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dpack

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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 08 10:20 pm Post subject: one of my spiders is quite big
about an inch leg tip to tip and plump like em

dpack

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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 08 12:08 am Post subject:

this one is chunky ,im pretty unworried by most wildlife but that chap was chunky and it lives here with me

why are spiders so much more worrying than they should be ?
my pal's pets are big and one of them is fierce with it but they all seem safeish as they are easy seen ,this wee chap has me looking about and thinking i should shake me boots before i put them back on
afaik brit spiders are harmless but he had a look to him i didnt like

Blue Sky

Joined: 30 Jan 2005
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Location: France

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 08 5:24 am Post subject:
You've got me looking in my boots now too.

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 08 6:02 am Post subject:
I quite like spiders. There are a couple of British ones that can give a nasty bite- the woodlouse spider for example can get through a fingernail if you are silly enough to poke it, but its not that common to get bitten, and its not venomous, just painful. Most are perfectly nice to be around.

Andrea

Joined: 02 May 2005
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 08 6:21 am Post subject:

Occassionally one sets up home down our compost loo. Now I'm a bit like you dpack, whilst I can see them they're OK but I don't like to let them out of my sight. Not having eyes in my backside, spiders down the loo is a recipe for constipation.

As far as I know, the big ones that find their way into the loo are harmless but I got bitten by a spider last year whilst shifting manure which laid me out for a couple of days. It came on astonishingly quickly & I think if it had bitten one of the kids they'd have been seriously ill.

Barefoot Andrew
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 08 9:00 am Post subject:

sally_in_wales wrote:

Most are perfectly nice to be around.

Hmm...

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 08 9:07 am Post subject:

dpack wrote:

afaik brit spiders are harmless but he had a look to him i didnt like

Perhaps I shouldn't say I've been bitten by a commonly found UK spider.

At least the ones commonly found in the house seem ok and I've now plucked up courage to handle even the largest ones; the ones that are so large they can walk over a slipper as if it isn't there.

bernie-woman

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 08 9:14 am Post subject:

Treacodactyl wrote:

Perhaps I shouldn't say I've been bitten by a commonly found UK spider.

What were you doing to it to make you bite you

Andrea

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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 08 9:21 am Post subject:

Treacodactyl wrote:

Perhaps I shouldn't say I've been bitten by a commonly found UK spider.

My Dad was bitten by a spider in the UK & his arm came up like an angry red balloon. He's far more forgiving than me as he spotted the culprit & allowed it free passage elsewhere. I never spotted the one that bit me, but if I had it would not have been given the opportunity to do it again.

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 08 10:55 am Post subject:

bernie-woman wrote:

Treacodactyl wrote:

Perhaps I shouldn't say I've been bitten by a commonly found UK spider.

What were you doing to it to make you bite you

Trying to squash it so I was fair game. In my defence I was very young and I don't kill things unnecessarily now.

No reaction to the bite, it was one of those orange, furry woodlouse spiders.

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
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Location: under some rain.

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 08 10:57 am Post subject:

Treacodactyl wrote:

No reaction to the bite,

From the society of nature

Quote:

'Long term mental impairment can result (in very extreme cases) where the victim demonstrates hypersensitivity to venom'

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
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Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 08 2:29 pm Post subject:
Can't pick 'em up and don't like 'em behind me. Or on the ceiling. But can pick 'em up in a pint glass - one of the two positive things I took away from my horrible previous relationship was the knowledge that even the largest house spider can't jump out of one .

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 08 6:44 pm Post subject:
maybe im not daft

Blue Sky

Joined: 30 Jan 2005
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Location: France

Posted: Sat Apr 26, 08 10:02 am Post subject:
We had a very big one in here a few days ago and now it isn't here anymore. Well, it is; if you see what I mean?

chez

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Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Sat Apr 26, 08 10:04 am Post subject:
You can borrow Betty Cat if you like - I found her hunting down a HUGE house-spider just outside the bedroom door this morning.

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