ID a spider?
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Topic: ID a spider?
Posted By: Kayback
Subject: ID a spider?
Date Posted: 23 March 2008 at 2:34am
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I need help fromthe guys/gals here interested in freaky assed bugs.
I personally think this is a radioactive mutant spider, and I assume by now it has killed and devoured my parents. And it is probably now the size of a pony. However last night at my parents we found this spider. It's about 3" long, with the body roughly one inch. The webit had was about 5' in diameter, and it was a normal flat web, build amongst 3 dimentional anchor webs. seriously, it looked big enough to trap small birds. :) SO, anyone know what it is? 
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Posted By: bravecoward
Date Posted: 23 March 2008 at 2:36am
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where is the region its located
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Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 23 March 2008 at 2:40am
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/me smaks head. Sorry I always forget some important detail.
I's in Africa. South Africa, southern peninsular. KBK |
Posted By: Man Bites Dog
Date Posted: 23 March 2008 at 2:48am
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Dude, you live in Africa. If watching Discovery Channel has taught me anything, it is don't mess with anything bug-like in Africa. They all have super poison. ------------- 
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Posted By: NotDaveEllis
Date Posted: 23 March 2008 at 2:48am
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Thats why I live in a freakyspiderfreezone.
It does the body good. |
Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 23 March 2008 at 2:50am
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Man Bites Dog wrote:Posted By: Kingtiger
Date Posted: 23 March 2008 at 2:51am
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Posted By: xXK1CK1NVV1NGXx
Date Posted: 23 March 2008 at 2:52am
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Personally I would shoot it, because I hate spiders.
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Posted By: Brian Fellows
Date Posted: 23 March 2008 at 7:15am
 These things can bite through toenails. |
Posted By: DzXs
Date Posted: 23 March 2008 at 8:49am
but those arent poisonous.. |
Posted By: little devil
Date Posted: 23 March 2008 at 8:52am
| Its stuff like this that makes me nice and happy to live in Ontario, worst thing that I know of is rattlers around here. (but for the most part you can hear those before seeing them) |
Posted By: Brian Fellows
Date Posted: 23 March 2008 at 8:55am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_funnelweb - ... By the way, Kayback's spider looks like it's probably just some sort of orb-weaver, which are pretty harmless. Don't take my word for it, though. I'm no spider expert. |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 23 March 2008 at 9:13am
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It appears to be a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephilengys - nephilengys .
However, their range doesn't extend into S. Africa as much (almost all the way around it, but very little inside the borders. So I could be off by a species or two. Same genus would be my guess. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: .357 Magnum
Date Posted: 23 March 2008 at 9:17am
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Why have you not killed this thing yet ?
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Posted By: DzXs
Date Posted: 23 March 2008 at 9:18am
i was gonna say it looked like a tarantula, then i read this in your link, "Some of these spiders greatly resemble http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantulas" class="mw-redirect" title="Tarantulas - tarantulas" lol |
Posted By: Brian Fellows
Date Posted: 23 March 2008 at 9:22am
Most spiders are beneficial. They keep the populations of pest insects and more dangerous spiders in check. |
Posted By: JohnnyCanuck
Date Posted: 23 March 2008 at 9:55am
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I can identify that easily, its a South African GTFO-AND-DON"T- TOUCH-IT-WITH-A-STICK-STOP-GETTING-CLOSE-ENOUGH-TO- TAKE-ITS-PICTURE-USE-YOUR-GLOCK-AND-BLOW-ITS-NASTY- SAC-ASS-RIGHT-OFF-OF-THAT-TREE. That is NASTY, spiders freak me out, they are the ultimate hunter-killers and that one gross's me right out. I live in the fart sac of planet earth, we have nothing but mud and mosquitoes for 4 months (sometimes called summer), and winter the other 6 months, BUT we have nothing even close to what some people here post. No poisonous snakes, no cockroaches, no lizards, no slimy foot-long slugs, no pictures I have to post and ask "what is this??!11" ------------- Imagine there’s a picture of your favourite thing here. |
Posted By: You Wont See Me
Date Posted: 23 March 2008 at 10:37am
What planet are you on? 6+4=? ------------- A-5 E-Grip JCS Dual Trigger DOP X-CORE 8 stage x-chamber Lapco Bigshot 14" Beadblasted Optional setup: R/T Dead on Blade trigger |
Posted By: .357 Magnum
Date Posted: 23 March 2008 at 10:42am
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johnny made a no no.
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Posted By: Klaus
Date Posted: 23 March 2008 at 11:14am
The top of the wikipage says: "Know as a hermit spider in South Africa." So I'm guessing it's semi-common. And I'm impressed by your wide-base of knowledge, I guess chewp was right about the encyclopedias. |
Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 23 March 2008 at 11:34am
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Oh well. It does look like it might be one of those Thanks Tallen.
So no spidey powers coming my way if I let it bite me? KBK |
Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 23 March 2008 at 11:36am
Where abouts? |
Posted By: xXK1CK1NVV1NGXx
Date Posted: 23 March 2008 at 1:11pm
I don't know, why don't you video tape it biting a friend, then when all is said and done post it on you tube and link us to it. That way we can tell you whether or not you attempted to obtain your spidey senses the correct way. ------------- <Sig violation, Section 1> |
Posted By: JohnnyCanuck
Date Posted: 23 March 2008 at 3:30pm
The other 2 months we hone our math skillz ------------- Imagine there’s a picture of your favourite thing here. |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 23 March 2008 at 4:15pm
Nah, this time it was just my google-fu being rather masterful. Kaybak, I'm guessing it's of the same genus at the very least especially since you mentioned '3 dimensional support structures' at the edges of the web. Those would be the "cones" in which hermit-spiders hide if I'm reading everything right. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 23 March 2008 at 8:27pm
I've never encountered a rattler here in Ontario. Where are they actually found? ------------- "Abortion is not "choice" in America. It is forced and the democrats are behind it, with the goal of eugenics at its foundation." -FreeEnterprise, 21 April 2011. Yup, he actually said that. |
Posted By: little devil
Date Posted: 23 March 2008 at 8:34pm
| I hear up by sauble beach and those ares. A Massasauga Rattlesnake http://www.rom.on.ca/ontario/risk.php?doc_type=fact&id=101 - http://www.rom.on.ca/ontario/risk.php?doc_type=fact&id=1 01 They have a little map of the area if you check the site. |
Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 23 March 2008 at 8:40pm
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Brihard: They are rare but they are up in the middle of Ontario.
Littledevil: Where is that near? |
Posted By: ammolord
Date Posted: 23 March 2008 at 8:44pm
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wow, rattlesnakes in canada?? thats wierd. ------------- PSN Tag: AmmoLord XBL: xXAmmoLordXx ~Minister of Tinkering With Things That Go "BOOM!"(AKA Minister of Munitions)~ |
Posted By: little devil
Date Posted: 23 March 2008 at 8:51pm
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About half an hour away from Owen Sound. -edit- I actually never have seen one personally, I've just heard that they are around there. |
Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 23 March 2008 at 10:04pm
Awesome. Another reason to avoid ever working in Meaford. I'll add that to my list, thanks. ------------- "Abortion is not "choice" in America. It is forced and the democrats are behind it, with the goal of eugenics at its foundation." -FreeEnterprise, 21 April 2011. Yup, he actually said that. |
Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 23 March 2008 at 10:50pm
| i'd run away. far far away. |
Posted By: Bunkered
Date Posted: 23 March 2008 at 10:55pm
That may be the first thing I've ever completely agreed with you on. Spiders are terrifying IMO. I'd probably scream like a little girl, then shoot it because I wouldn't go close enough to squash it. ------------- 
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Posted By: ammolord
Date Posted: 24 March 2008 at 12:15am
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ya, you couldent squash it, it would get up and beat you to death with a bat or a log. ------------- PSN Tag: AmmoLord XBL: xXAmmoLordXx ~Minister of Tinkering With Things That Go "BOOM!"(AKA Minister of Munitions)~ |
Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 24 March 2008 at 12:21am
just throw it in the microwave for a few seconds first ------------- 
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Posted By: pntbl freak
Date Posted: 24 March 2008 at 12:22am
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Wait, you're actually in South Africa? I always thought you had that in your info for the hell of it.
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Posted By: Linus
Date Posted: 24 March 2008 at 12:43am
That would require touching it.  ------------- 
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Posted By: Bunkered
Date Posted: 24 March 2008 at 1:20am
You never know man... Some spiders can jump like mad. I will go nowhere near a spider that I can't positively ID as non-jumping variety. -------------
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Posted By: PaiNTbALLfReNzY
Date Posted: 24 March 2008 at 9:26am
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Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 24 March 2008 at 2:04pm
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Yes I live in Africa. I used to have Antartica as a joke country, because more people would know where it is, and it's close enough, right?
But yeah. South Africa is home sweet home. Not getting close is why it's a kak photo. It was taken from as close as I was willing to get, with my phone, and then digitally zoomed in. KBK |
Posted By: jmac3
Date Posted: 24 March 2008 at 2:06pm
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Come to America and be an African American
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Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 24 March 2008 at 2:19pm
tuperware is your friend -------------
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Posted By: X-51
Date Posted: 24 March 2008 at 6:29pm
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In before CCW but really get a .22, a hammer and a pipe. ------------- Once we clued in on the fact that life is finite, the thought of losing it didn't scare us anymore. The end comes no matter what, all that matters is how you wanna go out, on your feet or your knees? |
Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 24 March 2008 at 7:10pm
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Or I could just use my Colt .22?
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Posted By: X-51
Date Posted: 24 March 2008 at 7:58pm
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That too, I just want it to be as messy as possibe. ------------- Once we clued in on the fact that life is finite, the thought of losing it didn't scare us anymore. The end comes no matter what, all that matters is how you wanna go out, on your feet or your knees? |
Posted By: ammolord
Date Posted: 24 March 2008 at 8:02pm
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use my 9mm ruger, itl make a mess ------------- PSN Tag: AmmoLord XBL: xXAmmoLordXx ~Minister of Tinkering With Things That Go "BOOM!"(AKA Minister of Munitions)~ |
Posted By: X-51
Date Posted: 24 March 2008 at 8:07pm
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lol ------------- Once we clued in on the fact that life is finite, the thought of losing it didn't scare us anymore. The end comes no matter what, all that matters is how you wanna go out, on your feet or your knees? |