Arachnophiles - can anybody ID this spider?

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Originally Posted by DiscoMick

They help to control other invaders, so spiders are good.

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Do they keep out the Poms? [bigwhistle]

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Originally Posted by tact

My wife would empathise with you. Migrated to Oz with me a year or so ago and despite being in a 4th floor apartment, that was brand new when we moved in, we get a lot of spiders. Good variety too. She isn’t scared or panicked but she does message me with a pic every time she sees one in the house - asking me “dangerous?”.

Once I was at work in a board meeting and responded too quickly and accidentally left out the word “not” from the reply “...swift spider: [not] deadly, don’t try to shoo it out they are fast and have a nasty bite”

oops!

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Oh thats gold! The reaction would have been priceless! :Rolling:

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Originally Posted by DiscoMick

They help to control other invaders, so spiders are good.

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At my place they are the invaders! :lol2:

Too many hairy legs....KILL IT

If you want to live and thrive, let a spider run alive.

We have plenty at our place, they are all welcome and have the run of the house.

My resident " "tilly spidie." Gorgeous girl. She's been in the cab for weeks. I'll go for a drive and she'll wander up and have a look around and then settle on the windscreen or the dash. Whenever we stop, she pops out for a look around. I accidentally wound the window up while she was outside and the next morning, yep, back in the cab! I woke up at 2 or 3 am remembering that she was out when I closed up. Is that weird?

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Originally Posted by 67hardtop

Too many hairy legs....KILL IT

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Man hater.

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Originally Posted by Homestar

If you want to live and thrive, let a spider run alive.

We have plenty at our place, they are all welcome and have the run of the house.

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Ditto

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Originally Posted by Homestar

If you want to live and thrive, let a spider run alive.

We have plenty at our place, they are all welcome and have the run of the house.

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Well thats it, i aint visiting u Gav or all ur hairy legged friends....scary...[emoji22]

Spiders aren’t scary or dangerous in general. The Redbacks live outside in my pile of spare tyres and rims, I have house spiders, white tips (they eat house spiders so not so keen on them) Daddy longlegs - they’re just cute, Huntmen - in the house and car, plus the odd garden spider and these fat hairy ones I have no idea about so I pop them back outside.

The world's oldest spider has died, aged 43
Last updated 21:27, April 28 2018





https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...018/04/895.jpg CURTIN UNIVERSITY
The arachnid's significant life had allowed scientists to further investigate the behaviour and population dynamics of trapdoor spiders.



Australia has a notorious reputation as home to some of the world's deadliest creatures and until recently also harboured the oldest known living spider in the world.
The trapdoor matriarch died at the ripe old age of 43 during a long-term population study in Western Australia's Central Wheatbelt and far outlived her previous rival, a 28-year-old Mexican tarantula.
Curtin University's Leanda Mason said the arachnid's significant life had allowed scientists to further investigate the behaviour and population dynamics of trapdoor spiders.
The research project was started by renowned University of WA biologist and spider specialist Barbara York Main in 1974.


"Through Barbara's detailed research, we were able to determine that the extensive life span of the trapdoor spider is due to their life-history traits, including how they live in uncleared, native bushland, their sedentary nature and low metabolisms," Mason said.