| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 5/3/2008 7:31:03 PM | I have a platoon of exceptionally well trained and enthusiastic geckos that look after all my assorted spiders and insects.
I do not have a cobweb in the place...although to be honest, I have very high ceilings so I couldn't see them anyway.  But the agent on the last house inspection complimented me on the lack of cobwebs so I knew my crack team of commando geckos had been doing their job.
I even have one that always sits on the wall near me when the pc is on catcing all the insects attracted by the light of the screen.
We have a great understanding...they don't annoy me and I don't annoy them. They even let me know when they are going in for the kill with their blood curdling gurkha style scream.  | |
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TLC_
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Joined: 1/26/2008
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 5/4/2008 7:23:12 AM | What do spiders eat?
A: insects, annoying insects like flies & mosquitoes & the Huntsmen eat c0ckr0aches
Stop being such whimps people, leave the poor spiders to do their job. | |
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Naamah
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Joined: 11/22/2007
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 5/5/2008 1:41:03 AM | I take it the spiders needed a bit of extra roughage and protein in their diet.
Interesting to know what spiders eat insects and****es of various sizes.
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 5/5/2008 1:54:12 AM | When was the last time if ever that one of the little guys actually bit you,looked at you with anything resembling aggression,chased you or did anything but spin webs and try to keep your home mosquito free???  | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 5/5/2008 2:25:18 AM |
When was the last time if ever that one of the little guys actually bit you Living on the NSW north coast, it's spider paradise up here. I get bitten regularly. About 4 or 5 years ago I got bitten 80 times by whitetail spider/s. That was a very nasty experience, except (did I spell that right) for the next day when I was off my face, but after that it was just gross. | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 5/5/2008 3:31:08 AM | There is about 56000 different spiders in Australia and we only know what the venom of 200 of them do. I hate them as well but if they aren't in my way (and it's not dangerous) I leave them as they get rid of a lot of insects.
On a different note dragon flys instantly became my favourite insect when I found out their favourite food is Mosquitoes. I HATE Mosquitoes, if Satan exists I believe he invented them!! | |
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Joined: 1/26/2008
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 5/5/2008 3:40:52 AM | i actually had 4 Orb weaving spiders holding my back porch and BBQ for ransom...lol i ended up bribing my daughters boyfriend into getting rid of them.... the deal was if he got rid of them i would cook a feast.
These spiders were mega huge.... as big as the opening on a coffee cup and that was just the body lol | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 5/5/2008 4:16:51 AM |
Whitetail spiders have actually been found to be non venomous!! Quite right, after falling victim of these little buggers I did some research. I was mainly trying to find a picture so I know what I was dealing with in case I came across one again. I found out that it was bacteria on their fangs that caused the flesh to rot.
I never did find a decent pic & have been bitten a couple of times since.
you fall in a nest of the besties? I should have been more discerning about who I slept with | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 5/5/2008 5:26:21 AM | OK .... I was an arachnaphobe for 40+ years........
mmmmm.... I read heaps of the comments on this subject, some hilarious (alwaysdreaming2, and Blue patch), ... some a little more thoughtful....(netab for example...) and of course the more humane answers.... (metalchic and Genuine Godess), ..... here is my story:
whilest on the farm, I came to admire redbacks, and orbs, (garden and golden...)... even tho I had to rescue a honeyeater bird from a web once. I came to be fascinated by trapdoors, and impressesd by jumping mouse spiders. Daddy longlegs were my friends eating mosquitos in all the corners of rooms. The black house spiders eventually won grace from me for eating annoying flys which somehow circumnavigated the window screens and buzzed choruses in the corners of the window areas.
But on TV and creepy films, the nasty spider is always black and hairy. So of course, it took a bit more for me to accept huntsmen spiders or wolf spiders in my home...
Nimbin is in rainforest, and spiders love that environment.
One day I saw the clock-face sized monstor spider, as described by netab, and I screamed. I got the CRUNCHY CRAWLY spray out and emptied the bottle onto him. For a while he just hung on and shook, and his eyes followed me as I went inside and watched the agonising death through the window. I was freaking out, and then this thought filled my head (I am not crazy). I am sure the spider sent me a message telepathically... The thought was so loud and clear "WHY DID YOU DO THIS TO ME?" I went from screaming to crying, and went outside, as he fell to the ground shaking. I was crying heaps and i got a bottle of water and sprayed him with a mist of water, and was apologising to the spider the whole time.... If the bugspray had not killed him, I reckon he would have drowned by now..... He curled up and died.
After this incident, I promised myself to learn a different way to deal with big black hairy spiders. I did the inverted container over a spider to get them outside,with cardboard underneath often. I tried to coax them onto the cobweb broom, and run like all hell to put them outside before they ran up my arm. I even stopped my housemates from killing them "just come and get ME, I will remove them", I bravely assisted. I used kitchen tongs once to assist getting it outside, but the spider did not like that at all.
So was the situation; until I moved into the CAT CAVE, that is. The Cat Cave is the garage under a house where I now live with my two pussycats. This is not a solid place, it is slats, with covered over workshop stuff, and storage, and plastic and tent/tarps to kind of line some of the inside. The other bit of under the house joins on, it is very open. So I have learned to endure all kinds of visitors here. Spiders? I thought I had moved into their place. I'm sure I had. Bandicoots were coming in at night, a python came into the kind of kitchen area.... I went to plug in the kettle, and found I had grabbed the tail of a water dragon!! Possums scrap over the compost in the bin at night... but spiders! Huntsmen everywhere...... I tried at first to remove them, still freaking out heaps. Then I realised for every one I put out there were two dozen more, and there was no way to keep them out! So I made an agreement with them. I said to them out loud one day " Look, spiders, I know you are supposed to be hunters of****oaches, and I don't want to kill you, so show me you are doing your job, and try to stay out of my way.... and I will stop harassing you!" . Then I bounced onto my sofa-lounge bed, and made a phone call. I lay on my back, looked up, and saw a huntsman holding a****oach, obviously sucking the life out of it. I sighed, and said, "point taken".
Since then, I see heaps of them, but if I tap near where I want to do something, they run away. I have only had one unfortunate incident since then. The easter rabbit incident.... I'll tell you if you really want to know, just ask me.......
But I believe everything has it's place, we are NO GREATER than animals or birds or bugs, we are just another pest on this planet. I also believe in karma.
If they are really a problem, and you can't talk them into staying out of the way, then spider screens around your home to keep them out is a good idea, and physical removal of those already inside would be my most humane and karmically sound advise.
Thank you
REMEMBER: "leave some room for the little people"
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 5/7/2008 1:59:26 AM | | hey avo..... hav u figured out why they bit u 80 times.... i hav this mental pic of you with 80 areas of rotting flesh .....gotta tell u......it isnt a thought to have around dinnertime...... | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 5/22/2008 4:11:00 PM | | Canada has the "brown recluse spider ".... if it bites you the bit flares up flaming red and gets infected, flesh slowly wasted away , and just gets bigger and bigger with the bone showing etc... This spider loves dark places , under vegitation, dark garden sheds... warfs and boats... etc.... were warned to wear gloves ,...... | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 5/23/2008 1:30:46 AM | Ech, spiders are fine. Wait till you start seeing taipans...they're a little more of a concern.
Snakes don't generally eat insects, so I wouldn't worry about that too much. Lizards certainly do though, and they make fair pets.
Not sure that you'd like your house filled with hornets or wasps though...I'd rather get bitten by a spider than have those little highly strung hypodermic syringes loaded with molten lava flying around. They're THAT bad.
Actually used to have a nice female huntsman as a pet. Spread out, she was about the size of a young girl's hand. She was fine, fairly benign, no real requirements other than food. They're fine, really.
Whitetails I don't abide by, however. Their own venom or that of a bacteria, I don't care for necrosis and not much is going to change that.
Best solution for the presence of spiders? A cup of concrete... | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 5/23/2008 2:20:19 AM | [HeadHungLow]....shameful secret of this supposed 'wilderness girl'... spiders IN the house freak me out...
Outside?... noooo worries...always running into webs out and about....
But a big fluffy wall huggin critter inside? ...my greeny lovin nature is over powered with the hee bee gee bee's and I usually grab a vacuum cleaner and suck that 8 legged fkr up, followed by a big sock or t-towel and just DONT touch the vacuum for a day or so.... | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 5/26/2008 1:42:10 PM | | Someone told me that in Australia an ice cream soda is a "spider"... I wonder what the spiders call them? | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 5/31/2008 12:13:22 AM | Um.....Can someone please tell me how I can remove a huge hairy legs (huntsman?/wolf?) spider from my ceiling? ALIVE?
I can't slide cardboard under him cause he's on the cornice and he's right above my head! | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 5/31/2008 12:29:40 AM | ^^^^^ He's too far away from the loo and besides I don't want to kill him. Geez he's pretty big though! He's moved slightly away from the cornice so I might give it a go and trap him.....do they run fast?
If I don't reply it means he won. | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 5/31/2008 4:18:19 AM | Just looking at this thread.. and to say one thing.. My dream vacation was a trip to Australia........... Nevermind.. lol I'm Canadian and I can't handle any spider.. I'll take my blizzards and 15 ft snow banks.. :D and after googling your Aussie Eight Legged Demons.. I'll stay home tyvm.
You guys are my heros though..Putting up with thesse "things" regularly... If I saw ONE of these spiders I'd have a heart attack and prob die. if the spider is bigger then a quarter I MOVE OUT!!!! \
Much luck .. Call me when your spiders shrink to an acceptable size. I'll book my trip :D | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 5/31/2008 4:38:06 AM | Mmmmm I'm still alive but hairy legs has disappeared. He's gotta be 3 inches with his legs spread which I know is small for a huntsman/wolf. Question is how am I going to sleep tonight he could be anywhere!
tania1975.....The red backs are the worst. Not that they kill (except they can kill a small child), but their bite is shocking and they just happen to like shoes! | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 6/1/2008 12:56:44 PM | LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO.. sounds like your "spiders" could walk off with a small child never mind killing them.....
I'm a severe arachnaphobic I mean severe.. I don't think Aussie and I would blend well especially after my facinating, educational, horror movie like google search lol | |
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