tammienorrie Posted September 14, 2006 Report Share Posted September 14, 2006 Whit is da biggest spider seen in Shetland? Theres een in my bedroom window and its da size o a bumble bee! I havna seen any that big here afore. I'm no going tae open my window noo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 8O Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twerto Posted September 14, 2006 Report Share Posted September 14, 2006 name it Charlotte and leave it alone.. personally i prefer spiders over flying insects... at least spider generally keep themselves to themselves but flies and bees my it their sole duty to piss you off Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aims Posted September 14, 2006 Report Share Posted September 14, 2006 is that as big as they get here??? do you not get house spiders??? their bloody huge, ahhhhh!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanman Posted September 14, 2006 Report Share Posted September 14, 2006 2 litre Alfa Romeo Spider. Its big! Not sure if there's bin a 3 litre in Shetland but that ones even bigger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aims Posted September 14, 2006 Report Share Posted September 14, 2006 is that as big as they get here??? do you not get house spiders??? their bloody huge, ahhhhh!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aims Posted September 14, 2006 Report Share Posted September 14, 2006 ok, when he says the size of a bumble bee, does he mean the hwoke thing or just the body?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aims Posted September 14, 2006 Report Share Posted September 14, 2006 (ooops! didnt mean to say that twice!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Njugle Posted September 14, 2006 Report Share Posted September 14, 2006 Garden Spiders can have an abdomen the size of a plump pea, we usually get a couple of them at the back of the house through the autumn. Their webs are so strong that when you unwittingly walk into a strand it doesnt break, not even when you retreat. *shudders* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twerto Posted September 14, 2006 Report Share Posted September 14, 2006 anyoen who knwo me wil be sick of this story. as i alway tell it when the topic of spiders coems up.. but here goes In Japan many years ago on the school exchage.. we were walking down a forrest track.. ( first night in this place ) I was marchng on ahead as the rest sauntered along.... ( i should add it si pitch black and you can only see by the moonlight... ) next thing i know/feel is this strange sensation over my face.. and I instantly realise it was a spiders web.. this spiders web had been spun across the width fo the track.. man im sure i probably screamed liek a girl.. but my manly extrerior doesnt let me remember that bit : shudder : Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tammienorrie Posted September 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2006 it is the size o its body!! its sooooo fat I've kinda named it Harry, if anywan minds da advert years ago wie a peerie boy... Harry the spiders coming out party!!! Yeh I'll agree dat flying things are worse.... but I still canna stand da towt o a spider, especially that size sitting on me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Njugle Posted September 14, 2006 Report Share Posted September 14, 2006 Yeh I'll agree dat flying things are worse.... but I still canna stand da towt o a spider, especially that size sitting on me! When you're asleep, and the windows open a crack.......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomblands Posted September 14, 2006 Report Share Posted September 14, 2006 I've found a couple of large spiders in my house of late, these boys did not look local. I did the understandable thing with them though...A running attack with the Shetland Times usually does the trick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tammienorrie Posted September 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2006 arrrrgh do you realise how hard it wiz tae get to sleep last night incase that thing got in my room!! Whit if it haes a partner cos my window wiz open wide all day yesterday and it might o come in me room..... eeeeeek i will never get tae sleep tonite at all an no i coodna hit it wie da Shetland time... eeeeuch, imagine da pop wie a thing yun size.... noooooo way! 8O Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junior Posted September 14, 2006 Report Share Posted September 14, 2006 I'd be more concerned that with a body that size it is carrying thousands of peerie baby spider Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Njugle Posted September 14, 2006 Report Share Posted September 14, 2006 Good point junior. I remember many years ago coming home late one night and entering our WC to find 40-50 spiderlings abseiling from various parts of the open window into the room. It was an image i'll not forget. (cute as the little beggars may be when that small) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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