Aussie Spiders!!!

[Guest Warren]

» » I was once watching the movie Arachnophobia and all of a sudden a

» huntsman

» » came running out from under the TV. I screamed like a girl.

»

»

» warren, just thought but do you ever think that there might be times when

» it is best not to contribute to the forum. not sure i'd have shared that

» one but from my end, please don't stop. makes rob and me look good.

God knows that's what I'm here for Ken , to make you and Rob look good.

I mean someones got to try.;-)

[Guest Warren]

» Tell me about it. This year we have had a veritable zoo in our house.

»

» 1. Usual Huntsman, Wolf spider and those mid size black spiders that jump

» off the wall when hit with Mortein (almost daily occurence now with winter

» here and the rain);

»

» 2. Something that resembled a Mouse Spider in our bathroom that made a

» hell of a mess when hit with a boot (shoe/thongs too small for this

» critter);

»

» 3. Redbacks extremely common in and around our back verandah under chairs,

» in the bbq, under tables, pot plants, etc;

»

» 4. Frogs in the bathroom and dunny;

»

» 5. Now we have a mice plague (6 caught at last count and countless baits

» taken);

»

» 6. Have shot (yes, shot) 2 rats in our garage last week;

»

» 7. To cap it all off, a small Brown snake in our bathroom at the end of

» last summer (that was fun).

»

» I don't mind the spiders so much now...

Just a thought but have you ever thought about cleaning.:-D

[Hugomarink]

» Tell me about it. This year we have had a veritable zoo in our house.

»

» 1. Usual Huntsman, Wolf spider and those mid size black spiders that jump

» off the wall when hit with Mortein (almost daily occurence now with winter

» here and the rain);

»

» 2. Something that resembled a Mouse Spider in our bathroom that made a

» hell of a mess when hit with a boot (shoe/thongs too small for this

» critter);

»

» 3. Redbacks extremely common in and around our back verandah under chairs,

» in the bbq, under tables, pot plants, etc;

»

» 4. Frogs in the bathroom and dunny;

»

» 5. Now we have a mice plague (6 caught at last count and countless baits

» taken);

»

» 6. Have shot (yes, shot) 2 rats in our garage last week;

»

» 7. To cap it all off, a small Brown snake in our bathroom at the end of

» last summer (that was fun).

»

» I don't mind the spiders so much now...

Yikes! You must live out in the country, right?

[Hugomarink]

Holy crap!!!

[Thomas]

I do a lot of pest proofing homes here in the states, those things look like giant dollar signs to me.

can I get a few breeders?;-)

[dblones]

» I f***ing hate camel spiders, hell I hate most things in Iraq

Well if you remember, even those little bastards that hauled ass across our feet while we were smoking stogies made me nervous...I think that is the first time I logged a 7ft vertical jump onto that platform.

[Dr.G]

» Is that one bug or two? Either way... I'd drop dead if I saw one near me.

I think it's just the one, but was in the process of molting its exoskeleton. These guys have the largest mandible(jaw)-to-body ratio in the whole animals kingdom... Food for thought.... ! :-D :-D

George

[Hugomarink]

Yeah, I've seen that pic and others of the camel spiders. Pretty horrifying.

So just how common is it to come across those things in Iraq? Do they generally avoid humans or will you wake up with one in your sleeping bag if you're not careful?

[marco polo]

[jadawin]

That pic of the camel spider is a little misleading, with the guy standing behind messing up the scale of that picture. THey are freaky as hell looking, but only grow to about a 5 inch leg span. That is still grossly large, but not as large as they look in the pictures. From what ive read, they can run about 10mph.

[Jay Hemingway]

oh hellz no!!!!!!! screw the spider in the video and that camel thing!!!!

i don't mess with none of those demon creatures!! they are demons on earth, think about it...if they were like 2 feet tall, they would be like demons from the gates of hell! haaa i hate them, get it away from me!

» they are not acutally spiders, they are an insect with a mandible jaw

» allowing you to hear crunching noises when they eat other insects.

why are they not spiders?

[dblones]

» why are they not spiders?

here is a great link that covers all about camel spiders to include myths etc. http://www.badspiderbites.com/camel-spider/

I saw quite a few little ones in Iraq. They tend to stay in really dirty areas similar to rats (from my experience only). The largest that I have come across were in Egypt.

I had a couple that I thought were chasing me, again because of the shadow thing that you read. But needless to say when those bastards scream and run into your shadown F**KIT!!!

Even now I get the shakes thinking about it.

[Kingantz]

Some South Carolina creepys....

[JMH]

sweet mother of christ, i can feel things crawling all over me thanks to looking at those pictures.

[Guest Warren]

the one that really

» scares me is the bird eating spider with venom that disolves flesh. Do you

» know what they're called Wazza?

Yep.

****in scary

[Guest Warren]

» Sounds like you guys have many nasty spiders down there.

»

» Note to self: Cancel next year's trip to Australia.

»

» Does NZ have similar gigantic nasty spiders?

No not at all , just giant Maori's with machete's

Again.

Their women are gorgeous though

Visit , I dare you.

[Colt45]

» Toughen the F**k up indeed.

»

» Let me know about the next order you're shipping to Colt. I'd like to

» include something nice from the garden...

There's really no need Al - your devoted friendship is all one could ask for. But just in case -

"I've got my eye on you"

P.S. for what it's worth, a year or so ago I found a live black widow in some grapes I was eating.

[SmokinLightning]

[SmokinLightning]

Is that one bug or two? Either way... I'd drop dead if I saw one near me.

» » scorpions.

[BlackFriar]

» » Holy crap!!!

»

» My last trip to the the sand, I ran across a few camel spiders. Although

» they are not acutally spiders, they are an insect with a mandible jaw

» allowing you to hear crunching noises when they eat other insects.

»

» None the less I dont like them.

»

» BTW this pic is of couse not from me just a more infamous one running

» around although I have seen camel spiders half that size take out king

» scorpions.

I f***ing hate camel spiders, hell I hate most things in Iraq

[dblones]

» Holy crap!!!

My last trip to the the sand, I ran across a few camel spiders. Although they are not acutally spiders, they are an insect with a mandible jaw allowing you to hear crunching noises when they eat other insects.

None the less I dont like them.

BTW this pic is of couse not from me just a more infamous one running around although I have seen camel spiders half that size take out king scorpions.