YAST: Yet another spider thread

[aidanjm]

The people responsible for the grounds of the apartment/ flat complex where I live were heavily pruning/ trimming the ivy/ plants around the base of the building today, which must have disturbed the spiders, because a large black white tail (? I think) spider just walked in through my window (I almost never get spiders in my flat). I put a cup over it to stop it moving, then grabbed a glass measuring jar to squash it with, but when I lifted up the cup it got away from me, and disappeared behind the back side of my computer desk. I pulled the desk back, but haven't been able to find it. So it's in the flat somewhere.

Pics of white tailed spider

 

[Pepsei]

syringer?

 

[xospec1alk]

why kill the spider? i thought they keep the bad insects away or something

 

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: xospec1alk
why kill the spider? i thought they keep the bad insects away or something

The just look really nasty, supposedly have a painful bite, and have been implicated in that horrible necrotizing arachnidism syndrome where the flesh around the spider bite starts to rot off and the limb eventually has to be amputated.

 

[xospec1alk]

Originally posted by: aidanjm

Originally posted by: xospec1alk
why kill the spider? i thought they keep the bad insects away or something

The just look really nasty, supposedly have a painful bite, and have been implicated in that horrible necrotizing arachnidism syndrome where the flesh around the spider bite starts to rot off and the limb eventually has to be amputated.

ok, that might suck

 

[olds]

I thought this thread was going to be about, this.

 

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
I thought this thread was going to be about, this.

seems a bit harsh of the mods

 

[Yossarian]

it is now plotting your death. sorry.

 

[K1052]

Originally posted by: aidanjm

Originally posted by: xospec1alk
why kill the spider? i thought they keep the bad insects away or something

The just look really nasty, supposedly have a painful bite, and have been implicated in that horrible necrotizing arachnidism syndrome where the flesh around the spider bite starts to rot off and the limb eventually has to be amputated.

:Q

*picks up phone*

?Fire department please, yes there has been an accident in my apartment. Yes, it is on fire?

*tosses lit Molotov cocktail into apt*

 

[Gulzakar]

get a cat!

Mine kills everything that moves...

brought in a dead tarantula once

 

[Ilmater]

Originally posted by: aidanjm

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
I thought this thread was going to be about, this.

seems a bit harsh of the mods

Er... wait... Syringer was banned? Permanently?

I miss him and cheer his departure at the same time.

 

[Baked]

Originally posted by: Gulzakar
get a cat!

Mine kills everything that moves...

Why are you still alive?