Got jammed up unpacking today…
So please enjoy this perfectly flipping enormous spider that sat down beside her and frightened Miss Weasel away when I was in the garden this afternoon.
Spiders. Brrrr.
Posted: March 5th, 2009 under animals, badger house, personal.
Comments: 22
Comments
Comment from JuliaM
Time: March 6, 2009, 1:39 am
*Australian accent* Nah, that’s not an enormous spider. This is an enormous spider!
Comment from biscuiteater
Time: March 6, 2009, 9:59 am
http://www.flickr.com/photos/34705275@N05/show/
neither can I.
Comment from Gibby Haynes
Time: March 6, 2009, 10:01 am
[Australian accent]Cor, what a beaut. Let’s see what he does when I try to stick me thumb up his bum![/Australian accent]
Comment from Dawn
Time: March 6, 2009, 10:37 am
One of the posters said
Big Spiders…Natures reminder that you are a little girl.
Comment from Mrs. Hill
Time: March 6, 2009, 11:09 am
Good Lord, JuliaM! That monster makes our little Dolomedes tenebrosus(http: //img187.imageshack.us/img187/9459/dolomedes.jpg) look positively cuddly. Australia is upside down in more ways than one!
Oh, but I just read that there are no dangerous spiders in Britain? That makes up a little for the lack of tortoises! (But I would have given that one up there the right of way, too — legses. Too many legses!)
Comment from JuliaM
Time: March 6, 2009, 2:02 pm
“Good Lord, JuliaM! .. Australia is upside down in more ways than one!”
Well, I was looking for the famous clock spider (it’s so much more scary when you have a frame of reference), but when I came across that pic, it really put the willies up me!
Well, there’s the Cardinal spider, but it isn’t venomous, though it can pierce human skin. And we’ve had a few false widows down south, surviving after being brought over in fruit consignments (global warmening!).
And there’s the great raft spider too (bites, non-venomous, really rare and protected), but it lives in fenland. And who wants to go there anyway?
Comment from scubafreak
Time: March 6, 2009, 2:09 pm
Gawd. I don’t even watch “Arachnaphobia”, “8-Legged Freaks” or “Return of the King” because I despise spiders. If I had one of those things in my house, the birdshot would be spraying in EVERY direction……
Comment from JuliaM
Time: March 6, 2009, 2:30 pm
Yeah, you’ve really got to wonder what was in the mind of the person that saw those legs and thought: “Hmm, I wonder what’s under there? Perhaps if I just lift off the….arrrrggggh!”
Comment from Nicholas the Slide
Time: March 6, 2009, 2:44 pm
I for one welcome our new arachnid overlords.
Comment from JuliaM
Time: March 6, 2009, 2:54 pm
Oh, and on the subject of imported arachnids surviving in the UK, the gold medal goes to this little chap.
“Officials at the hospital said the brazilian wandering spider was unlikely to pose a risk to public health since it “would have died very soon after being released” because of the cold.”
Are you sure? Because the little sod already survived freezer burn, boiling water and microwaves! It’s the Rasputin of the invertebrate world.
Comment from Machinist
Time: March 6, 2009, 3:27 pm
My SIL is so afraid of spiders that when she bought the three “Ring” DVDs I had to make an edited version of #3 with no spider so she could watch it.
Not to brag, but here in Texas we aren’t as impressed with your spiders down under.
Comment from Oldcat
Time: March 6, 2009, 3:32 pm
No turtles, but giant spiders?
Some one needs to talk to those zany limeys.
Comment from iamfelix
Time: March 6, 2009, 4:22 pm
YIKES!!!1! Spider-thread on my favorite internet outpost????? Noooooooooo I’m not clickin’ ANY of those links …. *shudders / runs away*
Comment from Uncle Badger
Time: March 6, 2009, 4:54 pm
We have natural division of labour here at Badger House. I do the spiders and her Ladyship attends to the s-animals, of which I am deeply terrified.
Worms, on the other hand are on a first come first served basis…
Comment from Machinist
Time: March 6, 2009, 5:01 pm
“s-animals”??
silly?-platypus and kiwi?
small?-mice and rats?
super?-elephants and rinos?
salty?-sharks and rays?
sniveling?- Liberals and Muslims?
slithering?-snakes and lizards?
slow?-snails and…..smaller snails?
Comment from Machinist
Time: March 6, 2009, 5:07 pm
Undulating legs,
Cold eyes and those long sharp fangs.
Keep that thing away!
Comment from Machinist
Time: March 6, 2009, 5:12 pm
That beautiful web,
at once a trap and restraint.
You struggle in vein.
Comment from Machinist
Time: March 6, 2009, 5:15 pm
Flesh is safe enough,
it’s your juices that she wants.
She’s coming for you.
Comment from Nicholas the Slide
Time: March 6, 2009, 6:48 pm
“s-animals”??
Pretty sure he means those of the legless sort.
Comment from Mrs. Peel
Time: March 6, 2009, 7:30 pm
I love spiders. And snakes. I have a snake living under my patio, and I used to have a seriously kickass 7-legged garden spider in my backyard.
Comment from Uncle Badger
Time: March 6, 2009, 9:52 pm
Nicholas the Slide has it.
…shudder…
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