Mammoth backyard spider devours bird
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I don't mind spiders that much... but if that thing were in my back yard it would be dead the moment I saw it. Probably with some sort of spray can + flame.
Can't sleep, clown will eat me.
I think we already discussed this. Sort of.
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I think we already discussed this. Sort of.
Whups. :(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=askpJdJSe6g&feature=related after looking at the video i looked at this other one and when i heard his voice the thing i could think of is shaggy saying "Like Scobe there's a huge spider!"
Edited, Oct 22nd 2008 9:05pm by Flixa
Edited, Oct 22nd 2008 9:05pm by Flixa
TirithRR wrote:
I don't mind spiders that much... but if that thing were in my back yard it would be dead the moment I saw it. Probably with some sort of spray can + flame.
I had a golden orb weaver in my front yard in Victoria, Australia, but a slightly different species.. um...genus..um...it wasn't exactly the same. It wasn't as large as that one at any rate, although is was pretty @#%^ing large. It's leg tips spread about as wide as my hand by the time it finished growing, but very slender legs, so it wasn't like the spider overall was as big as my (small female) hand. It had almost a perfectly spherical body, unlike the oblong body of that one, and it was a very pretty green, with an attractive pattern of speckles on it. Alltogether a more attractive looking spider than the Queensland Golden Weaver
Golden Orb Weavers are known for their extremely large and beautiful long-lived webs, and people who aren't arachnophobic are often proud to have Orb Weaver webs in their garden or in the spaces on their porch. It's like having a garden feature, sculpture or fountain built for you for free. The one in my yard built a perfectly formed circular web about 1 meter (3 1/2 feet) in diameter. (Not counting the support structures of the disk, which put the web at about 3 meters (10.5 foot) wide.
It gathered pollen, and arranged it in a thick straight line in the middle of the web, and during the day the spider would perch at the end of the line of pollen, and arrange it's legs in three groups together so that the pollen and spider together looked extremely like a small branch, or twig, hanging there in mid-air.
This web was built over a flower bed, close to the front fence, and not in the way of where anyone had to walk. I wouldn't have dreamed of taking it down or interfering with the Orb Weaver, which was a very stationary creature that stuck close to it's very obvious and avoidable web.
Edited, Oct 23rd 2008 2:29am by Aripyanfar
This thread was either spiders or someone raping a Wombat...
Edited, Oct 23rd 2008 4:36am by tarv
Edited, Oct 23rd 2008 4:36am by tarv
That. Was. Fucking. Awesome.
Nature at its finest. As Ari already said, I would be honored to have such a spider on my property.
Nature at its finest. As Ari already said, I would be honored to have such a spider on my property.
Aripyanfar wrote:
people who aren't arachnophobic are often proud to have Orb Weaver webs in their garden or in the spaces on their porch. It's like having a garden feature, sculpture or fountain built for you for free.
I have these guys all over my yard and I am uneasy friends with them, since I know they kill other bugs I don't like and they really have no interest in eating me.
Another cool thing about their webs is that they eat the entire web they built in the night and respin a new one every single morning. Kinda neat.
What's bred in the bone will not out of the flesh.
Spiders recycle who would have thought?
Edited, Oct 23rd 2008 9:33am by Flixa
Edited, Oct 23rd 2008 9:33am by Flixa
Lady Tare wrote:
Aripyanfar wrote:
people who aren't arachnophobic are often proud to have Orb Weaver webs in their garden or in the spaces on their porch. It's like having a garden feature, sculpture or fountain built for you for free.
I have these guys all over my yard and I am uneasy friends with them, since I know they kill other bugs I don't like and they really have no interest in eating me.
Another cool thing about their webs is that they eat the entire web they built in the night and respin a new one every single morning. Kinda neat.
When I was a kid they were around a lot of our houses, and would make webs in the windows. but they were smaller, much smaller, than the one here.
I liked playing with them as a kid. Throw small things into their web and watch them go over to it, check it out, discover it's not edible, then cut it free.
But something about one this big... I would not let it live. I live with spiders all the time. The bathroom light stays on in our house, so all the bugs that come in go towards there. In the bathroom there are usually about 8-10 of those Daddy Long Leg spiders in the corners. They are harmless, and almost invisible most of the time (very thin legs and body). We don't bother them because they eat all the bugs that fly around.
Can't sleep, clown will eat me.
TirithRR wrote:
I live with spiders all the time. The bathroom light stays on in our house, so all the bugs that come in go towards there. In the bathroom there are usually about 8-10 of those Daddy Long Leg spiders in the corners. They are harmless, and almost invisible most of the time (very thin legs and body). We don't bother them because they eat all the bugs that fly around.
Two words: bug bomb.
AshOnMyTomatoes wrote:
TirithRR wrote:
I live with spiders all the time. The bathroom light stays on in our house, so all the bugs that come in go towards there. In the bathroom there are usually about 8-10 of those Daddy Long Leg spiders in the corners. They are harmless, and almost invisible most of the time (very thin legs and body). We don't bother them because they eat all the bugs that fly around.
Two words: bug bomb.
I live in the middle of the woods in a swampy area next to a lake. Any time after 6pm if I open the front door various flying bugs enter the house. Moths, Mosquitoes, Gnats, various flys, lady bugs, those Asian lady bug wannabes, June Beetles. Right now the lady bugs and the Asian things are out. It all depends on the time of the year. It's starting to get cold so they are in the process of dying and soon the snow will come and there will be no more bugs.
It's something you get used to when you live in a wetland out in the country.
Can't sleep, clown will eat me.
Well, since we're on the subject, I present the Huntsman spider:
Though not deadly to humans, they are fairly aggressive when provoked. They will find a nice out of the way place to wait for prey to wonder by and you would never know it was there. But if you disturb one, they have a nasty tendency to attack rather than to retreat.
Edited, Oct 24th 2008 2:20am by TurinAlexander
Though not deadly to humans, they are fairly aggressive when provoked. They will find a nice out of the way place to wait for prey to wonder by and you would never know it was there. But if you disturb one, they have a nasty tendency to attack rather than to retreat.
Edited, Oct 24th 2008 2:20am by TurinAlexander
TurinAlexander the Vile wrote:
Well, since we're on the subject, I present the Huntsman spider:
Though not deadly to humans, they are fairly aggressive when provoked. They will find a nice out of the way place to wait for prey to wonder by and you would never know it was there. But if you disturb one, they have a nasty tendency to attack rather than to retreat.
Though not deadly to humans, they are fairly aggressive when provoked. They will find a nice out of the way place to wait for prey to wonder by and you would never know it was there. But if you disturb one, they have a nasty tendency to attack rather than to retreat.
By "disturb it" he means poke it with a broom or remote control or something. Depending on the huntsman, the catcher, and the starting position, they are pretty amenable to being caught under an upturned glass, a piece of paper inserted under the glass, and the whole kit carted outside so you can release the huntsman into the garden.
When I was little huntsmen creeped me out because they move so fast. But I calmed down in my teens, and am happy to live with them in the house. I still don't like them in the car, though. One is much more closed in at close quarters with them there.
TurinAlexander the Vile wrote:
Well, since we're on the subject, I present the Huntsman spider:
Though not deadly to humans, they are fairly aggressive when provoked. They will find a nice out of the way place to wait for prey to wonder by and you would never know it was there. But if you disturb one, they have a nasty tendency to attack rather than to retreat.
Edited, Oct 24th 2008 2:20am by TurinAlexander
Though not deadly to humans, they are fairly aggressive when provoked. They will find a nice out of the way place to wait for prey to wonder by and you would never know it was there. But if you disturb one, they have a nasty tendency to attack rather than to retreat.
Edited, Oct 24th 2008 2:20am by TurinAlexander
Good lord, I'd die of a heart attack.
What's bred in the bone will not out of the flesh.
Lady Tare wrote:
TurinAlexander the Vile wrote:
Well, since we're on the subject, I present the Huntsman spider:
Though not deadly to humans, they are fairly aggressive when provoked. They will find a nice out of the way place to wait for prey to wonder by and you would never know it was there. But if you disturb one, they have a nasty tendency to attack rather than to retreat.
Edited, Oct 24th 2008 2:20am by TurinAlexander
Though not deadly to humans, they are fairly aggressive when provoked. They will find a nice out of the way place to wait for prey to wonder by and you would never know it was there. But if you disturb one, they have a nasty tendency to attack rather than to retreat.
Edited, Oct 24th 2008 2:20am by TurinAlexander
Good lord, I'd die of a heart attack.
Me too. Ick.
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