atalia
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Joined: 3/28/2007
Msg: 151 | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 6/10/2007 5:11:46 PM | Don't like thinkin,get in too much trouble i think cause i think i'm old,so i'd only be hopefull,then i'd feel helpless,only too do something and get nicked and end up crying.
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dj181
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Joined: 11/1/2006
Msg: 153 | |
| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 6/10/2007 5:57:11 PM |
Or could that be dj I'm thinkin of
hehehehe me????? im innocent!! innocent i tells ya!!!!
well maybe not..........but she is a damn attractive woman!!! | |
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atalia
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Joined: 3/28/2007
Msg: 154 | |
| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 6/10/2007 10:42:35 PM |
Don't like thinkin,get in too much trouble i think cause i think i'm old,so i'd only be hopefull,then i'd feel helpless,only too do something and get nicked and end up crying.
Sheesh you missed a chance to re-open the old men thread! There goes Hillys record!
Dang all you old farts, if you keep going on like this I'm gunna get an age complex, take to me rockin chair and go to bingo | |
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atalia
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Joined: 3/28/2007
Msg: 156 | |
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Naamah
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Joined: 11/22/2007
Msg: 157 | |
| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 12/13/2007 3:35:34 PM | This one is just for Caves, to set off his arachnophobia complex all over again.
A few days ago I finally removed a huuuuge huntsman spider that had been residing in my bathroom. As big as a man's hand she was. Legs that went allll the way up, and hairier than the combined turn-out for a save the trees rally. I could tolerate her living above the mirror, but when she decided that hanging around the handbasin was more to her liking, it made brushing my teeth a rather stressful experience for us both. So rather than deciding to accept my fate and live with breath that would kill a person coming within 2 feet of me, I armed myself with a water spray bottle in one hand and a plastic container in the other...Buffy the spider non-slayer....stood myself up on the side of the bath out of spider range (these are the moments you are glad nobody can actually see what you are doing), squirted her with water until she fell down on the floor, dropped the plastic container over her, relished my little gotcha moment, slid a piece of paper underneath and took her outside. By the end of this little episode I don't know whose heart was beating faster, hers or mine. I left her in my garden..... with a map of how to find her way to N e w c a s t l e. Muah-ha-ha.  | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 12/14/2007 3:25:03 PM | you miss are creepy......
I am not sure what creeps me out more , you living with a goliath or the spider its self..
and i say unto you "you need watching" and i hope its an old map and it gets stuck at brisbane ....or stays and eats all you ducks and other asorted farm animals you so dearly love. | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 12/14/2007 4:47:15 PM | Oh, spiders are cool enough, as long as they stay off my skin...
My jaw dropped when my naturalist mate showed me a bird-eating spider he'd collected for a research team. Man this is one hairy big-arsed muther of a spider, standing on its six rear legs with the two front ones poised for attack. Lucky I'm not a bird, huh?
He then pointed out other little spider webs covering the ends of pipes and/or small opeings where a teensy weensy green spider lives whose venom actually decomposes flesh. When he montioned that their fangs are too short to pierce the skin I started breathing again.
See? Nothing to worry about at all, at all... | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 12/14/2007 5:27:58 PM | I could kiss you greynomad......where can i buy wasps and hornets, wonder if there is a pet shop that stocks them...my luck they would just fly off.
maybe i can co-hearse these flying spider killers around my house with sizzling sausages on the barbee....or something like that
time to google wasps & hornets
edit:
http://whatsthatbug.com/images/spider_wasp_prey_australia.jpg
http://whatsthatbug.com/wasps_3.html
Aussie spider eating wasp
Cryptocheilus bicolor: The wasp does not eat the spider. She digs a hole and buries the spider after laying an egg. The larval wasp then has a fresh meal of paralyzed spider meat since the spider is alive and in a coma. Spider Wasps have a painful sting, but they are not aggressive I want a whole squadron of these lil babies
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 12/14/2007 5:34:13 PM | our most dangerous spiders are pretty small actually, brown recluses. leave a nasty bite that erodes flesh for months....
I catch em in sticky mouse traps works well.
our big spidies are wolf spiders and tarantulas.
When we first moved to KS, my boys found a huge wolf spider on the stairs inside the house, big as a fist.
they shot it twice with a pellet gun and it still didn't die.
but wolf spiders, like tarantulas, are not poisonous and they actually eat brown recluses, so I learned to leave them alone | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 3/11/2008 4:42:12 PM | I got bitten by a huntsman spider yesturday......and am almost proud of the fact :)
the big fat hairy bugger was hiding under the door latch on my car..
after me going to open the door he dug his saber tooth tiger fangs into my finger and a with in a nano second I started to do what can only be described as a RiverDance dance routine which I completed in 10 secs flat..all awhile I was screaming
"i touched it" "I touched it"
and they say there are no men left any more , pft !! | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 3/11/2008 10:53:27 PM | I talk to them, but its like "oh, hello. I take it by the fact that you have announced your presence so boldly you wich to challenge the vaccum cleaner? Well, you have aslong as it takes for me to get it out and plug it in to find a hiding spot, or, the battle shall begin."
Then i fetch said vaccum cleaner and the battle begins... mind you its not much of a battle...
And as for Karma, when a spider wanders out in the open and a bird eats it, the bird is rewarded with a crunchy snack with a gooey centre, not cursed with impending doom (Not includint the current hardships birds normaly have to face)
Also, i warned it to hide...
Daddy long legs, money spiders and anything non painful/poisonous i leave to thier own devices. Red backs are a K.O.S. A.S.A.P however. Anything that can lead to harming my family/friends will not be tolerated.
Now, as we are talking about spiders, i think its time for something a little educational and funny, heres a clip about spiders and what affects drugs have on them ^_^
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 3/12/2008 1:43:48 AM | Good to see this thread resurrected!!! As Delaware I made a couple of comments last year, including the hairspray trick.... now I've moved to Sydney, where there are black and yellow stripey critters creating webs all around my little garden, across the path, and over the garage - it's a challenge leaving for work. My daughter came to visit and brought her own hairspray - just in case!!! And her window remained firmly shut...
We won't go into the frog that made its home in my toilet cistern............ | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 3/12/2008 1:45:09 AM | Ewwwww, the vaccum cleaner, what do you do then??? Wont the spider still be alive?? Waiting, watching, hiding until you empty the bag.. they BANG.. big hairy spider.
I had a huntsman in my flat once, rang the pest controller and he wouldn't come out. He thought it was a hoax call. Had to get my poor old dad over to dispose of the spider.
Pathetic I know.  | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 3/12/2008 2:21:07 PM | spiders and i get along just fine...weird i know but i just let them be and if anyone has issue with them huntsmen are really good about walking onto your hand and having a ride outside....
my daughter insists she is traumatised by this behaviour and is a hairspray girl...says there is no use trying to drown them in mortein they are tougher than that!! she just wants them immobilised!! go rock hard hairspray! | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 3/13/2008 3:43:56 AM |
later that same day I returned for my 1yr old daughter..the workman digging up the garden out the front heard me screaming like a girl and came and removed it..for me , have a pic of it aswell.
Caves thats sooo funny....
I had a huge hunstman in my car and didnt realise it was over my head... my son ordered me out the car knowing I was going to panic ... when I saw the size of it I went into the police station to ask if they would come and get it out the car... all three police officers on duty argued over who was going to do it was the funniest site lol ( the cop who removed it turned out to be scared of spiders) In the end it had a free ride on a tennis racket because they wouldnt lend me a gun to shoot it lol
I get someone else to remove them because brooming them has never worked they always run up the broom towards me . I had my place sprayed with an enviromentally friendly anti spider spray seems to be working well apart fromt he Orb spiders in the vegie patch :( | |
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Naamah
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Joined: 11/22/2007
Msg: 171 | |
| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 3/13/2008 5:08:31 AM |
sprayed with an enviromentally friendly anti spider spray
Does this one you used just make the spiders go away or does it still kill them? I have to get my spider community under control so I can keep my eaves and verandahs clean of webs when I try to sell my place but I don't want to kill my huntsmen if I can avoid it. I find my spiders useful and hard working...except that one I mentioned in an earlier post that I sent to Newcastle. Sounds like she finally caught up with Caves for a drink.  | |
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Posted: 3/13/2008 5:34:23 AM | Good question I had the inside and outside done plus fencing and garden and it has kept the spiders and other crawlies out the house but I dont think it kills too many. I have a healthy community of frogs and other things roaming my yard so I assume they are eating the spiders and other bugs... I have quite a few large orb spiders but I knock the webs down each day and they eventually move. My understanding of the spray was to kill all internal bugs/spiders but deter others from the yard and it was around $185 dollars compared to $100 for the chemicals So far so good 6 mths on.
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Naamah
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Joined: 11/22/2007
Msg: 173 | |
| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 3/13/2008 5:47:49 AM | | ^^^ Yeah the impact on birds, geckos and frogs always worries me with spraying. Haven't sprayed for 8 years and I dread the thought of it. But my cobwebs on the verandah are getting so bad that two visiting mormons got stuck in web a few years ago and are still there as far as I know....might put some buyers off. But personally I don't want to drive spiders away from my yard, cos they belong. Anyway, I will investigate that option, thanks. | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 5/3/2008 3:39:54 PM | Spiders..... I was always under the impression that snakes LOVE to eat insects !!!...
I would immagine grass snakes might do the trick ....(not in the house)... Also ,. if you have a lot of shrubs around your home,,and especially evergreens....I know it encourages ants !!!.. I use to have little red ants and they got into everything ,..I couldnt even keep cookies or cake in a tin , I had to use masking tape around the cakes tin lid !!! .... All because I had bushes and a big cedar tree growing next to my house... I live in Cornwall Ont. Canada... | |
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