I kilt a MASSIVE taranshula (warning, spider pics!)

Spiders = why baby Jesus invented vacuum cleaners.

Tarantulas are cool. I can't believe you killed it.

I'm with your missus.

Spiders = if they don't pay rent, they got no right to be in your house.

You should buy her one as a pet therapy critter.

They are really easy to care for. Little bit of water in a sponge. Change the bedding every month or two. Just keep them warm and they make no noise or fuss. Plus, watching them eat crickets never gets old

Wimps. You should see the creatures that run rampant on this island. Huge, the bastards. I've seen a few that are nearly the size of my hand.

We don't kill them, though. They're about the only creatures on this bloody island that aren't poisonous, so they get a pass.

Just be glad you don't run into THESE fuckers everywhere:



To give you an idea, the body on that thing is about the size of my ring finger. Of course you can't see my hands and have no idea if I have freakishly small or cartoonishly large hands, but assuming I have relatively normal fingers, that should give you an idea. It was fucking huge.

seun said:

Have you ever met any arachnophobes?

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Which is why i suggested the therapy.

I'm going to need therapy just for reading the title and trying to make myself open the thread.

I wouldn't be worried about the giant spider, I would be worried about what it was eating to keep it such a healthy size. It certainly wasn't flies.

Repeat after me, "Spiders are our friends."

Ironically I know a few people who got a tarantula to cure their arachnophobia, and now love their tarantula, but are still deathly afraid of tiny house spiders. Go figure.

If the Mrs. ever entertains the idea of the therapy, look up the BTS. That is the UK's tarantula society. http://www.thebts.co.uk/ They will have plenty of information.

Oh, and sponges, cotton balls, or cricket crystals, aren't needed, and pose a potential harbor for bacteria. A shallow dish of water will do fine.

I feel like I just made a public service announcement . . .

And remember, kids. Spiders aren't poisonous - you can eat as many as you want! Just don't let them bite you.

I named my tarantula Mrs. Peepers

You don't suppose they can ever escape from those vacuum cleaner bags, do you?

Haggis said:

You don't suppose they can ever escape from those vacuum cleaner bags, do you?

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Dude, that's evil.

No worries, house spiders don't tend to have the fang size that a real tarantula has . . . with a few exceptions. It shouldn't be able to chew it's way out.

Unless of course it's as big as my Josephine (in the avatar). This is what her and her 1/4" fangs did to a metal screen lid.

thethinker42 said:

Just be glad you don't run into THESE fuckers everywhere:

To give you an idea, the body on that thing is about the size of my ring finger. Of course you can't see my hands and have no idea if I have freakishly small or cartoonishly large hands, but assuming I have relatively normal fingers, that should give you an idea. It was fucking huge.

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But at least those stay outside! The damn huntsmen spiders come in! And try to eat you while you sleep! And then they attack when you spray them while standing on top of chairs. And you can hear the pitter patter of their little feet.

*provides visual evidence to torture everyone else with*

I kilt a MASSIVE taranshula

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Did you put any underdrawers on under its kilt?

thethinker42 said:

Just be glad you don't run into THESE fuckers everywhere:

To give you an idea, the body on that thing is about the size of my ring finger. Of course you can't see my hands and have no idea if I have freakishly small or cartoonishly large hands, but assuming I have relatively normal fingers, that should give you an idea. It was fucking huge.

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I get at least one of those in my hair a year! They are everywhere here.

It is spider time; I've noticed, too. I don't usually mind them inside, but apparently I need to get rid of a few. I've had several come up to say Hi to me on the computer

I came across a few tarantulas recently, just walking along the pathways of the Cozumel resort I was staying at:

Didn'tja hear the fable about the knight who gave up, ran into a cave and watched a spider try to spin its web?
He sat there, all day, watching him try to get from one side of the cave to the other, and then, eventaully, got to the other side and made a magnificent web. The knight then vowed to never give up, or so I hear the story goes. Either that, or my brother made it up as an inspirational tale.

Poor tarantula.

KTC said:

I came across a few tarantulas recently, just walking along the pathways of the Cozumel resort I was staying at:

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When Ol' Boy and I went to Cancun a few years ago, we took a bus tour to the ruins at Chichen Itza. On the way there, we were sitting in the first-row seat and got to see the road ahead of us. In the distance, I noticed a large, dark shape moving across it from right to left... I thought it was a cat or a dog, but it was moving slower than one would expect. As we got closer, I saw it was a tarantula the size of a dinner plate.

C.bronco said:

Didn'tja hear the fable about the knight who gave up, ran into a cave and watched a spider try to spin its web?
He sat there, all day, watching him try to get from one side of the cave to the other, and then, eventaully, got to the other side and made a magnificent web. The knight then vowed to never give up, or so I hear the story goes. Either that, or my brother made it up as an inspirational tale.

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Robert the Bruce.

I don't mind spiders, but I wouldn't want a tarantula crawling up my leg. There was a news report a while back about false widow spiders coming in to the UK on imported fruit (I know - bloody immigrants! They're even after our fruit now! ), and because of the milder climate in the south east of England they're now surviving whereas before they would have torpored and died. The prediction is the black widows are next. My friend said "It's okay, only the females are poisonous" and I thought "Who's going to hang around long enough to check?"