Glad to see you doing your bit to persuade everyone that our country ISN'T crawling with spiders - AHEM?
What on earth would be the fun in that?
THAT'S ONLY IN THE TROPICS! Melbourne is very nice and boring in the spider department.
Rubbish. Sydney isn't the tropics, and they have Funnelwebs. For the most part, I think we only think Melbourne is boring spider-wise because it is compared to the rest of Australia. Which isn't really saying much.
I think redbacks are the only real nasties here, aren't they? And I've only seen about 1 in my whole life. Do Huntsmen bite? I thought they were just alarmingly huge.
Well, I think they do bite if you provoke them, but they prefer eating other spiders. So really, having a Huntsman around the house can be a really good way of keeping the place spider-free. As long as your defintion of "spider-free" doesn't include Huntsmen...
At least OUR Daddy-Long-Legs just walk around. In England they FLY. HUGE horrible thingys. EUGH! As for the ENORMOUS leopard slugs they have - let's just say that I'd still be checking my boots...
EWW! That's just alarming! Flying Daddy-Long-Legs? That would freak me out completely. As for the slugs... *shudder*
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Date: 2008-10-28 10:51 pm (UTC)What on earth would be the fun in that?
THAT'S ONLY IN THE TROPICS! Melbourne is very nice and boring in the spider department.
Rubbish. Sydney isn't the tropics, and they have Funnelwebs.
For the most part, I think we only think Melbourne is boring spider-wise because it is compared to the rest of Australia. Which isn't really saying much.
I think redbacks are the only real nasties here, aren't they? And I've only seen about 1 in my whole life. Do Huntsmen bite? I thought they were just alarmingly huge.
Well, I think they do bite if you provoke them, but they prefer eating other spiders. So really, having a Huntsman around the house can be a really good way of keeping the place spider-free. As long as your defintion of "spider-free" doesn't include Huntsmen...
At least OUR Daddy-Long-Legs just walk around. In England they FLY. HUGE horrible thingys. EUGH!
As for the ENORMOUS leopard slugs they have - let's just say that I'd still be checking my boots...
EWW! That's just alarming! Flying Daddy-Long-Legs? That would freak me out completely.
As for the slugs... *shudder*