redbacks

we just had our house here in Hervey bay sprayed for them !!l had never ever seen so many and so big in my life before now!!
little bugger where every where and the house is only 8 months old!!

NM they were to as you say coming down through the down lights !!some nights we would go in to check on the kids and find the buggers just hanging down over the top them bloody hell did we get the ****s then!!

cheers

yep they get real big in QLD!
i have photos (ones on paper stuff) somewhere of one i found in an old EH holden that had an **** as big as a 5cent coin.
i found one this arvo under a pot in my front garden that would have gone 12mm, now she's about 20mm WIDE!!!:D

cheers phil

By the way. The daddy-long-legs CAN bite humans, and like the redback it can only do this if the skin is thin, like between the fingers, on the wrists, back of the hand. A redback cannot bite through the palm of the "average" working man as the skin is too thick. They (the DLL) are not posionous to man, I don't know about kids though.

Hey Steve
We live not too far from you and we have had more redbacks this year than the past four years, dunno why.
We had them under the paver lip on the pool, garage, one or two in the house. All over really.

If it has a red back, KILL IT ! it's a red back.

Red-backs can cause an adult to be ill and could kill an old person or child.

As for DDL poison and tixoic to humans it's a myth:
Spider Myths: If it could only bite
Pholcidae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

thanks guys..

the spidey has been cleaned up so no pictures :( never mind... will try and find another so that i can show how big they are! mind you it sounds im not the only one.. :D maybe we should inform the researchers that they are wrong!

Hangover...

we have only had 3 this year 4 in total in 18 months... but the place has DLL spiders everywhere as well as black house spiders (or window spiders) and i think they keep them down, we have a survival of the biggest i guess with the redbacks. never seen a huntsman either... and only ever had one bobtail lizard too... i'd like plenty more of those...

Sschmez

i guess the pet would make a good lunch for ours over here :D exactly what they look like just supersized...

maybe there is a business of selling DLL spiders to get rid of redbacks :)

Thanks for the info guys

Steve

Could just be a common black house spider.

[QUOTE=5teve;713188]thanks guys..

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Hangover...
we have only had 3 this year 4 in total in 18 months...

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christ really !! we bloody killed at least twenty a day before we got it sprayed??;) don't fret 5teve your lucky !!!

(to have little that is!! ;))

cheers

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do you guys see any this big? this is about the 3rd or 4th of this size?

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yep, and bigger

1980, in the pits beside the old kilns at the now non existent wilkinson day and grimes timber mill in caboolture i have seen them well in excess of 30mm. they sent some to the brisvegas museum to get them identified i believe as no one believed they got that big. apparently they do in the right spot ;)

Friends property gets red backs that big. Not common in buit up areas.