Spider Identification...

Gobbledegeek · 5 Feb 2007 at 05:31

I know that this forum attracts a suspicious amount of spider enthusiasts and you've come up trumps before, so here are two more images you might be able to identify for me.

I believe the first is a 'Badge' Huntsman but just wanted to confirm, it certainly shifts at a rate of knots and was the first thing I saw when I entered the room

This one was about 1.5 cm long. Apologies for the quality.

badgermonkey · 5 Feb 2007 at 05:34

I really have to learn to stop clicking on spider threads. I don't mind the basic ones that live in my room (and have names!) cos they work to keep the flying biting things away, but things like that scare the crap out of me

Gobbledegeek · 5 Feb 2007 at 05:40

The slow lazy ones are fine but when they are as big as my palm, run as fast as me or jump, then I do get kinda nervy.

badgermonkey · 5 Feb 2007 at 05:42

Dried Graze said:
The slow lazy ones are fine but when they are as big as my palm, run as fast as me or jump, then I do get kinda nervy.

Anything that's big enough for me to see hair on needs to be flamethrowered

West · 5 Feb 2007 at 05:53

badgermonkey said:
Anything that's big enough for me to see hair on needs to be flamethrowered

Yuppers... Kill it with Fire

badgermonkey · 5 Feb 2007 at 05:54

West said:
Yuppers... Kill it with Fire

I tried to skirt around the issue

I'd also nuke it though. From orbit. In it's ovaries. Just to be safe.

thecremeegg · 5 Feb 2007 at 07:59

yuk! i hate spiders - they are the main reason i stay in england. i honestly cant handle them, so that *** have scared the **** outta me!!

benktlottie · 5 Feb 2007 at 09:14

Is that bad boy dangerous ? Looks chuffin horrible! LOL

Meatball · 5 Feb 2007 at 09:42

I hate to say it but:

can of lynx + match + spider = :cool:

Send that thing back to hell from where it once came :eek:

Hilly · 5 Feb 2007 at 09:55

if you're scared of spiders, and don't like them, then why would you go into a "Spider indentification" thread ?

Here's the bandwagon, jump on with all the "kill it with fire" and "nuke it from orbit comments".

Sorry OP, I can't help you with the identification, I just like spiders

taliesyn · 5 Feb 2007 at 11:26

The first one is certainly a huntsman, and the second picture is too blurred to even guess

thecremeegg · 5 Feb 2007 at 12:37

hilly said:
if you're scared of spiders, and don't like them, then why would you go into a "Spider indentification" thread ?

Here's the bandwagon, jump on with all the "kill it with fire" and "nuke it from orbit comments".

Because its a thread, i dont have to meet the thing, and if i didnt read threads because the title didnt appeal then i'd miss out on quite a few quality items. How anyone can like spiders that big i have no idea, they so ugly

Hilly · 5 Feb 2007 at 13:06

thecremeegg2 said:
Because its a thread, i dont have to meet the thing, and if i didnt read threads because the title didnt appeal then i'd miss out on quite a few quality items. How anyone can like spiders that big i have no idea, they so ugly

Yet but if you hate spiders, which you seem to do. Then why would you enter a thread to help IDENTIFY one ? What exactly would you expect from a thread with this title ?

How can any one like big women - They're so ugly
How can any one have a foot fetish - They're so ugly.

it's all about opinion, but you purposly come into a thread purely to misdemeanour it. Fair enough if you came in with something constructive. But what exactly did you think you were missing ?

4p · 5 Feb 2007 at 13:08

Glass + Lynx = Suffocated spider

Sorry.

badgermonkey · 5 Feb 2007 at 13:11

hilly said:
if you're scared of spiders, and don't like them, then why would you go into a "Spider indentification" thread ?

I did by accident, it was something like 5am and I was just trying to read through all the threads. I forgot to look at the title

Burned_Alive · 5 Feb 2007 at 13:12

Thorpy said:
Glass + Lynx = Suffocated spider

Sorry.

I would love to see you try and get a glass over a Huntsman

Gobbledegeek · 5 Feb 2007 at 13:38

Burned_Alive said:
I would love to see you try and get a glass over a Huntsman

With this particular chap, it wouldn't have been so much as finding a glass to put over him but finding enough breeze blocks to hold it down.

4p · 5 Feb 2007 at 13:41

Dried Graze said:
With this particular chap, it wouldn't have been so much as finding a glass to put over him but finding enough breeze blocks to hold it down.

^^

Hahahaha

http://amonline.net.au/factsheets/images/huntsman.jpg

Doesnt look so tough

Burned_Alive · 5 Feb 2007 at 14:05

They are extremely fast, i once threw a trainer at a huntsman at pace and it moved out of the way before the shoe hit the wall :eek:

Fireskull · 5 Feb 2007 at 14:33

Who knows/cares stand on it quick!