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Spider post

I’ve loved and appreciated spiders ever since I met Charlotte.

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I have a lot of admiration for the Hunstman spiders in the top of Australia, they're amazing animals. The don't use webs to catch prey, they just chase it down and kill it. They eat many things including frogs and lizards. In the video below one has caught a mouse.

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That is disgusting but even snakes can eat very large animals. It's amazing the animal kingdom and what they do.
Gives us all reminders to take care of the planet.
 
Tom said:
Your hysterical! (extremely funny)

I was afraid of spiders when young but have grown much more fond of them over time. I live in the woods and let them live in the house (do not tell my wife - she thinks I remove them) as my first line of defense against other bugs coming in and other bugs are always trying to come in.

My favorite is the Carolina Wolf Spider which doesn't make a web but prowls around and hunts at night. If you leave them alone they don't bother you. I've has a few I have actually gotten to know as they hang out during the day where I can see them and can live up to 3 years. One, whom I named Henry (actually a Henrietta) lived next to the washing machine for the better part of a year.

They are big. Not quite Huntsman size, but close. Legs included they can be 2- 4 inches long, furry brown with darker stripe patterns on the back.

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Wow, that close up of the eyes is creepy
Creeps me out and makes my stomach feel sick.
I have a theory that is you remove bugs or spiders from your house, you are removing them from a path they are familar with like they may become disoriented in their mind if you put them in a new location like the garden and hopefully they recover because I do not like bugs or spiders in the house but cannot kill them anymore unless maybe I was desperate like a poisonous spider but I may get upset and cry.
 
Judge said:
I have a zero-tolerance policy about any arachnids or insects entering my home.

When I once lived in Sacramento, I remember turning on the light in my bathroom, only to enter and find a black widow spider dangling from its web. I was not amused.

Outdoor growing in Virginia I liked seeing the fireflies light up the summer nights. Can't say anyone appreciated all the Japanese Beetles though.
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I like fireflies, they remind me that there is always light in the dark as long as you remember to let your light shine.
 
When I was six and living with my grandmother in her farmhouse, she had a large
glass vase that sat on the floor as a doorstop. It was filled with marbles and a brown spider lived in a funnel web on top of the marbles.
I brought it ants and small insects every day to feed it.

Three days ago, I walked into my bathroom and when I sat down on the loo, I noticed a small black spider on the shower floor. He noticed me also.
He ran to a rubber drain catcher laying in there, got in between the nubs on it and snuggled into them so tightly into a little ball.
I was amused to see how he reacted to me so intelligently and figured out a hiding spot.

Even though I think they are creepy, I found it cute.
They can be fascinating if you really observe them closely.
I find many insects are this way.
I have a black beetle insect farm in the washroom. Again, a fascinating social network and intelligence in task performing.
The lowly bug that people ignore or kill, most would not watch in detail to see their intelligence.
Aspies notice things in detail it seems.
 
I love spiders, I often see daddy long-legs spiders in my house. I sometimes let them crawl onto my hand if they are walking near me.

Outside, I often find spiny-backed orbweavers. They look scary because they have red spines but they are not scary at all. Even if they build their web in an annoying location, I don't like to tear down spiderwebs. That seems rude to me and spiderwebs are pretty. Also orbweavers build a new web every day, so it's not like the web will be there for longer than 24 hours.

A spider bit me on the eyelid when I was a kid lol.
 
We have plenty of Redbacks around the place in summer. Smart tip is not to grab things off the ground in the garden without checking under them first. Also have funnel webs which are a bit more dangerous. Our doors are all up steps so they can't get in and you just don't walk barefoot outside after dusk in the summer or autumn. Don't often see huntsmen. Sadly the time we see them most is when a wasp has paralysed them and is dragging them across the lawn to their burrow.
 
Princess Viola said:
I love spiders, I often see daddy long-legs spiders in my house.
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I learned something interesting about daddy long-legs, they are actually not classified as spiders. They are arachnids but they belong to an order called Opiliones and they are very different from spiders. I was very surprised when I heard that.
 
MNAus said:
Don't often see huntsmen. Sadly the time we see them most is when a wasp has paralysed them and is dragging them across the lawn to their burrow.
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Why is everything in Australia so hell-bent on killing everything else in horrific ways. :screamcat:
 
I love spiders.

One can just catch one in a cup and then put a little index card over the top, and dump them outside.

But if I'm laying in bed, and one is comin down toward my pillow, or if one is already in my sheets: No parley. Straight keel haul.
 
Forest Cat said:
I learned something interesting about daddy long-legs, they are actually not classified as spiders. They are arachnids but they belong to an order called Opiliones and they are very different from spiders. I was very surprised when I heard that.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pholcidae
The Pholcidae are a family of araneomorph spiders. The family contains more than 1,800 individual species of pholcids, including those commonly known as cellar spider, daddy long-legs spider, carpenter spider, daddy long-legger, vibrating spider, gyrating spider, long daddy, and skull spider. The family, first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1850,[1] is divided into 94 genera.[2]
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I'm talking about these, not harvestmen.
 
Forest Cat said:
Why is everything in Australia so hell-bent on killing everything else in horrific ways. :screamcat:
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It's the heat IMHO. All that extra energy finds its way into the system. I'm always in two minds when I see the wasps doing that. On the one hand I'm tempted to put the huntsman out of its misery. But on the other hand mother wasp is looking for somewhere to raise a family, who am I to deny her that right? Besides, she'll just go find another one. A real moral dilemma.
 
MNAus said:
A real moral dilemma.
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Just to give you a little peace of mind - up the top end the hunstmans attack the wasps. They're extremely active and incredible acrobats, I've seen one race across the ceiling and launch itself in to the air to land on a wasp's back, the wasp never had a chance. I've seen them use the same technique to catch dragonflies, skinks and geckos too.

@Forest Cat would love the top end. So many horrible ways to die presented daily. :)
 
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Just to give you a little peace of mind - up the top end the hunstmans attack the wasps. They're extremely active and incredible acrobats, I've seen one race across the ceiling and launch itself in to the air to land on a wasp's back, the wasp never had a chance. I've seen them use the same technique to catch dragonflies, skinks and geckos too.
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I'll bet they do that to kangaroos and koalas too. Australia is terrifying. :) You're watching tv and suddenly a Huntsman launches itself at a koala and kills it, in your livingroom! ;)
 
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Forest Cat said:
I'll bet they do that to kangaroos and pandas too. Australia is terrifying. :)
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It's not so bad living with them, they don't bother humans much. Rather unnerving when one walks across your face in the middle of the night though.

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