September Spiders

[sir roger]

First day of Autumn today, all downhill now.

[Jenson]

Was bitten by a Brown Recluse spider many years ago in the States. Caused a 2 inch wide, 2 inch deep necrotic abscess in my leg that took over 3 months to heal. Still have the scar.

[Jenson]

One of these motherfuckers, a cousin of the Black Widow

 

 

 

and this is basically what my leg looked like, only a lot deeper

 

[Einch]

So. Destroy with extreme prejudice?

[Anubis]

Stig has had worse love bites, you tart.....

[Ezekiel 25:17]

Was bitten by a Brown Recluse spider many years ago in the States. Caused a 2 inch wide, 2 inch deep necrotic abscess in my leg that took over 3 months to heal. Still have the scar.

 

 

Was it your honeymoon ?? at least the divorce is going through now.

[stringvest]

Mercy killers. They should be used in euthanasia. If you've got to go then banana spider followed by a high class call girl is a hell of a send off.

Tumescitas. Where do I sign?

[Mendoza]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-37481251

[Anubis]

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/animals/spiders-knit-30metre-shimmering-web-in-new-zealand-field-20170417-gvm0p9.html

 

They craft and create webs every day, but the spiders in Tauranga, on New Zealand's North Island, probably weren't expecting to go viral on a web of a different kind, the interweb.

 

SunLive in Tauranga on Sunday broke the story of thousands of spiders quietly engaged in creating a web that spanned part of the Gordon Spratt Reserve in the suburb of Papamoa.

 

SunLive reader Tracey Maris went down to the reserve on Sunday because she saw something shimmering on the hill, and says she's never seen anything like it.

 

"The new tsunami evacuation hill was gleaming this afternoon so I went to see what it was.

 

"To my surprise the entire mound was covered in spider web, with thousands of baby spiders."

 

She took some photos and started filming the phenomenon.

 

The web started at the top of the mound, which is up above the soccer fields. It went almost right down to Papamoa College, so maybe nearly 30 metres."

 

She said she walked inside it accidentally, and it was "so sticky".

 

"I read an article about the same kind of thing a few years back where a whole heap of spiders created the same effect to escape flooding - but that was way up north somewhere."

 

It's likely the spiders were responding to the recent flooding in the district.

 

The same thing happened in Wagga Wagga, Australia, in 2012, after it experienced flooding.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP8KwqV4iGs

[General Dryness]

Thats just a couple of hours up the road from me.

 

Flamethrower primed.

[Anubis]

The view from GD's window this morning.

 

[setreal]

Thats just a couple of hours up the road from me.

 

Flamethrower primed.

 

Reminds of that MacGyver episode with the killer ants.

[General Dryness]

The view from GD's window this morning.

 

 

"Yeah boss, GD. Might be a bit late in today. Nah, nothing serious."

 

[setreal]

[Trumo]

In the southern hemisphere, there is this spider called the Hunstman. Fearsome looking fucker that can move quickly and can bite. They say that the bite is not venomous to humans so the Huntsman is deemed to be 'harmless'. Yeah right. When you're driving along and the bastard decides to makes its presence felt near the sun visor, making you shit yourself and cause a 10-car 10-Ute pile-up, will you still be calling it harmless? If you can still talk after that, you probably won't be.

 

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"Oh, but spiders are our friends because they eat all the other bugs and creepy crawlies!" Ask yourself, why are there so many creepy crawlies whose sole purpose is to eat other creepy crawlies and generally be a fucking nuisance in the first place. Nature has a habit of coming up with £100 solutions to £10 problems.

[Anubis]

What a wuss.

 

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jennaguillaume/reasons-the-huntsman-spider-is-your-new-best-friend?utm_term=.nyM2Zx8nB#.ldeRmjlNe

[Anubis]

Baby spider hiding out in my drying boxers on the maiden. Not the safest place for either of us so good job I shook him out.

[Paulie Dangerously]

There was a fucking massive one on the sieve in my cupboard the other day.  No need. 

[Guest]

[General Dryness]

And that, kids, is why you don't want to live in Australia. 

[Jenson]

 

This has just traumatised me for life

[Trumo]

That was just a baby one.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

I bet she shat herself. 

[Stickman]

[Stickman]