On Mon, 04 Apr 2016 06:05:36 +1000, Jeßus > wrote:
>On Mon, 04 Apr 2016 05:44:14 +1000, Bruce > wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 04 Apr 2016 05:27:54 +1000, Jeßus > wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, 03 Apr 2016 18:31:13 +1000, Bruce > wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Sun, 03 Apr 2016 18:17:04 +1000, Jeßus > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On Sun, 03 Apr 2016 15:47:09 +0800, JBurns >
>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 08:05:39 -0500, Gary > wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> JBurns wrote:
>>>>>>>> > We have Australian Huntsman spiders, about as big as my hand. We quite
>>>>>>>> > often have one in the house.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Our spiders are about a quarter-inch across. If I saw a spider as
>>>>>>>> big as my hand anywhere in the house, I'd use the shotgun on it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>LMAO! ME TOO! ARRRGGGH! ;-D
>>>>>>
>>>>>>They are a bit daunting, but if you are faced with them often enough
>>>>>>you get desensitised. They are harmless critters that keep other
>>>>>>insects down. They must also be territorial because the house never
>>>>>>seems to have more than one at a time (visibly anyway), and maybe some
>>>>>>babies.
>>>>>
>>>>>True, you never seem to see more than one really big one at a time.
>>>>>We used to have some real whoppers up in Queensland, they're
>>>>>relatively small here in Tas.
>>>>
>>>>The biggest one I've seen was in Tas. Bigger than any I've seen in
>>>>NSW. Must have been a fluky specimen.
>>>
>>>You must have provided a warm and comfortable environment for them 
>>
>>I guess so. It was a huntsman the size of my hand, at least that's how
>>I remember it.
>
>A word of caution if choosing to kill them.
>
>I did kill one once, this Huntsman was just too big to ignore and was
>highly mobile for a couple of days, you just couldn't relax with this
>big guy around. I smacked him with a shoe... and the shoe actually
>bounced off him... so I hit him even harder and that did the trick.
>Only trouble was I now had a big mess on the wall of blue-green spider
>guts everywhere... The big ones take a LOT to squash.
Messy
If they cooperate a bit, I'll catch them and put them
outside. Our cats seem to ignore them. They must have been bitten by
them, because they do go after beetles, skinks and cockroaches.
--
Bruce