Spider Bites

[dawnrazor]

I remember wearing an open face helmet a number of years ago and hitting a bee.

NO NO NO, THE BEE HIT YOU - EITHER THAT OR YOU HAVE THE WORST CASE OF OBJECT FIXATION IN THE WORLD.
EITHERWAY IF YOU ADMIT LIABILITY THE BEE'S FAMILY WILL HAVE YA FOR ALL YOUR WORTH!

[judgeshock]

I see they found huntsman spiders in chch just after christmas. Two males I think and a pregnant female.Haven't heard anymore recently.
Bloody things were 7cms across.

[Hitcher]

Huntsman spiders are routinely detected in New Zealand. So far there has been no evidence of an established population, so these can be presumed as hitchhiker pests. A door-to-door survey in Christchurch is underway given three discoveries of Huntsmen in close proximity. At this stage a population has not been found. It is entirely possible that all three hitchhiked together or were part of an undetected egg mass that hatched in Christchurch.

Similarly Golden Orb spiders are seasonal discoveries in upper west coastal regions. These are all females and the presumption is that juveniles "balloon" across the Tasman (in favourable climatic conditions) on a thread of silk.

Table grape imports from California are fumigated with methyl bromide to kill any Black Widow spiders that may be present. So if you find one in your grapes, it will be dead.

[Krayy]

I see they found huntsman spiders in chch just after christmas. Two males I think and a pregnant female.Haven't heard anymore recently.
Bloody things were 7cms across.

When I was living in Sydney, every now and then I'd wake up with one of these bastards on the ceiling above the bed. Scared the shit out of me and sent me bolting from my room in the buff. Bummer the flatmate had her mother over for morning tea at the time

P.S. We also found a dead funnelweb behind the sofa once. Gave me the willies to think it had potentially crawled around under there while I was sitting on top of it.

[judgeshock]

Nice to know Hitch, do you work in this field? you seem to know your stuff on this topic.

[SARGE]

I just got bit by a spider./snip/ What about you guys in other parts of the globe - issues?

we had Black Widows and Funnelwebs and Wolf Spiders back home. scary little bastards. on the positive side , we also had to deal with Diamonbacks, Timber-rattlers, Water Moccosins, Lawyers and George Bush

I remember wearing an open face helmet a number of years ago and hitting a bee.

hit a Junebug at 75 mph with NO helmet

[The_Dover]

watch it, those bastards will take your eye out.

[Patrick]

And we don't get many snakes here

yeah we do...theres hundreds of em... called highway patrol, booze buses, traffic cops...etc, etc...usually spotted in those bananas in pajamas cars...

[SARGE]

watch it, those bastards will take your eye out.

how do you think it happened????

[Goblin]

Well I hope it wasn't one of these that bit you. Nasty little things!

[sunhuntin]

yeh, thanks goblin. now im scared of the monitor and feeling sick at the same time.

cheers mate

[Colapop]

It looked a bit like that, but it didn't get it's fangs into me proper. Thank F*ck for that by the look of those pics!! My view is that you won't get bit unless you piss them off, they're quite happy to run away and hide. That'll teach me for helping one out!

[Patrick]

Well I hope it wasn't one of these that bit you. Nasty little things!

Hey Goblin...is that one of the huntsmen? Whose hand? JEEEEEZZZUSSSSS!!!

[MidnightMike]

Could you post a pic of the golden orb coz ive seen the huntsmen ones round here and i think ive seen the golden one too.

[Goblin]

Black flag works well on the spiders we get here. I hate all spiders! You could kill me with a stick-insect.....*shudder!!* they're so....sticky and ugly!!

It's a Brown Recluse, or so the pic says. Don't know who he is....my brother sent it from UK a while back.