Thread: Another Spider?

Originally Posted by jonesfam

Half my staff are afraid of green frogs so you can imagine what spiders & snakes do to them.
Happily beat a goanna to death with a short stick but a green frog freaks them out?
Jonesfam

We had quite large green tree frogs that lived up under the rim of the toilet, when I was a kid.
They would come out with the flush and crawl back up and hide.

Our mother used to fish them out with a small fish net type thing, and take them into the scrub next door, but within a week or so they would be back,or another one would come along and take its place.

Originally Posted by jonesfam

I'm not worried about them just fascinated.
The big ones are quite large & they seem to have lots of smaller ones around them.
So far we have found 3 big ones.
They are up high & out of the way though a couple of my female staff are giving them a wide berth.
Half my staff are afraid of green frogs so you can imagine what spiders & snakes do to them.
Happily beat a goanna to death with a short stick but a green frog freaks them out?
Jonesfam

GTFs are OK. Here's one eating an Eastern Taipan it caught.

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Originally Posted by jonesfam

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So, we have these spiders hanging of the roadhouse shed with huge webs. There is a few of them, some about 7cm or so, some much smaller, males.
They seem to have lots of egg sacks.
Anybody familiar with these?
Jonesfam

This one?

The Find-a-spider Guide - Northern golden orb weaver

Originally Posted by Arapiles

When I was working in PNG we had a spider outside the carport that was the size of a bat - if you threw sticks into its web it would walk over and remove them. We came back onsite one time and it wasn’t there - and we did a really thorough search of our house before settling back in ....

Something like this (same species as the one earlier but biiiigggger!)?

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As a young tacker growing up there, climbing trees and the like as you do, I came face to face with one at a fair height, I found it much more expedient to jump out of the tree than to back track. Would not have bothered me so much if I had known it was there but my mate on the ground kept me busy with diversionary tactics, smartarse got a good laugh out of that one.

Also had a spider similar to a tarantula, also big, that decided it liked where we were sitting while fishing on the bank of a river. Reeled the line in and tried to discourage it with the rod. Nope, it was coming our way regardless. No problem, we found another spot.

It was fun up there!

Originally Posted by SBD4

This one?

The Find-a-spider Guide - Northern golden orb weaver

That's him/her.
Now I'm looking for them they are everywhere.
Cool looking jiggers.
Jonesfam

Originally Posted by SBD4

This one?

The Find-a-spider Guide - Northern golden orb weaver

Glad some one pointed it out that the original pic was not of a Garden Orb Weaver spider. Yes, I would agree, a Golden Orb Weaver.

Mike

Originally Posted by SBD4

Something like this (same species as the one earlier but biiiigggger!)?

DSC_0307-1080x675.jpg


As a young tacker growing up there, climbing trees and the like as you do, I came face to face with one at a fair height, I found it much more expedient to jump out of the tree than to back track. Would not have bothered me so much if I had known it was there but my mate on the ground kept me busy with diversionary tactics, smartarse got a good laugh out of that one.

Also had a spider similar to a tarantula, also big, that decided it liked where we were sitting while fishing on the bank of a river. Reeled the line in and tried to discourage it with the rod. Nope, it was coming our way regardless. No problem, we found another spot.

It was fun up there!

Yep - the other one that my colleagues had to deal with was this giant communal web the size of a house that they had to crawl under to get along the track ... and the spiders rattled leaves at them for being disturbed. Not sure I would have crawled through it.

Originally Posted by Arapiles

When I was working in PNG we had a spider outside the carport that was the size of a bat - if you threw sticks into its web it would walk over and remove them. We came back onsite one time and it wasn’t there - and we did a really thorough search of our house before settling back in ....

You're lucky it didn't grab one of those sticks and come over and beat you with it!