head to tip of its tail.

[Fragony]

And that's just the wives...

Most of the deadly animals can be found in outside the cities. But there are plenty of national parks in and around Sydney. Only things I've been bitten by are mossies and in Ku-ring-gai national park a black and red striped leach.

I've seen a large goanna at one park looking for scraps. It was about 1.8m from head to tip of its tail.

But still, swimming with tigersharks is more hardcore than dancing with wolves

[drone]

That female Redback looks like a Black Widow.

Same family, I believe. I stomp any black w/red spider I come across in my yard just on general principle, at least 3 black widows found so far in the 2 years living here.

For non-black/red spiders inside the house, I catch-and-release, spiders do too much good to just kill them all outright.