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This spider is currently on the wall of my bedroom in Australia. It has a span of about pcm. Just a generic huntsman, I think.
>> Anonymous
9cm, that is.
>> Anonymous
You aussies have a shitload of nasty critters running around down there, and fucking Great Whites swimming around the place. I don't know how you stand it.
>> Anonymous
I walked into my bathroom the other day, and saw a baby huntsman (few mm across) on the sink, im like "WTF?" so I wash it down the drain... then another one... so I do the same thing... then I see another one further across! Im like "I hope there's not a nest somewhere..."

I instinctively (no other explanation) turn around and look up at the ceiling behind me... and the whole damn ceiling is just spiders! - I freaked out - grabbed 2 cans of fly spray and unleashed chemical hell into my bathroom (it still stank like flyspray 2 weeks later, doh!).

Cleaned up all the dead bodies a few hours later... one hundred and eighty! I'm glad they didn't get into my room (bathroom joins my room)... another 2m and I would have had 180 little friends sleeping with me that night *shudder*

No pics unfortunately.
>> Anonymous
Up in Sydney the have funnel web spiders fucking everywhere. They can bite through your fingernail and are potentially fatal (only to humans and monkeys though. Freaky.)
>> Anonymous
all us kiwifags have to worry about is daddy long legs

so aha fuck you all
>> Anonymous
Right now there's a gecko running around on my ceiling. I've named him Cloverfield.
>> Anonymous
>>288295

Lurk moar tbh.

Red Back spiders were introduced to NZ in 2001 I believe, they are now commonly sighted in the lower island.

Same with White tails I think.
>> Anonymous
Apparently the common English garden spider has a venom more powerful than a black widow's. Just has fangs that are too pathetic to pierce human skin.

Only dangerous UK spider is the cave spider.
>> Anonymous
Not true about the English spiders. Was busted on Mythbusters (although the variation is that daddy longlegs spiders are deadly).

I forgot to mention the Shelob has been in my room for four days. Open to suggestions for names/course of action. It's freaking my housemate out. Apparently spiders don't get that big in Sweden.
>> Anonymous
biggest huntsmens I've seen are ~6cm

NFI where you'd see 9 from, except possibly rural areas.
>> Anonymous
It's a big 'un, but prolly on the small side of 9cm (it's way up high so def could be as small as 7cm, ). I lived in rural Vic & seen bigger black scary ones. Never seen one this big in inner Melbs before – it's big enough that my cat sits and stares at it with a wtfeleven on its face.
>> Bat Guano
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I remember seeing a photo of a giant huntsman spider perched on a roll of toilet paper, like some kind of bathroom nightmare.

Anyone have it?
>> Imma gonna Nom Nom you Harry The Huntsman Spider
You do realise the Huntsman spider is relatively harmless, and at worst, it's a mild bite.

>Huntsman spider bites usually result only in transient local pain and swelling. However, some Badge Huntsman spider bites have caused prolonged pain, inflammation, headache, vomiting and irregular pulse rate.

They only get pissed off if YOU annoy or provoke them. Even then they will try and get out of your way, until you give them no option.

They love to Nom Nom flies and cockroaches. Leave them be, and they will keep your house cockroach free.

As for size? Well, Huntsman spiders are large, long-legged spiders, measuring up to 15 cm across the legs. They are mostly grey to brown, sometimes with banded legs

You wanna mess with a real Spider? Then take on a Funnel Web ... Then you'll know what pain is :P

http://www.amonline.net.au/factsheets/funnelweb.htm
>> Bat Guano
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Australian Huntsman spider of the family Sparassidae (formerly Heteropodidae), eating a beetle.
They're beneficial for eating such pests, but if you saw one crawling on your shoulder, you would probably have a heart attack. Those gigantic, satanic creatures are scary!
>> Anonymous
Awesome pictures. Thanks, guys.
>> Anonymous
These non-toxic but otherwise fucking horrendous things cause quite a lot of deaths around here. Not from bites, but rather from running across dashboards of cars and the like. Utter bastards of creatures.
>> Anonymous
I had a Redback inside my garage door about a month ago. Squished it, then a week later, another one had used the dead body of the first one to build a new web. Squished that too.
I've got a basic rule for Aussie spiders. "If it's black it dies, otherwise it will earn it's keep killing something else."
>> Anonymous
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Canadian here:

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST
>> om Nom Nom Nom Harry The Huntsman Spider
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>>288816

Yep that's our Funnel Web. Shall I send you one C.O.D. ? :D
>> Anonymous
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Sometimes redbacks sneak into my bedroom, and they're constantly moving into my mailbox. It fucking blows living in the sticks.

Pic related
>> Harry The Huntsman Spider
>>288831

Where do you live Dude? Mt Isa?
>> Anonymous
UPDATE: The huntsman has disappeared.
>> Anonymous
>>288904
thats bad - now it could be ANYWHERE!
>> Anonymous
i got bitten by a redback the day before yesterday :(