SPIDER!! (Warning: Images of Spiders)

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-06-30 01:04am

I always thought that the Sydney Funnel Web was the most hideous spider in the world, but it's been dethroned.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Australian Mouse Spider!

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-06-30 01:06am

Frank Hipper wrote:I always thought that the Sydney Funnel Web was the most hideous spider in the world, but it's been dethroned.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Australian Mouse Spider!
http://www.ento.csiro.au/insect_id/spid ... pider1.jpg
http://www.ento.csiro.au/insect_id/spid ... pider2.jpg

Talk about MIS-PROPORTIONED.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-06-30 02:04am

weemadando wrote: I can say from personal fucking experience that those statistics are if not inaccurate, that they are the median. Average height for an adult human is roughly 5'9" at the moment. But I'm 6'6" and we have many people my height and above.

The biggest cave spider I've encountered was one with legs each measuring roughly 25-30 centimetres (varied from leg to leg) and with a 2 inch long body. Location - Mole Creek Caves system, in "Hexagon" (I think that was the name of that particular piece of hole in the ground). That thing scared the living fucking shit out of me.

You quote a website, and I point out that it in fact supports my position. Then you say, "oh, well the source I used was wrong, I'm actually right!"

Am I supposed to be impressed or convinced? I'm neither.

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-07-03 09:41pm

Howedar wrote:You quote a website, and I point out that it in fact supports my position. Then you say, "oh, well the source I used was wrong, I'm actually right!"

Am I supposed to be impressed or convinced? I'm neither.

Did I say that the source I used was wrong? No. I simply pointed out that I had seen one that was bigger than what was listed as the "adult" size. Not by much, but goddamn, by enough.

Grand Admiral Ancaris · Post by **Grand Admiral Ancaris** » 2003-07-06 11:34pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Anyway, here it is:

http://www.geocities.com/spankythedo/spider01.txt
http://www.geocities.com/spankythedo/spider02.txt
http://www.geocities.com/spankythedo/spider03.txt

.............. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

KEEP THAT THING AWAY FROM ME!!!!!

Grand Admiral Ancaris · Post by **Grand Admiral Ancaris** » 2003-07-06 11:44pm

Isolder74 wrote:On a note that is a harmless Tarantula!

That is a big spider though. BTW now you know what scared Little Miss Muffet! In Austrailia they have spiders that are very deadly that get that size.

You're thinking of the Sidney Funnel Web, correct?

Isolder74 · Post by **Isolder74** » 2003-07-06 11:45pm

Grand Admiral Ancaris wrote:
Isolder74 wrote:On a note that is a harmless Tarantula!

That is a big spider though. BTW now you know what scared Little Miss Muffet! In Austrailia they have spiders that are very deadly that get that size.
You're thinking of the Sidney Funnel Web, correct?

Yep!

Grand Admiral Ancaris · Post by **Grand Admiral Ancaris** » 2003-07-06 11:55pm

Howedar wrote:
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:We don't have the same kind of animals as they do on that Martian island you call "Australia", Ando.
He's a liar. They don't have two-foot spiders there, either.

The Largest spider in the world is in South America I believe... it's a Tarantula that can get a foot across, and has 1 inch long fangs. If I remember correctly the natives actually eat them... *gags violently*

Grand Admiral Ancaris · Post by **Grand Admiral Ancaris** » 2003-07-07 12:03am

BoredShirtless wrote:The deadliest snake: the Fierce Snake. Both from Australia.

I believe it's also known as the Inland Taipan...

Grand Admiral Ancaris · Post by **Grand Admiral Ancaris** » 2003-07-07 12:06am

Isolder74 wrote:
Grand Admiral Ancaris wrote:You're thinking of the Sidney Funnel Web, correct?
Yep!

Thought so.

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2003-07-09 03:01am

What is it with Australia and spiders?

Damn things would almost eat people. Just hate to see some mad scientist mutate some for his private army...

Isolder74 · Post by **Isolder74** » 2003-07-09 03:58am

EmperorMing wrote:What is it with Australia and spiders?

Damn things would almost eat people. Just hate to see some mad scientist mutate some for his private army...

It might have to do with Austrailia and Poisonous snakes. If we figure out why so many poisonous things ended up in Austrailia you could win a Nobel Prize

BTW Steve Erwin has no problem handling a Fierce Snake but a Bird Eating Spider--he sweats bullets

Isolder74 · Post by **Isolder74** » 2003-07-09 04:01am

Grand Admiral Ancaris wrote:The Largest spider in the world is in South America I believe... it's a Tarantula that can get a foot across, and has 1 inch long fangs. If I remember correctly the natives actually eat them... *gags violently*

I wouldn't put it past some of those people who live in the jungle down there!

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-07-09 04:14am

Isolder74 wrote:
Grand Admiral Ancaris wrote:The Largest spider in the world is in South America I believe... it's a Tarantula that can get a foot across, and has 1 inch long fangs. If I remember correctly the natives actually eat them... *gags violently*
I wouldn't put it past some of those people who live in the jungle down there!

They only eat the legs. They eat tarantula in the backwoods of Thailand, also, as I learned recently from some TV show.
The Indians in Amazonia call them "crabs", BTW.

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2003-07-09 12:17pm

Isolder74 wrote:BTW Steve Erwin has no problem handling a Fierce Snake but a Bird Eating Spider--he sweats bullets

That's because it's easier to keep a snake from biting you without incapacitating it in some way than for a spider. After all, there is no convenient neck for you to hold on a spider.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2003-07-10 04:16pm

Get a terrium, put it in and feed it small mice.

thecreech · Post by **thecreech** » 2003-07-10 04:24pm

Frank Hipper wrote:I always thought that the Sydney Funnel Web was the most hideous spider in the world, but it's been dethroned.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Australian Mouse Spider!

Holy fuck!

look on the fangs on that little asshole

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2003-07-10 04:43pm

Maybe it's compensating for something.

thecreech · Post by **thecreech** » 2003-07-10 05:03pm

I would be upset if i were that spider. My head is bigger than my ass but then again what other insect is going to tell you that

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-07-10 06:19pm

Not as freaky as a mouse spider, but I'd defecate in my tightie whities if this fucker got close!

thecreech · Post by **thecreech** » 2003-07-10 06:30pm

You know i heard of a spider in Brazil that has its fangs spring loaded and that they can penatrate a steel-toe boot. Man that is some scary shit

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-07-10 11:30pm

thecreech wrote:You know i heard of a spider in Brazil that has its fangs spring loaded and that they can penatrate a steel-toe boot. Man that is some scary shit

It would take some serious persuasion before I believed that. There is a "Brazilian Wandering Spider" that has venom dangerous, and sometimes fatal, to humans.
Apparently, the Sydney Funnel Web spider can bite through boot leather, or your toenail, however the case may be....

Isolder74 · Post by **Isolder74** » 2003-07-11 12:16am

Frank Hipper wrote:
thecreech wrote:You know i heard of a spider in Brazil that has its fangs spring loaded and that they can penatrate a steel-toe boot. Man that is some scary shit
It would take some serious persuasion before I believed that. There is a "Brazilian Wandering Spider" that has venom dangerous, and sometimes fatal, to humans.
Apparently, the Sydney Funnel Web spider can bite through boot leather, or your toenail, however the case may be....

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The Sidney Funnel Web also has the habit to use conveinent little caves as hangouts AKA shoes and this is how most people would get bitten by them

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-07-11 02:34am

thecreech wrote:You know i heard of a spider in Brazil that has its fangs spring loaded and that they can penatrate a steel-toe boot. Man that is some scary shit

I smell bullshit. No offense.

Grand Admiral Ancaris · Post by **Grand Admiral Ancaris** » 2003-07-11 05:24am

Frank Hipper wrote:Apparently, the Sydney Funnel Web spider can bite through boot leather, or your toenail, however the case may be....

This is correct I believe. The Sydney Funnel Web is also more closely related to tarantuals than true spiders being that their fangs face downward (like viper snake fangs) and do not face inward like the fangs of true spiders.

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