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Killers snakes,spiders and all things Aus
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Often, people think they have been bitten by mossies, but the bites are bed bugs.
I've a few bites on my ankles, they're not mossie bites though, not even itchy. I'm thinking now maybe they're bedbugs :eek: I only got them since moving into a new holiday let.
How can I tell if it's bed bugs? And can you see them on the matress if you look hard enough?
It's ok! I've just been looking at the little buggers on Youtube. Puke! Then I checked the bed and pounced on and squashed to death, 2 little pieces of sock fluff!
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Dear sweet Jebus!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
*shudders violently*
I've been trying to de-sensitise myself to the inevitable arachnid element of moving to Aus. Coming from an absolute chronic arachnaphobe reading this thread has worried the intentionally ignorant bones of me. My best friend lives in Melbourne, moved over a year ago, and everytime we chat/skype I need an update on arachnid sightings, stories, encounters etc. She really wants me to come over but is fully aware of how serious my phobia is so I feel she may dumb down the actuality of living in Melbourne along with its legged residents.
I'm considering getting hypnotised. As I suffer from panic attacks I think this is probably in my favour, I'm willing to do anything to make the transition easier!!
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Lush Puppy wrote: »Dear sweet Jebus!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
*shudders violently*
I've been trying to de-sensitise myself to the inevitable arachnid element of moving to Aus. Coming from an absolute chronic arachnaphobe reading this thread has worried the intentionally ignorant bones of me. My best friend lives in Melbourne, moved over a year ago, and everytime we chat/skype I need an update on arachnid sightings, stories, encounters etc. She really wants me to come over but is fully aware of how serious my phobia is so I feel she may dumb down the actuality of living in Melbourne along with its legged residents.
I'm considering getting hypnotised. As I suffer from panic attacks I think this is probably in my favour, I'm willing to do anything to make the transition easier!!
Saw less spiders in 9 months in Melbourne than I'd see back home in Dublin. Big ones aren't dangerous just a bit mad looking, and I think I've come accross about 3 or 4 huntsmen in the 15 or so months I've been here. The little ones can technically kill but the last recorded death from a spider bite is something mental like 1979.0 -
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Lush Puppy wrote: »Dear sweet Jebus!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
*shudders violently*
I've been trying to de-sensitise myself to the inevitable arachnid element of moving to Aus. Coming from an absolute chronic arachnaphobe reading this thread has worried the intentionally ignorant bones of me. My best friend lives in Melbourne, moved over a year ago, and everytime we chat/skype I need an update on arachnid sightings, stories, encounters etc. She really wants me to come over but is fully aware of how serious my phobia is so I feel she may dumb down the actuality of living in Melbourne along with its legged residents.
I'm considering getting hypnotised. As I suffer from panic attacks I think this is probably in my favour, I'm willing to do anything to make the transition easier!!
I've been in Melbourne two months and I've seen nothing. Keep your apartment nice and clean and you won't attract them. I also heard that if you spray your apartment with palm oil (mix a little in with your surface cleaner) they won't come near your house. Apparently they don't like that... so the old wives tale goes!
If all else fails a good size 9 (maybe a 12 for a huntsman
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You cant trust any of them!
I thought this lad was my mate, we had an agreement that he stayed outside in the garden and lived at the gate and i wouldnt go near him.
That was ok for about 2 weeks until he got into my apartment. It took me ages to catch him in a plastic cup because of his speed and when i did i went to pick him up by the leg's to throw him out the door the fecker bit me:eek::eek::eek:!
I was shocked, i thought Huntsman spiders were gental giants. Anyway he didnt last long after he got the shoe and i think the bite was a dry bite. Nothing really happen only two little dots on my index finger, but i sh1t myself big time. Was onto google like a flash!
I have noticed a increased number of cockroaches now he's gone.
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Oh my days. That is bloody HUGE!! Its got legs to africa?!? Christ!!!!!
See if the phobia was rational then I could say yeah I don't mind the big hairy buggers because they wont bite or kill me, but death as an eventuality is not a problem, ironically! Even if it is the smaller ones to worry about common sense doesn't come into it. Big/Black/Hairy = New underwear Come to think of it, small/fast/close proximity = New underwear. By desensitising I mean I've forced myself to look at the pictures of the ones you've posted. Some. Not ready for all. I once spent the night in my kitchen because there was a MASSIVE black beast in the hall. Was terrified it would fall on me as I ran to my bedroom. Rationality doesn't even come into it
I am a chronic phobic
You seriously haven't seen any in the wild in 2 years?! That's amazing! I love hope stories!
If I'm to get 2nd year visa and have to do 3 months seasonal work then I'm afraid I will definitely encounter my arch nemeses. Something I wish I could do but just couldn't without hypnotherapy 0 -
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Are you sacred of even little spiders?
Not entirely, but within reason, I mean if I put my index finger to my thumb and make it circular, thats about the diameter I can handle. ie. be able to hoover up without quivering. Any bigger and its panic stations.
Theres a photo above with one beside a coin. He looks a natsy bugger but the size of him wouldn't bother me so much. I'm not appreciative of his company but I'm not speed dialling penneys for a delivery of pants either 0 -
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I wouldn't expect to see snakes in the city but to go 2 years over here and not see either a redback or a huntsman is good going. Just yesterday I saw a redback,a black house spider and a tent spider in the space of half an hour while having a beer outside my house.
I've heard of all these types but how would you describe redback, hunstman, black house and tent spider? Obv can't look up pictures 0 -
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Red back is black with a red stripe on it. Its the most dangerous of the 3. The black house spider is completely black and about the size of a 2 euro coin. The tent spider is bigger and sort of striped brown and white.Lush Puppy wrote: »I wouldn't expect to see snakes in the city but to go 2 years over here and not see either a redback or a huntsman is good going. Just yesterday I saw a redback,a black house spider and a tent spider in the space of half an hour while having a beer outside my house.
I've heard of all these types but how would you describe redback, hunstman, black house and tent spider? Obv can't look up pictures0 -
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See now the size of a 2euro coin I can handle, with some graduated desensitisation
Its the other fckers with their hairy legs and agility that freak me out. Never in my life saw an orange spider like the pic a few posts back. What type was he? Also how big was he? Regardless of type would there be many large ones in city parks etc?0 -
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