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What it is about Australian Fauna...
« on: 24 October 2016, 10:41:16 »
that weird you out or make you freak out?

So yeah... I'm gonna to leave this here.
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Re: What it is about Australian Fauna...
« Reply #1 on: 24 October 2016, 11:02:22 »
oh good lord,










that SPIDER has a mouse? 

all the more reason for me to never go to Australia... I really don't like spiders.

although I guess it could be worse... my mom doesn't like snakes, and there have been a few times when we were walking my dog, and mom freaked a bit when the dog noticed and went after garter snakes.

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Re: What it is about Australian Fauna...
« Reply #2 on: 24 October 2016, 12:37:26 »
i want one ...i do not know why but i really want one...
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Re: What it is about Australian Fauna...
« Reply #3 on: 24 October 2016, 15:10:26 »
Yep a Huntsman spider. Its mostly harmless, will give you a good scare due to its large size but does not normally bite humans.

The ones to watch out for are the Funnel Web spiders and the Redback spiders, they do bite. Painful and if you do not get the anti-venom you may die. Coming into late spring now and as it warms up it is time to do some spider spraying in the backyard - we get lots of Redbacks here in Canberra.

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Re: What it is about Australian Fauna...
« Reply #4 on: 24 October 2016, 15:57:50 »
The brown huntsman (in the link) supposedly hunt those spiders and recluse spider as well yeah?
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Re: What it is about Australian Fauna...
« Reply #5 on: 24 October 2016, 17:25:03 »
Huntsman tend to eat other spiders and insects. They like living and hiding in the bark of gum trees so you tend to get them around the house if you have gum trees on or near your property.
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Re: What it is about Australian Fauna...
« Reply #6 on: 24 October 2016, 18:38:44 »
Huntsman don't hunt humans. The trick is dealing with your freaked out spouse & kids, and preventing them laying eggsacks on the ceiling.

(You've never lived until you've come out to your kitchen in the middle of the night, turned on the light, to discover your ceiling seething with thousands of baby spiders. Pro-tip - industrial wet-dry vacuum cleaners are incredibly useful in this situation.)

My usual method is to get a broom, and bang the huntsman with the soft end until it gets bored and curls up, at which time I sweep it onto some cardboard and take it outside. The only concern is making sure that the spider doesn't get too pissed off, grab the broom, and perform the procedure on me.

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Re: What it is about Australian Fauna...
« Reply #7 on: 24 October 2016, 19:31:19 »
A good vacuum cleaner works well on the adult huntsman as well, just vacuum them up and keep vacuuming the rest of the room until the vacuum cleaner is hot enough to kill the huntsman. We had the one and only gum tree near our townhouse removed about 4 years ago as it was originally planted too close by our wonderful neighbour (who insisted that I pay half the cost of its removal). So huntsman are now rarely seen in and around our house now. Redbacks are my biggest problem, especially with the new subdivisions nearby disturbing their natural habitat.
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Re: What it is about Australian Fauna...
« Reply #8 on: 24 October 2016, 19:40:29 »
I have no particular desire to kill huntsmansl They're polite, don't leave webs on my minis, and I prefer working on a "live and let live" basis, as there's more of them than there is of me. But the wife has the usual reaction. So a little light massage is the answer.

Another pro-tip - if you do vacuum up spider(s), don't then try spraying fly-spray or similar into the vacuum in the hope of killing them. A), spiders laugh at fly-spray, and B),  a co-worker some years ago ignited her vacuum cleaner when the (flammable) spray encountered a hot electrical contact ...

Yes, she killed the spider. She also had a lovely mark on her expensive wooden floorboards. Not worth it.
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Re: What it is about Australian Fauna...
« Reply #9 on: 24 October 2016, 20:13:05 »
I agree with you on the Huntsman but my wife and kids have a different view that applies to all spiders even daddy longlegs spiders and jumping spiders which are completely harmless.

Personally, I have a "healthy respect" for redbacks, funnel webs and white tails (their bites can lead to ulceration). These are the spiders that I "prosecute with extreme prejudice" on sight.
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Re: What it is about Australian Fauna...
« Reply #10 on: 24 October 2016, 20:33:16 »
Fortunately funnelwebs not found in Melbourne.

My older son had a white-tail spider bite on his shin, but fortunately didn't need plastic surgery for it.

And we have an indoor loo :) (yes, I know, but not many redbacks in urban areas. 'Berrans have too many trees ...)
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Re: What it is about Australian Fauna...
« Reply #11 on: 24 October 2016, 20:33:39 »
Oh God, why did my arachnophobic self click on that link?!  #P I've only myself to blame. *laughs*

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Re: What it is about Australian Fauna...
« Reply #12 on: 24 October 2016, 21:37:40 »
Unless you're a child, elderly, or in bad health a black widow bite isn't going to kill you even without the anti-venom.  Oh it will hurt, boy will it ever hurt.  Ever had to pull out one of your ingrown toenails with a pair of pliers so it could regrow without painkiller?  I have and being bitten by a black widow hurts worse than that.  But aside from the intense pain, the intense cramps that last several hours and the sweats, and the swelling around the bite it's not THAT bad.

Brown recluses are worse because you often don't even know you've been bitten until the bite displays that characteristic 8 shape and starts turning black.  But most people don't actually have a hugely bad reaction to them and you just end up with a black spot about the size of a quarter that scars over after you debride and bleach it.  But if you're one of the roughly 15% that react badly to the venom they're horrific and there's no way to tell which you are until one envenomates you. 

But any spider the size of the one in that video needs to be rendered extinct.  Now I know why Zeon dropped a colony on them. :P
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Re: What it is about Australian Fauna...
« Reply #13 on: 24 October 2016, 21:59:00 »
'Berrans have too many trees ...)

Well Canberra is "the bush capital".



One of the reasons I love living here.

I grew up in Sydney, and was taught from a very young age to have a very healthy respect for the Sydney Funnel Web spider. The Sydney Funnel Web spider bite has caused a number of deaths (usually in children) before the anti-venom was developed in the 1980s. They generally are not aggressive and usually attack when their home is disturbed.
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Re: What it is about Australian Fauna...
« Reply #14 on: 24 October 2016, 22:03:32 »
Apologies for the double post but just remembered that our snakes can be just as impressive.

A wallaby is small kangaroo species.
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Re: What it is about Australian Fauna...
« Reply #15 on: 25 October 2016, 05:30:42 »
But the wife has the usual reaction. So a little light massage is the answer.

I'm sorry, but I have to ask for a clarification on that quoted bit. Is the answer:

A) You give the spider a light massage as a deal to have it go away
or
B) The spider gives your wife a light massage while appologizing for scaring her half to death

It seems possible that it could be either one. On the one hand those spiders don't look like they take to kindly to other critters poking at it. But, with 8 legs, an Aussie spider could probably make some decent money giving massages.

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Re: What it is about Australian Fauna...
« Reply #16 on: 25 October 2016, 06:17:03 »
Koalas.  Cute until soggy.  Then they look like they will end you and all that you love.  Only after making you watch first...

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Re: What it is about Australian Fauna...
« Reply #17 on: 25 October 2016, 07:44:47 »
Marauder: you know biologists consider it one of the stupidest members of the Mammalian Order. Its brain development is like a million year behind everyone else! Its brain is smooth, less folds. It can't eat the ecuplytus leaves offered on a plate. It keep accepting a painting of ecuplyptus tree as real.
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Re: What it is about Australian Fauna...
« Reply #18 on: 25 October 2016, 09:00:42 »
Some of the dumbest people I've ever met were the most vicious.  Raw intelligence isn't the end all be all of mammalian development.

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Re: What it is about Australian Fauna...
« Reply #19 on: 25 October 2016, 09:46:12 »
As a personal favor to myself and other severe arachnophobes on this forum, I request that in the future, would you please provide some kind of warning so that we know NOT to click on a thread or link?

Thanks.

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Re: What it is about Australian Fauna...
« Reply #20 on: 25 October 2016, 11:04:02 »
I will take cats for catching mice over those nasty spiders thank you very much.
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Re: What it is about Australian Fauna...
« Reply #21 on: 25 October 2016, 12:09:19 »
 ???

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