Quick IAKG- Sharni needs you!

[PantyFanatic]

Man your weapons and fall in!! … ready to deploy!!:yikes:


SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australians have been warned: angry arachnids are heading indoors.
Scientists say Australia's hot, humid and wet summer has had a bad effect on common, but potentially deadly, redback spiders.
Normally found in outdoor sheds, gardens and under roofs, the cantankerous creepy-crawlies are seeking shelter indoors in tropical Queensland and New South Wales, two of Australia's biggest states.
"There has been rain and winds which push falling leaves into the roof gutters, destroying their web. This leaves them no other option but to come down into the house," said Queensland Museum arachnologist Robert Raven.
Bites have been recorded at a rate of one a day, he said.
A female redback's bite usually results in sweating and pain, which slowly builds to the point of being unbearable.
No deaths from redback bites have been reported in Queensland since the introduction of an anti-venom.
The redback is one of the most common of Australia's seemingly endless supply of poisonous pests. A distant cousin of the American black widow, it is distinguished by a red stripe on the shiny black, thumbnail-sized body of the larger female.
Scientists describe the redback's existence as "amoral" because of their unique mating behavior in which males give themselves up to the deadly females to be killed and eaten after mating.
"It's all about foreplay. If he doesn't have the moves, she's not going to be interested," said Sydney Taronga Zoo exhibit supervisor Warrick Angus, who said he kept a redback as a pet.


You have to go to the experts when you're in trouble, Sharni.






:grin:

[IAKaraokeGirl]

LMAO. :D

<---grabs her bug vacuum and heads southwest. :D

[Sharni]

We got the damn things everywhere *L*....ya just learn to be careful where ya put ya fingers and bits....they love under the lips of pot plant containers...mine are full of em

Redback i'm wary of....as long as the funnelwebs dont start coming inside!!

[Aqua]

"If you're eva bitten by a redback spyda, you're gonna die."

[SuzyQ]

[QUOTE=Sharni][color=blue]We got the damn things everywhere *L*....ya just learn to be careful where ya put ya fingers and bits....

Really got to worry where ya puts your bits..especially yummy bits. :D

[campingboy]

And Sharni will not come to Canada because of Polar Bears? Sharni, we have 1 rattle snake, and even it is on the endangered list. Apparently the -25 c weather kills off most deadly animals.

[Sharni]

Polar Bears are BIG hairy scary muthas

Spiders i can put under my foot....bears are a bit harder to do that with

[Pita]

Ewwwww Move Sharni!!! :teleport: :yikes:

[Sharni]

Nope prefer the snakes, spiders and sharks anyday

[PantyFanatic]

Nope prefer the snakes, spiders and sharks anyday
ROFLMFAO :grin:

[Mark Vieth]

Hey someome forgot to mention those damn white tail spider's. They are far worse than the redback. As I think Sharni will agree with.

[Oldfart]

Sorry Mark, the white-tailed spider myth has been bopped on the head.

Golden staph from treatment rooms has been nominated as that baddy.

On my trip to the USA in '03, we were told in Tucson about a spider called the

Brown Solitary, which has the same supposed effect of creeping necrosis.

Australia's red-back spider is probably a hitch-hiker picked up by the colony fleets

in South Africa. It is largely unknown in the deep bush.

It has no dream-time name and story.

[Lilith]

(((((((((((Oldfart))))))) Recluse....almost solitary:D http://www.maripoisoncenter.com/ctr/9908brspider.html We have them everywhere here and Summer has scars fromwhen she was bitten by one.

[LixyChick]

My mother had an odd sense of superstition...and she instilled some of it in me (hey...thanks a shit-load ma!)...

Here's one of her more annoying sayings that I still adhere to...

"If you want to live in thrive...let a spider go alive"

And so...I very rarely kill a spider in my house, and NEVER outside...unless by accident (running over it with the mower or stepping on it before I realize). If they are small and harmless looking, I'll just scoot them out of the web in the corners of a room and clean away said web and go about my dusting.

The exceptions? Wolf spiders...black, half dollar size, hairy spiders with pointed legs. And grey or brown recluse spiders...which you may rarely see but more often experience it's bite first...and then, they are usually found in our barn instead of the house.

ALL spiders are venonmous...but some venom (quality and quantity) is worse than others.

One more note (cause I'm a blabbermouth...lol!)...It's a myth that "daddy long-legged" spiders cannot bite humans. They can, but it takes them a while to get riled up enough to do so, and then they have to position themselves in a precarious way to get in a good bite. If they do...it's gonna hurt and you will get sick, as they are one of the more poisonous spiders around here.

So, let's see what we learned from my mom here! If you want your house full of spiders, and friends shrieking when they come for a visit...let the little ones live in the corners of every room in the house!

Hey! I told ya she was a smart woman...but I think I also told you she was quite odd at times! LMFAO! *looking all around the room* HIYA MOM!

Keep your sexy bits safe Sharni!

[campingboy]

Sharni - with a dead polar bear you can make a nice rug. A spider rug is not that appealing. Besides, I have lived in Canada for 30+ years and the only place I have seen a Polar Bear is in a Zoo.

[Sharni]

The difference is i dont want a polar bear rug....i'd much prefer it on the living animal....spiders on the other hand make a very satifying squishing sound and look real good dead on the floor

The saying in my house "The only good spider is a dead one!"

Sorry gonna beg to differ on the daddy long legs theory Lixy....while yes they are quite toxic....their fangs just arent long enough to piece our skin

[cherrypie7788]

I agree with you, Sharni, the only good spider is a dead one!!

I grew up in an old farm house and it was full of spiders. I HATE spiders, I kill every single one no matter how big or small.

I used to really hate it when they'd fall in the bath tub and not be able to climb up the sides. I'd get in the shower and the thing would be in there with me and I'd freak out. I used to do a dance that my mom named the "spidey dance" when one tried to take a shower with me. I'd scream and she'd come running to kill it LOL

I also remember one time that my boyfriend came over when I was about 15 and was working on our pool filter when a black widow crawled out onto his hand. It was the scare of a lifetime, luckily he wasn't bitten!!

[PantyFanatic]

And here I thought it was only our IAKaraokeGirl that saw the man-hole-cover size spiders. :grin:

[osuche]

And here I thought it was only our IAKaraokeGirl that saw the man-hole-cover size spiders. :grin:


You can add me to that list, too. I HATE the damn things. LOVE snakes and lizzards, but nothing is faster at freaking me out than a spider.



/me blushes



Even the Daddy Longlegs variety

[IAKaraokeGirl]

And here I thought it was only our IAKaraokeGirl that saw the man-hole-cover size spiders. :grin:


The *sixty-foot* ones, as I once described to WildIrish. :D

And Cherrypie7788? I spent about 15 minutes a little over a year ago, trying to kill a spider the size of NYC in my shower. ;)

[Sharni]

I dont stomp any spider over 5c size.....no no no...i stand well back armed with a can a fly spray and target the damn thing til its white and stuck to the floor with spray!!

[Cheyanne]

LOL.. ^^^^^^

One day I was taking a shower.. looked up at the showerhead.. there about 10 inches away, clinging to the edge was a spider.. I jumped out of the shower really fast and shut off the cold water... boiled the bastard...

[Mark Vieth]

I was at a mates house once and there was this spider on the floor. He didn't have any flyspray in his room so I grabbed the next best thing. A can of deodorant. I sprayed the spider and froze him solid. Then I kicked it and it went to pieces.

[cherrypie7788]

And Cherrypie7788? I spent about 15 minutes a little over a year ago, trying to kill a spider the size of NYC in my shower.

lol...it's hard to do naked....

Cheyanne, I used to like to watch them drown sometimes LOL who knew spiders were swimmers?! Unless you knock em under the water they stay on top. I have far too much free time..

[osuche]

I dont stomp any spider over 5c size.....no no no...i stand well back armed with a can a fly spray and target the damn thing til its white and stuck to the floor with spray!!


LMAO. Yep, and then I make Mr. Osuche to clean it up. That's why men were invented!!! :D

[PantyFanatic]

“….I'd get in the shower and the thing would be in there with me and I'd freak out….”

“….a spider the size of NYC in my shower….”

“….I jumped out of the shower really fast and shut off the cold water...”

STOP THAT!:mad:

You ladies are spoiling my fantasy with you being naked in my shower and looking like Dan Aykroyd with your back packs and spider zappers. :(

[Sharni]

These two are the ickiest....and they live around here....scariest evilist looking fuckers....the fangs are huge....and they are very aggressive...they rear up and then lunge their fangs into you

[Cheyanne]

Thanks Sharni........ :eek:

[cherrypie7788]

These two are the ickiest....and they live around here....scariest evilist looking fuckers....the fangs are huge....and they are very aggressive...they rear up and then lunge their fangs into you


Eww :eek: I'd freak out if I saw either of those in my house, but that black one looks especially scary...

The worst things that I think we really have in Tennessee are scorpions (had those in the tub too) and those things with all the legs, centipedes or millipedes or something. All I know is if they're within stomping distance they're dead little fuckers.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

lol...it's hard to do naked....

Cheyanne, I used to like to watch them drown sometimes LOL who knew spiders were swimmers?! Unless you knock em under the water they stay on top. I have far too much free time..



OMG, YES! I didn't know they were swimmers, either, and I was getting pretty damn frustrated! :D

[osuche]

Speaking of innovation....When I was living in TN, I found that RAID (a US bug killer brand) makes a product that will shoot a stream of bug killer...

...up to 12 FEET. :D Best product I've ever bought for less than $5 USD

[scotzoidman]

they love under the lips of pot plant containers...mine are full of em

you have pot plants ? Growing your own weed?

[Sharni]

Cherrypie ~ The black one can make you quite ill...but the brown one can kill ya

Scotz ~ I've have got lots of pot plants....many more weeds...just not THAT type of weed lol

[campingboy]

Remind me if I go and visit Austraila, I think I want to go with a full HazMat suit.

[Mark Vieth]

Now now it ain't that bad here. Hazmat suit is a bit much.
If the bugs don't kill ya, the heat will.

[Lilith]

Speaking of innovation....When I was living in TN, I found that RAID (a US bug killer brand) makes a product that will shoot a stream of bug killer...

...up to 12 FEET. :D Best product I've ever bought for less than $5 USD
I read an article about the poor sales of the bug bait type pesticide products. The conclusion drawn was that people want to spray, stomp, pulverize bugs and need to see them dead. So bugs taking poison away to die was not satisfying to consumers.

[Oldfart]

It may take more than a Haz-Mat suit to save you.

The funnel-web is a primitive spider, like a small American Tarantula, built like a bull-dog

with BIG fangs.

A big female's fangs may be 3/16th of an inch, and she is more dangerous than a rattlesnake.

[osuche]

I read an article about the poor sales of the bug bait type pesticide products. The conclusion drawn was that people want to spray, stomp, pulverize bugs and need to see them dead. So bugs taking poison away to die was not satisfying to consumers.

For me, I think it depends. I want to see spiders *die* ~~ mostly because I believe that they are solitary pests and do not travel in groups.

I kinda like the concept that cockroaches and/or rats would carry the pesticide back to their "colony" and kill a group of them ~~ I suspect for this purpose that type of product is most effective.

However....I haven't had cockroaches since college, and I hope I have no use for that product any time soon. I dislike bugs. I'm only deathly afraid of spiders, btu I wouldn't choose to have any bug in the house.

[osuche]

A big female's fangs may be 3/16th of an inch, and she is more dangerous than a rattlesnake.


OK.....Now I'm starting to wonder if the Aussies are just screwing with the Americans' heads. LMAO. If not, I'm gonna have nightmares about spiders with big fangs tonight.

:yikes:

[maddy]

Ucky!!! I'm not a fan of any sort of creepy crawly, they can be anywhere they like so long as it isn't in my house or in my yard/garage where I can see them. I had my first encounter with cockroaches here in Texas at my apartment, it was horrific and I had more than one nightmare about waking up to them crawling on my bed or stepping on one when I got out of bed. I see an occassional variety of little spiders in my house, typically they are dead, my cat seems to like to kill but is more inclined to eat dry kitty food.

[sodaklostsoul]

Does'nt this thread just make your skin crawl..

[Sharni]

OK.....Now I'm starting to wonder if the Aussies are just screwing with the Americans' heads. LMAO. If not, I'm gonna have nightmares about spiders with big fangs tonight.

:yikes:
Nope...thats all true....nasty bloody things

[cherrypie7788]

Does'nt this thread just make your skin crawl..

Yes, it does..I was thinking that too!

[Mark Vieth]

Movie - Arachnophobia - Director Steven Spielberg.
Now that was scary!

[gekkogecko]

Spiders i can put under my foot....bears are a bit harder to do that with

Nah, just grab them by the hair, throw them facedown on the bed, and then...

Oh. That only works for me because I married a mammal.