You lot are boring!!!

[tor lives]

Oh come on, there are only two spiders that are lethal in Australia; red back and Sydney funnel web.

Lethality has got nothing to do with it
As said previously, ANY 8-legged creature dares venture into my house, and it can expect a MASSIVE pre-emptive chemical strike, (indeed, out of all proportion to the size of the creature concerned ). I HATE ALL f@#king spiders.
TOR

[hrtpaul]

Oh come on, there are only two spiders that are lethal in Australia; red back and Sydney funnel web.

Once again, you confuse me with someone who gives a f*&k. THEY MUST DIE. End of story

[oz rb fan]

bird eating spider will give you a Bloody nasty bite....and will bit through leather gardening gloves

[hrtpaul]

^^^^ you can shut the hell up. There is no such thing as bird eating spiders especially in PNG

[tor lives]

Like these weirdos who keep friggen tarantulas as pets ......what the hell is that about????
TOR

[Cap'n Wannabe]

So is this a crustacean or an arachnid?

[Adam the Akrodude]

Huntsman's are good to have around the house, they eat lots of insects. We use to have a huge one that lived in our letter box.

ARE YOU MENTAL? Only good spider is a dead spider! Other insects I can handle with bug spray. SPIDERS ARE EVIL AND NOT OF THIS EARTH!

[Wedgetail]

I live in a farming area, spiders are everywhere. Huntsman's are common, we had one living in the hall a while back which I couldn't get into a four litre ice cream container due to its size but I eventually
managed to coax it into the container and put it back outside in one of our tree lines. I'm always flicking the buggers out of our wood for the fireplace.
Redbacks and White tails are another matter. When we lived in Cairns, I used to trail ride and rode full belt into one of those bird eating spiders and its nest, that was a fun day........not.

Wayne.

[oz rb fan]

Like these weirdos who keep friggen tarantulas as pets ......what the hell is that about????
TOR

what Aussie spider keepers have aint taratulas(illegal here...though there maybe some here as there are a few Burmese pythons).....most keep the MUCH bigger and nastier spider that Paul doesnt want to know about......though i did know a guy years ago that had farking funnel webs as pets....i refused to go to his house

[BradG]

A couple of years ago I saw a Death Adder bite someone. It was at my cricket clubs Christmas party and the snake handlers we had in for the kids brought all the venomous ones; brown, black, tiger etc. Fortunately though they all had their venom sacks surgically removed, so he was handling them with no stick and it turned around and nailed him on the hand as he was putting it back in the carry box. One of the girls was walking around with 3 pythons around her neck.