Gosh that's a big spider!

[Trudes]

I just found this fella doing some good work of stopping bugs coming up my back stairs. He's rather large and brown, anyone know what kind of spider he is?

[tide]

ummm eerr dead would be nice...

not a fan of spiders am i...:crazy:

[Skunk]

Nah, don't know his type, but quite common round here. Seems to like dirt and moisture.

[Trudes]

Nah, don't know his type, but quite common round here. Seems to like dirt and moisture.

Are you trying to say my back door is dirty and wet?:shit:
Ahh well, he's doing a good job, so I'll leave him there, just want to make sure he's not dangerous to me or my cat first!

[MyGSXF]

I do know that he is NOT a white tail.. as to what he IS.. ferkin BIG!!!! :shit:

give me the shits too.. :sick:

[Usarka]

It looks hairier than this photo, but is this it?

http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biosystematics/invertebrates/invertid/images/blacktunnelweb1.jpg

If so it's a Black Tunnelweb (http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biosystematics/invertebrates/invertid/bug_details.asp?Bu_ID=48)

[DingoZ]

That Mrs Kendog, is a Black Tunnel Web Spider

info and facts here

http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biosystematics/invertebrates/invertid/bug_details.asp?Bu_ID=48


pssstt KILL IT QUICK......orrible things they are

[Jimmy B]

I'd say its a Black Tunnel Web spidey.

[mowgli]

I just found this fella doing some good work of stopping bugs coming up my back stairs. He's rather large and brown, anyone know what kind of spider he is?
Cool. Big ups to you for not squishing him. Looks like a Black Tunnel Web spider to me. Their bite may be painful but it's not dangerous.

[mowgli]

Wow! There you have it. Concensus is a Black Tunnel Web spider.

[nodrog]

It looks hairier than this photo, but is this it?

http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biosystematics/invertebrates/invertid/images/blacktunnelweb1.jpg

If so it's a Black Tunnelweb (http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biosystematics/invertebrates/invertid/bug_details.asp?Bu_ID=48)

why has it got a bumhole on its back?

[Slicksta]

Nice spider i saw one of these the other day in my mates bedroom the other day look fairly intimidating

[Usarka]

why has it got a bumhole on its back?

easy access.....

[Trudes]

Cool thanks everyone. So should I relocate him?

[nodrog]

easy access.....

"spider slut, spider slut ............."

[Hitcher]

why has it got a bumhole on its back?

So's it can put the shits up people.

[mowgli]

Cool thanks everyone. So should I relocate him?
Only if he's bothering you. They like wood sheds if you've got one of those.

[sinfull]

Cool thanks everyone. So should I relocate him?

Nah leave him be, wont do ya no harm unless of course he gets inside ya trousers just befor ya slip em on and ya dont notice !

[Trudes]

Well, he's not bothering me at the moment, but if he crawls up the stairs into the house or into one of my shoes or my cat, he may bother me then, especially if his bite hurts!!
I think I'll move him outside somewhere to do his business.
Thanks again everyone, I don't like to kill things unless they're going to kill me first.

[megageoff76]

If it were me id relocate him over the neighbours fence, reducing the likleyness of a repeat visit.

I ve had a similar problem with wetas this week. I had one in my leather jacket yesterday, and another one in my waterproof pants this morning. I only discovered they were in there once i was taking them off though...:sick:

[Trudes]

Nah leave him be, wont do ya no harm unless of course he gets inside ya trousers just befor ya slip em on and ya dont notice !

hahaha, a trouser spider, that's a new one!! I've had a few wetas in my boots, not nice to discover, especially when you've already been wearing them for a few hours wondering what's poking your foot!

[martybabe]

AAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. :gob::gob:


Should I relocate him??? RUN woman, think of the children. :laugh:

[Usarka]

They can bite but it's not deadly, just got big fangs.


"spider slut, spider slut ............."


http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showpost.php?p=1515613&postcount=37 :whistle:

[WRT]

hahaha, a trouser spider, that's a new one!!

Nevermind the trouser spider, watch out for the trouser snake!

[chrisso]

It looks hairier than this photo, but is this it?

http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biosystematics/invertebrates/invertid/images/blacktunnelweb1.jpg

If so it's a Black Tunnelweb (http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biosystematics/invertebrates/invertid/bug_details.asp?Bu_ID=48)

that fella looks like a Mouse Spider-venomous but not lethal
.The 1st crawly looks like a Funnel Web-get him to bite you and if you die I was correct--doh.Does it rear up on itsfront legs to attack?

[007XX]

Nevermind the trouser spider, watch out for the trouser snake!

Nothing wrong with that fella...:love: I got one as a pet, and he's tremendous to play with, but has a bad habit of spitting every once in a while! :lol:

[Trudes]

that fella looks like a Mouse Spider-venomous but not lethal
.The 1st crawly looks like a Funnel Web-get him to bite you and if you die I was correct--doh.Does it rear up on itsfront legs to attack?
I didn't really want to get close enough for him to rear up at me, but guess I'm going to have to to move him! Looking at that photo I took again, there is definitely a brown web thing on his back isn't there.....

Nothing wrong with that fella...:love: I got one as a pet, and he's tremendous to play with, but has a bad habit of spitting every once in a while! :lol:

Oh my gosh!!:laugh:

[mowgli]

I just found this fella doing some good work of stopping bugs coming up my back stairs.


I think I'll move him outside somewhere to do his business.

His business was stopping bugs coming up you stairs. Which would you prefer in the house?

If you're nice to him he might share some of his super spidy sense with you. Could come in very handy in a biker v white van man situation.

[007XX]

I didn't really want to get close enough for him to rear up at me, but guess I'm going to have to to move him!

Make sure you wear garden gloves, just in case.



Oh my gosh!!:laugh:

Sorry, no pic available...you girls would all be jealous! :innocent:, but he does rear up rather nicely! :p

[Usarka]

but he does rear up rather nicely! :p

so its true, you are french! :innocent:

[chrisso]

I just found this fella doing some good work of stopping bugs coming up my back stairs. He's rather large and brown, anyone know what kind of spider he is?
Hi Mrs K, if I was you id google Sydney Funnelweb.Atrax Robustus--looks very similar to that . Hope its not coz The F.Webb is ptobably the worlds most venomous spider. The males are worse than the females.Luckily they dont drink or itd be like Jake the Muss with 8 legs.

[Trudes]

His business was stopping bugs coming up you stairs. Which would you prefer in the house?

If you're nice to him he might share some of his super spidy sense with you. Could come in very handy in a biker v white van man situation.

Aparently we're the white van driving mother flippers now!!

Anyway, I moved him outside, I don't want to wake up in the middle of the night from a dream of him sitting on my face. I only like dreaming of Hitcher.

[gijoe1313]

:niceone: I likey my creepy crawlies I do, good on ya for not squishing him and giving him a chance to relocate in the garden. He'll do a good job and just be content with mooshing on the other creepy crawlies! :sunny:

Whats the worse that could happen? He could slurp on some radioactive mutagens and other genic fluids and grow and grow ... and then slurp on some brainstems and suddenly gain a keen intelligence... and then ... :shutup:

[Usarka]

Hey chrisso we dont have all your nasty oz spiders!

or do we :sherlock:

on this topic - if you have a nasty bug that you think is from off-shore and shouldnt be here, i've been told the correct process is to put it in a jar then chuck it in the freezer. Then contact MAF and they have a nice clean frozen specimen to examine, rather than guts with a shoe print, or something contaminated with pesticides etc.

[alley cat]

im not a squasher either, but damn thats freaky!
I catch them in a jar and slide the paper under to move critters like that.
I still get the heebie jeebies big time tho! esp if they go crazy and start zooming around.
Bizarre how spiders freak people out like that:baby:

[jrandom]

I was bitten on the foot by a what I can only assume was a whitetail spider a couple of weeks ago. I was inebriated at the time of the bite, unfortunately, sitting and dozing on the couch in my lounge, so I only came to the conclusion that I'd been bitten when I noticed the two puncture marks in the middle of a painful red patch on my foot.

The approximately 1cm-diameter necrotic ulcer that formed still hasn't quite finished healing.

:crazy:

The initial pain level was about the same as a wasp sting, but lasted for a couple of days. After that, it was just sore to the touch; I had to put a band-aid over the bite to wear shoes without noticing it as I walked.

I ripped the scab off it a couple of days ago out of curiosity, and the hole in my foot bled quite copiously. Whitetail venom (if that's what it was) really does dissolve significant chunks of one's anatomy! I have a noticeable bit of scar tissue on the top of my foot, now.

I'm not arachnophobic, but I'd definitely rather put up with a few bee or wasp stings than get bitten by one of those bastards again.

[chrisso]

Hey chrisso we dont have all your nasty oz spiders!

or do we :sherlock:

on this topic - if you have a nasty bug that you think is from off-shore and shouldnt be here, i've been told the correct process is to put it in a jar then chuck it in the freezer. Then contact MAF and they have a nice clean frozen specimen to examine, rather than guts with a shoe print, or something contaminated with pesticides etc.


As long as you dont get Cane Toads.We get lots of Funnel Web Spideys round here-we send them off to the Hospital so they can milk them for Anti-venom.The milking stool must be pretty small...:rolleyes:

[007XX]

so its true, you are french! :innocent:

'fraid so...Don't hold it against me, will ya? :laugh:


I'm not arachnophobic, but I'd definitely rather put up with a few bee or wasp stings than get bitten by one of those bastards again.

+1

[Trudes]

I used to work in the produce department of a supermarket years ago and remember opening up a box of bananas one day and found a large strange looking spider in amongst the bananas, he was dead thankfully, but I showed the boss and he just shrugged and said something about him not hurting me as he's dead, did wonder at the time though how many non-native species sneak into NZ via banana boxes and such.

[Usarka]

Supposedly whitetails are poisionous because they eat daddylongleg spiders, who themselves are very poisoinous but cant bite hoomans.

See a quack if those things don't heal, I know two people who almost lost limbs because of their bites :pinch:

[jrandom]

See a quack if those things don't heal, I know two people who almost lost limbs because of their bites :pinch:

Were they healthy adults?

My ex-wife's stepfather's mother lost half her thumb to a whitetail bite a few months before she died from cancer (talk about fate adding insult to injury, eh?)

Apparently young children and old or ill people are most at risk.

[chrisso]

this is a Sydney Funnel Web.Ive seen them totally black. Your spider looks hairier than this.
http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/5856/spidergm7.jpg

[Usarka]

Were they healthy adults?


Yep. Well one munched party pills like they were going to be made illegal, so I guess only one of them was....

if it doesnt get worse you're probably ok (but i'm not a quack)

there's a lot of debate about whitetail bites - the scientists say there is not much evidence, and the doctors say the patient data says otherwise.....

[007XX]

Supposedly whitetails are poisionous because they eat daddylongleg spiders, who themselves are very poisoinous but cant bite hoomans.

See a quack if those things don't heal, I know two people who almost lost limbs because of their bites :pinch:

I had heard that they ate all other types of spiders, storing the venom. Therefor the potency of the said venom would vary from whitetail to whitetail as it would be a compounded concoction of whatever dinner had been over the last few days for Little Miss or Master Whitetail.

It would explain why some people react differently to it, besides their respective strength or lack thereof in immuno defence.

[chrisso]

Supposedly whitetails are poisionous because they eat daddylongleg spiders, who themselves are very poisoinous but cant bite hoomans.

See a quack if those things don't heal, I know two people who almost lost limbs because of their bites :pinch:

was a column here a while back bout Whitetails, someone said that its not their venom but bacteria in it that destroys your skin.Nasty lil feckers but

[007XX]

this is a Sydney Funnel Web.Ive seen them totally black. Your spider looks hairier than this.


Winter coat? :laugh:

[jrandom]

this is a Sydney Funnel Web.

Fuckin' 'orrible things.

A face full of Raid is too good for them.

[jrandom]

was a column here a while back bout Whitetails, someone said that its not their venom but bacteria in it that destroys your skin.

Yes, that tallies with the progress of my foot.

As I said, it initially felt similar to a wasp sting. That faded, but the dermal layers around the bite basically rotted away (the affected area grew slowly over a few days) before clearing up and healing over. It very much seemed like an infection rather than an envenoming.

I can imagine how a compromised immune system could allow such a bite to cause significant problems.

[DingoZ]

Some info on Whitetails..

http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biosystematics/invertebrates/spiders/white_tail.asp

[Disco Dan]

was a column here a while back bout Whitetails, someone said that its not their venom but bacteria in it that destroys your skin.Nasty lil feckers but

Yep that is true, bacteria on their fangs and tell me.. whats the first thing you do with your hands when your bitten?? yep.. touch it. Give it a scratch and all that loverly bacteria gets in there... before you know it your looking for the nearest second hand shop.

[chrisso]

Arrrrrggghhhhh Spiders everywhere
http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/9587/uni0069vh1.jpg

[Mikkel]

:eek: Fuck me that is a respectable spider right there!

Nevermind the raid - if I saw one of those you'd see me running to the garage looking for an axe...:shit:

Funnel webs are nasty - glad we haven't got them here. Funnily enough (hahaha... yrk) they are most dangerous to humans and dogs. :scratch: Were are they most common? Sydney :bash:

[Maha]

Thats my Jimmy :(..........I lost him while in Wellington at Easter, little fucker hasn't been answering his calls....take care of him Trudie, oh, and that bum like thing on his back?... yeah it a bum so dont stand over him, he dont like that.

[chrisso]

:eek: Fuck me that is a respectable spider right there!

Nevermind the raid - if I saw one of those you'd see me running to the garage looking for an axe...:shit:

Funnel webs are nasty - glad we haven't got them here. Funnily enough (hahaha... yrk) they are most dangerous to humans and dogs. :scratch: Were are they most common? Sydney :bash:

HeHe thems only rubber spiders.i keep them in my bag coz they allways
search it at the supermarket. Shop assistants dont seem to like huge spiders:devil2:

[skidMark]

It looks hairier than this photo, but is this it?

http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biosystematics/invertebrates/invertid/images/blacktunnelweb1.jpg

If so it's a Black Tunnelweb (http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biosystematics/invertebrates/invertid/bug_details.asp?Bu_ID=48)


Somebody shaved that one.

Hawt.

[martybabe]

HeHe thems only rubber spiders.i keep them in my bag coz they allways
search it at the supermarket. Shop assistants dont seem to like huge spiders:devil2:


Hhaha, twisted but funny. :lol:

[BIGBOSSMAN]

As far as common spiders go, they don't come more common than this.
Bound to be one hiding between the buttocks of practically every human being.
Closely related to the also common Chocolate Starfish (see attached thumb).
Neither are particularly dangerous, but must be wiped periodically to avoid annoying 'Skidmarks'.

[Sully60]

pssstt KILL IT QUICK......orrible things they are

Hmm spiders or disease carrying flies, what's orrible again?

It's a thing of beauty Trudes, I'm trusting you not to take it's life.

[Mikkel]

HeHe thems only rubber spiders.i keep them in my bag coz they allways
search it at the supermarket. Shop assistants dont seem to like huge spiders:devil2:

I was referring to the spider in post #1 - I can tell rubber spiders when I see them... :yes:

Nice practical joke - chuck one in someones bed if you want to have some fun! :niceone:

[Trudes]

He was last seen climbing up our clay retaining wall by my back door... go, be free mr spider (just stay outta my house!)

[Curious_AJ]

speaking of spiders... i found an avondale in my room the other day... needless to say i was paralised to the spot and screaming and laughing at the same time and calling my father to come and remove it... now, the thing is, no one wanted to go near the thing, just incase it decided to crawl or jump on someone... *shudders* so my father got the vaccume, extended the hose and his arm out as far as they would reach and sucked it up...

i'm sorry it may have died.. but it had to be done if i was ever going to sleep in that room again!! (now i'm all paranoid and check every corner of my room before i go to sleep.. heh)

I took a picture of it but it's not on the computer yet... the thing was so big it had it's own health bar!! (gamers will know what i mean) .... it was honestly as big as my hand spread out.. or almost anyway about the size of my hand spread out minus the tips of my fingers after the 2nd knucle...

[Dino]

My daughter and I found one outside her school a couple of years ago, a woman picked him up to show all the kids and it promptly bit her and refused to let go until after quite a few vigorous shakes of her hand. My daughter then scooped up the dazed spider in her lunch box and brought him home for us to keep as a pet, Mum is still none too pleased about it.

[PrincessBandit]

... so they can milk them for Anti-venom.The milking stool must be pretty small...:rolleyes:

And whoever milks them must have tiny fingers...
Bags not me, I hate spiders.

[ManDownUnder]

Are you trying to say my back door is dirty and wet?

so many ways to take that... so little time...:buggerd:

[Mikkel]

Hmmm, reminds me of an absurd series of images I found on the net a while back...

[chrisso]

mmm Carbos, Protein, Fibre--hangover cure mmmmmmm

[chrisso]

What is this Avondale Spider? Sounds nasty.

[Mom]

hahaha, a trouser spider, that's a new one!! I've had a few wetas in my boots, not nice to discover, especially when you've already been wearing them for a few hours wondering what's poking your foot!

A few years back my youngest daughter aged maybe 10, refused to put her shoe on because there was something in it. I am in a hurry to go out, grab the shoe, and while saying dont be so silly gave the toe a bit of a squeeze. This weta leapt out at me, I did the total girl thing, it gave me a fright! Sorted out the weta and the daughter and then asked my son to go and get my shoes for me from by the front door.

I go to put my foot in one shoe and meet some obstruction, well I squealed about as embarassingly as possible and threw my show across the lounge room. My son and my lovely man were pissing themselves laughing. My boy retrieves the shoe and shows me the cush ball he had put there to give me a "surprise" Some men are utter bastards really...LOL

[Number One]

I hate spiders, but I have a modicum of respect for them too.

I was bitten on the arse cheek by a white tail while sleeping in the Brides parents sleepout the night I had finished photographing my friends wedding.

Was sooo sick. THEN I just about died one morning when I got boy out of bed. I flung back the top cover and a farken big one came crawling out from between the two layers he was still in the bed. ick

So what's my approach to spiders?

Where I used to let them just go about their business or pick them up with something and pop them outside I am now a buddists nightmare - cos unless I can positively identify them as a spider that I know is harmless (and rest assured thanks to hubby I do know many of them) I squish em on sight now.

We doo seem to get some horrible big bastards up here.

[pete376403]

What is this Avondale Spider? Sounds nasty.

Movie stars - as seen in "eight legged freaks"

http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biosystematics/invertebrates/spiders/avondale.asp