Hehehe!! *DO NOT open if you get freaked out easily!*

[Anonymous]

I warned you!! If you have decided to open this up and getted scared by what is posted, don't blame me :twisted:

http://img3.photobucket.com/albums/v13/Moni88/spider1.jpg

http://img3.photobucket.com/albums/v13/Moni88/spider2.jpg

Courtesy of: http://www.eternal-allegiance.com

[Sandy Balto]

Is it real? Is that in your house

[2Chiwawa]

CRYSTAL, what in the world is that freaking thing doing in your house.

How BIG is it. What is it called. It looks big enough to eat Britney up in one bite.

Tell us more.

Faye

[islandbabies]

Eeeep!!!!!!!!!! :shock: Please DO NOT tell me that spider is REAL!!! :shock:

[Anonymous]

Don't worry ladies, that BUGLY thing isn't in my house!! :shock: :shock: I'm pretty sure it's real, I think that's some kind of spider from Austrailia (sp??)

[islandbabies]

Whew, I was about to say I didn't know Cali. had that big of spiders. Terri, where are you? Do you have spiders that big in Australia?

[Anonymous]

Faye,
I don't really know anything about this spider...I just got the pics from another message board and had been wanting to share them with you all for a while now!:)

<Crystal

[Romans Mom]

It's very real...or could be. Look at the size of the screw on the wall. I've seen them that big and really bigger. The biggest ones I've seen are 6'' long.

Also, we rented our house to some Navy guys and they had a home tape of a Dad taking one off of the house in Flordia near Kissimee, FLA.

We have some about that big here in the Redwoods too, Just sleep with a net over your face if you visit here...you'll be just fine in the morning. LOL You really get used to them when there are so many spiders jumping on you all night. It's like they get to know you and just want to keep warm in your bed like a little Chihuahua. lol hehe

Seriously, there are some mighty big spiders! I've had times in my life, I'd wake up and say, "Oh darn, another spider bit me on the eyelid last night." My eyelid would be all red and swollen shut.

[Tracy, Daisy & Zoe]

oh my god!! i have spider phobia, i absolutely detest them! when we lived in cali we saw lots of black widows and you can have people spray forever and they still are around...and in tennessee it was more brown recluse lurking around with occasional black widows...well this is why we do not want to live in a warm climate (west/south) again!! oooh..i have the heebie jeebie and noew you got me thinking of snakes too..yikes!! :shock:

[LuKi]

OMG!!!!

Do you know that I LITERALLY jumped away from the computer and off my chair when I scrolled down to that second pic!!!!!!!!!!!!! :shock: I have a MAJOR phobia of spiders, I mean I cry!!!! That is admitting a lot b/c I try not to me scared of most things at all but do NOT like bugs and ESPECIALLY SPIDERS!!!!!! Gage was laughing at me by the way!!! He asked me what happened when I jumped off my chair!!!! :lol:

[2Chiwawa]

Wow, that was a good joke on me. I thought that thing was IN YOUR HOUSE. Very funny, ha ha. NOT. :shock:

[Anonymous]

..everytime i come this post, i stare at that close up pic for the loongest time..it's just so sickening that it's amazing to look at :shock:

But I think I better stop or else i'll probably end up with a nightmare about that ugly thing and i'd rather have a dream about getting smooched up by a boy/guy! :twisted:

[islandbabies]

Yikes Barb! I don't know if I'd be able to get used to spiders that big! Eeek. I haven't even seen very big spiders before, maybe just those ones with the long skinny skinny legs that do a little wiggly thing. But that's about it for me.

[LuKi]

..everytime i come this post, i stare at that close up pic for the loongest time..it's just so sickening that it's amazing to look at :shock:

But I think I better stop or else i'll probably end up with a nightmare about that ugly thing and i'd rather have a dream about getting smooched up by a boy/guy! :twisted:

*I understand that I'm 15 but my hormones for males RAGE most of the time!!*

I had to come back and let you know that I had a nightmare last night b/c of that thing!!! I was sooooo freaked out and it was growing wings too!!!! :w00t: YUCK!!!!!

[islandbabies]

I had to come back and let you know that I had a nightmare last night b/c of that thing!!! I was sooooo freaked out and it was growing wings too!!!! :w00t: YUCK!!!!![/
Mandi, you and these dreams! Now after seeing these pictures I totally look on the walls before I step into the shower, just in case! Ya never know what's lurking in the corner, or between the folds of the shower curtain! :shock: :shock: LOL

[Romans Mom]

I don't dream about spiders, but I've had a lot about snakes and things like the long fish thing in Mandi's tank. LOL

[Sandy Balto]

I have a real fear of rats I cant watch movies about rats because I dream about them, i dont like hamsters or ferrets or any thing that reminds me of a rat. One of my daughters brought a ferret home and said she was watching it for a friend till they got back from a trip , she lied they gave it to her she had it in her bath room and when i went in her room it got out I was hanging upside down off her bunkbed screaming she gave it back to her friend the same day.

[Romans Mom]

HA HA HA :lol: Sandy! haha :D That's so funny! LOL :D We had to leave home for a month and take care of my Dad when he had his back surgery. While we were gone, a rat moved in to our house. He chewed a hole in our living room wall right through the sheet rock. The hole was so big we had to stuff a tennis ball in it to keep any more from coming in! :shock: But the funny thing was, when we moved back home, the rat would come down the hall and just look at me and wonder who was in his bed! :shock: Then he'd quietly walk back into the living room. If I got up at 3 am, he'd still come in and look at me like I was in his home. LOL We got rid of him REAL fast! :twisted:

[Luckys Mom]

OMG Barb thats so funny...i would not have slept in your house with that thing in there...i hate rats mice anything like that...i once had a mouse that decided he wanted to live in my house too and one day i was doing dishes in the kitchen and after i had finished i put some cleaner in the sink to clean it and turned the water on fully hot and the damn thing came up the drain and started jumping nd running all around the sink...i swear to god i screamed so loud people 5 houses away probally heard me LOL

[ozi-chichi's]

Thats a Huntsman spider. Its not a threat to humans, if you are unlucky enough for it to bite you then you will just get some swelling.
There are only two deadly spiders that I know of in Australia. One is the funnel web and its only really found near Sydney so I dont have to worry about that one. There is another deadly spider that is everywhere in Australia that is the red back and if your bitten its fatal. Here is a pic of one:
http://img22.photobucket.com/albums/v65/potserelli/redback.jpg
They are actually very small.

[Anonymous]

:shock: Eeeekkk!!

Thanks for informing us Ozi..I had no idea what kind of spider it was, I just got the pics from another forum :P

[islandbabies]

Yay Terri! I figured you'd know what kind of spider that was. That black and red one does look like it could be fatal! That's scary! So, if you see them do you smash them?? Or are they okay just as long as you don't bother them?

[ozi-chichi's]

islandbabies Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 12:57 pm Post subject:

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Yay Terri! I figured you'd know what kind of spider that was. That black and red one does look like it could be fatal! That's scary! So, if you see them do you smash them?? Or are they okay just as long as you don't bother them?
If I saw one near my house I would kill it then get some bug killer and spray the area. I take no chances when having small dogs around.
Do you have fatal spiders where you are?

[Anonymous]

Hey you know what, we get black widows in our apartment :shock:

Those are around the apartment complex here...

<Crystal

[ozi-chichi's]

BritneysMama Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 9:19 pm Post subject:

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Hey you know what, we get black widows in our apartment

Those are around the apartment complex here...
LOL I read that wrong and thought you wrote black windows!!
Are black widows dangerous??

[Anonymous]

LMAO!! I had actually typed "windows" at first but noticed it :w00t:

Back on track, ummm, i think they are...we always kill them everytime we see them :D

[Romans Mom]

Wow! These are huge terrible looking spiders. I'll take our guys any day! :shock: LOL