Tbh they aren't even that big, I've seen bigger house spiders.
False widow spider - newest scaremongering?
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Tbh they aren't even that big, I've seen bigger house spiders.
One of my work colleagues just emailed that to me. It really is pathetic!
Do they also close and fumigate the school every time someone finds a bee or wasp (which have actually killed people in this country, and are far more likely to sting you) or if one of the kids brings in a peanut butter sandwich?What a joke - I'd be making a formal complaint if one of my kids went to that school.
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Right chaps,
Where we live, false widows are really common. Just a quick walk around tonight I snapped the biggest outside the front and side of the house. There are probably double this I could see but not worth the effort to take photos. Round the back, into the garden and down to the shed there seems to be an unlimited supply.
So the first one is James, he lives above my back door and side door to the garage. I have handled him a few times without incident, usually when I walk into the web, the next is John and he lives above my front door. The third one is Peter, and peter has deposed of all the other non false widow spiders in the garage including some rather large garden spiders. The corpses still hang from their former webs as a testament to his authority. The fourth is Matthew and fifth is Luke whom are both a disappointment as although large, I haven't seen them munch anything yet. I haven't named the others yet as some seem quite new and young, once they get bigger I will.
Where we live, false widows are really common. Just a quick walk around tonight I snapped the biggest outside the front and side of the house. There are probably double this I could see but not worth the effort to take photos. Round the back, into the garden and down to the shed there seems to be an unlimited supply.
So the first one is James, he lives above my back door and side door to the garage. I have handled him a few times without incident, usually when I walk into the web, the next is John and he lives above my front door. The third one is Peter, and peter has deposed of all the other non false widow spiders in the garage including some rather large garden spiders. The corpses still hang from their former webs as a testament to his authority. The fourth is Matthew and fifth is Luke whom are both a disappointment as although large, I haven't seen them munch anything yet. I haven't named the others yet as some seem quite new and young, once they get bigger I will.
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I have contemplated it...
Yer, there is something else we have. Living in our shed at the bottom of the garden, in the very corner at the back is a spider so big, I dare not get close to investigate and find out what it is. In that part of the shed the false widows hang dead. I have poked at it with the odd cane but is goes for it. I wont actually go in the shed as it like a scene from arachnophobia. Looks like the previous owners never went in their either
You've got to video this, I really want to see it.
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I would, but I have my limits so er no.
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This thing is crazy. I work in weddings and we got a booking today for 2 weeks time because the person they'd booked before had apparently been bitten on the leg by a false widow spider.
Worst excuse ever? Wtf?
Worst excuse ever? Wtf?
Have you got any pictures of the spider ? Also why don't you just get rid of them ?
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^Because he'd have to burn the house down of course.
Btw, pics of the scary shed lair at least? Or you could cripple Matthew or Luke and throw them into his corner which should get him out for a few pics.
Leave Peter alone though. He's representin' like a boss.
Btw, pics of the scary shed lair at least? Or you could cripple Matthew or Luke and throw them into his corner which should get him out for a few pics.
Leave Peter alone though. He's representin' like a boss.
Cross them with the False Widows, naturally. Then you have a Queen False Wasp, which can fly, sting, bite, spin webs, inject venom... it'll be bad ass.
