Note to our arthropod friends

[lederhosen]

If you happen to be inside the house and are not a funnelweb, white-tail, or redback, I will generally try to relocate you rather than smushing you. Usually this will be done by means of a drinking glass and a bit of card.

Ways you can assist this process and retain your optimal number of limbs:

(1) Do not huddle in awkward, hard-to-reach places.
(2) Do not run around all over the bedroom. I am not interested in eating you.
(3) Do not be larger across than, say, the palm of my hand, because then I need to go and get something larger than a glass.

(Impressively large huntsman, eventually removed with the help of a mid-sized mixing bowl after a considerable chase. I've never seen a huntsman give a threat display before!)

Got to see new bits of Australia today, and met up with asagwe and shadow_5tails again, rather sooner than I'd expected... sleepy now. Should I iron shirts for tomorrow? Probably.

Comments

[lirion.livejournal.com]

Huntsmans scare the beejeezus out of me! I've seen the threat display. I've been staled across my living room by one. They move creepily and gah! Logically, I know they are relatively harmless, but I have discovered that as opposed to my early teens when they didn't bother me, I am now unable to be logical about them :(

[nefaria.livejournal.com]

I'm imagining "Charlotte's Web" being redone as a horror movie in Australia with a funnelweb spider. Wilbur would wake up and see "DEAD MEAT" sparkling in the morning dew.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

...and they do threat displays?

(NO, I DO NOT WANT A DESCRIPTION.)

gah gah gah gah gah

[mr-figgy.livejournal.com]

If Huntsman spiders get big enough, is there a clearly audible whispering-like sound when they move some of their mouth-parts?

[anwar-jones.livejournal.com]

omg, how horrifying. *shivers*

[notasquirrel.livejournal.com]

Ways you can assist this process and retain your optimal number of limbs:

u arnte a veree gud hoaste, ar u? u sed thee exakt saime thinge toe mee thee laste tiame i visitud, ann wee STIL hadd ann uglee sceene. ann u didnte seeme toe kare abote mie thret displae eethur!
*irratatedchitter* honistlee tho - doe u hav anee ideea howe muche wurk thoze ar?

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

Not that I've ever heard, but depending on where they're walking they might rustle as they move.

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

I don't know what the fuss is about. They grew back, didn't they?

[notasquirrel.livejournal.com]

I don't know what the fuss is about. They grew back, didn't they?

*sullenchitter* i kin stil tel thee differense.

[notasquirrel.livejournal.com]

anne i hav ann AWESUM thret displae!

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

I have an icon called 'spiderling' with one (huntsman) doing a threat display at my index fingernail (purple nailpolish), if you want to avoid knowing what it looks like. It was about three days old, and approximately the same size as my fingernail. And not impressed at the camera flash, not impressed at all.

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

No pretty pictures of teh spider? *sad*

Reiteration of standard warning to Everyone: If you're going to visit my place and you're arachnophobic, remind me beforehand with sufficient warning so that I can evict the darlings inside, and make sure the orb-weaver hasn't made her web across the driveway at my face height again.

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

I took a couple with the camera, but they're pretty blurry so I didn't bother uploading them.

(The place at Long Beach has a resident population of St. Andrew's Cross spiders. I'm not wild about huntsmen, for all that they keep the bugs down, but the St. Andrew's are gorgeous creatures!)

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

I thought at that size I could handle it, and I actually could, although they look just as horrific in miniature (long, long legs!). So thanks for the chance. But now I really don't want to see an adult doing it.

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

I don't ever use them as icons except on a community which I know has no arachnophobes. But I have them, because I am an arachnophile. As long as they're not actually on me, of course. And yeah, threat display = very cautious.

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

I have daddy-long-legs, mostly, because they reduce the ingress of millipedes, AFAICT, and don't move much. There can be a giant population explosion of the smelly things in the garden and not a single live one inside.