spiders ganging up

[DarrenSV650S]

Think that's daddy long legs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSZdHdfF4G4

Originally Posted by Jayneflakes

Beautiful photo of an amazing animal.

beautiful animal????? more disgusting insect!

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Lol. Just had a little garden spider put in an appearance from the top of my welding mask.

did you acciently divert the welding flame all over him and teach him alesson?

Originally Posted by Dave20046

mmm

please say that these are not found in the UK

Originally Posted by Jayneflakes

Venom is not overly toxic, but a bite will still be painful. Have a look at this for some interesting facts.

I love spiders, amazing little animals.

love the first line of that link

A spider bite is an injury resulting from a spiders accidental or defensive interaction with humans..Yeah right

[Jayneflakes]

Originally Posted by DarrenSV650S

Think that's daddy long legs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSZdHdfF4G4

Sadly, that is an urban myth. The most toxic spiders are the Funnel Webs and Widow spiders and they do have fangs to deliver the toxins. However it is not uncommon for a spider to save venom for feeding and not deliver it with a defensive bite.

Daddylonglegs are harmless to us, but are still predatory animals.

Originally Posted by blueto

beautiful animal????? more disgusting insect!

Actually, Spiders are arachnids and are quite dissimilar to insects. Insects have a head, thorax and Abdomen, spiders only have two body parts. Insects also have six limbs. Spiders have eight legs and two pedipalps that can be misinterpreted as legs. That is the basics anyway.

Originally Posted by blueto

please say that these are not found in the UK

The Goliath Spider is native to South America and grow to the size of a dinner plate. Other defensive features that it has are the ability to flick hairs from it's abdomen as a dust. These hairs are barbed and needle sharp and will cause severe discomfort to any animal that is hit by them. Have a look at this for an example of a defensive response. The hairs cause an irritation to soft tissue and can cause a dramatic effect to both the eyes and membranes in the air way. Nasty, but very effective. With a trick like that, venom is hardly needed for defence.

By the way, this is all stuff I learned while keeping a Honduran Curly Hair Tarantula named Ruby, who was very similar to this one.

[gruntygiggles]

+1 to Jayne on the daddy longlegs thing. That myth was made HUGE by Ricky Gervais, but has not truth to it. Spindly Spiders do though. Like I said, I can't say for sure but I do remember finding out from someone that they have this incredible venom, just that they can only use it on other arachnids and insects.

I don't know nearly as much as Jayne, but I have grown up always wanting to learn more about all creatures. Through my learning of Spiders, these are the four that I would avoid and NOT decide to have a closer look at.....actually, I'd go running!

Brown Recluse

looks harmless but a bite from this is NASTY! Eats away at flesh and it is very difficult to stop the spread of that. Can look like this...
this is a 9 day ols bite site, they have necrotic venom which kills tissue. Only happens in about 10% of bite victims though.


Funnel Web
these can be quite aggressive anddo pack a nasty punch with theirbite. There have been human fatalities and the Sydney Funnel Web is meant to be the most dangerous IIRC.

Brazillian Wandering Spider

looks like a tarantula a bit but these are incredibly aggressive and will jump to attck whatever it feels threatened by or sees as prey and they have these to bite you with...
These fangs are HUGE and although the venom is not deadly or particularly dangerous to humans, it can cause severe pain and the sheer depth of bite wounds can cause horrible infections.

Last but not least.....the Australian Golden Orb Spider
These aren't really dangerous to people, but the look of them, although amazing, does make my skin crawl so I'd avoid them just for that...lol.

Do you all feel better now guys???

Originally Posted by DarrenSV650S

Think that's daddy long legs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSZdHdfF4G4

This is a Daddy Long legs - just taken in the garden ... never seen one this close before - what a strange creature ... !

[gruntygiggles]

Yeah, they don't bother me at all...just scoop them up in my hand and chuck them out the window.....when the dogs don't eat them first!

everyones forgot to mention that all UK spiders eat people testicles first...