Huge Spiders

[M.D. Holloway]

https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2017/07/27/Man-holds-up-cat-to-scare-massive-Australian-spider/9311501182812/

Yikes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gths8z60j_w

[M.D. Holloway]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh710Tnk7Vg

[freeform911]

Disgusting!!!!!! Think I would move!!

[Sooner or later]

I would catch giant tarantulas when I was a kid.

Put a glass jar over their entrance hole and then poke a stick into to ground next to the jar and ram the stick up and down. The sob would jump out of the hole and into the jar. Slide some carddboard under the opening and you got em.

We had one as a pet in the factory I worked at. Skippy (caught him in a peanut buttert jar) lived for years. Fed him crickets.

[MotorBene]

Hahaha great story SOL. Spiders freak me out. Not sure why I like so many have that irrational fear, no real need. I mean it's probably the legs and the speed let's be honest

[cairns]

Those are Huntsmans. Relatively harmless. It's the little ones that can kill you.

There was one day in NE Oz when we were packing up and leaving and the wife came out of the shower stark naked screaming her head off that I am never coming back to this country never ever never. There was a Huntsman at the top of the shower. I got a short video of it watching me as I walked back and forth.

After dinner and few drinks in Sydney she was completely over it.....

[RKDinOKC]

At my old house we had a Chinaberry tree in the back yard. There were thousands of box elder bugs. The are grey with back wings that turn black with a red dot on them. Sprayed all kinds of stuff, but they were just too prolific. It was really unnerving when you would walk out into the yard and they would run from you.

Out of desperation went out and caught a big tarantula using just a paper cup. It was the time of year you see them crossing the road when driving around. Release it under our shed next to the chinaberry tree the bugs seem to run to.

Within a couple of weeks there were zero bugs to be found. ZERO. Was almost afraid to find a tarantula the size of a lawn mower. But never saw it.

Didn't have any bugs for a couple of years. Then a neighbor told me about finding and killing a huge tarantula in his back yard. Told him, "Oh no, you killed my bug eating pet!" That year with no spider the bugs came back.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by cairns

Those are Huntsmans. Relatively harmless. It's the little ones that can kill you.

There was one day in NE Oz when we were packing up and leaving and the wife came out of the shower stark naked screaming her head off that I am never coming back to this country never ever never. There was a Huntsman at the top of the shower. I got a short video of it watching me as I walked back and forth.

After dinner and few drinks in Sydney she was completely over it.....

Giant huntsman in the shower with me? Oh Hell no, it would end up something like this.



I find spiders fascinating, as long as I know where they are and I can watch them. It's when they pop up unexpectedly too near me that I have a problem. On the wall or ceiling above me in the shower, yeah, that would be one of those times.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

At my old house we had a Chinaberry tree in the back yard. There were thousands of box elder bugs. The are grey with back wings that turn black with a red dot on them. Sprayed all kinds of stuff, but they were just too prolific. It was really unnerving when you would walk out into the yard and they would run from you.

Out of desperation went out and caught a big tarantula using just a paper cup. It was the time of year you see them crossing the road when driving around. Release it under our shed next to the chinaberry tree the bugs seem to run to.

Within a couple of weeks there were zero bugs to be found. ZERO. Was almost afraid to find a tarantula the size of a lawn mower. But never saw it.

Didn't have any bugs for a couple of years. Then a neighbor told me about finding and killing a huge tarantula in his back yard. Told him, "Oh no, you killed my bug eating pet!" That year with no spider the bugs came back.

Wow, cool, sort of.

[Racerbvd]

[M.D. Holloway]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/200-spider-babies-drinking-mothers-142308338.html