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Come Inside... => Saloon Bar => Topic started by: Snoopy on October 14, 2008, 10:31:34 AM
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7573530.stm
Spiders with a poisoness bite have arrived and are apparently thriving in the West Country. Nasty looking buggers too.
char062 EEEeeeeeeeeeeeK!
I hate spiders at the best of times. scared2:
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The tube web spider (Segestria florentina), another non-native biting spider, has also been on the move, spreading from the South Coast much further north.
It is a large spider, measuring between 1.5cm and 2.2cm (0.6-0.9in), with green iridescence on its jaws.
Mr Hine said: "In spider terms, it has to be said that this is an aggressive spider.
"If you approach it, it raises its legs and bares its fangs.
"Most spiders will back away - this one will jump at you and bite."
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I think you should be safe Nick, the animal kingdom is more in tune with its surrounding than we are so if there are any nearby they will detect the Nick-o-rays and bugger off as if there was a forest fire heading their way.
Having said that I dread to think what the Nick-o-rays could do to a tube spider... scared2:
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This morning, a mahooosive one in the bedroom. Eventually got that one out. I have just been to the bathroom and spotted a smaller one scurrying across the floor. The bastard got away behind the bog before I had a chance to capture it and bung it own in the garden. Then, as I went to grab a bit of toilet roll to blow my nose with, THERE WAS ONE ON THE BOG ROLL. About an inch and a half long. I ran into the bedroom to grab a glass to go and get it with and there were TWO MORE on the net curtains.
I'm being invaded scared2: scared2: scared2:
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This morning, a mahooosive one in the bedroom. Eventually got that one out. I have just been to the bathroom and spotted a smaller one scurrying across the floor. The bastard got away behind the bog before I had a chance to capture it and bung it own in the garden. Then, as I went to grab a bit of toilet roll to blow my nose with, THERE WAS ONE ON THE BOG ROLL. About an inch and a half long. I ran into the bedroom to grab a glass to go and get it with and there were TWO MORE on the net curtains.
I'm being invaded scared2: scared2: scared2:
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That's like an episode of Dr Who scared2:
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What a bunch of jessy's pussy's. ::)
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What a bunch of jessy's pussy's. ::)
Quite right my mechanical friend.... You can arm wrestle with the spiders over here.... char062
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What a bunch of jessy's pussy's. ::)
To clarify Growler, I have no problem with spiders but the women of the household shriek and refuse to go into a room known to contain a spider. I am the official spider remover - they would be happy for me to stamp on them, but I won't kill them unless I have to.
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I don't think they should be killed just never seen.
I have no choice but to deal with them even though i don't like em sad24:
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I don't think they should be killed just never seen.
I have no choice but to deal with them even though i don't like em sad24:
Suck them up the vacuum cleaner like.... whistle:
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By the time you have got the vacuum cleaner out though they will have disappeared rubschin:
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Oh ffs. They won't harm you if you leave them alone. They aren't interested in us, just flies and stuff. They're our friends. cloud9:
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They are warrior soldiers of the underworld scared2:
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They are warrior soldiers of the underworld scared2:
lol: lol: lol:
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They are warrior soldiers of the underworld scared2:
::)
And I suppose midges are the Luftwaffe and bees are Kamikaze?
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A man that finally understands me cloud9:
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No probs with spiders however, earwigs make me cringe. noooo:
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No probs with spiders however, earwigs make me cringe. noooo:
EarwigPoonTM....? rubschin:
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No probs with spiders however, earwigs make me cringe. noooo:
Exactly the same here MC, exactly.
Amazing that in'it.
We're both sound, cloud9: the rest are just great wusses'. ::)
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No probs with spiders however, earwigs make me cringe. noooo:
Exactly the same here MC, exactly.
Amazing that in'it.
We're both sound, cloud9: the rest are just great wusses'. ::)
"Oh ffs. They won't harm you if you leave them alone. They aren't interested in us, just.... er.... er... ears and wigs and and stuff. They're our friends. whistle:
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No probs with spiders however, earwigs make me cringe. noooo:
Exactly the same here MC, exactly.
Amazing that in'it.
We're both sound, cloud9: the rest are just great wusses'. ::)
"Oh ffs. They won't harm you if you leave them alone. They aren't interested in us, just.... er.... er... ears and wigs and and stuff. They're our friends. whistle:
BM is lucky they left him with his ears. whistle:
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No probs with spiders however, earwigs make me cringe. noooo:
Exactly the same here MC, exactly.
Amazing that in'it.
We're both sound, cloud9: the rest are just great wusses'. ::)
"Oh ffs. They won't harm you if you leave them alone. They aren't interested in us, just.... er.... er... ears and wigs and and stuff. They're our friends. whistle:
Wigs? eeek:
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No probs with spiders however, earwigs make me cringe. noooo:
Exactly the same here MC, exactly.
Amazing that in'it.
We're both sound, cloud9: the rest are just great wusses'. ::)
"Oh ffs. They won't harm you if you leave them alone. They aren't interested in us, just.... er.... er... ears and wigs and and stuff. They're our friends. whistle:
Wigs? eeek:
We know you fell out with yours. happy100
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No probs with spiders however, earwigs make me cringe. noooo:
Exactly the same here MC, exactly.
Amazing that in'it.
We're both sound, cloud9: the rest are just great wusses'. ::)
"Oh ffs. They won't harm you if you leave them alone. They aren't interested in us, just.... er.... er... ears and wigs and and stuff. They're our friends. whistle:
Wigs? eeek:
We know you fell out with yours. happy100
Wigs, not WAGS... ::)
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No probs with spiders however, earwigs make me cringe. noooo:
Exactly the same here MC, exactly.
Amazing that in'it.
We're both sound, cloud9: the rest are just great wusses'. ::)
Quite so Growler. JOM they make me cringe tis all. Nests of them make me shudder but on the whole I leave them to it unless I am particularly hungry or I have chickens to feed. eveilgrin:
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I have to rescue the menfolk from them in this house. scared2:
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One or two spiders, fair enough I could live with that. 6000 brown recluse spiders? Bollocks to gassing the house, I'd be there pumping in petrol and throwing a bloody match... eeek:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2787044/Pest-control-pumps-poisonous-gas-country-club-home-SIX-THOUSAND-venomous-spiders-forced-family-out.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2787044/Pest-control-pumps-poisonous-gas-country-club-home-SIX-THOUSAND-venomous-spiders-forced-family-out.html)
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One or two spiders, fair enough I could live with that. 6000 brown recluse spiders? Bollocks to gassing the house, I'd be there pumping in petrol and throwing a bloody match... eeek:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2787044/Pest-control-pumps-poisonous-gas-country-club-home-SIX-THOUSAND-venomous-spiders-forced-family-out.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2787044/Pest-control-pumps-poisonous-gas-country-club-home-SIX-THOUSAND-venomous-spiders-forced-family-out.html)
eeek:
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Spider 'the size of a small puppy' weighing more than 6oz with 2 inch fangs???? scared2: scared2:
Piotr Naskrecki was taking a nighttime walk in a rainforest in Guyana, when he heard rustling as if something were creeping underfoot. When he turned on his flashlight, he expected to see a small mammal, such as a possum or a rat.
"When I turned on the light, I couldn't quite understand what I was seeing," said Naskrecki, an entomologist and photographer at Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology.
A moment later, he realized he was looking not at a brown, furry mammal, but an enormous, puppy-size spider.
While it's not mentioned on his blog something tells me they heard the scream miles away lol:
And people want one as a pet??? eeek: eeek:
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/puppy-sized-spider-haunt-dreams/story?id=26344479 (http://abcnews.go.com/Health/puppy-sized-spider-haunt-dreams/story?id=26344479)
http://www.livescience.com/48340-goliath-birdeater-surprises-scientist.html (http://www.livescience.com/48340-goliath-birdeater-surprises-scientist.html)
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Spider 'the size of a small puppy' weighing more than 6oz with 2 inch fangs???? scared2: scared2:
Piotr Naskrecki was taking a nighttime walk in a rainforest in Guyana, when he heard rustling as if something were creeping underfoot. When he turned on his flashlight, he expected to see a small mammal, such as a possum or a rat.
"When I turned on the light, I couldn't quite understand what I was seeing," said Naskrecki, an entomologist and photographer at Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology.
A moment later, he realized he was looking not at a brown, furry mammal, but an enormous, puppy-size spider.
While it's not mentioned on his blog something tells me they heard the scream miles away lol:
And people want one as a pet??? eeek: eeek:
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/puppy-sized-spider-haunt-dreams/story?id=26344479 (http://abcnews.go.com/Health/puppy-sized-spider-haunt-dreams/story?id=26344479)
http://www.livescience.com/48340-goliath-birdeater-surprises-scientist.html (http://www.livescience.com/48340-goliath-birdeater-surprises-scientist.html)
Shocked:
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107 million spiders!! Personally, I'd be finding somewhere else to work pretty bloody quick eeek:
I have to ask though, was that 107 million figure an estimate or a really bad day to be an intern lol:
(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.dailymail.co.uk%2Fi%2Fpix%2F2014%2F11%2F03%2F1415031390451_wps_8_An_immense_Concentration_.jpg&hash=f486513d80816ac0a52827b7fd5b8c5aea8fab54)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2819066/Scared-spiders-Look-away-Terrifying-photos-reveal-FOUR-ACRE-web-teeming-107-MILLION-arachnids.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2819066/Scared-spiders-Look-away-Terrifying-photos-reveal-FOUR-ACRE-web-teeming-107-MILLION-arachnids.html)
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A graduate of the BM school of spider catching lol:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3036450/Watch-moment-man-tries-catch-world-s-biggest-huntsman-spider-instead-suffers-embarrassing-fall.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3036450/Watch-moment-man-tries-catch-world-s-biggest-huntsman-spider-instead-suffers-embarrassing-fall.html)
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http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/815105/spider-crawls-out-of-woman-ear-after-headache?utm_source=traffic.outbrain&utm_medium=traffic.outbrain&utm_term=traffic.outbrain&utm_content=traffic.outbrain&utm_campaign=traffic.outbrain (http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/815105/spider-crawls-out-of-woman-ear-after-headache?utm_source=traffic.outbrain&utm_medium=traffic.outbrain&utm_term=traffic.outbrain&utm_content=traffic.outbrain&utm_campaign=traffic.outbrain)
eeek: eeek:
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http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/815105/spider-crawls-out-of-woman-ear-after-headache?utm_source=traffic.outbrain&utm_medium=traffic.outbrain&utm_term=traffic.outbrain&utm_content=traffic.outbrain&utm_campaign=traffic.outbrain (http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/815105/spider-crawls-out-of-woman-ear-after-headache?utm_source=traffic.outbrain&utm_medium=traffic.outbrain&utm_term=traffic.outbrain&utm_content=traffic.outbrain&utm_campaign=traffic.outbrain)
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scared2: scared2: scared2:
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http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/815105/spider-crawls-out-of-woman-ear-after-headache?utm_source=traffic.outbrain&utm_medium=traffic.outbrain&utm_term=traffic.outbrain&utm_content=traffic.outbrain&utm_campaign=traffic.outbrain (http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/815105/spider-crawls-out-of-woman-ear-after-headache?utm_source=traffic.outbrain&utm_medium=traffic.outbrain&utm_term=traffic.outbrain&utm_content=traffic.outbrain&utm_campaign=traffic.outbrain)
eeek: eeek:
scared2: scared2: scared2:
It does beg the question, does BM wear the bucket to keep them out or keep one trapped inside.... rubschin:
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http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/815105/spider-crawls-out-of-woman-ear-after-headache?utm_source=traffic.outbrain&utm_medium=traffic.outbrain&utm_term=traffic.outbrain&utm_content=traffic.outbrain&utm_campaign=traffic.outbrain (http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/815105/spider-crawls-out-of-woman-ear-after-headache?utm_source=traffic.outbrain&utm_medium=traffic.outbrain&utm_term=traffic.outbrain&utm_content=traffic.outbrain&utm_campaign=traffic.outbrain)
eeek: eeek:
scared2: scared2: scared2:
It does beg the question, does BM wear the bucket to keep them out or keep one trapped inside.... rubschin:
or is it his stunt double?
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http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/815105/spider-crawls-out-of-woman-ear-after-headache?utm_source=traffic.outbrain&utm_medium=traffic.outbrain&utm_term=traffic.outbrain&utm_content=traffic.outbrain&utm_campaign=traffic.outbrain (http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/815105/spider-crawls-out-of-woman-ear-after-headache?utm_source=traffic.outbrain&utm_medium=traffic.outbrain&utm_term=traffic.outbrain&utm_content=traffic.outbrain&utm_campaign=traffic.outbrain)
eeek: eeek:
scared2: scared2: scared2:
It does beg the question, does BM wear the bucket to keep them out or keep one trapped inside.... rubschin:
Keep them out! :thumbsup:
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http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/815105/spider-crawls-out-of-woman-ear-after-headache?utm_source=traffic.outbrain&utm_medium=traffic.outbrain&utm_term=traffic.outbrain&utm_content=traffic.outbrain&utm_campaign=traffic.outbrain (http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/815105/spider-crawls-out-of-woman-ear-after-headache?utm_source=traffic.outbrain&utm_medium=traffic.outbrain&utm_term=traffic.outbrain&utm_content=traffic.outbrain&utm_campaign=traffic.outbrain)
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scared2: scared2: scared2:
It does beg the question, does BM wear the bucket to keep them out or keep one trapped inside.... rubschin:
Keep them out! :thumbsup:
That may be redundant BM, from what I've heard most of them don't like dark cavernous spaces..... whistle:
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http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/815105/spider-crawls-out-of-woman-ear-after-headache?utm_source=traffic.outbrain&utm_medium=traffic.outbrain&utm_term=traffic.outbrain&utm_content=traffic.outbrain&utm_campaign=traffic.outbrain (http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/815105/spider-crawls-out-of-woman-ear-after-headache?utm_source=traffic.outbrain&utm_medium=traffic.outbrain&utm_term=traffic.outbrain&utm_content=traffic.outbrain&utm_campaign=traffic.outbrain)
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scared2: scared2: scared2:
It does beg the question, does BM wear the bucket to keep them out or keep one trapped inside.... rubschin:
Keep them out! :thumbsup:
That may be redundant BM, from what I've heard most of them don't like dark cavernous spaces..... whistle:
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