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((lambda (x) `((lambda (x) ,x) ',x)) '`((lambda (x) ,x) ',x))Apparently around Cairns there are some spiders with ultra strong web, or so I have been told. Never met any though... The coolest spider I met was a Huntsman! I didn't know about them, and one day there was one on the wall when I turned my head. About 20 cm wide with the leg, in my study room. Talk about a surprise!!! But they are good gys! ;)
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You mean it ate a baby. Crikey moses, keep those things from spreading folks!
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((lambda (x) `((lambda (x) ,x) ',x)) '`((lambda (x) ,x) ',x))S'just a small one! We get these (Golden Orb Spiders) in our yard sometimes - the web is REAL strong (and golden - looks nice with the morning sun shining through it) Sometimes you walk through a single strand of web which is attached to the branch of a tree and, no kidding, the tree bends before the web breaks - it's tough stuff. Never seen them eat a bird, though.
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S'just a small one! We get these (Golden Orb Spiders) in our yard sometimes - the web is REAL strong (and golden - looks nice with the morning sun shining through it) Sometimes you walk through a single strand of web which is attached to the branch of a tree and, no kidding, the tree bends before the web breaks - it's tough stuff. Never seen them eat a bird, though.
Take a chill pill, Daddy-o .\\axxx (That's an 'M')
Was going to say it looks like an oversized orb spider. Would have to be one of the stickiest webs, takes ages to get it off you if you run into one. I can understand why the bird is firmly stuck.
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((lambda (x) `((lambda (x) ,x) ',x)) '`((lambda (x) ,x) ',x))That sure is one big spider. They aren't everywhere though, thank goodness :) I live in Australia and we don't have any of them down this way (don't think that type of spider lives down here...) I think they grow where it's warmer - that's up towards the North of Australia where it's closer to the equator (for those that aren't up on their Geography :) ) Would hate to walk through their web though! Might get stuck! :)
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That sure is one big spider. They aren't everywhere though, thank goodness :) I live in Australia and we don't have any of them down this way (don't think that type of spider lives down here...) I think they grow where it's warmer - that's up towards the North of Australia where it's closer to the equator (for those that aren't up on their Geography :) ) Would hate to walk through their web though! Might get stuck! :)
I live in Queensland, Australia where this photo was taken. Everyone's been quite surprised by the worldwide attention it's received. I can remember the first time I saw one of those spiders, it made a web outside our back door, and I remember coming out at night and it seriously looked like a crab in a web. My Dad ended up hitting it with a spade, and even then I think he was a bit nervous about it.
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OMG! I'm glad I didn't see one of those when I was there, it would have taken my arachnophobia to a waaay higher level!
Well, the thing is that it's not the big spiders that you need to be wary of. They're generally harmless (even those Huntsman spiders the size of your open hand that crawl up the wall above your bed...). It's generally the smaller spiders that you need to look out for. They're the ones that can kind of kill you and have a tendency to crawl into your shoes if you leave them outside at night. Anyway, it's not just the spiders you have to watch out for[^]...
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I live in Queensland, Australia where this photo was taken. Everyone's been quite surprised by the worldwide attention it's received. I can remember the first time I saw one of those spiders, it made a web outside our back door, and I remember coming out at night and it seriously looked like a crab in a web. My Dad ended up hitting it with a spade, and even then I think he was a bit nervous about it.
I live in Cairns and I've never seen one that big before, although we do get some big ones every now and then. Its not really the spiders that you have to watch for its the snakes - which are seen even less. I remember reading somewhere that of the Top 10 most poisonous snakes in the world, something like 7 were found in Australia - and a fair ammount of those in Queensland too.
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((lambda (x) `((lambda (x) ,x) ',x)) '`((lambda (x) ,x) ',x))Everything in Australia can be classified into three groups: * Venomous * Sheep * All of the above. :-D *ahem* On a slightly more serious note, anyone see a movie called Eight-Legged Freaks lately? :)
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I didn't watch the video since I HATE spiders but FoxNews.com had a video of it. What kind of bird was it?
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((lambda (x) `((lambda (x) ,x) ',x)) '`((lambda (x) ,x) ',x))Geesus, that gave me a major case of the heebie jeebies there, for a second. . . .and I'm not really scared of spiders. Thanks, I'm kicking the mountain dew lately and that helped wake me up a bit! On some site linked by someone else I think in the replies I got to see pics of a leopard getting the upper hand on a croc, and a heron eating a little rabbit too! :-)
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I live in Cairns and I've never seen one that big before, although we do get some big ones every now and then. Its not really the spiders that you have to watch for its the snakes - which are seen even less. I remember reading somewhere that of the Top 10 most poisonous snakes in the world, something like 7 were found in Australia - and a fair ammount of those in Queensland too.
Aidan Hodges wrote:
of the Top 10 most poisonous snakes in the world, something like 7 were found in Australia
I thought it was 8, & definitely 4 of the top 5 (if I remember correctly, 3 of the top 5 spiders as well). Just quietly though, I think we cheated in those snake stats a bit, several of them belong to the same family (Taipan - including the No. 1. ranked Fierce Snake).
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Apparently around Cairns there are some spiders with ultra strong web, or so I have been told. Never met any though... The coolest spider I met was a Huntsman! I didn't know about them, and one day there was one on the wall when I turned my head. About 20 cm wide with the leg, in my study room. Talk about a surprise!!! But they are good gys! ;)
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Where are you based that you get Huntsmen that big but never see any Golden Orb Weavers?
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((lambda (x) `((lambda (x) ,x) ',x)) '`((lambda (x) ,x) ',x))leppie wrote:
Bonus points if you can identify it.
That'd be a Golden Orb Weaver, but dammit, someone's already posted a link to a news article that named it so I guess no bonus points for me! My guess is that it's a fairly small bird that got caught. Largest one of those spiders I've seen was about 20-25cm in total (with legs splayed vertically, they don't really do the out-to-the-side thing), with a body about half-again the size of a typical man's thumb. They're not dangerous, just really scary-looking and super annoying if you walk into a strand of their web (very tough stuff).
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Well, the thing is that it's not the big spiders that you need to be wary of. They're generally harmless (even those Huntsman spiders the size of your open hand that crawl up the wall above your bed...). It's generally the smaller spiders that you need to look out for. They're the ones that can kind of kill you and have a tendency to crawl into your shoes if you leave them outside at night. Anyway, it's not just the spiders you have to watch out for[^]...
Macca wrote:
It's generally the smaller spiders that you need to look out for.
Are you kidding me? A full-grown funnel-web[^] isn't exactly small, & I've seen red-backs[^] the size of a 10c piece (equivalent US size, fractionally smaller than a quarter).
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Where are you based that you get Huntsmen that big but never see any Golden Orb Weavers?
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My mistake, I can see heaps of golden orb everywhere, but never bumped into their web, so I didn't know they are that strong! Granted I can see on the pic it looks like a golden orb, but I though it might be a special variety... :rolleyes:
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That sure is one big spider. They aren't everywhere though, thank goodness :) I live in Australia and we don't have any of them down this way (don't think that type of spider lives down here...) I think they grow where it's warmer - that's up towards the North of Australia where it's closer to the equator (for those that aren't up on their Geography :) ) Would hate to walk through their web though! Might get stuck! :)
Hewie_007 wrote:
up towards the North of Australia where it's closer to the equator
We get a lot them here in Brisbane, more than 400km south of the Tropic of Capricorn.
Hewie_007 wrote:
Would hate to walk through their web though!
Oh yeah! Very strong & very sticky X| .
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((lambda (x) `((lambda (x) ,x) ',x)) '`((lambda (x) ,x) ',x))I don't have a picture of this (we were too busy killing it) but this did happen in about 1964 in the countryside around Shrevesport, Louisiana, US... I was coming into the garage attached to our house when my little sister told me she saw a big spider underneath the car. I took a look and immediately identified it as a tarantula (from my reading in our new encyclopedias). My mother was highly skeptical, thinking it was probably just a trap-door spider (same family as the tarantula but three-four inches legspan). She was, hmm, quite surprised to find a "banana" spider under the car, a full 8-10 inches of legspan. Being a Texan, she grabbed the first weapon handy (a broom) and had the thing beaten to death within about ten seconds. If it's warm enough, no place is safe, muah hah hah.