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Spider traps deploying tomorrow, got these 2 before the came in, taking the fight to them!
Heart Attacks are NOT harmless…These look like Euro Giants. Pretty much harmless.
Funny.... at first look... I thought you named the last one Kenneth.I love spiders! Here are three backyard species hanging inside, and outside, my parents' house. Some of you might have seen these photos elsewhere in the forum.
A female Golden Orb-weaver (Nephila sp.) chowing down on a Jade-green Cicada (Dundubia sp.).
Nephila exhibits extreme sexual size dimorphism, the males are up to 8 times smaller.
Two Hunstman spiders (Heteropoda sp.)
Kenneth
Umm, ok, small hands?Ok it's that time of year, how are we killing them? I was awakened out of a dead sleep last night by a spider crawling across my back, it had enough 'heft' to it to wake me up... I am two things, arachniphobic and claustrophobic... After I came down off the roof I located it with a flashlight in the crack between the bed an wall inaccessible to the paper towel. So I had to fashion a 4am killing device, which ended up being a dowel with a paper towel rubber banded to the end. The culprit jumped on the dowel after dodging the first blow. I was then able to extract him and rush him to a watery grave, not before I got a picture for proof when the wife doubts my story in the AM. Not the biggest European house spider I've seen (almost hand sized streached out) but big enough. So what's the best way? Glue traps? Claymores? I don't want to use spray. Are there any pheromone attractant traps? I'm heading to the hardware store today and I'm not coming home without ample supplies to stop the blitzkrieg.
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Are those the big fuckers we get around here?Hobo spiders suck. The upcoming cold weather will get them moving indoors (if they are not there already).
Yup, most of them are hobos. Big fangs!Are those the big fuckers we get around here?
I think just of the big fuckers inside houses are "giant house spiders"Are those the big fuckers we get around here?
Sounds like we listened to the same this American lifeI heard recently that the top spot to get bit by a black widow is the male genitalia. So don't wave your dicks at it and you should be fine.
Interesting.I think just of the big fuckers inside houses are "giant house spiders"
Spiders aren’t really coming inside for fall. They’ve been there all along!
It may seem, around this time of year, that spiders are running inside to take refuge in your warm home, but they're actually year-round tenants. To look for mates, they now start making their way out of the spaces they...www.seattletimes.com
Most of the big ones inside are the euros, but people like to call them hobos. I like to call them dead.Interesting.
Whatever they are, there's one less than there was, my daughter stone cold murdered one in our garage.