livingart Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elusive_fish Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 Is that a nursery web or a sheet web spider? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted March 25, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 small sheetweb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trace&steve Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 eeekkk yuk i was making a coffee the other night and was just about to pour the boiling hot water when i seen a white tail spider crawling across my hand i dropped the coffee everywhere freaked out it was a big one to lucky for me it didnt bite me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smidey Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 i found one on some venetian blinds in a conservatory at my in-laws place last week, they are pretty cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted March 25, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 squash the white tail :evil: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insect Direct Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 nice spider Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nymox Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 squash the white tail :evil: Or stick it in a jar with a Daddy long legs, white tails are no match for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 Do remember most spiders do not attack you or bite unless you hurt them first. Nice spider Livingart! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynnie Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 Carly I was moving wood from a very old shed in CHCH 4 years ago when a katapo spider bit me. (didnt know at the time, until test was done at hospital. I got very ill) I have a half inch hole in my right arm very nasty scar from it. So supose he didnt like me moving his home. so sorry Livingart I dont share your love for spiders now. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 Sorry to hear that Lunnie and I understand your dislike of them at the moment. You should be proud as not many people actually get bitten by the reclusive katipo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynnie Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 :lol: :lol: :lol: thanks for that never thought of it like that. :lol: :lol: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 Do remember most spiders do not attack you or bite unless you hurt them first. Nice spider Livingart! My name is Arachnid Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antwan Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 Or stick it in a jar with a Daddy long legs, white tails are no match for them. Yea! Daddy long legs are such under-rated spiders Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insect Direct Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 Or stick it in a jar with a Daddy long legs, white tails are no match for them. thats interesting, someone once told me if all the daddy long legs start disappearing from your house youve probably got white tails... I dont mind the daddy longlegs but their webs everywhere get a lil enoying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nymox Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 thats interesting, someone once told me if all the daddy long legs start disappearing from your house youve probably got white tails... I dont mind the daddy longlegs but their webs everywhere get a lil enoying. I doubt it hehe, try it for yourself, they cant hurt daddys. Too much leg not enough body, they just step over the white tails and drop down to bite as they pass over. Few seconds later they wrap them up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elusive_fish Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 thats interesting, someone once told me if all the daddy long legs start disappearing from your house youve probably got white tails... I dont mind the daddy longlegs but their webs everywhere get a lil enoying. White tailed spiders preferred prey is other spiders, meaning if other spiders are disappearing it could be that white tails are the cause. 'Daddy long legs' are the source of much confusion. The first is around the name 'daddy long legs', which can refer to the fragile, web spinning spiders of family Pholcidae (which looks to be what insectdirect is talking about), the Harvestmen or the crane fly. The harvestmen is an arachnid, but not a spider. These a are the ball-on-legs you see everywhere in your garden. Secondly there is a fallacy around daddy long legs having the world most deadly poison, only their fangs are too small to penetrate human skin. The mythbusters guys actually busted this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1DzkM0zqDQ&feature=related Gotta love those guys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elusive_fish Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 I doubt it hehe, try it for yourself, they cant hurt daddys. Too much leg not enough body, they just step over the white tails and drop down to bite as they pass over. Few seconds later they wrap them up. I guess if you've actually tried it, I'll have to believe it. But I would have thought the white tail would be the diner, not the dinner. As a kid I tried a few different spider 'fight pits' and remember the orange coloured slater spider being the champ. It apparently eats slaters/woodlice, hence the name, but it certainly kicked some spinneret! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted March 26, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 the orange coloured slater spider being the champ painful bite too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nymox Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 Thats what I thought too elusive, being a spider eater the white would be the winner, tried it on 3 different occasions now. Theres a good mythbusters episode where he gets bitten by daddys, yes thats right they can pierce the skin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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