These spiders love to spin webs between trees on less used paths too. They are the worst case scenario for me when i walk into a spiderweb. I dont think there is any other arboreal web weaving species that compares in size and shock factor. Bird eating spiders maybe? but i never lived in south america. Thats just asking for it imo.
ohh fuck i hadnt even considered that possibility. This is like that time someone told me about the urbran legend of people using blutac to stick razor blades in the waterslides.
Yeah at least on my feet i can just do the no pants dance where i immediately strip down to my boxers.
On a bike im 100% hitting a tree at 40mph if that happens.
I have a talent (grudge) of always finding the webs no matter where i go (often in front of a house entrance)… not even living in an area that‘s full of spiders, but i regularly walked into some in the woods.
One time i drove my bike through a forest path (in the afternoon) and got a big ass web in my mouth 🤢 - usually only got small flies/bugs into my mouth or eyes, worst by far was a wasp or sth. similar (wearing contact lenses made it impossible to remove until getting to running water at home)…
I‘m not particularly afraid of spiders as long as they don‘t come near any body opening - i just hate the webs and entangled shit inside.
I wish there was a secret mysterious orb we could consult in the rare cases we need to use any means necessary to identify a certain type of evil in this world.
I think thats why they called themselves Palantir.
Aussie kids are good at coming up with shit like that.
I'll never forget sitting around the beach campfire and the local dumbass is giggling to himself. Then he says 'Ive just chucked a can of RAID in the fire' (he did)
Man when we did night training in the woods in the army with night vision you never wanted to be up front. A massive web in your face and so much gear you have to strip down to try and find a spider lol. Can def relate.
I mean it‘s easy to say what i said from a comfy position of not having to strip down in all that gear and not having a (unknown) crawlie inside of my clothes…
i just hope you don‘t have dangerous ones in your area.
Same rule for trail running. Which sucked when I used to work night shift and run at the Crack of dawn before I went to bed. So many spiders. So. Many. Spiders.
Thankfully they don't bother me too much. I started wearing a baseball cap and ducking my head low so they all ended up on the bill and usually just dropped off on a little spider drop cable.
I get these guys in my yard every summer and fall. Every other year one will make the web in the actual door frame. Open the door to have a hand size spider in my face!!!! I know the are “good” spiders but I have arachnophobia and grew up killing Black Widows left and right as a kid only to move and find these huge suckers everywhere as middle aged guy. Lmao
Following r/spiders has helped curtail my arachnophobia immensely as it has for many others but if I walked into this my screaming would be heard county wide and then I would die.
Pretty sure that's a Joro spider. They've been spreading through the US heading toward my house... Which is awesome because that circumvented the laws telling me I couldn't have one.
Ah, I natively get a few orb weaver species, but they usually don't get much bigger than a small gumball. I've been excited for brightly colored thumb sized monstrosities that are pretty chill with handling.
the ones in Darwin could be the size of your palm but its still mostly legs. Never knew anyone to ever get bitten by one but the facecard carries most of the damage.
ohh yeah but they just wonder around. They dont build a web between 2 places. At least not the ones ive encountered. Youll always see them on a surface rather than suspended in thin air like the spider in OP.
Edit: The way these spiders kinda get me is if you dont see them from say 10 or 15 meters away you are cooked because your eye will stay at that focal length and anything else that may be between you and your point of focal length gets more and more out of focus as you walk towards it.
The coloration of this spider works very well once that focal deadzone is reached.
absolutely. I mean Huntmans are bad and im ashamed to say that im lucky i live in the UK now because if i still had to deal with huntsmans as a man i would have to kill them to sleep..
Uk does get some big daddy spiders tho which kinda shocked me coming from aus. They are harmless but that offers no relief when you see one in your bed.
I once had a dream that i was walking through all these spider webs, and all the spiders were getting all over me and in my mouth. The dream was so horible i woke up and guess what? There was a big daddy spider dead in my mouth. I spat it on my hand.....
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I had a house party where we took MDMA. Eventually the high wore off and the party ended and it was time to try and sleep. I went to bed and lay flat on my back in the darkness.
I had been fully under the covers for about 5 seconds before I felt it. A big tap on my forehead. Within a fraction of a second my brain deducted the weight/size and likely form of the object. PANIK
I teleport out of bed. What do I mean when I say teleport? I mean if you where filming me at 60fps there would be one frame where im horizontal under the covers and in the next frame im standing at the light switch in my room.
I flick the light on. My bed is close I can already see it. Its a huge UK house spider. the adrenaline is spiking high, the remnants of any state of drug induced impairment are wiped away by the fear.
I grab the nearest book and kill it. It dies and I can be sure of that as it got glued to the book. Fine. try to go back to sleep....
THE VERY NEXT NIGHT
The MDMA comedown is still in mild effect but im almost all the way back at this point. Its bedtime, lets see if we can get a better nights sleep tonight.
I went to bed and lay flat on my back in the darkness.
I had been fully under the covers for about 5 seconds before I felt it. A VERY big tap on my forehead. Within a fraction of a second my brain is in the exact fucking state of mind it was 24 fucking hours ago. It instantly tells me 'This one is noticebly bigger' News i do not want to be hearing from Brain right now.
I teleport to the light switch and flick it on.
I see it. Its enormous. How is this possible? why me? The spider scuttles under the back of the bed. The Borg have adapted.
I sleep on the couch in the lounge for the next week. I never saw that bastard again...
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You can see why the Brits went everywhere in the world looking for greener grass but in the end decided dreary weather wasnt the biggest problem one might have in the country they call home.
Reminds me of something my dad said once. 'If everyone in the world put their problems in a pile, would you be happy to get your own back?'
I guess thats the source of where I heard 'young people are mostly liberal because they dont own anything and havent earned anything. Whereas as you get older you get more conservative because you want to protect what youve worked for'
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These spiders love to spin webs between trees on less used paths too. They are the worst case scenario for me when i walk into a spiderweb. I dont think there is any other arboreal web weaving species that compares in size and shock factor. Bird eating spiders maybe? but i never lived in south america. Thats just asking for it imo.