Spiders On Steroids

Clytus · 01-09-2008 09:16PM #1

Global warming,mild winters,wet summers,lots of food...say what ya want...but spiders are with out doubt getting to huge sizes in this country.

Out havin a smoke the other night..and spotted this bad boy climbing the fence.

I think its a house spider...but could be wrong.

LovelyTom · 01-09-2008 09:19PM

That is a huge spider!

Down in wexford there are about 4 spiders of similar size in my shed! :eek:

sam34 · 01-09-2008 09:21PM

jaysus! i thought the one in my living room was bad but thats one huge f***er you have there

MooseJam · 01-09-2008 09:32PM

just a house spider, they can grow big but they fall apart like no ones business, just brush off him and legs go flying, I reckon your common or garden spider would kick it's ass

Clytus · 01-09-2008 09:38PM

Thing is though...I never ever remember seing spiders that size growing up...so somethings amiss.

Have a decent size garden spider down the back garden...he's havin a ball...everytime I go have a squint he's stuffin his gob on something.
He was eating an wood louse yeasterday...( How a wood louse gets into a web 2 feet off the ground I dont know...)

WooPeeA · 01-09-2008 09:52PM

Spiders are usually cowards and don't bite. Usually...

truecrippler · 01-09-2008 10:16PM

Did you give him a name yet, OP?

SV · 01-09-2008 10:20PM

That's not big?

hiltonhater · 01-09-2008 10:24PM

WooPeeA wrote: »

Spiders are usually cowards and don't bite. Usually...

irish spiders dont have the fang facility for such talents!"

you should see the aussie spiders - not only are they huge and ugly but also vicious lil bastids

GabiP · 01-09-2008 10:31PM

He's a bit of a whopper alright
I have seen bigger ones indoors though
& one particularly MASSIFFFF one in my Mammy's back garden Uwige he was. Should have taken a pic.

WooPeeA · 01-09-2008 11:49PM

hiltonhater wrote: »

irish spiders dont have the fang facility for such talents!"

you should see the aussie spiders - not only are they huge and ugly but also vicious lil bastids

You'd be surprised.. I was bitten by standard garden cross-spider few times in life. Hopefully not in Ireland but spiders looked pretty the same.

I heard that Australian spiders are aggressive and can attack first with no reason somewhere..

mumhaabu · 01-09-2008 11:55PM

I had one massive fella in a bath recently after the house was unoccupied for about a month, Sweet Jebus he was like 5 inches in diameter I nearly died when I saw him I do think the trend is toward bigger lazier SUV type spiders. The really creep me out but we should all realise that we eat 3 spiders a year when we are asleep they creep into our mouths and get devoured.

Sleep tight my arachnophiles.

matchthis · 01-09-2008 11:59PM

Saw this bad boy one day
Spida.jpg

mumhaabu · 02-09-2008 12:06AM

matchthis wrote: »

Saw this bad boy one day
Spida.jpg

Damn you now I can't get that rhyme out of my head,

spider pig, spider pig, does whatever a spider pig does! humming merrily to myself in a half sleepy state!

WooPeeA · 02-09-2008 12:07AM

mumhaabu wrote: »

I had one massive fella in a bath recently after the house was unoccupied for about a month, Sweet Jebus he was like 5 inches in diameter I nearly died when I saw him I do think the trend is toward bigger lazier SUV type spiders. The really creep me out but we should all realise that we eat 3 spiders a year when we are asleep they creep into our mouths and get devoured.

Sleep tight my arachnophiles.

Nothing better than extra proteins for good start of the day!

02-09-2008 12:36AM

There was one the size of my hand in the bathtub this weekend.
I hold life sacred, and trees make me feel cuddley and warm inside.
But I just had to murder that fecker. I was afraid he wasn't as peaceable.

Dublin_Chica · 02-09-2008 03:34AM

I saw the BIGGEST spider i have ever seen on sat, twas at least the size of my hand. I swear to god nearly had a heart attack when i saw it. Ugh they just frek me out!! Even the pic posted by the OP sent shivers up my spine

not yet · 02-09-2008 09:08AM

Clytus wrote: »

Global warming,mild winters,wet summers,lots of food...say what ya want...but spiders are with out doubt getting to huge sizes in this country.

Out havin a smoke the other night..and spotted this bad boy climbing the fence.

I think its a house spider...but could be wrong.

Scared to get any closer eh......................

shoelaceface · 02-09-2008 09:25AM

PERHAPS....
they have been hanging around plants that are dosed in miracle grow..... and they take some of this in and wam bam you have a big spider........

ORRRR...... maybe they're not your average spider... maybe they have been sent from another planet... i think they want to take over leitrim..... they just cant find it yet...

ORRRRR...... they might be pigging out in mcdonalds.... the human population isnt getting smaller... either are the spiders... they want to be fat mammas

alternatively they might be just big..... might have something to do with the celtic tiger.... or croke park?

who knows! just some of my opinions! feel free to disagree

Kur4mA · 02-09-2008 09:26AM

Moonbaby wrote: »

There was one the size of my hand in the bathtub this weekend.
I hold life sacred, and trees make me feel cuddley and warm inside.
But I just had to murder that fecker. I was afraid he wasn't as peaceable.

OMG same! The missus went into the bathroom then started screaming literally about a spider. I got worried immediately as I have quite a major fear of the bastards and she usually handles them no bother. When she started freaking out I knew something was up. She says "OMFG you have to come in and look at this fecker!" So I did...

He was HUGE and stuck in the bath trying to run up the sides of it. Luckily the bath was soaked so he had no chance. The missus then put the shower head on to try flush him down the drain while I stood, watching and screaming like a girl but he was having none of it until we put it on full blast.

I'll tell you one thing, ALL of our plugs are now plugged the fook in! :mad:

The Hill Billy · 02-09-2008 09:30AM

Looks piddly small to me tbh. There were 6 of these chaps in my shed on Sunday.

When the weather turns cooler in the next few weeks they'll move into the house. We go through phases of catching up to 5 of these buggers per night from September through to early November.

Mrs Billy killed one one evening & when I got home I couldn't fully cover it with a cigarette packet he was so big.

Honey-ec · 02-09-2008 10:01AM

mumhaabu wrote: »

we should all realise that we eat 3 spiders a year when we are asleep they creep into our mouths and get devoured.

Sleep tight my arachnophiles.

Wrong! That "fact" was actually totally made up as a deliberate example of something that people will believe just because they read it on the internet/got it in an email.

The ironing, as they say, is delicious...

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

shoelaceface · 02-09-2008 10:08AM

i thought we eat 8.... either way nyom nyom.... delicous!

RxQueen · 02-09-2008 10:14AM

shoelaceface wrote: »

i thought we eat 8.... either way nyom nyom.... delicous!

maybe you just attract them! 3 for the rest of us. No wonder i have a tickle in my throat today.

Honey-ec · 02-09-2008 10:17AM

You don't eat any! Jeez!

shoelaceface · 02-09-2008 10:20AM

i eat them... and i dont mean during my sleep

nyom nyom

shoelaceface · 02-09-2008 10:21AM

emo!! wrote: »

maybe you just attract them! 3 for the rest of us. No wonder i have a tickle in my throat today.

il eat you, you ostrich

LouOB · 02-09-2008 10:21AM

My shed has become a nest for some of the most evil spiders going
Even my cats wont go near the shed now

shoelaceface · 02-09-2008 10:23AM

LouOB wrote: »

My shed has become a nest for some of the most evil spiders going
Even my cats wont go near the shed now

more than likely aliens living in it

Steve_o · 02-09-2008 10:32AM

shoelaceface wrote: »

more than likely aliens living in it

+1

I have a peaceful accord with the Spiders in my shed, there are skirmishes every so often when i catch the odd one trying to infiltrate my house, but in general its peaceful!

shoelaceface · 02-09-2008 10:34AM

Steve_o wrote: »

+1

I have a peaceful accord with the Spiders in my shed, there are skirmishes every so often when i catch the odd one trying to infiltrate my house, but in general its peaceful!

sometimes i think i am a spider..... i like to climb the walls and trap insects.... take the other day for example, i trapped a wasp in a glass and ate it... nyom nyom

can i come live in your shed?

Spiders On Steroids

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