Check out this mofo...

[TerminalAddict]

Found this at my house today.

Rung MAF and they couldn't exactly identify it, so captured the bastard, and couriered it to Christchurch MAF bugologists :)

just to put it in scale, it's about the size of a credit card :gob:

The ladies at the post shop were very weary of putting a live bug in the post :D ... and of course too scared to touch even the courier bag :baby:

[apteryx_haasti]

Hoooolllllyyyyyy......

Is it an Avondale spider? I know they're pretty big - not sure where you are, though. Whatever - I wouldn't like it to be walking across my pillow!

Cripes!

EDIT: PS - this website might help ya out:

www.tepapa.govt.nz/.../ Spiders/Spiders_Web/What/

[dawnrazor]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh:chase:

[Mr. Peanut]

Mad!! ^_^

We had a strange lookin spider on our house too, couldnt identify it.

Then a bird ate it :(

[SPman]

so - you posted it off to Buggy?

[TerminalAddict]

definately not an avondale.

best guess from the photo from the guys at MAF was a cambridgea, commonly called a sheet web spider ..

They are going to email tomorrow once they get there.

If it is a sheet web, find in Hamilton is pretty rare, so they were keen on the details all the same

[Kendog]

Gave me the shivers just looking at it

[pritch]

just to put it in scale, it's about the size of a credit card


What was its limit?

[sunhuntin]

*runs away screaming* bloody fuck that!!! *picks up shoe*

[SixPackBack]

Should have sent em' a photo. Its a spider not a 5m Croc.
Rest in peace spider.:cool:

[Zed]

Doesn't look like an Avondale, I had the displeasure of seeing one of the big A's up close one morning when I awoke in my bed to see it crawling a mere 10cms from my face near my pillow! :eek5:

Hey if it turns out to be a type that can't be identified make sure you get first dibs on naming it.

[Macktheknife]

Definitely not an Avondale , they are hairy buggers. Looks a bit like a deformed trapdoor spider on steroids, but I dont think you get those here.
Good catch either way.
Keep watching the web area for the next few weeks and see if any younger ones come out. seriously.

[bugjuice]

so - you posted it off to Buggy?

light snack i guess.. :whistle:

[The Pastor]

I had a dream spiders were climbing all over me and in the morning I had a huge bite mark on my arm!

Make sure you post what it is!

[Zed]

I had a dream spiders were climbing all over me and in the morning I had a huge bite mark on my arm!Yeah yeah and I had a dream I got sick eating a huge marshmellow and woke up in the morning and my flippin pillow was missing! :buggerd:

[The Pastor]

Yeah yeah and I had a dream I got sick eating a huge marshmellow and woke up in the morning and my flippin pillow was missing! :buggerd:



Wasnt that on tv or somthing?

[Zed]

Wasnt that on tv or somthing?George Smilovici (Aussie comedian) joke from years back.

[T.W.R]

Found this at my house today.



Looks like a Brown recluse spider possibly ? big sucker anyhows


I had a dream spiders were climbing all over me

picked up a crook batch of Heroin huh ?:whistle: :lol:

[NighthawkNZ]

Yeah yeah and I had a dream I got sick eating a huge marshmellow and woke up in the morning and my flippin pillow was missing! :buggerd:

I had a dream I had VTR 1000... bloody nice bike... and I was... oh wait it wasn't a dream... :baby: :cool:

[Blind spot]

Have a look at six pack back's little picture thingy beside his name, looks like the girl is trying to shake one out of her bra ,ha ha.

[Lias]

George Smilovici (Aussie comedian) joke from years back.

Also a Kevin Bloody WIlson line in a song.. Not sure if he predates Smilovich or not..

[placidfemme]

Screw that... If I found it I'd be squashing it... and sending its remains to MaF lol

[apteryx_haasti]

So, any news on what the big bastard is? Oh and the spider. tell me about the spider as well.

[NotaGoth]

Ewww yuck!!!!! I'd definately scream and run if that thing came anywhere near me :crybaby:

[kro]

Most definitely not an Avondale spider, and not a brown recluse, as they should be confined the US, and are exactly as the name suggests, very shy. The bite of a brown recluse is a shitter, as it can take months and months to heal.

It doesn't look like a Wolf Spider either, they are a dark grey, and not as ugly, I am very interested to find out what it is.

[terbang]

Thats it, I'm shifting to OZ, I hate spiders.

[TerminalAddict]

no word back from MAF yet .. but I'll nag them tomorrow :)

[Nicksta]

eww, not one i have seen before...
looks bloody angry tho....

[Smokin]

no word back from MAF yet .. but I'll nag them tomorrow :)

Any word from MAF about this bad boy yet?

[apteryx_haasti]

Yeah, come on and spill, TerminalAddict - you big TEASE!