Huntsmans

[Falcon Freak]

Huntsman infromation

FF

[rapidxr6]

Originally Posted by sfr rob

i have heard of people putting them in there mouths and letting them crawl up over there face...
oh, i feel faint...

I read something a while back, that you EAT between 5-8 spiders in your life time.... in your sleep.MMMMM crunch..munch ...swallow...
Sweet dreams phobics..!!..

[mik]

wana laugh, some years ago i was on a working holiday around oz , one of the jobs i had in w.a, working on a farm for 10 weeks its 8pm i got my money im free (im in merridan) heading for perth, been and got some eats only highway in front of me, sucking on my ice cream thinking life is good (in my very beat up old nissan g60 4wd) suddenly felt something on my ankle wat the...............moved my leg and it ran up my trouser leg at high speed in a split second i new what ever it was will be you know where!!!!!!!!!, so just before IT got my UNMENTIONABLES i give my jeans a real hard wack .............warm juicey stuff ran down my leg, no i didnt crap or pee myself, instant hard braking pull over, jeans off middle of highway!!!!!!!!!red face time it was a field mouse , not a good feeling some how this evil little bugger got into my old scrubber, i have to say no 1 on my hit list is mice killem all spiders too!!!

[Van D]

Originally Posted by rapidxr6

I read something a while back, that you EAT between 5-8 spiders in your life time.... in your sleep.MMMMM crunch..munch ...swallow...
Sweet dreams phobics..!!..

I actually thought it was more than that... Maybe that was including other insects/bugs..

Night night

[Mr. CVE]

Back when I was younger ( many years ago !!)
i delivered newspapers on my push bike in the morning.
stopped at a house turned around to get the paper from the racks and there was a huntsman sitting there saying hi !
i freaked dropped the bike and rand about 10 meters away !
took about 30 mins before i had the guts to pick up my bike and continue.
But i'm cool with spiders now !!ha ha not !
I let them read the newspaper !! in fast motion as they are squashed with it.

[Tote]

Originally Posted by sfr rob

hahaha, just remembered a very funny thing that happend at my 21st.
/snip
Do those Insect bombs actually work?

insect bombs are pretty good at killing spiders in a large confined space, I let a couple off in the shed twice a year to control the Redbacks, they are a bloody nuisance here. Let the bombs off and come back next morning to find dead reddies everywhere. I don't know that I'd let them off in a car though because they do make a mess. (they reccommend standing them on a sheet of newspaper inside a house). There'd be no spiders in your roof lining though ))

Regards,
Tote

[Yummy Mummy]

Originally Posted by Joes_meat

I remember stepping on a large wolf spider a few years ago. Hundreds of little baby spiders ran out from under my foot.
Freaky.

OH MY GOD! I would have died. I can feel things crawling on me now, that's disgusting.

I remember I was 8 months pregnant and passenger in a friend's car. A huntsman crawled down the passenger window right next to me (on the inside of the car) and I started letting out this petrified moaning sound. My poor girlfriend pulled over thinking I had gone into labour, then when she saw the spider jumped out of the car. I had to crawl through her car with a massive pregnant belly to hop out her side, and then the pathetic sight of two petrified girls trying to open the passenger door and get this spider out of the car with an umbrella would have been hilarious to everyone driving past.

Scarred me for life.

I actually heard that in your lifetime you swallow hundreds of spiders in your sleep. They crawl in your mouth and you don't notice.

[Falcon_Phill]

well here goes..

My laundry would have one of them in it every now and then, and everytime id enter id scan every single corner. One time when i hadnt seen one for a while i just walked in, i was getting a pair of socks and i picked one up and the biggest peice of ИИИИ huntsman i had ever seen was on it. Soo being as clever as i am, i rushed to get a cigarette lighter and the fly spray, not reading the can, i got the huntsman to go near the roof and sprayed it to hell then lit it, then kept spraying it. About 5 seconds later my whole laundry was on fire, not because i used fly spray, but because i picked up the ИИИИing surface spray thats thick and sticks to EVERYTHING. dozens of burnt clothes and curtains later, its mangled corpse was found.

And thats the story of how i almost burnt my house down.

[Falcon_Phill]

btw when i used to work for the railways, id open transmitter boxes and around 300 babies would run out. It was like the huntsman version of the excorcist.

[OXR60W]

I'm glad i'm not the only wuss here. I'm 6'2" and 130kg, imagine me jumping around cus of a spider.

Well i bombed the car today, 4 pest bombs and not one insect was found. I hope that means they have left, or did the bomb miss them. I'm no better off. i'll stick to driving me wifes Daewoo for a while.

[Doogstar]

Originally Posted by Yummy Mummy

I actually heard that in your lifetime you swallow hundreds of spiders in your sleep. They crawl in your mouth and you don't notice.

NOT TRUE, URBAN MYTH, rest easy.
http://www.spiderzrule.com/answers.htm

Q. Do spiders crawl in my mouth and nose while I am sleeping?
A. I think it would be highly unlikely that spiders would crawl into a person's mouth or nose while they sleeping. For one thing we move around a lot while we are sleeping and this would deter a spider from even crawling on you, let alone enter any orifice, especially one which is wet and dark. Breathing through your mouth or nose would also deter a spider from entering and most house spiders are too big to fit into a nose in any case. Spiders, like virtually all arthropods, flee from breath. After all, there are lots of vertebrates that eat arthropods, and if you're an arthropod and something is breathing on you, it's not a good idea to stick around.

For a spider to get into your mouth while you're sleeping, (a) you must have your mouth open when you sleep, which is certainly not something that everyone odes, so there's a big chunk of people who can never swallow anything; (b) there has to be a wandering spider in your immediate vicinity, also something which--for most people in the civilized world, at least--is a fairly rare occurrence; (c) the spider has to either jump or fall into your mouth from a long distance, because they won't go near your mouth otherwise (they're not suicidal), and the odds are pretty astronomical of a spider randomly dropping into your mouth from the ceiling.

There is a story about humans eating eight spiders a year in our sleep without knowing it and that it was supposedly tested by filming people in their sleep for a year. It is hard to believe that a group of people in different sleeping situations would have been filmed for a year or more to validate this statement. It is possible for a spider to walk into your mouth and trigger the swallowing mechanism at the back of the throat and this could in fact occur on a rare occasion. It may even be true that there are a few people out there who have unknowingly eaten eight spiders in the last twelve months. This still would not make such a generalisation be considered as true. I certainly wouldn't lose any sleep worrying about spiders while you sleep!!

[Doogstar]

Catching them with a glass or bowl and cardboard and putting them outside is preferred as they help keep the insect population down. Once you have done this once, you can do it everytime.

But if you are a wuss, try hairspray, they stiffen up and can't move. I wouldn't recommend using hair gel though.

[Yummy Mummy]

Originally Posted by Dabbler

NOT TRUE, URBAN MYTH, rest easy.
http://www.spiderzrule.com/answers.htm

Q. Do spiders crawl in my mouth and nose while I am sleeping?
A. I think it would be highly unlikely that spiders would crawl into a person's mouth or nose while they sleeping. For one thing we move around a lot while we are sleeping and this would deter a spider from even crawling on you, let alone enter any orifice, especially one which is wet and dark. Breathing through your mouth or nose would also deter a spider from entering and most house spiders are too big to fit into a nose in any case. Spiders, like virtually all arthropods, flee from breath. After all, there are lots of vertebrates that eat arthropods, and if you're an arthropod and something is breathing on you, it's not a good idea to stick around.

For a spider to get into your mouth while you're sleeping, (a) you must have your mouth open when you sleep, which is certainly not something that everyone odes, so there's a big chunk of people who can never swallow anything; (b) there has to be a wandering spider in your immediate vicinity, also something which--for most people in the civilized world, at least--is a fairly rare occurrence; (c) the spider has to either jump or fall into your mouth from a long distance, because they won't go near your mouth otherwise (they're not suicidal), and the odds are pretty astronomical of a spider randomly dropping into your mouth from the ceiling.

There is a story about humans eating eight spiders a year in our sleep without knowing it and that it was supposedly tested by filming people in their sleep for a year. It is hard to believe that a group of people in different sleeping situations would have been filmed for a year or more to validate this statement. It is possible for a spider to walk into your mouth and trigger the swallowing mechanism at the back of the throat and this could in fact occur on a rare occasion. It may even be true that there are a few people out there who have unknowingly eaten eight spiders in the last twelve months. This still would not make such a generalisation be considered as true. I certainly wouldn't lose any sleep worrying about spiders while you sleep!!

I think I am indebted to you for life. Thank you.

[BlueRaven]

Originally Posted by Dabbler

Catching them with a glass or bowl and cardboard and putting them outside is preferred as they help keep the insect population down. Once you have done this once, you can do it everytime.

But if you are a wuss, try hairspray, they stiffen up and can't move. I wouldn't recommend using hair gel though.

Actually, im fairly scared of spiders. This was magnified by the theory that a scared spider will attempt to climb any object near it to gain a elevated position that is safe - however unfortunately, if you are that object then they will try to climb you. Anyone that has had a spider appear to chase you will be able to relate to that.

Anyway, my wonderful wife has a respect for basically every living thing....so I've had to confront my fears quite often since we have been together.

Honestly, when you approach a spider the right way - any old plastic cup or bowl will be fine.

Using this method ive been known to catch spiders and c()ckroaches and let them outside.

Take it from a man who hates spiders!

[NC 5ltr]

Camping a couple of years ago in my old tent up the mid north coast around summer time it would get quite hot so naturally i'd leave the tent doors open to keep the tent cool.
One night after i had showered i preceded to my tent where i got changed and went to bed in a nice peacefull state of mind to wake to growling beer induced gut ache about 8 in the mornin,so i preceded to get up and walk to the toilets in a hurry reached the cubical and preceded to drop everything.....ahhhhhhhhh...relief....after that was finished i was about to pull the ol jocks and shorts up and noticed something where the golf balls rest....I looked closer and it was a f@#$ing DEAD HUNTSMAN....i had to sit down and drop another after that effort. :

Heart in mouth stuff that was.

Next day i cleaned out the tent that thouroughly you couldve eatin off the floor and regardless of all that cleaning i didnt have a good night sleep for a couple of days.

After that experience though i dont really fear spiders all that much as i couldve had the worst spider induced injury of them all(apart from death)

NC

[RspecAU]

A few years ago i was traveling in the back of a freinds car the passenger in the front thought the sun was to much so he flicked the sun visor down, I could see what was about to happen and started to laugh (i freak out at any spider but because it wasn't going to be me in the hot seat i thought it was funny) then this really big huntsman dropped onto this guys lap. He almost put a dent in the roof of the car while driver was freaking out and cracking up in the back.

Not long after that i was putting some shopping into the back seat of my XE. A freind and i got in drove out onto the Nepean Hwy in paek hour traffic, I felt somthing on my neck at the same time my freind was freaking out that there was a huntsman on my neck, freaking out big time i flicked it onto my seat gave the wheel a hard left turn across 4 lanes of traffic without looking or indicating. I got into the service lane jumped out but the bugger had gone down between the seat and the console. I had to take out the drivers seat to find it and kill it.

[Feathers]

Originally Posted by popinfresh

I actually thought it was more than that... Maybe that was including other insects/bugs..

Night night

There are more in chocolate bars, so the more kit kats and mars bars you eat the more insects and spiders you ingest. :

[Lightning Strike GT]

Sitting out under the patio one night knocking back a few VB's
3 gecko's v's 1 big mo fo huntsman and the lizards won the battle but did not kill the spider the sadistic mongrels tore nearly all of its 8 legs off and ran away and I felt sorry for the spider as I hate these geckos with a passion I will kill a gecko over a huntsman all the time

[fiery]

Well not sure why with all the gecko's and other type lizards running around my place (yes inside and out) that I should have to have huntsman's too....!!
Go figure!!!
What are my lizards to damn lazy to kill, maim, injure, rip the sodden legs of the spiders here or something........
I would be happy with any of the above ^^^ to happen (NOW)

[Penelope Pitstop]

Originally Posted by AU XR8

Sitting out under the patio one night knocking back a few VB's
3 gecko's v's 1 big mo fo huntsman and the lizards won the battle but did not kill the spider the sadistic mongrels tore nearly all of its 8 legs off and ran away and I felt sorry for the spider as I hate these geckos with a passion I will kill a gecko over a huntsman all the time

You hate Geckos? and your a member of the XR6 & XR8 Club of Qld?

I hope Lynton doesn't find out about you...

[Lightning Strike GT]

Tori my dear
The only gecko's I hate are the 4 legged ones that chirp all the time and cr@p every where in the house and get into the electrical items and fuse them out:
BUT there is a good gecko in the way of a nice fella who drives a lovely Citric Acid XR or who rides shot gun with a princess in a Menace Persuit Ute :1syellow1

[fiery]

Originally Posted by AU XR8

Tori my dear
BUT there is a good gecko in the way of a nice fella who drives a lovely Citric Acid XR or who rides shot gun with a princess in a Menace Persuit Ute :1syellow1

ha ha ha you must not have been anywhere near the ute Sunday then :
shotgun.............
no no no.. :eclipsee_

:

[Lightning Strike GT]

Originally Posted by fiery

ha ha ha you must not have been anywhere near the ute Sunday then :
shotgun.............
no no no.. :eclipsee_

:

Ahh yes i seen it
Drew in the gecko
Gecko in the drivers seat of the princess mobile and the princess in the passenger seat

[svo347]

Originally Posted by AU XR8

Tori my dear
The only gecko's I hate are the 4 legged ones that chirp all the time and cr@p every where in the house and get into the

What are you talking about .. Chirping lizards pfffffffttttttt

[XR Martin]

Like some other non-wusses here, I just catch them in a glass/bowl and take them outside.

But, a few months ago (when my car was off the road for an extended time) I opened the drivers door and there was a massive nesting huntsman with an eggsack in the centre door jam, I managed to shoo it out and it went under the car. Now this thing was ИИИИed, with its fangs ready to strike.
The next day it was back in the exact same spot! Again it went under the car. (thank god it didnt go into the car)
I took the car for a drive, including a quick blat on the highway hoping it got blown off.

So far so good, I havnt seen it since.

[Lightning Strike GT]

Originally Posted by svo347

What are you talking about .. Chirping lizards pfffffffttttttt

These are the little creatures we Brisbanite love to hate
gecko
They are a menace

[Lightning Strike GT]

Originally Posted by XR6 Martin

Like some other non-wusses here, I just catch them in a glass/bowl and take them outside.

But, a few months ago (when my car was off the road for an extended time) I opened the drivers door and there was a massive nesting huntsman with an eggsack in the centre door jam, I managed to shoo it out and it went under the car. Now this thing was ИИИИed, with its fangs ready to strike.
The next day it was back in the exact same spot! Again it went under the car. (thank god it didnt go into the car)
I took the car for a drive, including a quick blat on the highway hoping it got blown off.

So far so good, I havnt seen it since.

Just like most of the female species they are just protecting their unborn

[fiery]

Originally Posted by AU XR8

These are the little creatures we Brisbanite love to hate
gecko
They are a menace

speak for yourself eh.. not all love to hate them you know :
I let them live (and their noise doesn't bother me at all) in and around my house (hate having to use poisons in case I kill some - but the spiders do need to be kept under control too)...

[Penelope Pitstop]

Originally Posted by AU XR8

These are the little creatures we Brisbanite love to hate
gecko
They are a menace

Geez boy, you are confused....

My Princess ute is Menace not Gecko!!

How could you not love Gecko - she is just beautiful

[Penelope Pitstop]

Back on topic

I had the absolute pleasure of having a very close encounter with a huntsman on New Years Day. I was having a long hot shower as you do after a night on the turps and felt something twitchy on my leg - looked down to find a huntsman on my leg. Now this bugger took up my entire calf muscle and was proceeding up my leg... I flicked it off and shoulder charged the shower door to freedom. Screaming my head off until I was saved by a big strong man.

Now I have two issues with this whole scenario -

1. How did the huntsman make it to calf level without me noticing it... keeping in mind I was standing under a running shower.

3. Where was it heading too... ? It was on the back of my leg and heading north... eeeeewwww

Gotta stop thinking about huntsmens as know I have the heebie jeebies....