Mummy!!!

Originally Posted by Ant

Fraser, did you take a picture with something beside the spider to give us a sense of scale??

Originally Posted by Fraser

The pic as shown in the insert is about life size (I kid you not )

I already asked the same question

Get a rough idea of it's proportions, from the dimples on the chunk of kitchen roll it's sitting on? Or is that not kitchen roll? Card, you reckon? Zap the B****rs with that ultrasonic wand. Whoops! just seen one here, but the cat beat me to it and ate it!!

Originally Posted by Hammy156

I already asked the same question

Yes, but I did it properly.

Big spider


We get loads of little ones. It is good in a way as my little ones were a bit scared at the beginning but now are quite amused by them (and soon will be bored!).

I'd rather a box full of those Frazer type spiders than... roundworms, tape worms, fleas, bed bugs, lice, and rats!! Don't mind maggots, and leeches, for their value in medicine though.

Originally Posted by Alfaspeed

**** ME!!!! I jumped out of my skin! How the **** did that get into the UK? Surely that thing is alien?

If that entered my house i would move and let it have the ****ing place!

Me too, id leave the fecking country! Nothing common house spider about that thing! Its a big fury monster that will eat yer face!

Terrorists should start using those thing to scare people...it would probably work better than a bomb would judging by that pic... O_O

Wonderful creatures spiders, in my book, which are absolutely amazing to watch. Love 'Em'.

I'm not a fan of spiders.... although I can normally get shot of 'em using Frasers suppersion method.

That said I was in my hidy-hole in the garrage t'other day having a little strum on the ole guitar when I noticed this big black hairy thing creeping about on the edge of my vision.... when I looked round there sat the biggest bl00dy spider I've seen in a while

I'm sure the bugger winked at me just before I dropped my guitar and ran out screaming like a big girl strode manly to the kitchen and got a glass to bravely subdue the beast with...


I think I'd have needed a bucket to get all his legs into anywho :shudder:

Originally Posted by zulu ferret

Wonderful creatures spiders, in my book, which are absolutely amazing to watch. Love 'Em'.

I think so too ZF - amazing things. But you've got to draw the line at what's allowed in your house

(Did I tell you about the time I let a baboon spider loose in our house in Botswana........... )

I just performed probably the worst task possible for an arachnophobe at the weekend - cutting back ivy.
The stuff is bloody swarming with the things
And because I was on top of a step ladder, whenever I suddenly spotted one running up my arm I had to totally suppress the instinct to scream like a girl and wave my arms around wildly, in case I thereby killed myself.

The only thing that annoys me about those hairy legged friends in my garage, is the fact that they make a mess of the interior window frames, and the juices from their eating habits, drop, and stick on the cars paintwork! That said, I have lost a beautiful specimen, who resided in a hole alongside one of the window frames.: He often peeked out, with those two bright shiny bits, which I assume are his 'peepers'?

I reckon he moved into the house, after I had brushed around his favourite hunting ground? True to form, when it gets chillier come Autumn, I expect they will be scurrying about indoors. I used to be able to detect the sound of their hairy legs, as the raced away, but my hearing is now not acute enough for this delightful rustling noise!

Guess a spell in the tropics, makes most of the UK's insect life appear puny by comparison? Oh! for an Amazonian trip, Eh?:

Originally Posted by zulu ferret

with those two bright shiny bits, which I assume are his 'peepers'?

They tend to have eight bright shiny bits

For those of you that cant deal with spiders, my dog is available for rent at reasonable prices, she is the best spider hunter I have ever seen

In truth, the native variety seem to be surviving quite well, in spite of a most noticeable lack of moths around here, anyway? Plus, I have only seen a couple of cabbage white butterflies so far his year, and nothing on the Budlia blooms, which are now dying off.

Just cleaned a bunch of redbacks out of the garage. Honestly, you poms...

(actually I'm not a big arachnophile myself!)

'Course, (leans back against bar, pulls hat down over eyes, assumes Paul Hogan voice) in the outback we get REAL big fellas. Ever tell you about the time I met up with a Central Australian cat-eating spider....?