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    Those eight-legged beasties

    Well, I go to get ready for bed, decide to put my washing away. So I open the drawer that has my undies in, and after dropping in the clean washing, go to close the drawer and notice a bloody big spider!! I mean Bloody big!! One of the biggest Huntsmans I have ever seen. This "mini-Tarantula" had been in my drawer for who knows how long? I left the drawer slightly ajar for a few nights not bothering to close it properly. Luckily the spider was facing down, and it was a female too. They can get really aggressive.

    I killed it with Bagon, as Big Dave can tell you all about. As an insecticide I don't think it would be allowed in NZ. Anyway, this monster stars running all around the bedroom!! I haven't found the bosy, so it or some of it's rellies might come back. They're nocturnal too so they run all around the house while you're asleep! They're related to the Auckland Avondale Spider, but bigger, faster and meaner! Couldn't keep 'em as pets. I tried but the last one in thwe house chased me running along the cieling. I couldn't move without the thing hooning it after me! The sorta shit you see in a B-grade horror flick! "Arachnaphobia" anyone? Below is a picture from a website of one of these Beasties' favourate possies, and that's a real spider:
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    It must be spider time, we had a bloody big crawlie fall out of some riding pants on Sat as a woman was trying them on. Apparently they heard the scream in Wellington.
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    Is that where that came from?
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    That picture is why I will never live in Oz, I'm a 6'4 chap, and not small with it, but one look at one of those, and I would run away screaming like a little girl.

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    I woke up a few times with a Huntsman hanging on the ceiling above my bed. Makes you get up on time anyways.

    I found a dead funnelweb under a girlfriends couch once when we moved her place. Hell, we shagged 2 feet above the most poisonous spider in the world. Gave me the willies (hehe). And once out horse riding just our of Campbelltown a snake shot across the path of my horse and shit, did the equine mount know it. Took off like a mad thing and scared the bejesus out of me.

    Great place for all things wild Oz.

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    woah... that is why i wont go back to OZ... hate them!!!!! arrrggghhhh!!!


    Get the odd avondale spider on the ceiling and that gives me the shivers... normally shoot it with an entire can of fly spray... to the point of dripping from the ceiling... then i will squish it too, just to make sure...
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    Earlier this year, MAF did a mail drop in my street since three Huntsman spiders were found in the area. One of them was a female with an egg sack ...
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    *gets the shivers*

    *usually ends up spraying a whole can of fly spray on them damn spiders*
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    I don't know about the Ozzie ones, but the Avondale spider is completely harmless. Naught wrong with NZ spiders I have a pet one lives in a corner of the bedroom, the latest in a long line of Sids.
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    theres a bit of meat on that there spider, can you fry them?
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    I lived in Oz for 6 years and really enjoyed it, apart from the spiders. I was bitten 4 times while there and the first time was by a huntsman, while I was asleep in bed. The last one was by a funnelweb in mating season, 17 hours in hospital with several anti-venine shots. Bastard things!
    I don't mind snakes, weta's, and other creatures, but I really hate spiders! apparently they don't like me much either. lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ixion View Post
    I have a pet one lives in a corner of the bedroom
    Tell me it's not called Charlotte!
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    Sid. I have no idea whether it's male or female, spider sexing is not one of my areas of expertise.
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    I moved out of a flat cos it had so many humungous black spiders in it. No amount of spider killer got rid of the problem. I can handle wetas, rats, mice, cockcroaches, but spiders forget it. I have got a little better as I've got older - sometimes I allow the smaller onces to live!!
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    The South American Natives catch tarantulas by placing a thumb behind the eyes and effectively pinning the spider to the ground. they then tie the legs together behind its back and place it on fire embers and cook it like on a BBQ. They eat the abdomen but I think they leave the legs and head.

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