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look familiar? (Funnel web spider, Australia)
posted by
mneme
on June 16, 2015 at 3:14 PM
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That was very interesting, I enjoyed reading about the spiders. And good luck to
your son. Sounds like a lot of work he's doing there.
posted by
Vermont01
on June 11, 2015 at 7:16 PM
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We are experiencing the samd as well after we got a hard rain on Monday.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on June 11, 2015 at 5:08 PM
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As a rule I enjoy spiders, they're so industrious and inventive.
I love to see their webs sparkling with dew in the morning sun - but I don't so much enjoy walking through one I didn't see and having to wipe spider web off my face...
posted by
Pat_B
on June 11, 2015 at 2:54 PM
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I hate spiders so much.
posted by
Chuck_E_Ibrahim
on June 11, 2015 at 1:57 PM
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Well I like money spiders and I don't think we have many really poisonous ones, just a nasty nip perhaps. Well I was nipped by one once it ran across the ground and nipped my hand, but it only stung a little. The horsefly is a nasty sucking insect. I could do with a drop of Son's rain.
posted by
C_C_T
on June 11, 2015 at 10:40 AM
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all creatures have the right to live
up until the time they bite ..then I'm squashing them. Around my place its the Damn Brown recluse we have to watch out for, and the black widows. But the recluse bite contains a numbing agent so that many times you are unaware the little s%#t has bitten you until the festering and n ausea start hours later. The skin and muscle tissue start to decay and usually the area has to be removed ie: cut out, leaving large scars. My take on them...if its brown and moves ..squash it! Then look for the white fiddle. If no fiddle on its back, well, apologize to the dead spider and have a nice day !
posted by
Raysongs
on June 11, 2015 at 10:10 AM
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Well, that sounds as nasty as some of our Spiders like the red back...but not lethal at least. I think one came up here in the kale from the supermarket a couple of weeks ago. I had washed it and it was sitting waiting to be used and Wiley saw this spider looked very like what you have here. He dealt with it.
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The redback spider is a species of venomous spider indigenous to Australia. It is a member of the cosmopolitan genus Latrodectus.
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posted by
Kabu
on June 11, 2015 at 9:27 AM
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never heard of them...
posted by
Annicita
on June 11, 2015 at 8:45 AM
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Insects love summer love.
posted by
BC-A
on June 11, 2015 at 8:04 AM
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TAPS
Not a nice critter to have around really but I'm happy you found your son love.
posted by
WileyJohn
on June 11, 2015 at 6:23 AM
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TAPS
You sound like an explorer making first contact with the member of a strange tribe in the jungles of a region full of unknown dangers, LOL...
posted by
Nautikos
on June 11, 2015 at 4:29 AM
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Seen them before.
I have started off with a already grown over property. Gotten 22 tree's removed and using the chippings to cover mud, red mud of this area. Hard to get out of anything. Now soon will have to purchase yard tools to control the issue. Not much storage for such tools, so when I pay off the loans for the house improvements, I must puchase a storage building and garden room. I was hoping for a fence soon as well. It would be so helpful.
posted by
Inside_The_Purple_Purse
on June 11, 2015 at 3:14 AM
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