Barrs Court Red Posted September 17, 2012 Report Share Posted September 17, 2012 As we're onto "that" time of the year, anyone have any decent sized specimens come to visit yet? My daughter was playing with one on saturday. The mrs heard her saying "hello mr spider" and didn't think much of it, untill the daughter decided to show mummy her new friend the wife wasn't over the moon, managed to get it out side and tried her best to explain "thats where they live". I'm giving her a gold star for not having a breakdown. I noticed a false widow in the same room, but by the time I got a jug he'd escaped into his lair. Really wanna get rid before it bites someone. Then last night on noticed a 50p sized mark in the conservatory, shined a torch and it looked like a piece of mud. Not wanting to get too close in the dark I thought I'd leave whatever it was till daylight.....it's gone. That's gonna be a big boy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-Robbo Posted September 17, 2012 Report Share Posted September 17, 2012 Seen a lot of those false widows about this year and they have a very nasty bite. One crawled out of the seam of a sunlounger I was sitting on during one of the brief spells of good weather this Summer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastonboy Posted September 17, 2012 Report Share Posted September 17, 2012 Bloody hell!! I had never heard of the noble false widow spider before!! Seems a very nasty little bugger - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2130975/Woman-loses-hand-bitten-false-widow-spider.html http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2007/may/news_11767.html We get plenty of BIG Wolf spiders in our house, which the missus ALWAYS names George, and I can safely say the only time I am ever nice to my wifes cat is when one of those horrible beasties is scurrying across the floor - EB's action - grab the cat and thrust it in the general direction of the spider in the vain hope that the cat eats it. I seem to remember reading once that the average house contains 3-5,000 spiders - or is that just urban myth? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barrs Court Red Posted September 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2012 Pretty likely, the majority are tiny so you wouldn't see them. Not bothered to much by the things, wouldn't pick up a big one and try to avoid sheds/garages as mush as possible. Our house is surrounded by tube spiders, horrible beasts with green teeth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazred Posted September 17, 2012 Report Share Posted September 17, 2012 Certainly had a few big uns in the lounge in recent weeks, pathetically I'm terrified of the things so the good lady wife has to deal with them. Being the mating season for them, they are generally on the prowl for a partner. If you see 1, you will almost be certain to see more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmax Posted September 17, 2012 Report Share Posted September 17, 2012 Absolutely terrified of them and touch wood, pray, hell mary and stuff...not one big one yet in our house. The biggest I have ever seen is in our old house in Bedminster. We have a sponge on the side of the bath and it was bigger than that. It was so big my wife had to call in her father to get rid as he is ex army and used to big spiders, it even freaked him a bit too. In the end we...I mean he had to kill it. MM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eskay Posted September 17, 2012 Report Share Posted September 17, 2012 I was bitten by a large hairy house spider a few years ago on the end of one of my fingers, drew blood from two pin ***** wounds! I picked it up in a glass and promptly crushed it on the patio! I was not aware of the false widow until a few weeks ago when I read an article on them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigTone Posted September 17, 2012 Report Share Posted September 17, 2012 I lived in Australia for over 20 years alongside such beasts as the Funnel Web, Redback, White tailed, Trapdoor, Wolf & Huntsman spiders. Never ever got bitten. I now live in France and some little sod bit me this year and stuck me on my arse for almost 10 days. FFS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmax Posted September 18, 2012 Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 OK, not happy. Since this post was read by me yesterday, all I have been doing is walking into cobwebs around my house. There has to be a spider, just need to get the missus to find it and get the ****er out! MM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barry_mack Posted September 18, 2012 Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 Then last night on noticed a 50p sized mark in the conservatory, shined a torch and it looked like a piece of mud. Not wanting to get too close in the dark I thought I'd leave whatever it was till daylight.....it's gone. That's gonna be a big boy. I know times are hard mate but it's during extraordinary times like this that you need to get extravagant and let people turns the light on. Unless you have a Fritzelesque 'conservatory'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barrs Court Red Posted September 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 I know times are hard mate but it's during extraordinary times like this that you need to get extravagant and let people turns the light on. Unless you have a Fritzelesque 'conservatory'? Haha nothing that extreme, just havnt got round to changing the lightbulb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snarf Posted September 19, 2012 Report Share Posted September 19, 2012 Seen a lot of those false widows about this year and they have a very nasty bite. One crawled out of the seam of a sunlounger I was sitting on during one of the brief spells of good weather this Summer! Got bit by one last year. It was in my bed and bit my foot. When i uncovered the sheets - it hissed at me. It had an egg sack on it's back. They say spiders don't make a sound but it definitely hissed at me. Probably protecting it's young. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 19, 2012 Report Share Posted September 19, 2012 What's that other nasty one that you can find in garages, typically on the northern side of Bristol? Sure my friend mentioned it a while ago and I was surprised to see they were in the UK let alone Bristol? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barrs Court Red Posted September 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2012 In garages? Never seen owt but house spiders and whispy things in mine. There seems to be a strict hierarchy, mean bastards by the main garage door, small ones to the back and man eaters up in the eaves. The tube spiders you see outside garages around north Bristol, especially noticeable with white walls, are from the med/ eastern Europe. I've never seen any in Bristol, and didn't notice any I Kingswood or Willsbridge, but around Cadbury Heath Oldland and Barrs Court they're in every gap imaginable. False widows are fro the canaries. There was a Tarantula skin found in Longwell Green a few years back, but I suspect that was a prank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 19, 2012 Report Share Posted September 19, 2012 Segestria florentina which I think is a tube spider. Even though spiders don't bother me those look evil http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segestria_florentina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastonboy Posted September 19, 2012 Report Share Posted September 19, 2012 This thread has reinforced my now , non irrational petrifaction of all things eight legged. Thanks a bloody lot!!! You lot have now turned me into a spider spotter - if anything looks a bit strange, I scurry to google to see if it is dangerous or not. So far, I have discovered, much to my delight, that no spider is immune from the perils of my size 11's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barrs Court Red Posted September 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 http://instagr.am/p/PybE9AOQ1x/ False Widow spider Will try and get one of the tube spiders tonight. They only come at night......mostly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akira Posted September 20, 2012 Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 Jesus... That just looks evil... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barrs Court Red Posted September 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 http://instagr.am/p/Pzw10kuQ8a/ You can just about see the shiny fangs. I wasn't getting any closer. If you live somewhere that doesn't have these yet, you will do soon they're spreading Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazred Posted September 20, 2012 Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 I just found 2 tonight, 1 at either end of the lounge windowsill. Under one of them lies the remains, i.e the legs, of a daddy long legs. Poor bugger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastonboy Posted September 20, 2012 Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 I'm taking delivery of my hermetically sealed bubble tomorrow. Spiders - go **** yourselves you ain't biting my ass Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcfcbs20 Posted September 21, 2012 Report Share Posted September 21, 2012 I shit you not last week I woke up in the middle of the night with a big **** off spider crawling over my face. It was like the scence from home alone when matey boy gets the tranchula put on his face I screamed like a girl the thing was as big as my hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigTone Posted September 21, 2012 Report Share Posted September 21, 2012 Segestria florentina which I think is a tube spider. Even though spiders don't bother me those look evil http://en.wikipedia....tria_florentina Found mostly on the Central Line Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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