Caught a white tail spider

**Slyer** · 21st January 2009, 07:43

Spiders and things are going to be more of a problem if the average temperature is going to be increasing...

**jrandom** · 21st January 2009, 07:47

Originally Posted by The Stranger

I'd say you are right.
But what does that have to do with White Tail spiders?

For whatever reason (seems to be somewhat undetermined) spider bites tend to get infected with it.

Certainly my whitetail bite showed signs of such an infection, although it didn't spread very violently. I've had plenty of small cuts and insect stings and bites in my life, and none of them has ever behaved in that way.

**Finn** · 21st January 2009, 07:57

Originally Posted by bikerboy011

I always see massive black one's around my house.

They must be up to no good being in Remuera. Call the cops next time.

**Curious_AJ** · 21st January 2009, 11:13

I hate spiders personally... but really it probably wasnt running towards your hand to bite it Mark...

also on the note, I'd never kill a spider... only run around screaming for half an hour until I get someone elses attention, then get them to catch it and put it out... except for daddy long legs, they're alright when they're not on me... and they eat mozzies.

**sinfull** · 21st January 2009, 11:23

Originally Posted by cave weta

so I screamed and stood on the couch as it ran under.

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Ummmm Ok ! Ya bike aint painted pink by any chance ?

Originally Posted by Curious_AJ

I only run around screaming for half an hour until I get someone elses attention, except for daddy long legs, they're alright when they're not on me... and they eat mozzies.

Your bike might look good in pink !
Daddy long legs are a sure sign you aint got the white tail infestation !
I too leave the long legs alone ! Saves the drool marks on the pillow, they come down and drink it from the corners of your mouth while your asleep AJ !

**Curious_AJ** · 21st January 2009, 11:53

Originally Posted by sinfull

Ummmm Ok ! Ya bike aint painted pink by any chance ?

Your bike might look good in pink !
Daddy long legs are a sure sign you aint got the white tail infestation !
I too leave the long legs alone ! Saves the drool marks on the pillow, they come down and drink it from the corners of your mouth while your asleep AJ !

lol... well as a girl, I don't mind a pink bike

as for spiders drinking my drool? nah.. i'd eat them first if they did that.. a person eats an average of 8 spiders in their lifetime... but hey, it's okay so long as I dont wake up while doing it! (or while they drink the drool....

)

P.S now... I've had an avondale spider that I SWEAR was so big it had it's own health bar! in my room once... needless to say I didnt go in there at ALL until my dad got sick of me and sucked it up with the vaccum cleaner.

**yungatart** · 21st January 2009, 12:00

Originally Posted by sinfull

......
Daddy long legs are a sure sign you aint got the white tail infestation !

Are you sure?
We have both varieties in large populations in our house....

I think I need a new maid...

**jrandom** · 21st January 2009, 12:00

A spider spent 16 hours in my right ear canal once. I lifted a cardboard box over my head while moving stuff out of the shed, and it dropped out and ran in there. I wasn't 100% sure what had happened, but it kept scritching around.

Pondered going to the A&E to get it syringed out, but didn't get around to it, just went to sleep that night thinking "nah, can't have really been a spider in my ear, I must have just dropped some grit in there".

Got woken several times in the night by scritching noises in my skull.

Finally got up in the morning, wet a cotton bud and dabbed it along right into my ear (I normally hate sticking things in my ear canals, it's why I don't wear earplugs on the bike). The spider ran out and down my cheek.

I gave it a slap... they always look so much smaller when they're dead with their legs curled up, don't they?

It looked like a tegenaria domestica. Fuckin glad it wasn't a whitetail!

**RC1** · 21st January 2009, 12:00

i find 3 or 4 a week around the outside of the house , then i feed them to the frogs

**ManDownUnder** · 21st January 2009, 12:08

Whitetail + shoe = Pate

I fail to see the problem

**Drogen Omen** · 21st January 2009, 12:23

I've been biten by Hornets, Scorpions and Red Soldure ants (nasty suckers they are) in Ecuador when I lived there but none of them have been even close to being as painfull or last as long as the white tail spider bit i got a couple years ago. went all red and then the top went all pussy and white got to about an inch in diameter and went all wheepy for about 3 weeks before it started to scab over. but it still hur about 3 months later...

Aloevera is a natural antiseptic provids provides a cooling releif sensation and I recomended for bits like that, if you have a plant just break off a leaf and smear the jelly like stuff over the area.

One thing I heard about the whitetail, the reason for the septesemia/gangreen wounds is caused by the bite followed by the person squashing the spider when they are biten so all the bacteria living in the spider gets spread over the fresh bit and causes the bigest problem... was also on 60mins a couple years back.

**PrincessBandit** · 21st January 2009, 12:27

Originally Posted by jrandom

A spider spent 16 hours in my right ear canal once. I lifted a cardboard box over my head while moving stuff out of the shed, and it dropped out and ran in there. I wasn't 100% sure what had happened, but it kept scritching around.

Pondered going to the A&E to get it syringed out, but didn't get around to it, just went to sleep that night thinking "nah, can't have really been a spider in my ear, I must have just dropped some grit in there".

Got woken several times in the night by scritching noises in my skull.

Finally got up in the morning, wet a cotton bud and dabbed it along right into my ear (I normally hate sticking things in my ear canals, it's why I don't wear earplugs on the bike). The spider ran out and down my cheek.

I gave it a slap... they always look so much smaller when they're dead with their legs curled up, don't they?

It looked like a tegenaria domestica. Fuckin glad it wasn't a whitetail!

OMG. After reading that I think I'll sleep with ear plugs in, nose clip on (the kind synchro swimmers wear), and tape my mouth shut! Brrrrrrrrr. Not sure how I'll breath but. Aha, go for the "robber" look with pantyhose over my head instead.
I have been lying staring up at the ceiling in time to see a daddy long legs floating it's way down directly above my face before. Eeeew, looks so gross with it's legs all splayed like some sort of parachute, bouncing as it lowered itself down. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaargh now I want to jump up and do the Aussie haka (smacking imaginary spiders off myself, as opposed to looking for my wallet......)

**Finn** · 21st January 2009, 12:27

Originally Posted by jrandom

i normally hate sticking things in my ear canals, it's why i don't wear earplugs on the bike

Franks and beans!!!

**Stirts** · 21st January 2009, 12:30

A Daddy Long Legs fell from its little web and into the Satay Chicken I was cooking. I HATE SPIDERS and was not prepared to use my stirring utensil thingie to fish it out, but I didn't want to touch it either.

Another split second of terror lapses and in a moment of fearlessness I quickly grab one of its little daddy legs and throw the carcass out the window.

Oh what a conundrum, do I throw my lovely satay dinner in the bin and start from scratch, or mix in the added spidery juice ingredient and pretend nothing happened.

I pretended nothing happened. Then all through dinner I was thinking Daddy Long Legs are supposedly very poisonous.....has this suicidal daddy discharged his venom into our dinner. Are we going to start fitting and choking on our swollen tongues?

I HATE SPIDERS THEY RUIN PERFECTLY GOOD DINNERS!