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Started by CSMO, November 22, 2013, 02:08:44 PM

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Huntsman!

Actually, despite their fearsome looks, they are pretty harmless and you have to really annoy one to make it bite you.  They often come in doors in wet weather to escape the damp.  You'll usually spot them in a corner of the room near the ceiling and the next time you look, they'll have moved but the thing is, you never see them move!  They are excellent at keeping down the smaller insects and spiders and don't spin webs.  Make good house pets in that way.    :thumbsup:
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zenrat


I'll pick one up if I have to (or if I don't realise I am) but I prefer not to.
I don't kill them on sight though like some "blokes" I could name.
The one above I had to move as she insisted on sitting on the hinge side of the shed door frame and I didn't want to squish her. when I shut it.
They love to lurk in the open car kit boxes full of parts I keep next to my bench.  I'll reach in, have a rummage, stop rummaging and the parts continue moving as a head pops out and looks disapprovingly at me as if to to say "WHAT?!".
Mrs z and I once watched one run up the outside of the windscreen of the car as we sat at some lights.
The lights changed, we sat on the freeway at 100kph for a while, pulled off and hit more red lights at which point the Huntsman ran back down the screen and into the outside vents.
She has one that lives in her current car in the gap around the hatchback (outside of the seals).
You hear tales of people that flip down the sun visor while driving to have one drop in their lap.  It's never happened to me but I have been looking at the silhouette of one on the windscreen against the early morning streetlights pondering whether to give it a wipe when the headlights of an oncoming car revealed it was on the inside...

It's the small spiders you have to watch down here.  Whitetails (necrotising wounds from their bites) and Redbacks (venomous but no human deaths since 1953 IIRC).

Fred

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