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My son came across this today and it made me chuckle so I thought I'd share it.
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Australian Spider Chart
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Heh. The white tip must be their version of the recluse.
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I recently read that white tips are attracted to houses because they prey on the black house spiders, so if you don't let the house spiders live in your home you're less likely to see white tips. I've also read that they are very territorial so if you see a big one most likely there are no other white tips around.
Why jumping spiders are on there I don't know, in my state at least they're tiny and live in the garden.
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Is there an actual serious chart of these guys as opposed to a humorous one about what's in the hobby?
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Look at that "mouse spider"! How'd you like to find that in your shoe one day?
I want one!
I want one!
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I think we should start an official funny spider thread lol.
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I have a great video along those lines that I must make into a movie so I can post it. A couple of years ago I went looking for scorpions, found none but I did find lots of centipedes and recorded data for a study on colour morphs in a certain region. Very interesting the abrupt change in colour as the sand turned from vivid red to yellow/brown in an area perhaps 10km in diameter, changing from 90% "tiger" form with vivid red legs rather than orange and 10% brown morph with pale yellow legs on red sand to 90% brown 10% tiger in less than 5km, but I digress. Lifting rocks I came across quite a few Barking Geckos, on one occasion there were a pair, the larger ran under the nearby rock but the small one wouldn't move so I went to shoo it along so I could put the rock back down and it latched onto my finger! Its entire head was smaller than my fingernail but it latched on and wouldn't let go! "I'll bite ya legs off!!!" I had to admire the little guy! (while holding a camera in one hand and a 20kg slab of rock leaning against my shins!)LMAO! Apart from our lovely “Dave Jay” is there anything in Oz that doesn’t want to kill you?
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I couldn't find much, just previews of posters for sale and charts from pest control companies which either use the same images or contradict each other or pdfs, but here's the best of a poor lot.
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I would love to have some of those spiders in my collection....
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That's interesting about the regional color changes, I love reading stuff like that.
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I haven't compiled the data, but I recorded time of day, temperature (in the shade, recorded at each stop), weather including the night before , and of course what was found and where (micro climate ) and anything else relevant. I was driving my daughter to work twice a week in an area where the arid Mallee region meets the Murray River (the main river in two states) so within a 10km diameter circle the landscape changes abruptly. Rather than go home, I'd spend her work day turning rocks and recording what I found. I'm fairly disabled so I didn't cover as much ground as you'd think but by stopping and starting the car every 100 meters or so I had a system going, plus why hurry when you're spending your day in the bush?
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Aren't the huntsman spiders one of the ones that are horribly misunderstood? I seem to remember hearing that many people think they are like the most deadly spider in the world and that they actively try to kill babies are some such nonsense.
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Actually they are listed as one of the spiders with the most deaths and hospitalisation rates attributed to them making them the most dangerous spider in Australia, not because of their venom but the fact that they cause so many car accidents.
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I'm sorry, I find that funny as hell...lmao
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They like to hide in crevices, under bark in nature, behind pictures in the home and between the sun visor and roof in the car. So you're driving, the sun gets in your eyes, you flip the visor down and a four or five inch spider jumps onto your face because you startled it! BAM!
They also hide on the outside of the car and climb up and in the window to escape the wind. It always seems to be the drivers side window, I couldn't even count how many times that's happened while I'm driving. I think they're hiding in the cracks around the doors. I'm not too paranoid of spiders but it is very distracting, I can imagine most people would freak out and cause an accident.
They also hide on the outside of the car and climb up and in the window to escape the wind. It always seems to be the drivers side window, I couldn't even count how many times that's happened while I'm driving. I think they're hiding in the cracks around the doors. I'm not too paranoid of spiders but it is very distracting, I can imagine most people would freak out and cause an accident.
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Don't worry I laughed too.
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That's pretty interesting. Here in America we don't really have many native spiders that get anywhere near that size. Where I live we have a spider called a wolf spider as well but ours is totally harmless. Here's what ours looks like. I find them in my house all the time, they're my little spider bros.
