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  • 30-05-2013 06:59PM
    #1
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,768 ✭✭✭✭


    Can anyone tell me what kind of spider this fella is?? Looks freaky. He's out my back garden right now!!!! That's a 5c coin next to him:

    LINKY


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  • #2
    electrobanana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,420 ✭✭✭electrobanana


    Im not sure about the spider but im slightly worried about the 3 lumps of crack cocaine beside the 5c coin:eek:


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
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    A False Widow (Steatoda nobilis), maybe? Probably not, though.


  • #4
    Chet T16
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    That's a flammable one. Try it.


  • #5
    Dancor
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    Probably best to just burn the house down and let the fire spread to the garden.


  • #6
    Diageio_Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 420 ✭✭Diageio_Man


    nearley sure it's called a false widdow.Steatoda grossa. These spiders are often shiny black.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMRZA5Doeg0


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  • #7
    Bipolar Joe
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    It's a house spider, you can tell by the house shaped picture on it :pac: :pac: .


  • #8
    Reamer Fanny
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    Jesus Christ!


  • #9
    kneemos
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    You've pulled some crack out with the 5 cent piece.


  • #10
    DanWall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 509 ✭✭✭DanWall


    More worrying, can it kill you?


  • #11
    IM0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    flamethrower :eek:

    edit: sorry nervous reaction hate em *cringes*

    whats the thread about?


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  • #12
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    gvn wrote: »
    A False Widow (Steatoda nobilis), maybe? Probably not, though.

    That's a good guess (my speciality is indoor spiders)


  • #13
    Hownowcow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭Hownowcow


    justryan wrote: »
    Jesus Christ!

    Fairly sure it's not him.

    The crucifix wouldn't match up.


  • #14
    Gorilla Rising
    Closed Accounts Posts: 381 ✭✭Gorilla Rising


    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    That's a good guess (my speciality is indoor spiders)

    Interesting. My speciality is to become frozen with fear with shivers through my body and eventually come to a decision on a course of action.

    The bigger they are the more chance they have of meeting their end by my shoe!


  • #15
    IM0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    you know well what it is, its a money spider, look what the little miss laid on your tinfoil/heroin preperation material [3 rocks of heroin there?]
    and jeez women complain about child birth, look what money spiders have to give birth to and HTFU :eek:


  • #16
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,768 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    Going out to take him on! Booya!!!


  • #17
    --Kaiser--
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    Gorilla Rising wrote: »
    Interesting. My speciality is to become frozen with fear with shivers through my body and eventually come to a decision on a course of action.

    The bigger they are the more chance they have of meeting their end by my shoe!

    I used to be be a terrible arachnophobe. Then I lived in a house infested with giant house spiders and now I don't mind them so much


  • #18
    Hownowcow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭Hownowcow


    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    That's a good guess (my speciality is indoor spiders)

    As a matter of interest roughly how many types of indoor spider are there in Ireland.


  • #19
    Cody Pomeray
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,648 ✭✭✭Cody Pomeray


    Forget the spider, how do so many people even know what a heroin/crack looks like?


  • #20
    Larianne
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    Looks like a spider in a snail's shell.


  • #21
    TheUsual
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    That's not a Spider.

    THAT'S A SPIDER > http://www.spiderzrule.com/712/tarantula_02.jpg


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  • #22
    --Kaiser--
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    Hownowcow wrote: »
    As a matter of interest roughly how many types of indoor spider are there in Ireland.

    3 main ones:
    Tegenaria Domestica - small and brown/black, not too common if you have the below
    Tegenaria Duellica - big and brown/black, very fast, very mobile during mating season
    Pholcus Phalangoide - tiny body with big spindly legs, keep to themselves in the corner


  • #23
    Ham Wallet
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 30 ✭Ham Wallet


    Invite that spider over, its got a phat booty that'd be ripe for a poundin'


  • #24
    Hownowcow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭Hownowcow


    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    3 main ones:
    Tegenaria Domestica - small and brown/black, not too common if you have the below
    Tegenaria Duellica - big and brown/black, very fast, very mobile during mating season
    Pholcus Phalangoide - tiny body with big spindly legs, keep to themselves in the corner

    Thanks a lot. I recognise the last two.


  • #25
    Wilberto
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    TheUsual wrote: »
    That's not a Spider.

    THAT'S A SPIDER > http://www.spiderzrule.com/712/tarantula_02.jpg


    Just imagine trying to step on that.......it'll bite your legs off!!!


  • #26
    TheUsual
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭TheUsual


    Wilberto wrote: »
    Just imagine trying to step on that.......it'll bite your legs off!!!

    Chuck Norris of Spiders.


  • #27
    entropi
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    Hmmmmm...


  • #28
    dan1895
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭dan1895


    Love the auld spider threads that appear this time of year.


  • #29
    Yellowblackbird
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 603 ✭✭✭Yellowblackbird


    dan1895 wrote: »
    Love the auld spider threads that appear this time of year.

    They're actually made inside the spiders body - made from a protein fibre.


  • #30
    dan1895
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭dan1895


    Yellowblackbird wrote: »
    They're actually made inside the spiders body - made from a protein fibre.

    Ah, I see what you did with what I said. Very good.


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  • #31
    Ham Wallet
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 30 ✭Ham Wallet


    Spoderman


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