How to kill this?
- Thread starter webmonkeyuk
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good god
Imagine all those little baby spiders on your face!
fml! don't think i will be getting any sleep for the next few days, i haz goosebumps right now and not the good ones!
That's no spider. That's an Alien.
Got bit by a false widow a few months ago. I was unscrewing the legs on a fitted kitchen dishwasher (blindly fumbling underneath it) and felt 'something' on my finger. Nothing like a bee sting or anything really painful at all.
A day later I had what could only be described as a small blister with reddening around it on my little finger which after a couple of days popped. Lost a few layers of skin and it itched like crazy but not really painful. Perhaps it felt a little bruised but nothing more, the itch was the worst thing about it.
Went to docs and he diagnosed false widow bite. Up until then I never thought uk spiders had mandibles big enough to break the skin.
A day later I had what could only be described as a small blister with reddening around it on my little finger which after a couple of days popped. Lost a few layers of skin and it itched like crazy but not really painful. Perhaps it felt a little bruised but nothing more, the itch was the worst thing about it.
Went to docs and he diagnosed false widow bite. Up until then I never thought uk spiders had mandibles big enough to break the skin.
I simply cannot understand how people can be scared of spiders when they aren't scared of wasps...
Wasps can cause you injury (or death if allergic
Spiders (in the UK) are nearly all harmless, usually fairly small, they cant fly, they are usually scared of you, etc...
NOTHING THAT SMALL NEEDS SO MANY EYES AND LEGS! NOTHING!
Wanna bet?
This lives there
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_funnel-web_spider
So does this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadronyche_formidabilis
& this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redback_spider
What is it here when everytime when someone starts a spider thread you get the usual replys of kill with fire/nuke from orbit etc. Then the big spider pics start to appear & the spiders get bigger, all the way up to that camel spider found by some soldiers in the desert somewhere.
I've got one word for spiders - IGNORE. unless they are in your bedroom. remove or kill in case they crawl into your mouth & lay eggs while you sleep.
Thankfully (in the case of the first two) we are going west coast
I have gotten a lot better with Spiders over the last few years, had some monster ones in the house last year as well!
Though the policy still is : If it gets my attention and startles me, it meets a shoe.
Spiders are surprisingly resistant to fire... water works better. When the web gets wet, it sticks to the spider, trapping it.
Death, with a side-order of irony.
(Also, the spider in the OP is the same as the type in my house - they have ~1/8" fangs, and the bites sting like ****).
Death, with a side-order of irony.
(Also, the spider in the OP is the same as the type in my house - they have ~1/8" fangs, and the bites sting like ****).
One of mine is slightly more venomous than the others, but id rather not get bitten by any of them
The hairs they kick off their backs can irritate just as much as a bite anyways, i generally dont get close enough to let them do that either
