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re an article ob ABC web news...of spiders causing accidents.
few years ago driving down busy road 8AM with traffic lights and right hand turn lane ahead, the right hand lane was turning orange as I approached so knew my lane would be turning green. Slowing down nicely I decided to lower the sun visor just about to stop and this ruddy great huntsman looking me square in the face. Instant reaction was to swipe him aside, drivers window was open and out he went. we then started moving and I presume Mr spider landed in /on car beside me because as I disappeared ahead there was a blood curdling female scream from what would have been the car beside me. One of those never time to film it moments.
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![]() had similar last year......... my car, missus in front passenger seat. she starts screaming at the top of her lungs [canna remember if it was me driving too fast for her or not ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() scared the bejesus out of the younger nephew once coz i had a huntsman walking on the arm a few years ago - prefer the spider to the snake tho...... |
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Huntsman on the drivers side window....wow, thats a big one....HOLY CRAP, thats on the INSIDE!
Taking the sweeping right hander while using my leg to hold drivers door open - not sure how - spider disappeared but no clue where. Nearly 30 years ago, never forgot the moment. |
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Tonz - I had to have a quiet chuckle to myself about that one. Imagine if her window was down and it landed on her ....................
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from the noise I suspect thats what happened, and the rear view camera wasnt working either.
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Had a few crawl across the dash over the years driving my trucks.
Due to the large river red trees at home I often used to get Huntsman wanting to creep in around the door seals or vents. Just before summer every year I spray each door jamb and vent opening with a commercial insect surface spray. Funny thing is, since planting heaps of Grevillea's around the property, it has attracted lots of blue faced honeyeaters which love to devour the Huntsman hiding under the bark of the gums every late Spring.
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Hi Guys,
I hate spider's not a shamed to say that. At the time i was living in Campbelltown in Western Suburbs of Sydney. I had an EA Fairmont at the time and was driving into Sydney to do a few things. I got into M5 Tunnel and for some reason i pulled down the sun visor only to find a Huntsman Spider resting there and i s..t my self. I got the newspaper that was on the passenger's seat and rolled it up and the Spider crawled onto the paper. I rolled down the driver's window all the time still driving thru the tunnel and hit the siders door with the paper from the outside till the Spider fell off the paper. I rolled the window up and as you come out off the tunnel and go under the Airport runway just around the corner is a Shell Garage and a McDonalds. I pulled in there got out of the car and checked the car. Opened the boot, all the door's and the bonnet and made sure i couldn't find any more spider's. |
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Why is it always huntsmans that magically appear in the car and not others.
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the other are small little bug gers and you dont see them, check around your mirrors and hinges....
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coz they are the ones big enough to notice? had to spray around the side mirror glasses coz of them blooody small spiders ![]() ![]() |
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I got 'traumatised' twice as a kid by interactions with huntsmen spiders
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Can understand, I got a thing about funnel webs.
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She is kept in a small plastic takeaway style container, with a bit of dirt and wood for her to feel 'comfortable' in. The dish is kept in a fridge under his work desk in the lab. I asked him how he learnt to collect the venom sample. He said he watched a couple of youtube videos and the rest of it was trial and error ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Hopefully not a lot of error in that trial and error part.
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to find fine examples. Gives me the creeps.
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Found big redbacks under my wash bucket in the cupboard in garage. Assuming they like moisture..
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