Any Body Know

[Tim Marlow]

I don’t like them either, but must admit that the sheer variety of morphology and species is fascinating. Not all of them scare me….but some do.
I’ve seen horseshoe crabs at aquariums, and they all absolutely terrify me……damn big (up to a meter long) living fossil arachnids that live in water…yeuch…like a coffee table but with more legs.
Glad we never lived in the time of their sisters the sea scorpions though. They got to 2.5 metres long.……Argh…….run away…….very quickly.

[Guest]

HELLO MR J Fang the Spider Whisperer lol :rolling: :tongue-out3::smiling: any big buggers that i see i will send them your way by spider airways lol:tongue-out3::rolling::smiling::smiling::smiling: ps mr J Fang which is the wolf spider above ? eh

Hi Chris, the first photo , unfortunately on its side but it's the top left .The house spider 2nd photo no 31 is the one most people fear . One night years ago Christine was watching TV and I was out, when she felt something on her leg. As she looked down a very large House Spider came up on to her dress. As you can imagine panic broke out , the dog ate her sandwich and she screamed. Next door neighbour heard and came round to see what was wrong . He caught the spider in a glass, put a piece of card over the top so they could look at it ( silly idea ) The spider took a run up the glass, knocked off the card and disappeared . When I came home there was a note saying " find the spider before you come to bed " Needless to say I tried and couldn't see it anywhere. About a week later I pulled the cord to open our bedroom curtains and in-between the folds it sat ! A superb specimen. I picked it up and took it down stairs only to be told " take it down to the rugby pitch, and not in our garden ! Never seen one as big since but love them. I had loads in the workshop and they would appear covered in saw dust when we cleaned up .
Sleep well !

[boatman]

WOW poor Christine John wonder it dint give her a heart attack i'll stick up for the big hairy freds spiders as i always try to let them go without hurting them but other things like insects no way an jens not crazy on anything that creeps or crawls or insects again
chris

[Jolly Roger]

If we are talking about spiders, lets talk about the real deal.

[boatman]

NOW thats what i call a spider even make me nervous that tarantala would wow Roger
chrisb

[Guest]

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Wanted one , but was told NO , such a shame So many for sale I was surprised, not cheap either .

[eddiesolo]

It be a spider and it will get ya and you will become a zombie...okay, probably not. All I know it is a Arachnid, I see many in my work shed and they look at me with menace and steal all my model parts.

[Jolly Roger]

WOW poor Christine John wonder it dint give her a heart attack i'll stick up for the big hairy freds spiders as i always try to let them go without hurting them but other things like insects no way an jens not crazy on anything that creeps or crawls or insects again
chris

I worked in West Africa for twenty years. I used to have gecko's walking around on the walls indoors, which I used to tolerate as they caught all sorts of insects etc.
My first night over there I woke up in the morning jumped out of bed and grabbed the curtains to allow daylight in. In jerking the curtains something hit my arm, I had obviously disturbed a gecko and it fell onto my arm. That woke me up rather fast.

[boatman]

OK Roger i'll fall for it but whats a gecko then ?
chrisb

[boatman]

It be a spider and it will get ya and you will become a zombie...okay, probably not. All I know it is a Arachnid, I see many in my work shed and they look at me with menace and steal all my model parts.

OH I see Si they march off with you kit parts do they lol

[eddiesolo]

OH I see Si they march off with you kit parts do they lol

I reckon they be a building something....I will be well miffed it turns out better than I could build.

[boatman]

I reckon they be a building something....I will be well miffed it turns out better than I could build.

HAHA Si if thats was the case i reckon it would be time for you to pack it in but spiders are very inteligent from what ive seen whatching them as i loved to see them in my garage as a fair sized one had built a tunnell near his web an i used to touch the web just to see it come chargeing out of it tunnel an after i few time it got wize to me an wont come out till i treid it later on very fasanateting

[eddiesolo]

HAHA Si if thats was the case i reckon it would be time for you to pack it in but spiders are very inteligent from what ive seen whatching them as i loved to see them in my garage as a fair sized one had built a tunnell near his web an i used to touch the web just to see it come chargeing out of it tunnel an after i few time it got wize to me an wont come out till i treid it later on very fasanateting

I am expecting that one day the wife will come looking for me and find me all trussed up in a web in the corner.

[Jolly Roger]

OK Roger i'll fall for it but whats a gecko then ?
chrisb

Just looked for the type I had running around on Google images. This is the nearest I could find. They were about six inches 15cms long.

[boatman]

I am expecting that one day the wife will come looking for me and find me all trussed up in a web in the corner.

YEA Si to fed apoun later did you ever see that film on dvd called eight legged freaks very good that was have to whatch it again sometime lol
chrisb