King Baboon,

This is right up your alley identify this spider please it had bloody big fangs so it didn't escape my rath but I took this picture for you first. It was big it would have covered a normal CD withy it's body and legs. Found it last Saturday night in ourt bathroom. We have lots of them around but this one so far was the biggest they normally come out after or before rain.

Anyway check it out

look like a huntsman of some descrotpion, I think the genus name is Diana (the huntress)

But K.B. will most likely give you a better answer. As far as I know Diana is present in Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
Africa, I don't know.

Express,

If it is a Diana is it poisonous it had bloody big fangs that I didn't want to play with ?

[ 03-26-2003, 13:45: Message edited by: Safari-Hunt ]

Now that I think back the exact name isn't Diana, but Neosparassus Diana, wich might have been the local subspecies where I lived.

Anyway they are not dangerous. bit fangs, the bit hurts just a bit and there are no lasting effects. I was bitten on the toe once (forgot to check boots)

I don't remember too well now, but I thank the are members of the Sparassidae family, it's been a long time since I had much to do with spiders.
Like I said, you'd get a better answer if KingB comes along...

In South Africa the Sparassidae include 7 genera; Eusparassus, Heteropoda, Olios, Palystes, Panaretella, Parapalystes and Pseudomicrommata. Olios, Palystes and Parapalystes are the most common genera in the Western Cape. Palystes common names include huntsman spiders, rain spiders, lizard-eating spiders and large wandering crab spiders.

I think it may be "Palystes".


[ 03-26-2003, 15:01: Message edited by: Nickudu ]

When I was a kid the name "triantelope" was often used for the huntsman spider. Never hear it now.

Mike

damn spiders are the ONLY thing that make my skin crawl!

damn, looks big enough to use a .22 rf on

[ 03-26-2003, 18:21: Message edited by: Curtis_Lemay ]

Thats is a rain spider also known as a lizard eating spider. Get them all the time in Joburg, the one in the picture is average size, yes they do get alot bigger!!

Baboon Spider.

You sissys! Skeered of a little spider!

Well.........

I am in the market for one of these if any one see any...



Ain't it a beauty??!!!! When I get one I will set it up in my office at work.

Ann....ur a sick woman!

Looks like he came into the bait perfectly!

That one's sweet Ann! Get a pair, I'll take one off your hands!

i like scorpions better. but my folks won't let me keep a small tank full at the house, they're too afraid about something that small and poisonous getting out. When I suggested a an aligator, since it's a lot larger and not poisonous, they threw a shoe at me . i guess there's just no pleaseing some people

[ 03-26-2003, 20:28: Message edited by: Curtis_Lemay ]

If that spider was in my bathroom, I'd start using a tree outside.

Ann, I've never seen a punk-rock tarantula before, or did you try to kill it with a couple cans of spray paint?

The only spider I've willingly held was a tarantula named "Geraldine". (No, not MY pet.)

There's something about hearing a spider walking in small gravel that commands respect....

Rick.

I must say that if I saw that spider in my bathroom, my first action would NOT have been to grab a camera. Cameras just don't make very good spider-squishers.
Outside, spiders are okay, inside my house, the only good spider is a dead spider. My $0.02.

Rick

Hell, I about jumped out of my chair and looked around when I seen that picture.
If I had to guess at what kind of spider it is, i'd say that spider is the kind that keeps me from going to Africa.
If I got one in the house that gets away, I don't sleep til' I track it down and kill it.
Trigger

Gentlemen

There is one thing I HATE more than all other, SPIDERS

I Sweden we don't have any big or dangerous ones. What is your preferd way of ending the "Sweet hearts". Anyone who has a spider gun ?Don't be shy

Ann, you strange woman . What is it that you find soo nice about that uggly hairy lump with thangs

/ JOHAN

Do you think a Matchking could hold up on one of them?

Sorry, just had to do it

Awesome spiders!! I have had the great pleasure of watching tarantulas migrate by the thousands in SE AZ. Its an AWE inspiring sight.
SPIDERS ARE YOR FRIENDS!! BE ONE WITH THE SPIDERS!!!! repeat several times hehehe.
Coues

Oh my God!!!!

I should've known better than to open this thread!!! In my house, spiders like those would cause serious concussions!!!! One look and bam!!!!

Its not the big ones that are terrible. They usually kill by using their fangs rather than venon.

There is a lovely little innoculous spider locally which has the name of the "flesh eating spider". A small black spider with a white splotch on its back.

Its bite causes the flesh around the bite to start rotting and fall away and it spreads and can kill. The only cure is to cut the infection out which can mean amputation.

all spiders have the same name..

SQUISH!!!!

jeffe

Damn- thats a little one! You aught to see them on Growth Hormone! WoW-Rob

So you guys think that I was brave at least in getting the scrub brush closer then taking the pic and then "SQUISH"

I must warn you such a huge spider makes a lot of green fluid "SQUISH" ou of them

Hi Fredrick

The spider in your loo certainly looks like a "lesser spotted bum biter" .... not often seen but hell you will know when it bites ... beware they are known to attack without provocation

Actually it looks like a "Rain Spider" (Sparassidae) they are very common in RSA.(Well spotted Nick!)

Please go to this link and check out the "Rain Spider"

http://www.museums.org.za/bio/spiderweb/common_names.htm

Regards

Gentlemen

Does "Rain Spider" means that they like to get taken care of by beeing flushed out the loo way

My sister treates the spiders with a hair spray can and a cigarette lighter WWOOOOFFFF

/ JOHAN

Moved to the North Shore of Oahu.
Going to the bathroom one night, with the light off, got a bite in the foot from about a 6 inch
centipede. Hurt like hell. Hospital time, and, it got infected.

When they tore the house down, after I had moved out, the entire front bedroom was filled with centipedes.

Also had two, one inch bites on my leg at night, that were sort of like a mesquito bite after the big one. You can tell the size by the distance the fangs are apart...

45 Colt comes to mind for the big ones...
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