False widow spider - newest scaremongering?


One of my work colleagues just emailed that to me. It really is pathetic! :rolleyes: 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.
 
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.

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Why is OcUK collectively so **** scared of spiders?

This isn't Australia. If you're scared of the kind of spiders we have in the UK, then I feel sorry for you bro :p
 
I'd run a mile screaming if I saw one but it is just scaremongering. Basically the effect is a bit of pain, in the British spider scale this is pretty hardcore but in the scheme of things not really a big issue.
 
Nuke your house from Orbit.

I have contemplated it...

Originally Posted by Scrutinize
Right chaps,

I'm mad.

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
 
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.
 
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?
 
^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.
 
Screw the False Widows, what do we do about the QUEEN WASPS??!1!

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.
 
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