What spiders are these?

[Indigogirl]

And, here are some of my favourite spiders in my garden - flower crab spiders

 

[Mr.Jax]

Ag shamepies man - one day, really hope you get the plot.

Me, I am far more worried by flies and mozzies - they ARE dangerous (disease, etc.) and I love that spiders - "this evil spawn" (as you so bizarrely call them) - chomp away at flies and mozzies. Spiders are seriously cool creatures - I have all of the four spider species in SA that can hospitalise humans (black and brown widows, violin spiders and sac spiders) living in my property - am I worried? Nope. Do I use poisons - nope - not a single can or bottle of any poison on the property. We have a family of rain spiders living in the house and garden - those ones we don't even escort outside - they are simply moved to a shelf or top of a cupboard if likely to get squashed. Here is one of the rain spiders on the curtain in my office:
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You don't get a lot of visitors, do you ?

 

[Indigogirl]

You don't get a lot of visitors, do you ?

Most of the many people I am friends with like spiders and other creatures as much as I do. I don't really relate to people whose first instinct is to kill things they don't want to understand.

 

[Debeer165]

Ag shamepies man - one day, really hope you get the plot.

Me, I am far more worried by flies and mozzies - they ARE dangerous (disease, etc.) and I love that spiders - "this evil spawn" (as you so bizarrely call them) - chomp away at flies and mozzies. Spiders are seriously cool creatures - I have all of the four spider species in SA that can hospitalise humans (black and brown widows, violin spiders and sac spiders) living in my property - am I worried? Nope. Do I use poisons - nope - not a single can or bottle of any poison on the property. We have a family of rain spiders living in the house and garden - those ones we don't even escort outside - they are simply moved to a shelf or top of a cupboard if likely to get squashed. Here is one of the rain spiders on the curtain in my office:
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How... big is that spider?

 

[HapticSimian]

How... big is that spider?

No bigger than your hand.

Bunch of girls' blouses, the lot of you.

 

[grok]

When I lived in Randburg we were in a brick face house - the black widows LOVED it!

Must have been a while .. it's common knowledge that all the really fashionable black widows go for plaster nowadays

 

[Debeer165]

No bigger than your hand.

Bunch of girls' blouses, the lot of you.

In that case it's ok. The perspective made the thing look like it could be the size of my shoe (size 12), in that case I'd have a problem!

 

[Indigogirl]

How... big is that spider?

Body length around 35mm - total length with legs spread out around 80mm. They are seriously cute spiders - quite harmless and are one of the more commonly seen large spiders around houses. We don't even move them when they are in the children's room unless they (the rain spiders) are likely to get squashed by accident.

Bunch of girls' blouses, the lot of you.

Hah hah hah!!

 

[KleinBoontjie]

You don't get a lot of visitors, do you ?

What town does she stay in, I want to make sure I know all alternative routes, so I can skip that evil place.
Bet it's contagious

 

[Indigogirl]

What town does she stay in, I want to make sure I know all alternative routes, so I can skip that evil place.
Bet it's contagious

I stay in Duckberg

 

[KleinBoontjie]

I stay in Duckberg

mmmmmmm
/note to self: visit immigration office ASAP

 

[KleinBoontjie]

Actually, I'm not that bad with spiders. Here where I live, there's thousands of Camel spiders (rooi Roman), though they are not officially a spider, they are scary looking.
And lots of rain spiders, but I prefer they don't chill on my furniture or curtains.

 

[genetic]

This thread has creeped the living sh|t out of me!

 

[boxerulez]

This thread has creeped the living sh|t out of me!

Agreed. They can all die. Once I get a house I will get myself 2 hunting cats.

Die spiders die geckos die anything smaller than the cat!

 

[JerryMungo]

Some sort of brown button spider maybe?

Brown button spiders indeed...
Latrodectus geometricus

 

[Slaught3r]

Move.

THIS X 1000000000000000000000

 

[Slaught3r]

Ag shamepies man - one day, really hope you get the plot.

Me, I am far more worried by flies and mozzies - they ARE dangerous (disease, etc.) and I love that spiders - "this evil spawn" (as you so bizarrely call them) - chomp away at flies and mozzies. Spiders are seriously cool creatures - I have all of the four spider species in SA that can hospitalise humans (black and brown widows, violin spiders and sac spiders) living in my property - am I worried? Nope. Do I use poisons - nope - not a single can or bottle of any poison on the property. We have a family of rain spiders living in the house and garden - those ones we don't even escort outside - they are simply moved to a shelf or top of a cupboard if likely to get squashed. Here is one of the rain spiders on the curtain in my office:
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Put a warning on that! NSFW. I almost shat in my office chair.

 

[GreyBush]

Most of the many people I am friends with like spiders and other creatures as much as I do. I don't really relate to people whose first instinct is to kill things they don't want to understand.

All fun and games until you have a kid... then you'll whip out the doom faster than you can say "kill it with fire"

 

[Indigogirl]

All fun and games until you have a kid... then you'll whip out the doom faster than you can say "kill it with fire"

Not so - my boys are both younger than 10 - they are being taught to respect all insects too - and to be careful. Humans are so much more dangerous than spiders.

 

[Mier]

Also killed a brown widow on Friday. They love the handlebars, wheels and the rim of the trolley bins, as well as the undersides of garden furniture. Nearly had a heart attack when I brought the bin in.