If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)

Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Hi all,
Vanilla are planning an update to the site on April 24th (next Wednesday). It is a major PHP8 update which is expected to boost performance across the site. The site will be down from 7pm and it is expected to take about an hour to complete. We appreciate your patience during the update.
Thanks all.

Big Big Spiders.. Merged

Trotter · 2006-08-25 23:02:44

Over the past few weeks I've seen a good few big brown spiders in the garden. Im talking.. 2 or 2.5 inches in size. Finally tonight, one of them made the mistake of getting into the living room. To avoid a seizure from my sleeping girlfriend, I quickly despatched him to spider heaven (sorry insect lovers, but she hates the…

Options

26-08-2006 12:02am

#1

Trotter

Closed Accounts Posts: 5,362 ✭✭✭

Join Date: February 2003

Posts: 4362

Over the past few weeks I've seen a good few big brown spiders in the garden. Im talking.. 2 or 2.5 inches in size. Finally tonight, one of them made the mistake of getting into the living room. To avoid a seizure from my sleeping girlfriend, I quickly despatched him to spider heaven (sorry insect lovers, but she hates the tiny ones.. this lad would have her selling the house).

I got a photo with my phone but it isnt too clear. I know they're following the warmth inside but I can honestly say Ive never seen them this big. Global warming?

What are these species called? I presume they're native to Ireland.. Ive seen them before, just not with muscles.

3

Comments

Options
#2 26-08-2006 12:12am
Huggles

Registered Users Posts: 3,408 ✭✭✭

Join Date: January 2006

Posts: 3195

This thing got into my brothers house on Thursday. He said he noticed something running out the corner of his eye and thought it was a mouse. Obviously it wasn't but he said it was so big he froze! See attached.

0
Options
#3 26-08-2006 12:52am
Trotter

Closed Accounts Posts: 5,362 ✭✭✭

Join Date: February 2003

Posts: 4362

Here's the lad now.. just before he got a puck of hello magazine.

0
Options
#4 26-08-2006 12:55am
Budo.Judo.Kev

Closed Accounts Posts: 269 ✭✭

Join Date: August 2006

Posts: 264

looks like Dolomendes fimbriatus to me but the photo is ****.

0
Options
#5 26-08-2006 1:07am
Trotter

Closed Accounts Posts: 5,362 ✭✭✭

Join Date: February 2003

Posts: 4362

Budo.Judo.Kev wrote:

looks like Dolomendes fimbriatus to me but the photo is ****.

Yep.. he just refused to stay and pose while I went for the Canon EOS. Option 2 was the camera phone beside me.

0
Options
#6 26-08-2006 1:00pm
FranknFurter

Closed Accounts Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭

Join Date: October 2004

Posts: 2009

LOL :0)

Yep, the last few years I'm noticing the amazing sized spiders that are becomming the norm for this country.

There has to be SOME reason, probably climate change, because some of the monsters Iv seen in the last 10 years have scared the hell out of me.

Im a bit weird in that I dont mind large tarantula's at all, but a large "wild" domestic spider scared me sh1tless! I spose its coz I have no idea of species.

b

0
Advertisement
Options
#7 26-08-2006 1:19pm
abetarrush

Closed Accounts Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭

Join Date: September 2004

Posts: 1086

Holy bejaysis, datd scare the ****e outta me

My gaff's d same, packed with crawlers

Still can't believe im so scared of somethin I can jus squish

But yeah, dat is one ginormous fvcker, for Ireland

0
Options
#8 26-08-2006 1:31pm
coward

Registered Users Posts: 141 ✭✭

Join Date: October 2005

Posts: 138

here's a close-up of one i found. it's not in spider heaven.
but it's hopefully far away from the house

0
Options
#9 26-08-2006 1:52pm
dazberry

Registered Users Posts: 2,145 ✭✭✭

Join Date: October 2001

Posts: 2038

I was in the shower on Thursday morning and spotted a shadow moving up the outside of the shower curtain. Next thing I see a two inch (fat) leg appearing over the top - never moved so quickly in my life...

Got some kitchen roll, grabbed it (could still feel it thru two sheets of kitchen paper) and left it out the back - it seemed about 3 inches long... definitely the biggest spider I've seen around the place. Horrible.

D.

0
Options
#10 26-08-2006 7:04pm
Our man in Havana

Closed Accounts Posts: 29,476 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: November 2001

Posts: 27566

Think the common name or the name we called these spiders in the uk was the harvest spider - casue you see lots of them at this time of the year - I have had 3 huge ones in my bedroom this week - mating time I think. will post up some of the cool pics I got of the ones in my room - thank god the hubby is not afraid of them & rescues me.

Becareful when you pick them up as few years ago my brother picked one up & it turned around & bit him! a nasty bite it was too!

When we first moved to Ireland we rented a old farmhouse in the kitchen was a web with a BIRD in it! I did not want to meet that SPIDER!

0
Options
#11 26-08-2006 7:13pm
Exit

Registered Users Posts: 2,267 ✭✭✭

Join Date: October 2003

Posts: 2079

Holy crap, they'd scare the **** out of me if I saw them anywhere in my house!

0
Advertisement
Options
#12 26-08-2006 8:05pm
abetarrush

Closed Accounts Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭

Join Date: September 2004

Posts: 1086

coward wrote:

here's a close-up of one i found. it's not in spider heaven.
but it's hopefully far away from the house

the fangs on dat fvcker!

0
Options
#13 27-08-2006 1:19am
crazy_dude6662

Closed Accounts Posts: 372 ✭✭

Join Date: July 2005

Posts: 323

we have millions of those in our house (reason why i vacated my room and now sleep in my mums art room, i was lying in bed, scratched my leg, which was itchy, took my hand away and a massive spider was on my hand, i hurled it across the room, then looked down to see another sitting on the bed)

we are getting a back extension and they are coming in there, that and the back door is open all day, and the attic isnt too well sealed from the outside.

0
Options
#14 27-08-2006 9:04pm
FlutterinBantam

Closed Accounts Posts: 14,576 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: January 2006

Posts: 14361

Shower of wusses... the don't bite.. in fact they clean up the place ..get of flies and other peskys... don't squish... escort them to the door in your hand.

0
Options
#15 27-08-2006 9:12pm
tck

Closed Accounts Posts: 345 ✭✭

Join Date: August 2004

Posts: 305

Interesting fact, The venom in a common household spider is more poisonous than a Black Widow's or a Brown Recluse, but they cannot bite humans because their jaws won't open wide enough.

0
Options
#16 27-08-2006 9:44pm
Trotter

Closed Accounts Posts: 5,362 ✭✭✭

Join Date: February 2003

Posts: 4362

Does anyone know the exact species of the ones in the photos??

0
Options
#17 28-08-2006 12:08am
Dave!

Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: August 2005

Posts: 26627

Spidercus Big-and-'orribleus

0
Options
#18 29-08-2006 3:02pm
BarneyMac

Closed Accounts Posts: 28 ✭

Join Date: August 2006

Posts: 28

It looks like a Long Jawed Orb Weaver...there are no spiders in Ireland which are capable of biting humans...except for one called the Woodlouse spider...and even then it's not venomous.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/livingworld/florafauna/spiders.shtml#longjaw

0
Options
#19 30-08-2006 9:43am
delly

Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 7,652 Mod ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: June 2004

Posts: 7215

This is my pic from last year from this thread.

0
Options
#20 30-08-2006 2:39pm
The Saint

Registered Users Posts: 1,932 ✭✭✭

Join Date: September 2002

Posts: 1828

It is in fact a House spider that everyone has been seeing. I had one crawl into my bag while I was packing. I nearly shat myself when I saw it. I'm not scared of spiders usually but these guys are bloody fast. i had to take out my bag to the garden, unpack all of my clothes and shake them all out. Of course when everything was unpacked there he was sitting in the bottom of the bag smiling up at me. Little Bastard. I sent him on his merry way to go about his business.

tck wrote:

Interesting fact, The venom in a common household spider is more poisonous than a Black Widow's or a Brown Recluse, but they cannot bite humans because their jaws won't open wide enough.

This is not true:
"The Domestic house spider (sometimes called the Lesser house spider) (Tegenaria domestica) is closely related to the venomous Hobo spider, but although its bite is somewhat unpleasant, it is not a danger to humans."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_house_spider

Heres some other site with info on this spider:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/348.shtml
http://www.arkive.org/species/ARK/invertebrates_terrestrial_and_freshwater/Tegenaria_domestica/more_info.html

0
Options
#21 30-08-2006 3:43pm
Dave!

Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: August 2005

Posts: 26627

delly wrote:

This is my pic from last year from this thread.

Jesus H Christ! :eek:

I think the most important question is....... how did that spider get from Australia to Ireland?!

0
Advertisement
Options
#22 30-08-2006 4:03pm
delly

Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 7,652 Mod ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: June 2004

Posts: 7215

DaveMcG wrote:

Jesus H Christ! :eek:

I think the most important question is....... how did that spider get from Australia to Ireland?!

Don't know how it got here, but it left via the Golden Pages

0
Options
#23 31-08-2006 12:41am
EGAR

Registered Users Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭

Join Date: May 2006

Posts: 2601

I found this guy in my house two days back and I am still shook up :eek: . I left him alone as it would've meant re-painting my house had I squashed him. Any idea what he/she might be? Apart from a spider and HUGE?

What kind of spider is it??

0
Options
#24 31-08-2006 12:52am
tabatha

Closed Accounts Posts: 1,078 ✭✭✭

Join Date: December 2004

Posts: 998

ok for a start there is no need to be putting HUGE BLOODY PHOTOS of these ****es up!!! reading these posts has scared the life out of me because of them! i just had a big one run across my sitting room floor! is there anything you can do to get rid of them? i feel sick :eek:

0
Options
#25 31-08-2006 1:46am
Flukey

Registered Users Posts: 11,001 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: May 2002

Posts: 10792

I always have a respect for spiders. I'll try and catch any big ones and release them outside the house. When you catch them in a jar or glass or something like that, they are always worth having a closer look at before releasing.

0
Options
#26 31-08-2006 1:57am
The Bollox

Closed Accounts Posts: 5,372 ✭✭✭

Join Date: December 2004

Posts: 4862

The Saint wrote:

"The Domestic house spider (sometimes called the Lesser house spider) (Tegenaria domestica) is closely related to the venomous Hobo spider, but although its bite is somewhat unpleasant, it is not a danger to humans."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_house_spider

Heres some other site with info on this spider:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/348.shtml
http://www.arkive.org/species/ARK/invertebrates_terrestrial_and_freshwater/Tegenaria_domestica/more_info.html

there is NO ****ING WAY Ireland hosts spiders that big!

0
Options
#27 31-08-2006 10:05am
The Saint

Registered Users Posts: 1,932 ✭✭✭

Join Date: September 2002

Posts: 1828

EGAR wrote:

I found this guy in my house two days back and I am still shook up :eek: . I left him alone as it would've meant re-painting my house had I squashed him. Any idea what he/she might be? Apart from a spider and HUGE?

What kind of spider is it??

I'd say it's probably the same species but maybe a female. Apparantly they have a larger abdomen and shorter legs than the males. It looks like most of the pictures posted are of males. They are more active as the actively seek females for mating whereas the females stay put. Sounds familiar eh.

0
Options
#28 31-08-2006 12:51pm
tabatha

Closed Accounts Posts: 1,078 ✭✭✭

Join Date: December 2004

Posts: 998

Marts wrote:

there is NO ****ING WAY Ireland hosts spiders that big!

yes there is!!!

0
Options
#29 31-08-2006 8:13pm
hairyfairy00

Registered Users Posts: 1,023 ✭✭✭

Join Date: April 2006

Posts: 982

I used to work in Dunnes and one day this massive brown hairy spider came out of a box of bananas from the fruit and veg section. The bugger was huge, he went under a shelf and when we tried to get him out the fecker jumped out at us, that was enough for me and i ran away like the little girl i was. Eventually the security guy walked it out the front door, who knows what happened to it and really i don't care.

0
Options
#30 05-09-2006 6:42pm
eldanny

Closed Accounts Posts: 13 ✭

Join Date: September 2006

Posts: 12

i work late and sleep late quite often but up until a few weeks ago every morning a fly or two would come in and ruin my slumber you should see the size of the spider i pretend to chuck out the door every time my girlfreind sees it. im happy as i get my sleep shes happy cuz theres no spiders in the bedroom and hes happy cuz he has a little collection of meals under the windowsill wich makes me even more happy cuz flying bugs are so much more anoying than spiders who prefare to keep to themselves.
viva el spider

0
Advertisement
Options
#31 05-09-2006 9:17pm
holmsey

Closed Accounts Posts: 24 ✭

Join Date: February 2005

Posts: 12

Trotter wrote:

Here's the lad now.. just before he got a puck of hello magazine.

I've had 5 exactly like this one in my apartment, one every night the last 5 nights I've been home. The first one I put out the window, then the second night I thought it must be the same guy after getting back in so I flattened him, and I've been doing the same every night since. It's the same run every night (and around the same time), they go from somewhere behind the couch (I've looked and I can't figure out where, and the thought that there may be s*** loads of them inside the couch freaks me out!!!!) off across the floor and over towards the TV stand.
I have images of a bunch of them lined up under the couch and every night one of them draws the short straw and has to try and change the channel without getting caught!!!!

0