Spiders...

have been mentioned a few times on the bees thread.

I am not one of those oddballs who will pick up and cuddle spiders that they find in their house, however I do find these creatures strangely compelling even if some of them are horrendous to look at.

It's a sort of macabre fascination I guess. A voyeurism of sorts.

It's interesting.

just stamp on them

have been mentioned a few times on the bees thread.

 

I am not one of those oddballs who will pick up and cuddle spiders that they find in their house, however I do find these creatures strangely compelling even if some of them are horrendous to look at.

 

It's a sort of macabre fascination I guess. A voyeurism of sorts.

 

It's interesting.

That's such hangover spiel.

I may do a tennis thread later.

I had a mild hangover this morning upon waking in Bournemouth after a succesful night out, but one with a relatively low amount of alcohol in it. You really do need to keep up resistance levels!

Since I moved to Oz, I've been incredibly impressed by the Golden Orb spiders here. You could actually garotte someone with a string of their web.

Ahh!!! Ain't he cute!

You lookin at me, you melon farmin ashcan?

Since I moved to Oz, I've been incredibly impressed by the Golden Orb spiders here. You could actually garotte someone with a string of their web.

Oz eh? I bet you wouldn't want to cuddle one of these.

I don't like daddy long legs', but come to think of it they're not spiders, but they look a bit like spiders.

just stamp on them

yea thats the way...had to goto hospital a few years back due to being bitten by a spider. They get the full force of my shoes now everytime.

I bet this Canadian treads on all spiders now

A venomous katipo spider bite on his penis was the high price a tourist paid for a skinny-dip at a New Zealand beach.

The 22-year-old Canadian left his clothes in the sand dunes while he went for his nude swim at a Northland beach.

He slept on his return, according to a report on the case in today's online NZ Medical Journal.

"He woke to find his penis swollen and painful with a red mark on the shaft suggestive of a bite. He rapidly developed generalised

muscle pains, fever, headache, photophobia [light sensitivity] and vomiting," wrote Dr Nigel Harrison and colleagues who treated

him at Dargaville and Whangarei hospitals.

By the time the man reached Dargaville Hospital, his penis was severely swollen, his blood pressure was up and his heart beat racing.

Chest pain and other symptoms developed the next morning and it was presumed he had been bitten by a katipo. He was treated with

anti-venom medicine and rapidly improved.

However, heart problems persisted and he was treated at Whangarei Hospital and Auckland Hospital before returning to Canada.

Katipo spiders are known to have a highly specialised habitat in New Zealand sand dunes and will bite only rarely, and in defence.

This was the first known case of myocarditis, or heart inflammation, caused by a bite, Dr Harrison said.

A prompt diagnosis and the use of anti-venom resulted in a good outcome for the tourist, he said.

http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/7236126/skinnydipping-tourist-bitten-down-under/

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I like dropping ants, woodlice etc into the webs then watching the spider either sink it's fangs in to it there and then or wrapping it up and dragging it off.