Gateway to Hell in garden...

shodan · 16-08-2008, 1:37 PM

Just after my close shave with death (please see thread about horrifc accident), I saw this demon from HellBoy II in my garden trying to run off with the shed...

Pics aren't particulary clear as I was trembling in fear and fighting the natural instinct to run... I was also debating introducing it to my 4lb club hammer or sledgehammer but I didn't want it to take them off me and use it against me...

The body is about 15mm long by 10mm wide and it had hairy knuckles...

johntheexpat · 16-08-2008, 1:43 PM

Looks like blood splattered liberally around in the second photo.* Are all the neighbours accounted for or did the nasty spider make a snack of one of them before visiting you?

* or you may have red bricks under some peeling paint

shodan · 16-08-2008, 3:35 PM

Nope its blood. We get grizzly bears wondering into our back gargen so I think it must've had one of them away....

Sonic67 · 16-08-2008, 4:17 PM

Looks like a house spider.

Naqv · 16-08-2008, 4:21 PM

God damn you people, I won' be able to sleep for the next week now.

Sonic67 · 16-08-2008, 4:44 PM

These were in Iraq:

Toebiter or Giant Water Bug

Camel Spider

Beetlejuice · 16-08-2008, 4:47 PM

That Giant Water Bug is a funny looking thing... I'm guessing by the name 'Toebiter' they can be quite vicious?

shodan · 16-08-2008, 4:48 PM

Disgusting aren't they! No need for them at all!

Sonic67 · 16-08-2008, 5:01 PM

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Originally Posted by o Beetlejuice o

That Giant Water Bug is a funny looking thing... I'm guessing by the name 'Toebiter' they can be quite vicious?

Can be. You should have seen people move when it flew.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belostomatidae

Decadence · 16-08-2008, 6:09 PM

Oh my god! Those things need to be dispatched as soon as possibly! Hideous!

kingfats · 16-08-2008, 6:39 PM

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Originally Posted by shodan

Disgusting aren't they! No need for them at all!

I love em.

Ned Senior · 16-08-2008, 9:35 PM

My old folks live in the countryside and my room was in the attic space there was this one wily old beast of a spider about the size of a mans palm I regularly used to grab him and run him downstairs to lob him outa the back door...
Everytime when I got back upstairs there he was already sat there grinning
used to wonder what he got upto when I was asleep
Hence the chastity belt scars I will live with forever more

yorkshirecath · 16-08-2008, 9:41 PM

OMG, i won't sleep tonight!!!

Beetlejuice · 17-08-2008, 8:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Sonic67

Can be. You should have seen people move when it flew.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belostomatidae

Bloody hell...

I like this quote:

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Occasionally when encountered by a larger predator, such as a human, they have been known to "play dead" and emit a fluid from their anus.[1] Due to this they are assumed dead by humans only to later "come alive" with painful results.

*dakara* · 17-08-2008, 9:02 AM

What about this one, from my garden, sitting on my hand.

Look how many eyes I"ve got. - All the better to see you with.

Beetlejuice · 17-08-2008, 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by dakara

What about this one, from my garden, sitting on my hand.

Look how many eyes I"ve got. - All the better to see you with.

What kind of spider is that?

It's an evil looking bugger!

*dakara* · 17-08-2008, 4:45 PM

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Originally Posted by o Beetlejuice o

What kind of spider is that?

It's an evil looking bugger!

Its not nearly so bad really, and quite friendly.

Beetlejuice · 17-08-2008, 4:59 PM

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Originally Posted by dakara

Its not nearly so bad really, and quite friendly.

Ugly looking things... I hoover them up if I find them around the house

PJTX100 · 17-08-2008, 5:35 PM

For info.

House spiders in the UK can bite.

One bit me.

But it was a whopper.

And it was just a nip.

Made me drop it though.

Ed Selley · 17-08-2008, 7:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Sonic67

Camel Spider

If you look at the number of legs, you'll note the camel "spider" is something altogether rarer and more interesting. One of the last remaining examples of a sort of evolutionary throwback with an extra set of legs on it.

PJTX100 · 17-08-2008, 7:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Ed Selley

If you look at the number of legs, you'll note the camel "spider" is something altogether rarer and more interesting. One of the last remaining examples of a sort of evolutionary throwback with an extra set of legs on it.

Shouldn't this be in the creationist thread?

Steve1987 · 17-08-2008, 7:28 PM

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Originally Posted by dakara

Its not nearly so bad really, and quite friendly.

That looks a bit like a Wolf Spider, which can bite but isn't dangerous.

It's quite interesting how many of our spiders can bite, they just rarely do and even if they did its normally no worse than a bee sting unless you have a reaction.

*dakara* · 17-08-2008, 9:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Steve1987

That looks a bit like a Wolf Spider, which can bite but isn't dangerous.

It's quite interesting how many of our spiders can bite, they just rarely do and even if they did its normally no worse than a bee sting unless you have a reaction.

Yes, it is a variety of Wolf Spider. They are very common here in the Spring, and the females carry around their egg-sac with them.

Here is a less intimidating creature that I enjoy watching.

shodan · 18-08-2008, 6:35 AM

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Originally Posted by dakara

Yes, it is a variety of Wolf Spider. They are very common here in the Spring, and the females carry around their egg-sac with them.

Here is a less intimidating creature that I enjoy watching.

Thats about my limit!

Ian J · 18-08-2008, 8:10 AM

I think that we should ban threads about spiders.

Or at the very least the word should be included in the thread title so that those of us with a nervous disposition will move onto the next thread without looking.

BAN5HEE · 18-08-2008, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by dakara

Its not nearly so bad really, and quite friendly.

Why in the name of all that is unholy would you even thinking of picking up that hellspawn? I will be screaming like a little girl if that thing just looks at me funny. However it's not as bad as the Roman Spiders we get in South-Africa. While you sleep at night they nest in your hair...
http://seds.org/~spider/spider/Spider/arachnid.html

eric pisch · 18-08-2008, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Ian J

I think that we should ban threads about spiders.

Or at the very least the word should be included in the thread title so that those of us with a nervous disposition will move onto the next thread without looking.

for once i totally agree with a mod !

lock it and lock it now ....