this thing is like 1.5" long and makes a new web everyday. This is actually one of the reasons i'm moving in 2 weeks.
http://www.camaro327.com/000/spider
http://www.camaro327.com/000/spider2

Nice camera.......Ugly spider :thumbsup:



bob

Yikes! It is October yet?

Don't get bit you'll be pushin up daisies.
In fact do you have a 357 or a 44 handy ?

Take a torch to the spider and I bet the isn't a new web tomorrow.:D

Throw some flies in there and have some fun!!!!

Thats making you move??? that would make me grab a can of wd-40 and a lighter!!!

i'm currently renting so the move really isn't that crazy of an idea...

1 and a half inches? that thing is like 5 inches on my screen!

runn!!!!!

Looks like some sort of tarantula! Here in the NW, the bigger the spider, the more harmless it is. We have black widows and hobo spiders. Hobo's inject a nasty poison that rots the flesh several inches around where the bite is! i don't like 'em much either...
Dano

Relax.....It's a Cobweb spider. They are harmless unless you are a juicy fly :D

http://www.kakariki.net/albums/album15/Weta1_003.sized.jpg

This is about a 1/2 grown weta, VERY common in our backyards....
And yeah, thats my arm...
AND the spiders in the movie Acrophilia, they come from a suburb in Auckland NZ...known locally as the Avondale spider...real common in houses, on the walls lol. They are a bit larger than a big dinner plate
http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biodiversity/invertebratesprog/spiders/avondale.asp
http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/education/insects_spiders/facts/Avondale.asp

I have a big *** spider spinning a web outside the living room window and I am not sure what to do with it.

In days past I would stomp it into the ground, but now I am trying to figure out how to safely catch it and set it loose somewhere else. I mean, it did nothing to me, why kill it?

Still spooks me to look at it but I mean it no harm just cuz it spooks me.

Although a lighter makes it more fun all you really need is the WD-40 or others like it like PB Blaster. Nasty stuff when sprayed on pests.

BTW: That spider is 8" long on my screen. :eek:

I have those all over the outside of my house. I killed a big wolf spider in my kitchen last night and I was freaked out for the rest of the night.

Hair spray and a lighter make a better blow-torch. However, take a moment and think/watch the spider.

Ever see one make its web? Quite the trick and an engineering feat within itself.
The nice thing about the spider is there will not be any flies and moths around.
Watch a spider capture its prey.

Ecology at its finest hour. True, this breed won't hurt you, she will run away. If you do kill it, it will leave a large blood stain.

Eww.. i freakin hate spiders. Especially really BIG HAIRY ones!

Hope the spider does not decide to move too..

Moving because of a 1 1/2" spider??? LOL Look at what our troops in Iraq are living with...


http://www.camelspiders.net/large-camel-spider.jpg

:D

Looks like some sort of tarantula! Here in the NW, the bigger the spider, the more harmless it is. We have black widows and hobo spiders. Hobo's inject a nasty poison that rots the flesh several inches around where the bite is! i don't like 'em much either...
Dano

We also have Tegeneris Agrestis in the NW. Their bite is worse than the Hobo. It looks like a Hobo and has a funnel type web. They are very fast. Same type of venom action, it causes a necrocidic action by digesting or rotting the flesh around the bite. Some bites have been fatal.
The problem we have here in the NW is that the Hobo and TA are not natives. So there isn't a predator for them. They are a very hardy species so they are taking over.
The fall months of September and October is their mating season so they are very active. The mature adults can get big and they are fast too. This time of year, if you see one that is moving slowly, its getting ready to die. This is about the time the old ones (2-3 years) die.
Once in awhile they'll fall into a house spider or orbed web spider web and be killed that way. Our dog will see them, walk up and "GLUP".
We call her spider breath.
I posted something awhile ago about finding things in our cars. I was reaching down into an area that I couldn't see to work on the hood pins and I felt something move against my hand that was big and strong enough to MOVE my hand.
My arm came out of there so fast I don't think it could have been seen on high speed film. Later I saw the SOB on my windshield.
It was a very large Hobo or TA. I didn't look close enough to confirm the type.

Moving because of a 1 1/2" spider??? LOL Look at what our troops in Iraq are living with...


http://www.camelspiders.net/large-camel-spider.jpg

:D

That's a camera angle trick, I saw those when I was in the Army. They aren't that big. They are actually about 2 inches or so, which doesn't make them pleasant but that pic makes them look like the size of a cat. Still, I didn't want any of them on me!!

My sister just went back to school in Bemidji, MN. There was a big ruckus in her dorm room, because someone who came back from down south brought a poisonous spider in her luggage. My sisters neighbor got bit by the spider and had to goto the hospital.

Needless to say, my sis is a little freaked out at the moment :)

Their bodies get up to 6"... That's big enough and if you look at the hand in the upper right I think the perspective is right on... They really are not spiders though...

Hey jr68, is that how you handled spiders in Chicago as a kid?? Hahaha

Holy crap... that thing is huge

Black Widows and Brown Recluse or any other poisonous spider...Kill em Everything else, let them live they are great for the garden.

Bob

I didn't know they came that big in NJ.
Please don't send it in the direction of Flemington.

I was deployed in the Nat'l guard to New Orleans after Katrina hit. We were the first company into the 9th ward. We took up position in an abandon convent.
There was a patch of grass outside and I went out there to sleep. It was too hot and muggy inside and smelled worse inside than outside. The flies were like nothing I'd ever been through, very aggressive, very persistent and very big. Some of them bit.
I laid on top of my sleep system and pulled the rain fly over my body to hide from the flies.
Something moved down around my leg.
I came straight up to standing position. I don't know how I did that. I was laying on my side flat and somehow was standing. I came up like one of those railroad crossing guards do after the train has past.
I was thinking spider, snake, scorpian whatever.....
It turned out to be this big grey cockroach looking thing that seemed to have pinchers on it.
It was about 4 frickin inches long!!
Probly harmless but I was pretty wide awake after that. Some other soldiers got a good laugh out of it. They may have put it in there.....

Oh well, I'm always happy to amuse.....:D

I caught a RAT in a mousetrap in my garage on Saturday.......BFR, too!

Although a lighter makes it more fun all you really need is the WD-40 or others like it like PB Blaster. Nasty stuff when sprayed on pests.

BTW: That spider is 8" long on my screen. :eek:
Did you actually measure it? haha. I like the hairspray and lighter idea. Not many people have wd-40 at their house.

In the house I grew up in, there were tons of Cobweb spiders around the outside of the house. As a joke to my friends, I would get a can of black spray paint and paint a Cobweb spider black so it looked like a Black widow. Since the Cobweb and Black widow are in the same family you couldn't tell the difference except for the absence of the hourglass on the underside of the spider. I would then tell my friends that there was this huge Black widow spider in the yard and to go take a look. They didn't believe me at first until they saw it with their own eyes. It's funny watching their reactions to seeing such a big spider in a sometimes 6 foot web stretched across an opening. It wasn't until later on I realized why my friends didn't want to play around my yard anymore. hehe :D

Not many people have wd-40 at their house.

Where are you located? I bet there is a can under 80% of the kitchen sinks here on the west coast...

Where are you located? I bet there is a can under 80% of the kitchen sinks here on the west coast...

i'll see your bet and raise you double :thumbsup:

Gentlemen, if you are going to punish a spider, do it right with carb cleaner spray! Really makes them wish they were not your neighbors at all. I did spray a spider years back that was huge in my garage, and as soon as the spray hit, about a thousand tiny baby spiders come off of mons back. I am still freaked over that deal. They spread like crazy. I stomped, and sprayed, but I am sure some got away.

Gentlemen, if you are going to punish a spider, do it right with carb cleaner spray! Really makes them wish they were not your neighbors at all. I did spray a spider years back that was huge in my garage, and as soon as the spray hit, about a thousand tiny baby spiders come off of mons back. I am still freaked over that deal. They spread like crazy. I stomped, and sprayed, but I am sure some got away.
I saw that in person one time. There was a big spider in front of a doorway. We stomped on it and hundreds of little babies spread like wildfire. Ugh, I had the chills for the rest of the night.

Hey Djd, what are 80% of the people doing with wd-40 under their kitchen sink? lol.

I saw that in person one time. There was a big spider in front of a doorway. We stomped on it and hundreds of little babies spread like wildfire. Ugh, I had the chills for the rest of the night.

Hey Djd, what are 80% of the people doing with wd-40 under their kitchen sink? lol.

I am glad someone else saw this horror!! I am creaped out just re-reading about it. Ugly little buggers............:clonk: :sad: :angry: :waving:

It's a common household product used to stop squeeking door hinges, stuck drawer rollers and lots of other applications like window rollers and fireplace screens that don't move smoothly. If you ever maintained a household you would have it around too. Here's a list of 2000 uses...

http://www.twbc.org/wd40.htm

That's nothing, I killed an aunt in my kitchen the other day. Now my entire family is afraid to come to my house!

That's nothing, I killed an aunt in my kitchen the other day. Now my entire family is afraid to come to my house!


How old was she?

How old was she?
I'm not sure. Is it true you're supposed to cut them in half and count the rings?

I'm not sure. Is it true you're supposed to cut them in half and count the rings?

tell it to the coroner
and stay clear of your Uncle !

I hope he meant an ant and not an aunt. I heard of people confessing before, but this one's ridiculous!

That's nothing, I killed an aunt in my kitchen the other day. Now my entire family is afraid to come to my house!


Is your last name Soprano?

It's a common household product used to stop squeeking door hinges, stuck drawer rollers and lots of other applications like window rollers and fireplace screens that don't move smoothly. If you ever maintained a household you would have it around too. Here's a list of 2000 uses...

http://www.twbc.org/wd40.htm
Hm, valid point. I just always assume it's an automotive spray. I've been corrected, haha.

here check this out warning discusting http://www.ebaumsworld.com/spiderbite.html

i remember as a kid growing up in hawaii, we had spiders as big as your hand crawl into the house and just hangout on the corner of our celling. till today just thinking about it scares me.

Thank goodness I live in Calif. I wouldn't want to run into any of these brown recluse spiders...these guys will do some damage!! :eek: http://www.brown-recluse.com/bitephotos.html
I think I'll go get my shoes that were sitting outside!...:D

I didn't think starting this thread would turn into such a sick photofest.... nasty!

here check this out warning discusting http://www.ebaumsworld.com/spiderbite.html

that is the sickest thing i think i have ever seen.... i just had some dinner but now i think i'm gonna give it back!! man. i live in the nw as well and we have the brown recluse and yeah the hobo. the hobo's are crazy(yeah the spider not the downtowners) the hobo spider will actually try and chase you if you get close enough and man there fast. by the the way the wd thing yeah that works like a glove, if i see one in my garage i just reach for the can of wd add some temp of over 120 from a lighter and poof no more eyebrows, arm hair, or spider!!! don't try this at home i am a professional griller. :thumbsup: