Big Big Spiders.. Merged

tishandy

cousin_borat wrote: »

He landed on my mums shoulder yeaterday at home in Leitrim. Nearly gave her a heart attack.

:eek:Sweet Jesus!!!! My skin is crawling. The hairy legs on her!

texasgal

duploelabs wrote: »

I've got a fair few of these bad boys living in my kitchen and they're only nocturnal https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/66270/83366.JPG

Looks like a variety of False Widow Spider ...

duploelabs

heres another pic of her http://twitpic.com/5208fq

Hal Emmerich

duploelabs wrote: »

heres another pic of her http://twitpic.com/5208fq

That was your chance to get the hoover, or something.

duploelabs

It got done, it was moving too fast to catch it humanely. The Missus is extremely afraid of spiders so I manned up and did the selfless act with a religious publication. I'm awash with confused karma.

EDIT: just before everyone jumps on the bandwagon, It's poisonous and I've young children in the house

airmax87

It's mating season again folks, caught this geebag in the corner of my eye, i nearly had a heart attack, tegenaria male looking for the ride.. im sleeping downstairs now for sure.

ziggy23

airmax87 wrote: »

It's mating season again folks, caught this geebag in the corner of my eye, i nearly had a heart attack, tegenaria male looking for the ride.. im sleeping downstairs now for sure.

Holy F**K :eek:
If I seen that in my house I'd run out screaming. I thought it was a quiet summer spider-wise this year but I've got 3 in 3 different rooms not as big as that thing though!

airmax87

It's autumn, and that means hes out looking for the ride as I said, you can tell it's a male because of the boxing glove yolks on his palps, thought you cant really see in the picture, fastest spiders in the world, tegenaria are, apart from the camel spider yolks.

hdowney

i have had 10 yes TEN of the buggers in my house in the last two weeks! :eek: the poor mother is severely arachnaphobic (i ain't brilliant myself but she's....) and has had the unfortunateness of having 8 of them in her room, two in one go the other day.

i have developed a knack of hoovering the creepy fckrs up

hearny

I have seen loads of these around the house lately, I generally leave them off but I had to catch this fella and throw him out the back garden as my girlfriend hates them and screams the house down when she sees them.

He is in a Pint glass in the photo, the other photo is just my pet tarantula.

hdowney

hearny wrote: »

I have seen loads of these around the house lately, I generally leave them off but I had to catch this fella and throw him out the back garden as my girlfriend hates them and screams the house down when she sees them.

He is in a Pint glass in the photo, the other photo is just my pet tarantula.

sorry your girlfriend screams the house down if she sees spiders and you have a pet tarantula??!?! how does that work then

-Trek-

I was about to comment on the same thing.

Is it weird that I'm more creeped out by the small guy than I am with the tarantula (what shiny teeth it has )?

hearny

Ha she bought it for me for Christmas a few years ago.

I still dont get it either, she had to drive from the pet shop with the spider in a box on the passenger seat.

Not quite sure how she survived.

TaraR

since ive moved into my new house in Jan i havent really seen any spiders THANK GOD! apart from the one that ran across my foot sitting on the sofa!, and one in my hall & bathroom. I tend to hoover reguarlly in every nut&cranny, keep em outside where they belong lol Ive noticed spiders have been getting bigger over the years, anyone know why?

mymo

Well today the cat brought in one of those false widow spiders I saw above, I don't mind spiders and usually just chuck them out of the nearest window.
Unfortunately the cat dropped this one on my daughters lap, she started screaming and leapt up, cat ran, dogs gave chase barking like loons, she's still screaming and has no idea where it went, I can't get her to calm down and tell me what happened, dogs run back in barking, running about, cat returns and pounces on said spider, by this time I had decoded the screams and worked out what was wrong.
All this for a 2cm spider.

airmax87

another big horrible tegenaria running across my bedroom floor tonight!, note I have fairly big hands.

Hannibal6.0

I have read that they are bigger due to global warming, more flies and food for them to eat, but then again that doesnt make too much sense with the summer we had here. Apparently there is one of those things in my living room, I havent gone in since.

So has anyone got any good methods how to get these guys out and to prevent them from getting in??

martharotter

I found one in my apartment this weekend, scared me half to death and I still haven't found him again. Ugh.

I bought some of those devices you can plug in and they supposedly emit sounds to scare spiders and other insects. I haven't seen the spider since, but I'm not convinced he's not just hiding.

Has anyone used these and know if they are legit? Any other spider trap or other recommendations?

sdanseo

martharotter wrote: »

I found one in my apartment this weekend, scared me half to death and I still haven't found him again. Ugh.

I bought some of those devices you can plug in and they supposedly emit sounds to scare spiders and other insects. I haven't seen the spider since, but I'm not convinced he's not just hiding.

Has anyone used these and know if they are legit? Any other spider trap or other recommendations?

A few weeks back I found a medium sized spider running around directly underneath the sonic box thing my mam bought, which has been there for a year or more. Fairly conclusive proof that the type we have, at least, makes no difference (although no super-massive bastards this year yet, thank jesus - I hate the things. Hopefully we have a third really harsh winter to freeze the whole lot of them yet again).

Managed to send the aforementioned lad to spidey heaven, catching them is totally out of the question for me unfortunately.

loveisdivine

We had our first one last night. About the size of a tennis ball, sat in front of the front door just waiting for me. OH quickly opened the door and ushered him out.

To be honest we have been in the house for just over a year now and this is the first spider bigger than a fingernail that we have seen. So I've been quite lucky.

Just hoping this isnt the start of something bigger. OH wont be there in the mornings to take care of them for me!

jenry

Hi, this huge fecker was in my sittingroom a few nights ago, i am terrified of spiders but i managed to spray him and he changed direction and start running towards me, i nearly deafened my son with the screams haha. He was standing up on the sofa shaking.





And at the end of July we had 8 false widow spiders out on the balcony. One of them was on my sons neck but fell off, must've got in his window and climbed onto his top, lucky it didn't bite him.



False widow with a wasp.




This one was on my son.

tishandy

I am sorry , but I am not able for this. If I see any of these long legged freaks im going to have to burn the house down to destroy it!

pmcb

just found this spider in the back yard of the house in galway an hour ago. found one similar size to days ago. could they be coming from fyffes bananas 1/2 mile away!!!!!! must agree the spiders are getting bigger..... have him in a plastic container at the moment...put euro beside it to compare..

airmax87

pmcb wrote: »

just found this spider in the back yard of the house in galway an hour ago. found one similar size to days ago. could they be coming from fyffes bananas 1/2 mile away!!!!!! must agree the spiders are getting bigger..... have him in a plastic container at the moment...put euro beside it to compare..

Nope, same as the spider I posted above, Tegenaria Species, they very from blacks to yellows to browns, common Irish spider, one of the biggest spiders you get in Ireland.

podgeandrodge

jenry wrote: »

i am terrified of spiders but i managed to spray him and he changed direction and start running towards me

For someone terrified of spiders you sure get up close to take pictures of them!

jenry

podgeandrodge wrote: »

For someone terrified of spiders you sure get up close to take pictures of them!

The spiders were dead when i took the pics. I had sprayed them.

Hal Emmerich

jenry wrote: »

The spiders were dead when i took the pics. I had sprayed them.

What did you spray them with? Do you spray in the house?

jenry

Hal Emmerich wrote: »

What did you spray them with? Do you spray in the house?

I sprayed them with antstop but it also kills other insects. If there is a spider in the house then yeah i spray it in the house. Anything just to get rid of them.

Hal Emmerich

jenry wrote: »

I sprayed them with antstop but it also kills other insects. If there is a spider in the house then yeah i spray it in the house. Anything just to get rid of them.

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road_high

I'm no big fan of spiders myself but I do think they are fascinating creatures and would never kill one just because the poor creature happened upon my bedroom or whatever
Ironically, those chemicals are far more harmful ton one's health than any of the spiders we get in Ireland!