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Kazuma Saruwatari
Caldari
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Posted - 2008.09.01 00:23:00 -
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 Originally by: Rawr Cristina
Originally by: shaqarava
But whether you decide to kill it or capture it I recommend getting rid of it asap or this might happen:
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Ew, yes had that happen quite a few times. If I didn't vacuum them up really fast they'd spread out like crazy and within a few months my house would be full of the things 
Luckily my Cat is weird and eats them
ick, that's disgusting, both that baby spider link AND the fact that Cristina's cat eats bugs...
good point on pest control. Wouldnt want too many of these things around. Hell, the 5incher monster I saw was enough to make me go "OHSHI-"
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shaqarava
Amarr
24th Imperial Crusade
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Posted - 2008.09.01 00:37:00 -
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Edited by: shaqarava on 01/09/2008 00:38:29
Originally by: Rawr Cristina
Originally by: shaqarava
But whether you decide to kill it or capture it I recommend getting rid of it asap or this might happen:
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Ew, yes had that happen quite a few times. If I didn't vacuum them up really fast they'd spread out like crazy and within a few months my house would be full of the things
Luckily my Cat is weird and eats them
That's happened 'quite a few times'? Sweet Jesus. I'd be traumatized if I saw such a brood in my home just the one time. And your cat has a bad taste in food, can't imagine a mouth full of spiderlings, and I wouldn't let that cat lick you anymore.
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Gojyu
Ever Flow
HUZZAH FEDERATION
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Posted - 2008.09.01 01:25:00 -
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Originally by: Surfin's PlunderBunny
Kazuma, the big hairy spiders are not a cause for concern unless you live in Sydney 
Heh, yeah. My basic rule of thumb is that if it's black and looks even remotely, slightly, potentially while squinting like a funnelweb, it goes splat. They also sometimes are pretty small, so in this instance, size doesn't matter  |
Gojyu
Ever Flow
HUZZAH FEDERATION
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Posted - 2008.09.01 01:29:00 -
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Originally by: shaqarava
Edited by: shaqarava on 01/09/2008 00:38:29
Originally by: Rawr Cristina
Originally by: shaqarava
But whether you decide to kill it or capture it I recommend getting rid of it asap or this might happen:
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Ew, yes had that happen quite a few times. If I didn't vacuum them up really fast they'd spread out like crazy and within a few months my house would be full of the things
Luckily my Cat is weird and eats them
That's happened 'quite a few times'? Sweet Jesus. I'd be traumatized if I saw such a brood in my home just the one time. And your cat has a bad taste in food, can't imagine a mouth full of spiderlings, and I wouldn't let that cat lick you anymore.
There was a home on the news a few years ago near where I live. Apparently they had a colony of mouse spiders that had dug a system of burrows under some poor family's house. They started seeing one or two mouse spiders a night, then one night during a heavy rain they had an odd hundred or so seek refuge in their house. Zoologists estimated that there was probably in the realm of 3-400 of them living under this house for years. I don't like to imagine what that did to the property value |
Bish Ounen
Gallente
Omni-Core Freedom Fighters
Ethereal Dawn
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Posted - 2008.09.01 02:02:00 -
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YIKES!
I think i saw something like that in a nightmare once. The YouTube video is FREAKY! Did you see how the EYES reflected light back like a cat's eyes? Euuuggghhhaaahhaaauueeeeww! *multiple shudders*
Although the wikipedia article DOES say they hunt cucarachas, so you MIGHT need an exterminator for other nasty things if a Huntsman is looking for food in your house.
I live in the Buffalo NY USA area, and the worst we have here are spiders about the size of a quarter from legtip to legtip. Light tan, kinda lethargic, and make average spiderwebs.
In my immediate neighborhood though, we have these little nasties; Small, black, FAST and they are AGGRESSIVE like nothing I've ever seen! Not seriously poisonous, mind you, but the bite leaves a nasty hard lump under your skin for about 3 weeks that is tender and sore until it goes away. Little buggers keep getting into my house and jumping on us! I've actually taken to spraying perimeter poison to keep them out. Little bastards. |
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CCP Mitnal
C C P
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Posted - 2008.09.01 02:05:00 -
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Originally by: Kazuma Saruwatari
Edited by: Kazuma Saruwatari on 31/08/2008 23:52:58
Originally by: Finnroth
That sounds like the spider isn't the only bug. In that case, indeed, get yourself a nice little lizzard as Jacob already recommended. Works 100%, and doesn't cost you half as much as bug spray or a specialist to clean the mess up - provided you have enough bugs to feed the thing long enough. Dunno what the price for pet food is in your region of the world, but even in europes colder places you normaly can gather enough insects to feed a lizzard for a week in a couple of hours.
My room's a practical lizard breeding ground. Down here, we have gecko's the length of a middle finger going around eating mosquitoes, also they make this "tsk tsk tsk" like sound when mating. Colloquially called "pessimistic wall" (rough translation) for their tendancy to do the "tsk"-ing sound when behind something on the wall, like a painting or a framed picture.
I've got 5 regulars in my own room right now, one's on my ceiling as I type, and from his lack of tail, looks to be fresh from a fight with one of the other males.
EDIT: I just found his tail, being eaten by the big spider that was spotted hours ago. He dragged it away to another hole in my bathroom...
Currently smoke-bombing my bathroom now with locally-made anti-insect "katol" insence.
Perhaps the tsk tsk sound is from the other males showing their disapproval 
Somewhat eerily I had a dream about a wolf spider last night. |
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ISD Tsuki Kiyuu
ISD Interstellar Correspondents
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Posted - 2008.09.01 02:10:00 -
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On average, humans eat 6 spiders during their sleep in a lifetime.
Feeling less hungry than usual today, Mitnal? |
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shaqarava
Amarr
24th Imperial Crusade
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Posted - 2008.09.01 02:13:00 -
[38]
Edited by: shaqarava on 01/09/2008 02:15:53
Originally by: Gojyu
There was a home on the news a few years ago near where I live. Apparently they had a colony of mouse spiders that had dug a system of burrows under some poor family's house. They started seeing one or two mouse spiders a night, then one night during a heavy rain they had an odd hundred or so seek refuge in their house. Zoologists estimated that there was probably in the realm of 3-400 of them living under this house for years. I don't like to imagine what that did to the property value
The first thing that came to mind after reading that was the movie Arachnophobia, did the news report mention whether the family had to battle their way out of the house?
Originally by: ISD Tsuki Kiyuu
On average, humans eat 6 spiders during their sleep in a lifetime.
That's a bull**** statistic apparently
http://www.cracked.com/article_16241_6-most-frequently-quoted-bullsht-statistics.html
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Kazuma Saruwatari
Caldari
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Posted - 2008.09.01 02:47:00 -
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THREAT ELIMINATED (sorry no pictures, my camera is out of batt)
the ****er is HUGE. one leg is pushing 2.5 inches! pattern on the back is consistent with Brown Huntsman spiders, and the pattern suggests its male.
That means only one thing, Mama and her brood are somewhere close, if not in my own home
BUGBOMB FROM ORBIT, NAO!! |
Technomagez
Gallente
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Posted - 2008.09.01 04:49:00 -
[40]
Originally by: Rawr Cristina
Originally by: shaqarava
But whether you decide to kill it or capture it I recommend getting rid of it asap or this might happen:
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Ew, yes had that happen quite a few times. If I didn't vacuum them up really fast they'd spread out like crazy and within a few months my house would be full of the things
Luckily my Cat is weird and eats them
lol, so does mine, first it plays with them and then it eats them |
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Digital Solaris
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Posted - 2008.09.01 05:04:00 -
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In the light of recent events, I think it is only justified to link this. Click it and watch it, if you dare, sissies. |
Kazuma Saruwatari
Caldari
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Posted - 2008.09.01 05:17:00 -
[42]
Originally by: Digital Solaris
In the light of recent events, I think it is only justified to link this. Click it and watch it, if you dare, sissies.
You just had to, didnt you? |
Digital Solaris
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Posted - 2008.09.01 05:34:00 -
[43]
Originally by: Kazuma Saruwatari
Originally by: Digital Solaris
In the light of recent events, I think it is only justified to link this. Click it and watch it, if you dare, sissies.
You just had to, didnt you?
But, of course. |
Eran Laude
Gallente
The Aduro Protocol
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Posted - 2008.09.01 06:29:00 -
[44]
I had an encounter with the considerably smaller European wolf spider on Monday and it scared me shitless! It was 3 inches long, about 2 1/2 wide I guess, and I found it on the back of my towel on the radiator as I pulled it off to go in the shower, I caught a glimpse of it out of the corner of my eye and just mouthed "OH MY GOD!!" and dropped the towel.
I guess it liked the towel as it's a warm, fairly damp and, being a black towel and forced up against the radiator, a dark environment. I was just so surprised because usually in our area we only get harvestmen, who I love watching fight over their favourite corners. We've got this massive 4-inch Harvestman in the corner of our hall who we call Big Daddy, he's been there for a year 
I don't have a problem with Harvestmen or small house spiders and money spiders, generally I just leave them be to act as a natural pest control, and I'll happily let them breed in the house as long as it's not in my room, because at the end of the day, more harvestmen = less pests.
However, back to this wolf spider. I finally summoned up the "courage" to pick it up and chuck it out the window, but damn that thing moves fast. Certainly the biggest spider I've ever seen in the UK.
I wasn't sure what it was til looking at those pics, but it's stance and body shape was definitely reminiscent of a wolf spider and it's body wasn't set forward enough to be a nursery web spider. |
fairimear
Gallente
S.A.S
Cruel Intentions
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Posted - 2008.09.01 09:59:00 -
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This is thread full of Horror.
God sake man for a start get the places they keep coming into your house sealed.
And as for the monster you have now.
Destroy it by any means possible. then use the biggest most deadly bug-bomb u can.
The type that requires you move into a hotel for 3 days. |
jarack
Wreckless Abandon
Un-Natural Selection
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Posted - 2008.09.01 14:56:00 -
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Well, thank God i live in England.
Some of those spiders are freeking huge, seriously how could you live in a house with those things? Do you not fear them at all?
To think you guys have lovely weather, blistering heat in the summer, tonne's of snow in the Winter, I'm now actually glad we don't get any of that, for the simple fact we don't get those big buggers here.
In fact was reading a story in my local newspaper, it described a camel spider getting into England from a Soldier who had recently came back from Afganistan, it managed to hitch a ride all the way and get into the Soldiers house. It killed their Pet dog and they've been living in a hotel for the past week because of it.
Crazy, crazy stuff man. Really. |
Kur'Dekaija
League of Disgruntled Fast Food Employees
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Posted - 2008.09.01 15:18:00 -
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Find more of them, make a little arena, make them fight to the death, the victor gets to eat the other one.
Breed them, make them strong!!!! find other kids doing the same, challenge them, let your spiders eat theirs!!! muahahahahaha 
Used to do that when I was 8 and wisiting my native country
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shaqarava
Amarr
24th Imperial Crusade
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Posted - 2008.09.01 16:18:00 -
[48]
Originally by: Digital Solaris
In the light of recent events, I think it is only justified to link this. Click it and watch it, if you dare, sissies.
I prefer this one |
Evanade
Rionnag Alba
Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2008.09.01 17:01:00 -
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Edited by: Evanade on 01/09/2008 17:00:56
1) pick up by leg (or just catch with peice of paper and can)
2) put in glass bottle till you're bored watching it
3) release in garden or forest
4) profit! (and no dead spider either)
I really like them, shame to see so many people mindlessly mashing them to bits :( |
Slade Trillgon
Siorai Iontach
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Posted - 2008.09.01 18:27:00 -
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Originally by: Surfin's PlunderBunny
Remember, the bigger the spider the more likely you'll notice it crawling on you
Or, more likely to notice it dangling over your head late at night while you are ****ing 
Slade
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Kazuma Saruwatari
Caldari
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Posted - 2008.09.02 02:26:00 -
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I spotted yet another one of these things outside, in the empty lot beside our home.
This time, it was a good ol' female with her egg sac in white, clearly seen.
Currently she isnt moving from the tree she's in, and pretty close to a neighbor's house who I particularly hate, actually, so I'm inclined to leave it alone. At most maybe I'll shift her closer to the neighbor's house for a good scare.
Thoughts? |
Tortun Nahme
Minmatar
Umbra Synergy
Final Retribution Alliance
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Posted - 2008.09.02 02:45:00 -
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My suggestion: Declare war on nature! you will need belt fed auto-targetting turrets at the corners of your property and a small electrified fence
for air superiority use roman candles
because once they take over the only option left will be to take off and nuke the site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure
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xxShadexx
Retribution Corp.
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Posted - 2008.09.02 04:14:00 -
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My dog loves em.
All I do is say "Spider" to him and he starts sniffing around the corners trying to find em. Once found he stares at them and then paws them to death. If that fails he just eats them.
All good fun :)
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