Pls Identify This Spider For Me!
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because.. redbacks aren't aggressive..
just like the Brown Recluse Spider, they're not aggressive.. they only bite when pressed onto the skin
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Originally posted by the Bear:
because.. redbacks aren't aggressive..
just like the Brown Recluse Spider, they're not aggressive.. they only bite when pressed onto the skin
Aaaaahhhh... Not that scary then!
But then again, my American friend is a paraplegic on a wheelchair so she didn't even realise she had been bitten on her leg until a terrible, festering wound appeared. She wouldn't have been moving her legs to frighten the spider, but it bit her anyways...
Still, the man is foolish. You can't pay me enough to get an arm's length to the Redback!
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that is the one that bite spiderman!
erm...
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Originally posted by the Bear:
because.. redbacks aren't aggressive..
just like the Brown Recluse Spider, they're not aggressive.. they only bite when pressed onto the skin
However, Brazilian wandering spiders need much less provocation...worse still, they look like Hunstman spiders and likewise don't build webs.
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Originally posted by Kuali Baba:
However, Brazilian wandering spiders need much less provocation...worse still, they look like Hunstman spiders and likewise don't build webs.
What?!!
They look like Huntsman?! How can you tell the difference then? *quickly googles these monsters... -
Googled them and HENG AH... they do not live in Australia!!
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Originally posted by Rhonda:
Googled them and HENG AH... they do not live in Australia!!
Phew!!
luckily, Australia doesn't get their bananas from Brazil too
but i like spiders
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Originally posted by the Bear:
luckily, Australia doesn't get their bananas from Brazil toobut i like spiders
You want my Huntsman's carcass?
Souvenir from Australia? No? 
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Originally posted by Rhonda:
You want my Huntsman's carcass?
Souvenir from Australia? No? no.. if you're keeping it, it's probably rotted and damned smelly by now..
i can get wolf spiders in Singapore..
and a few very cute jumping spiders too
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Originally posted by the Bear:
no.. if you're keeping it, it's probably rotted and damned smelly by now..
i can get wolf spiders in Singapore..
and a few very cute jumping spiders too
No leh! After you mentioned it'll be rotting away, I looked at it, and thought, the exoskeleton seems to be so hard and tough that I don't think it can 'rot', so as a kind of experiment fuelled by my thwarted curiosity, I decided to keep the corpse, just to see.
Today, I went to take a look at it again. It looks like a perfect specimen. The only differences are, its joints are contracted even more (rigor mortis, perhaps?
) and its abdomen is dented. Other than that, it looks nary a day older than its day of death. 
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I did more reading on Wikipedia, and learnt that you should also be wary of white-tailed spiders, Sydney funnel web spiders and mouse spiders. Even the Huntsman you killed is venomous, although it's usually timid.
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Originally posted by Rhonda:
No leh! After you mentioned it'll be rotting away, I looked at it, and thought, the exoskeleton seems to be so hard and tough that I don't think it can 'rot', so as a kind of experiment fuelled by my thwarted curiosity, I decided to keep the corpse, just to see.
Today, I went to take a look at it again. It looks like a perfect specimen. The only differences are, its joints are contracted even more (rigor mortis, perhaps?
) and its abdomen is dented. Other than that,
it looks nary a day older than its day of death. The soft insides are probably mush now.
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Originally posted by Kuali Baba:
I did more reading on Wikipedia, and learnt that you should also be wary of white-tailed spiders, Sydney funnel web spiders and mouse spiders. Even the Huntsman you killed is venomous, although it's usually timid.
OK, hear no evil! *puts earmufflers on! -
Ignorance is bliss...but it can stay that way for only so long.
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Originally posted by Kuali Baba:
Ignorance is bliss...but it can stay that way for only so long.
yeah... ignorance has a way of sneaking up and biting you in the arse..this time, with spider fangs
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Originally posted by Kuali Baba:
Ignorance is bliss...but it can stay that way for only so long.
Well, I don't wanna get all paranoid and obsessed over spiders lurking in the corners now.
As it is, now, especially at night, each time I see shadows, I jump out of my skin thinking that it's a spider! It's worse when it's bedtime! Whenever I feel 'something' crawling under my covers, I jump out of bed and turn on the lights. And now, I have to run a quick check of my bedroom before I lay me down in bed! Thinking of the native spiders that will bite is bad enough, I really don't need to know yet more non-native spiders who are equally bite-happy!
