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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 5/13/2007 4:36:00 PM | how to kill spiders tip 102.
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DON'T what ever you do,
no matter what you THINK,
no matter how FUN it seems at the time,
... just don't ...
>>> DON'T use a LIGHTER and FLYSPRAY to make a FLAME-THROWER!
I'll repeat , JUST DON'T
- just trust me on that one ok.
just learn from my experience..
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| there is nothing to fear except icecream buckets........and spiders !!
Posted: 5/13/2007 8:55:44 PM | I'm a fan of the catch & release method with an ice cream bucket - unless it's one of them gang spiders like the whitetails or redbacks, showing their colours, c-c-colours... (refrains from breaking into Ice T)
Once though, I tried to catch a huntsman with the icecream bucket and I accidentally lopped off a leg... :(
so I was faced with an ANGRY spider who was still in the room...
So I tried to catch him again and lopped off another leg, and I refused to go to sleep with an ANGRIER spider above my bed...
so, after accidentally lopping off a third leg I trapped him and took him outside, but coz he woulda been cranky I dumped him in bushes wayyyyy up the road, trotting through the night in my PJ's.
Then a week later there he was! Same spider, same legs missing, on the wall above my bed...
That time I left him alone though, and I named him Stumpy. | |
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| there is nothing to fear except icecream buckets........and spiders !!
Posted: 6/5/2007 2:08:29 AM | Remember coming home one night when i still lived with parents (back in the dark ages) to find a huntsman in my room... tried to whack it a few times but i'd had a few too many... my dad woke up and came in to check the noise, then tried to help me. I started screaming hysterically when it ran over my book shelf ---eeeuww i can't read those books again now... then the bloody thing started JUMPING sideways and rearing and all sorts of mad defensive behaviour.
Pushed my little sister out of her bunk bed and slept there for a week. (dad did rescue the spider and let it out).
I left home that year. | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 6/5/2007 8:30:29 AM | | I love them, they are as close to being cute as you can get. Redbacks are so beautiful I could just kiss one. | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 6/5/2007 8:57:49 AM | Read a few years ago about these scientists who bred some spider genes into goats. (and no this story does not also involve little green men) Their aim is to create an animal that can produce large quantities of spider web...and with these genetically modified goats, they somehow get the web from spinning down the goats' milk or something like that. Much greater quantities than they can get from spiders. And the reason they want spider web is cos man is unable to make anything like it artificially...it's strength is phenomenal in relation to its fineness. Imagine a simple rope made purely out of spider web...it would be incredibly strong at that thickness. The article said something about a net made out of the stuff as having the strength to instantly stop a jet in mid flight.
Spider goats. I haven't checked google but surely it'd be on there.
So hopefully I managed to momentarily distract all you spider killers while Avocado ushered them all to safety. (Dunno about kissing them tho....) 
Edit: Google...yep...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/889951.stm
Uses include bullet proof vests & artificial ligaments for humans. | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 6/5/2007 9:06:41 AM | | Spider goats, your kidding me.. are you spinning us one ya yarns again? I'm gonna have to look this one up on the web | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 6/5/2007 9:09:11 AM | Would I lie to you?  But by all means, google. (Already gave one website in previous post)
Oh, and very punny. | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 6/5/2007 9:18:19 AM | | The story is nearly 7 years old, Have Webster & Pete been able to reproduce as yet? Probably both Billy's | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 6/5/2007 9:23:49 AM | Well I did say I read it years ago, just didn't realise how many years ago. Time gets a bit foggy sometimes. Nothing more current on google? It's well past my google time so I'll leave you with it. Mind you, I was trying to distract the others while you rescued the spiders, not distract you.  | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 6/5/2007 9:26:05 AM | Well, you just got to love all those creatures great & small...
http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/Drama.item/aid/554665 | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 6/6/2007 12:40:12 AM | | I googled that spider goat story about four years ago - it's there. Something to do with creating a strong fabric for bullet proof vests and strong climbing ropes. | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 6/6/2007 7:29:03 AM | | Camel spiders are excellently creepy, but I really think life being like a box of spider goats is way more creepier! | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 6/6/2007 7:29:45 AM | ^^^ yikes, I'll take 1/2 a dozen I love 'em ...10km/hour... better than the old dog.. might be a bit tricky putting on the collar & leash for walkies..
Thanks cuddlycanuck | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 6/6/2007 7:31:03 AM | ^^^Hey, what about rollerblades? Now that's living. Perhaps not in the fast lane, but the concept is fun | |
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