Are Australian spiders really that big?
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I grew up in the woods of northern Arkansas and as far as the local spiders go, bigger means less dangerous e.g. tarantulas and wolf spiders.
It's the little black widows that you want to watch out for.
It's the little black widows that you want to watch out for.
When not big, they are deadly, when not deadly, they are eveywhere.
We have trees that will sting you if you stand too close.
I think UltraJoe made a very good thread on the topic way back when.
We have trees that will sting you if you stand too close.
I think UltraJoe made a very good thread on the topic way back when.
I was fine most of the way though the video, until that point near the end, yup, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.GeneralTwinkle said:
I suppose I'm British though, seeing things like that just isn't normal. Shame I have 3 more months of living in China...
i knew i shouldn't have clicked on this thread, i have arachnophobia and am aussie...now im paranoid. we get huntsman here, i think that some of the reason many people think that we have big spiders is that we generally dont worry about huntsman's due to them being mostly harmless and good for getting rid of bugs.
the ones you should be looking out for are the poisonous ones, mostly really small so in my area its generally red backs and white tails.
the ones you should be looking out for are the poisonous ones, mostly really small so in my area its generally red backs and white tails.
Let me put this in perspective. Here in England the biggest spiders have a leg span of less than a persons palm and those are the ones with really long spindly legs but tiny bodies.
In Australia they can have bodies that big.
Yes. Australia has damn huge spiders. That's why I'm not likely to ever go there.
I get scared by the ones here.
In Australia they can have bodies that big.
Yes. Australia has damn huge spiders. That's why I'm not likely to ever go there.
I get scared by the ones here.
Oh god.. oh god oh god oh god kill it with FIRE.CulixCupric said:
Why.. why god, why on earth did you.. why.
Same goes to all spiders really...
Ever looked up and had one lowering itself from the ceiling onto your head when you're sat at your computer chair?
I know you just looked. Didn't you?
arrapippol said:
While the Brazilian Wandering Spider may have a more lethal venom, the Sydney Funnel Web Spider is more aggressive. The BWS just wanders around, as the name implies. But because it wanders everywhere(like say, your boots) you are likeley to disturb it easily, thus resulting in a bite. The sydney funnel web on the other hand is aggressive, its as if just by seeing you, the spider thinks you said "Come at me bro," so he comes at you...bro.PlatonicRapist said:
Thought this was rather relevant.
EDIT: Ok i really don't know how to put pictures up properly.....
One of the things that makes us Aussies seem fine with big ass spiders is because from a very young age, parents, teachers, television and pretty much everything else drill into you the importance of what can kill you, my community had a particularly vicious example when a kid died from being bitten on the arse by a red back when he s*at in his grandparent's outhouse. This would be funny if it wasn't for the fact that people have died like that since 1850s.
Huntsmen spiders, being the most common of the "big" spiders are fairly shy. On the other hand funnel webs, especially the Sydney funnel web spider, are aggressive, like class clown lets one out onto the classroom floor and everyone gets onto their seats, but it climbs the legs, so the whole class runs out of the room and it chases into the corridor, where they pass another class of primary school kids who hear the screams and see the kids running and they too start running until two to three adults can surround the thing and kill it, and then bully is expelled and his parent's are informed that they would be up on grievous assault of a child charges if it bit a kid.
Tl;DR Australian spiders have fire resistance.
Huntsmen spiders, being the most common of the "big" spiders are fairly shy. On the other hand funnel webs, especially the Sydney funnel web spider, are aggressive, like class clown lets one out onto the classroom floor and everyone gets onto their seats, but it climbs the legs, so the whole class runs out of the room and it chases into the corridor, where they pass another class of primary school kids who hear the screams and see the kids running and they too start running until two to three adults can surround the thing and kill it, and then bully is expelled and his parent's are informed that they would be up on grievous assault of a child charges if it bit a kid.
Dude, tried that against a spider in a mate's car, it got mad. In the end it was stamped on four times, sprayed with 200ml of bug spray, burnt twice by Bug Spray + Lighter, had a cigarette stubbed out on it and the bastard still chased us for 5 metres before dying in a burning mass of rage and Spider.Raddra said:Oh god.. oh god oh god oh god kill it with FIRE.CulixCupric said:
Why.. why god, why on earth did you.. why.
Same goes to all spiders really...
Tl;DR Australian spiders have fire resistance.
I donno, the Goliath Bird Eating Spider isn't that scarey to me.GeneralTwinkle said:
Now this is just. Ugh.
You had the tags right just instead of linking from the google image click the "See web image" button and use that url instead.Insanity72 said:
Thought this was rather relevant.
EDIT: Ok i really don't know how to put pictures up properly.....
if i ever saw a spider the size of my palm, i would likely crap in my pants.
i live in canada so the biggest spider i've seen was about the size of my thumb
i live in canada so the biggest spider i've seen was about the size of my thumb
I'd be more worried about the camel spiders you'd find in the middle east. Granted, they only grow to be 6 inches long, but they can also sprint up to 10 mph (in the sand) and can jump up to 3 feet, not to mention they look like this:
But really, it's the centipedes you have to watch out for (especially in south east Asia and South America). The ones with long legs are the worst, they climb up trees and drop on their prey.
But really, it's the centipedes you have to watch out for (especially in south east Asia and South America). The ones with long legs are the worst, they climb up trees and drop on their prey.
thats a golden orb, as kids we erronously called them bird eating spiders where i was from because we'd see little honey eaters caught by them quite frequently (and spun up)reonhato said:its not the big ones you need to be afraid of though, they are easy to see and you can just avoid them. its all the little bastards that bite people. sure most dont die but occasionally it does happen
anyway pic is apparently from some guys backyard up near Cairns, yes the spider is eating a bird
they have quite strong webs and sometimes average size birds or bats will also get stuck in them
Most orb spiders can get quite large and are scary looking mofos... i've been told that golden orb web can make you blind quite easily if it gets in you eyes, but this could be BS attributed to the yellow colour of their webs...
used to have a shitload of them between the trees in my foresty backyard, i always dreaded accidentally backing through a web when mowing between the trees because the bastards usually sit in the middle of their webs
also, a fun story for you arachnophobes, when i was a baby and used to live further out west, where its drier, my older brother (a toddler at the time) was sleeping and a large wolf spider or huntsman (differs if mum or dad tell the story, so id say it was a huntsman) settled on his face(apparently for the warmth of his breath, but who knows) and mum had to flick it off before the spider woke him up, freaking out thinking it would bite him if it did
good times
In England? YES a palm sized spider is considered big. Not enough to bother me massively past getting it outside with a glass and paper, but SOME people...
Odd that this topic comes up now, I had a dream last night about my room being covered in spider's web, except it was totally rigid and unbreakable.
Odd that this topic comes up now, I had a dream last night about my room being covered in spider's web, except it was totally rigid and unbreakable.