Best spider story

[metalfossil]

One really stinking hot night I was laying starkers (not a pretty sight) on top of the quilt. I was laying on my back sort of drifting in and out of sleep. I heard a big plop noise and felt something on my chest. I was promptly wide awake and instinctivly grabbed whatever was there and just threw it.

My wife, who was also wide awake by this time, switched the light on. There was a very large huntsman looking very embarassed slowly crawling up the wall

[bangers]

i was laying in bed as a child and saw a large 'something' on the wall. i called out to my parents that there was something on my bedroom wall. when they came and turned the light on there was a massive tropical spider there. it made me jump that bad i fell out of bed. the thing was that big my father couldn't get an ice-cream container over it. Put your 2 thumbs together and your 2 middle fingers together so they make a circle and that was the size of it's body (not including it's legs)

[TheForgotten]

^^^ we got them here. called a bird eating spider i think. and yeah they do!

pulling into our driveway one night we saw one on the garage door. the body would have been around 15cm across, legs on top of that. bloody massive.

back in melbourne we had a huntsman live in the kitchen. never caused us harm. stayed for about a year then just died one day. we told all our visitors not to hurt it and they thought we were nuts. we lived in the bush and most of our visitors were townies.

a few times i got home from school to find a snake in our loungeroom too

but umm... yeah my 3yr old daughter is petrified of ANY insect. one night a stick bug flew in the window and landed on her, she freaked out. called me, then hyperventilated. i got it out the window again and she kept saying "fankyou daddy fankyou" for about an hour

[AttaBoy]

One day I was driving to work, it was an early start, While driving I looked down to the instrument cluster to check the speed and saw a small spider about the size of a fingernail.

I totally freaked out and tried to find a spot to pull over on the side of the road with my seat adjusted all the way to the back and driving with one hand and the other holding a rolled magazine. Once I got out I tried to get it off the car for about 10 mins. I got late to work and the boss is ****ed off.

Thanks spider.

[Dayvo]

My wife is sooo scared of spiders she will nearly vomit just looking at a picture of one .
A many years ago we were driving down the south eastern freeway in the middle lane when a huntsman crawled across the outside of the windscreen ,my wife freaked out and grabbed my arm so hard thet i just missed the car next to me and ended up in the emergency lane in about 2 seconds flat . I had to find the spider and kill it then show her the evidence before she would get back in the car . after about 10 minutes of not finding the spider , i took off my thong and pretended to hit it then picked up a leaf and said " there , its dead .

[Troy711]

i was having an afternoon kip (which i am just about to do now) and woke up only to find a white tailed spider making its way across my bed

my girlfriend told me she was getting dress, picked up a pair of long pants and as she did a scorpion dropped onto the floor

[Dayvo]

i was having an afternoon kip (which i am just about to do now) and woke up only to find a white tailed spider making its way across my bed

my girlfriend told me she was getting dress, picked up a pair of long pants and as she did a scorpion dropped onto the floor

i was bitten by a white tail on the stomach last year and whenever the weather gets hot i break out in a rash where i was bitten and it's itchy as all f#ck .

[nicko]

i was bitten by a white tail on the stomach last year and whenever the weather gets hot i break out in a rash where i was bitten and it's itchy as all f#ck .

yeh same, was doing some grinding in the shed and some pipe rolled under the car and i lay down to reach it. about 10 minutes later i had a massive rash on my arm that was raised bout 10mm. i didnt have my medi care card so i drove to my mums work to get it and on the way i started having trouble breathing and was going dizzy. i somehow made it to my mum lol and she took me to the hospital and i got some injection that knocked me for six for a few days, Nowdays if i itch my arm where i got bitten it comes out in a rash.

[Troy711]

white tails are nasty. i dont usually kill spiders but i make an exception for them.

[YMY-88U]

a few years back i was playing some backyard cricket, anyway as i went to pick up the tennis ball i got a little bite on my index finger. i jumped a bit cause it hurt like fark, had a look where i had been bitten and there was a red mark, at the time i thought it was just another bee sting but i thought i would go and show my mum just in case. by the time i had gotten back inside to show her, the red mark had extended the whole way up my arm. i started sweating like mad, so she quickly drove me to the hospital, which was just up the road(small country town).

earlier that day i saw a massive redback hiding in a crack in the grass, so i stomped on it to cave it in and hopefully kill it, how wrong was i. when i went to the hospital a nurse asked me what i got bitten by, and thinking about the redback i just said redback. so she quickly looked on her chart about symptoms of a redback bite and they matched. got a needle to fix it and been fine ever since.

another quick story about redbacks... was driving home from the coast one day and all of a sudden my brother cut sick and started swearing off his head. my mum asked what was goin on and he said there was a redback crawling up his leg, by that time the redback had gone from his leg to crawling up my leg, this one i actually did end up killing.

[metalfossil]

white tails are nasty. i dont usually kill spiders but i make an exception for them.

Please don't kill White Tails their reputations are highly exagirated. They take care of an awful lot of unwanted pests (earwigs) in the garden.

[Joey_21]

lol whats wrong with earwigs they dont do nothing id rather have an earwig in the house then a white tail

[cxcxcxvcvcvc]

this is my old pet bird eating spider!
these spiders are ground dwellers and are the australian breed of tarantula (just for those who dont know) i unfortuneatly had little to no experience with these spiders when i first had this one and was told by the pet shop that they cant run to well up glass! !!IDIOT!! this thing run up the side of its fish tank enclosure like a bat outta hell and cleared a room of people before falling to her death but i have a baby tarantula at the moment that is prospering very well and i now have more experience!

[AttaBoy]

Can you touch them?? Do they bite if kept as pets??

[cxcxcxvcvcvc]

Can you touch them?? Do they bite if kept as pets??

no you cannot touch them the will definatly bite! although there is some people that handle them in zoo,s but they are very experienced keepers and the spiders have been handled since babies! our aussie breed of tarantulas are very aggressive and are not handleable like the red knee tarantulas and other species overseas! our species of tarantulas are from the old world species wich are biteing spiders as opposed to the new world species of tarantula wich when threatned flick urticating hairs from their abdomen wich can cause alergic reactions! they (old world) are a viewing only pet unless you get a baby and are ready to take the risk of getting bit! but they are awesome to watch @ night when they come out from there silk burrow and stalk there prey
heres a pic of my old plumpies (different breed of aussie tarantula)

[Jesterarts]

I got a pearler of a story...


Situation:

I'm 5 years old, just moved (first week) here from poland where the biggest spider is like the size of a daddy long legs and not harmful.

Laying in bed and mum n dad are at a friends place in the block directly opposite ours.

Lookin around when i notice something coming over the curtain rail... Huntsman... big one! lol

So it comes allong the rail, onto the wall n towards me....

SO im outta the bed quick smart n outta the room... its the biggest spider i have seen in my life times 20 AND in poland all they talked about before we left was about all the dangerous spiders... So im cr*pping myself.

Neways, the spider jst sits near my bed, so i race across to the other block, up the stairs to the apartment where mum n dad are... grab dad, drag him back to our place, into my room and.......


No spider....

No i cop an ear full n a smack for making up stories....

NO joke, the second dad stormed out the door and locked it the damn spider came back over the railing!!! lol

I was sitting outside my room terrified for an hour before i gathered the courage to go to the kitchen, grab the biggest pot, go into my room n squish the bastard!!

The crunching and cracking.... you could feel it wriggling, i remember it like it was yesterday!!

lol

So bad.... first week of bein in OZ n this... i wanted to go home! lol


So that was abit of fun...


Had a nice big huntsman in the kitcken this morning... gf wanted to kill it but i let the fella outside... I'm a fan of them now cause the kill other nasties and flies... normally let them run around... jst the gf is terrified of them...

Which proves to be a good foundation for some evil pranks...

[AttaBoy]

They send me shivers up the spine. I just can't stand them. Even really small ones.

[cxcxcxvcvcvc]

They send me shivers up the spine. I just can't stand them. Even really small ones.

they are actually quite misunderstood animals! i have a documentary that sums it up like this: if humans where to disapear of the planet tommorow the world would get along fine without us, but if the invertabrets disapeared tth entire eco system would colapse!

[Troy711]

They send me shivers up the spine. I just can't stand them. Even really small ones.

im fine with them. the only ones i dont like are white tails and wolf spiders. huntsmen spiders are awesome. ill never kill one. i would rather catch it and put it in the garden.

my girlfriend and mum are absolutly terrified of them. i had to catch a huntsmen about 2 weeks ago. i caught it in a container and went to take it ourside. i showed my girlfriend and she was nearly crying cos she was so scared. funny thing was, it was in an airtight container with the lid on with no possible escape!

i let it go outside and i think i saw it 2 nights ago too. so hopefully he is going well

[metalfossil]

this is my old pet bird eating spider!
these spiders are ground dwellers and are the australian breed of tarantula (just for those who dont know) i unfortuneatly had little to no experience with these spiders when i first had this one and was told by the pet shop that they cant run to well up glass! !!IDIOT!! this thing run up the side of its fish tank enclosure like a bat outta hell and cleared a room of people before falling to her death but i have a baby tarantula at the moment that is prospering very well and i now have more experience!

I've had my tarantula (Mary) for nearly three years. Similar story. I had some bad advice about keeping her tank moist (no need). Consequently her food (crickets) bred prodigously and there was an infestation of baby crickets in her tank. These were sending her bananas and she was spending most of her time on the top of the glass. I was told to get a fish net and put here someplace else while I cleaned her tank.

Yeah sure, she ran up the net down my arm and plopped onto the floor. This sent my wife and kids screaming out of the room. My wife informed me that if I didn't find her before we went to bed, she'd Mortein the room.

I pulled the room apart and discovered her hiding in a paper bag behind the computer.

[Troy711]

pics of your spiders anyone?

[cxcxcxvcvcvc]

heres a few pics of my current baby tarantula!

[fabz]

im **** scared of stick insects and praying mantis, spiders i can handle. I once spent 4hrs at the pub waiting for a massive stick insect to get off my car as no one would **** it off for me lol Do you need a permit to keep a spider?

[AttaBoy]

Have anyone seen those camel spiders?? Those things are frickin HUGE!

Just type camel spider on youtube.

[TheForgotten]

yeah pretty sure you need a permit.

camel spiders..... *shiver* not scared of spiders unless they want me for lunch, but dear god......