Can't sleep, the spiders will eat me!!!

protos · 08-05-2008 12:16pm

Was in Suriname in South America for a holiday there recently and my girlfriend had a close encounter with a tarantula - we were on a jungle trip and the toilets were in stalls outside. She was sitting in a stall pondering the mysteries of life and looked up and saw a tarantula as big as my hand crawling around in the rafters in the roof !! (see attached)

In fairness she dealt with it well - we'd been in Suriname two weeks at that stage, and she was getting a bit more used to tropical insects, lizards etc ........... you should have heard the screams though when we were packing, and she was shifting through a bunch of clothes and she came across a cockroach that was a good 1.5 inches in length.

Cockroaches are nasty ...........

mike65 · 08-05-2008 12:23pm

Staggering number of big girls blowses billowing around this thread.

Mike.

Femelade · 08-05-2008 12:24pm

For about a week i slept with my quilt tucked in around my head because there was a spider on the ceiling right over my head..finally he disappeared..i wonder if i ate him?

Creature · 08-05-2008 12:25pm

You're all mad. I never saw the big deal with spiders, in fact I used to pick them up and play with them as a kid

. If I see any now I'll just let them out the window, if I can catch them that is, some really fast buggers out there.

dez_warlock · 08-05-2008 12:52pm

Creature wrote: »

You're all mad. I never saw the big deal with spiders, in fact I used to pick them up and play with myself as a kid . If I see any now I'll just let them out the window, if I can catch them that is, some really fast buggers out there.

Spider fetish eh?? :pac:

c - 13 · 08-05-2008 12:56pm

Creature wrote: »

You're all mad. I never saw the big deal with spiders, in fact I used to pick them up and play with myself as a kid . If I see any now I'll just let them out the window, if I can catch them that is, some really fast buggers out there.

LMFAO, great typo !

Cunny-Funt · 08-05-2008 1:01pm

Jesus what's with all the damn hovers, big boots and lynx flame throwers? I keep a plastic transparent glass and a thin CD case in my room as my insect removal device.

Quick and easy, just put it over them. Move it a bit so they fall on to the side of the glass, then slide the CD cover under the glass.

Out the window they go.

Dancor · 08-05-2008 1:32pm

This is the scaryest ive seen, I belive its a huntsman......

Kur4mA · 08-05-2008 1:43pm

dancor wrote: »

This is the scaryest ive seen, I belive its a huntsman......

*poops pants*

Rb · 08-05-2008 1:44pm

dancor wrote: »

This is the scaryest ive seen, I belive its a huntsman......

Are you trying to tout that as your own pic? That thing has been posted all over the internet for months now.

Dave! · 08-05-2008 1:45pm

dancor wrote: »

This is the scaryest ive seen, I belive its a huntsman......

Oh my f*cking god........ that's the most disgusting thing EVAR!!!

Dancor · 08-05-2008 1:49pm

rb_ie wrote: »

Are you trying to tout that as your own pic? That thing has been posted all over the internet for months now.

No, not at all, got it as an email months ago then also seen it here on boards.
If i seen that in person I would die with fear.

Rb · 08-05-2008 1:52pm

dancor wrote: »

No, not at all, got it as an email months ago then also seen it here on boards.
If i seen that in person I would die with fear.

Ah right lol, I thought you meant it literally

I've friends who went backpacking who wandered across spiders like that before, mainly in bathrooms oddly enough. Not pleasant on the eye alright and certainly not good to walk in on a female with her nest/eggs/babies as they're prone to defending quite aggressively.

Kur4mA · 08-05-2008 2:03pm

rb_ie wrote: »

Ah right lol, I thought you meant it literally

I've friends who went backpacking who wandered across spiders like that before, mainly in bathrooms oddly enough. Not pleasant on the eye alright and certainly not good to walk in on a female with her nest/eggs/babies as they're prone to defending quite aggressively.

Especially if you really need to take a ****e with a wee turtle head poking out and all that. :eek:

funk-you · 08-05-2008 2:17pm

dancor wrote: »

This is the scaryest ive seen, I belive its a huntsman......

I now hate you for putting that image in my memory.

-Funk

Loomis · 08-05-2008 2:19pm

dancor wrote: »

This is the scaryest ive seen, I belive its a huntsman......

Don't love them or anything but not exactly squeamish with them either but jaysus that wouldn't be nice to walk in on...

Seonad · 08-05-2008 2:25pm

Femmy wrote: »

For about a week i slept with my quilt tucked in around my head because there was a spider on the ceiling right over my head..finally he disappeared..i wonder if i ate him?

The average person does eat 6/7 spiders in a lifetime[FONT=&quot].[/FONT][FONT=&quot].[/FONT][FONT=&quot].[/FONT]

Dancor · 08-05-2008 2:28pm

Seonad wrote: »

The average person does eat 6/7 spiders in a lifetime[FONT=&quot].[/FONT][FONT=&quot].[/FONT][FONT=&quot].[/FONT]

False!!!

Dancor · 08-05-2008 2:28pm

funk-you wrote: »

I now hate you for putting that image in my memory.

-Funk

Ah let me make it up to you

funk-you · 08-05-2008 2:36pm

dancor wrote: »

Ah let me make it up to you

Bom-chica-wa-wa:pac:

-Funk

Seonad · 08-05-2008 2:44pm

dancor wrote: »

False!!!

There is debate over the number but this would be a natural place for spiders to go-dark and moist-and spiders and other insects can also get caught up in food manufacture, although there are legal limitations governing this..

I have woken up with a spider on my face before

Creature · 08-05-2008 2:45pm

c - 13 wrote: »

LMFAO, great typo !

Lol thats what I get for not proof reading :pac:.

Holsten · 08-05-2008 2:51pm

I have a similar problem, I think there is a nest near my window cause if it's left open any amount of time there will be around 10 tiny little spiders in and around it.

I killed all I could find, left.. came back and there was 10 more.

I fúckin' HATE spiders.

Overheal · 08-05-2008 2:54pm

ModeSkeletor wrote: »

U kno they stay alive inside the hoover, and crawl back out sometimes. They mostly come at night. Mostly.

most vaccums have rubber valves in their base to stop things from flowing back out. Similar in design to a human vein.

soiders here a ****ing friendly though. Back home I contend with Black Widows and Wolf Spiders in my sleeping area. Interestingly enough; they arent really that interested in you at all. But they are still fun to kill. Special point to note though: do not try and step on a 'pregnant wolf spider.... chaos ensues.

Insect Overlord · 08-05-2008 3:00pm

Creature wrote: »

Lol thats what I get for not proof reading :pac:.

You should feel proud, that typo really brightened up my otherwise dull morning/afternoon!

There's always a spider somewhere in my room at night. I sleep in a (poorly, in retrospect) converted attic so there's plently of storage space, dark corners and holes between doors and floors for spiders.

The biggest one I've ever seen was in Shannon Airport about 2 years ago. I reckon its leg span was close enough to the diameter of a CD. The thing was running around the check-in area, somebody must have been doing some smuggling because there's no way it was Irish!

Also, on one occasion myself and a previous OH were enjoying some private time in her sister's room and another giant was hovering right above us on the ceiling. Needless to say, we never used that room again!

Loomis · 08-05-2008 3:05pm

Seonad wrote: »

There is debate over the number but this would be a natural place for spiders to go-dark and moist-and spiders and other insects can also get caught up in food manufacture, although there are legal limitations governing this..

I have woken up with a spider on my face before

http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/spiders.asp

Moojuice · 08-05-2008 4:02pm

rb_ie wrote: »

They're nothing to lose sleep over though as they're no harm and keep the house insect free, I just hate the sight of the huge ones randomly appearing, such as the night I was lying on a beanbag watching tv and one appeared at the side of it. Bastards.

They are not insects, they are arachnids. There is a big difference. Sorry to be pedantic about it. Spiders actually keep your house clean, they kill flies, cockroaches etc and ensure that the true nasty little insects are not around for long so they are a sign of an insect free house. But they do look creepy.

There are cockroaches in Ireland. An apartment block near me had them in some of the apartments. They are around but relatively rare. A few spiders would sort them out.

Dancor · 08-05-2008 4:16pm

Moojuice wrote: »

There are cockroaches in Ireland. An apartment block near me had them in some of the apartments. They are around but relatively rare. A few spiders would sort them out.

Then how do we get rid of the Spiders when the roaches are sorted!!

chopperbyrne · 08-05-2008 4:19pm

dancor wrote: »

Then how do we get rid of the Spiders when the roaches are sorted!!

Oh that's simple, we'll import a rare breed of birds from Malaysia that will eat the spiders.

Dancor · 08-05-2008 4:31pm

chopperbyrne wrote: »

Oh that's simple, we'll import a rare breed of birds from Malaysia that will eat the spiders.

Then how do we get rid of these birds?

chopperbyrne · 08-05-2008 4:33pm

dancor wrote: »

Then how do we get rid of these birds?

That's the beauty of it, the birds will die off in our cold winter!

Dancor · 08-05-2008 4:36pm

chopperbyrne wrote: »

That's the beauty of it, the birds will die off in our cold winter!

You forgot the snakes and gorrillas!!!

chopperbyrne · 08-05-2008 4:37pm

Meh! The joke is the same regardless.

Classic Simpsons.

Dave! · 08-05-2008 4:38pm

Quality episode

ScumLord · 08-05-2008 4:45pm

For the love of God, what a bunch of Lilly liveried pansies.

It'd be one thing if we had spiders worth being afraid of in this country, how can ye be afraid of something a thousandth of ye're size.

Notorious · 08-05-2008 8:16pm

Mr. Anderson wrote: »

http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/spiders.asp

I don't think a site that got its sources from an American tabloid and a 1954 book titled "Insect Fact and Folklore", is something to stand by...
Surely I'm not the only one whose woken up to find some spiders on the pillow?

Slidey · 17-05-2008 2:42pm

Xavi6 wrote: »

Get a fair few in the bathroom. There was a decent sized hairy fecker sittin on my towel the other day. He was harmless enough though.

Red backs are pretty leathal but not too common in urban areas, though my uncle did have a few in the damp corner of his shed. Ugly bastards. Have yet to see a wild Huntsman unfortunately.

Was working a few hours north of brisbane and the lads found a dead huntsman, about 5 inches long, they put him over the sunvisor in the ute..
Was bombing it down a dust track and sun was blinding me so i pulled the visor down and he landed on my lap... near $hit meself, just grabed and threw him!
Had a good few close calls with red backs. Puttin in water main for a mine and the pipes had been layed out along the road for a couple of weeks, they would get picked up by the crane and you would grab them to stop them swinging only yo look inside and see the nest! Well them and brown snakes, dont know which i dislike more...