I just walked into the fattest spider...

[i-need-a-martini]

...I walked into a huge web and as I was untangling myself I could feel some heavy vibrations.

Looked up and a HUGE spider was scrambling up and away inches from my head.

And not just one of those long legged big ones. But one of those ones with the ENORMOUS fat hairy abdomens.

*  shiver  *

[k0llectable5]

Naww dont use mortein, if you have to do it use your shoe or something.  That stuff makes insects/spiders slowly suffocate to death.  Horrible way to die...

[purple_haize]

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@i-need-a-martini wrote:

I don't mind spiders. I encourage them cause they are good for the garden. So I tend to leave them alone.  In fact, I have a couple of entire colonies of huntsmans living in various rooms INSIDE the house that I wave hello to as I clean up around them.

But this one crossed the line by creating a web in my path of travel and having the audacity to be still hanging around his web in daylight. So at dusk tonight I am going to be waiting just around the corner from this whopper with a can of Mortein at my fingertips.

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I dont know how you can live with huntsman and colonies at that living inside your house.............gives me the shivers just thinking about it.

I always scour the rooms in our house for them, cant stand them

[tasfleur]

Martini wrote:  "In fact, I have a couple of entire colonies of huntsmans living in various rooms INSIDE the house that I wave hello to as I clean up around them"

*FAINTS IN FRIGHT*

*GAG*

[i-need-a-martini]

I had a batch of huntsman hatch in the house a year ago or so - I was laying on the lounge one day and looked up at the ceiling to see hundreds of newborns (maybe thousands. I dunno but it looked like heaps of them) scurrying across the ceiling. They must have been blown in from an open window. I killed as many as I could find but the ones I missed have found permanent homes in my house...

I don't mind. Huntsmans are harmless and don't make webs. I hate webs.

The only time I kill them is when they decide to make their homes in any of the bedrooms. The kids don't share my tolerance for them...

[i-need-a-martini]

Plus they do me a great service.

The house is built on rock so we have constant ant problems. The Huntsmans eat them! 

[purple_haize]

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@i-need-a-martini wrote:

Plus they do me a great service.

The house is built on rock so we have constant ant problems. The Huntsmans eat them! 

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My daughter was complaining she had ants everywhere in the kitchen this week, ..........I will tell her to get a huntsman

The whole of Melbourne will hear her screaming

[i-need-a-martini]

Your daughter should let some lizards loose - we have a family of big lizards (not sure what they are - bigger than skinks but smaller than bluetongues) that live under my dishwasher and they feast on the ants.

[lionrose.7]

I would have thought gee that's was scary, now what sort of spider is it.

May have even talked to it 🙂

Would have grabbed the camera, got out the book and searched Google to find out what sort it was.

Gee I love science and nature

[lloydslights]

Your place is a veritable nature reserve.  A lot like mine.

DEB

[*pepe]

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@lionrose.7 wrote:

I would have thought gee that's was scary, now what sort of spider is it.

May have even talked to it 🙂

Would have grabbed the camera, got out the book and searched Google to find out what sort it was.

Gee I love science and nature

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i would have grabbed a book too - to flatten it with