yea im prety sure there vagrant spiders

hexathele hochstetteri will have bands running down the abdomen

oh but to answer your original question Tonka (we got a little sidetracked) I currently am looking after/ have looked after, Mexican red-knees, Bird-eating and Rose Tarantulas, Nursery-web spiders, Katipo, Avondales, and a few others

WOW COOL . pm me if you have any available :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

I know the mexican red knees ( Brachypelma sp. ) are SITES , but not the others!!!.

yea im prety sure there vagrant spiders

hexathele hochstetteri will have bands running down the abdomen

Yeah I just realised that. Its just most sources say that vagrants do not get as big as these ones are

lol i mite have to go get some for myself

i found a really huge tunnel web Porrhothele Antipodiana in the Waitakeres a few years ago , very big ,heavy bodied ,and the ranger came by , so i showed him what i had found , HE JUMPED A MILE , and was so SH*T scared , he wouldnt come near me. Bummer i didnt have my camera with me though.

Good to see there are other spider freaks out there.

Yeah they are really big and fat there. Also banded tunnel webs there too. and Skinks.

Just watch out for varanophile in the bushes!

found on citrus trees yeah, though I have a grapefruit tree and a few other smaller citrus trees and have looked in other places but haven't seen one... looks like this-

i can get u maybe- a few at a spot in whenuapai- they are aussie no? also known as 2 horn?

yea australian twospined spider

dont you mean CRABS!!

dont laugh, they limit my flea population.....

dont laugh, they limit my flea population.....

written on the back of a toilet door

don't bother standing on the seat

crabs can jump 4 feet

arnt they wolf spiders, that carry their egg sacs, dont have any real web nest and actively hunt kind of like a white tail.

im constanly getting bitten by psuedo scorpions and harvest men in my garden. the psuedo scorpions dont hurt but the harvest men do

arnt harvest men quite venomous?

does it hurt much?

im constanly getting bitten by psuedo scorpions and harvest men in my garden. the psuedo scorpions dont hurt but the harvest men do

stay out of the garden, then

stay out of the garden, then

Or bite them back?

it depends what kind of harvest men I it hurts HEAPS.

by the way what were those giant spiders that got losse and are now common from the shooting of the arachnophobia movie.

did they get loose?

i thought they were avondale spiders and normally found about the place since well before the movie

no it wasn't any of those they are aussise spiders this one was from south africa I think

They used Avondale spiders (aka Huntsman's) in the movie. And yes they were introduced from Australia.

they came in years ago,during 2nd WW if my memory is correct?Avondale race course was setup as a pow camp or un-newzealander camp(aliens)but not the outer space type.Biosecurity was not up to much in them days and the spiders arrived with the peoples gear and spread from there,hence the name avondale spider.

Man I am never going to Auckland again

manged to get a pic of my NW spider

lol, I grew up in Avondale, we had a big family of them living in our carport, very nice spiders, at the local atheletics club we were called the Avondale spiders and had a big picture on our shirts, the local bar was called the spiders bar and there was even a big spider model in the middle of town, I think it might all be gone now.

we thought it was all cool when we were kids! 8)