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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Bionic on June 27, 2013, 10:46:32 am

Title: I don't like spiders but...
Post by: Bionic on June 27, 2013, 10:46:32 am: You have got to admit this is beautiful, the Peacock spider from Australia

"Peacock spider" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GgAbyYDFeg#ws)
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Post by: ZaktheLad on June 27, 2013, 11:01:07 am: Picture doesn't show on my computer - just the kind of spider I like though - invisible.
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Post by: Ina on June 27, 2013, 11:03:10 am: And not poisonous? That makes a change...

Would prefer a real peacock, though. :D
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Post by: Fleecewife on June 27, 2013, 11:35:44 am: I thought it was brilliant, esp when he wiped his eyes with his palps, like a biker wiping the rain off goggles with a glove thumb. Then his funny display-face like a clown, but she's not impressed and eats him instead ::) Amazing footage. Thanks Bionic :thumbsup:

I like spiders as they eat flies which I do dislike intensely. I would never squash a spider and go to great lengths to rescue them from sticky situations without actually touching them or having them running up my arms :tired: :tired: :tired: (I don't like them THAT much :D )
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Post by: ZaktheLad on June 27, 2013, 11:58:14 am: I had a look on google images and agree it's an incredibly pretty spider. It's also very small, so I could definitely cope with one of those. I never kill spiders either and usually catch them in a glass. I am ok with them until they reach a certain size!
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Post by: happygolucky on June 27, 2013, 01:12:42 pm: I like spiders...that one is pretty but they do have a great character. Its snakes I detest, even looking at a photo of one makes me shudder!!
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Post by: Bionic on June 27, 2013, 01:48:06 pm: Now thats funny Sandy, I love snakes. They don't feel as you would expect them i.e. slimy. With something big like a boa it feels warm and like the muscles on a mans arm.
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Post by: happygolucky on June 27, 2013, 03:13:24 pm: Well, not a fan of muscle men either :innocent:
We watched a programme about 2 people looking for Anacondas in the swamps, that programme gave me a few horrid nightmares :'(
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Post by: Alistair on June 27, 2013, 03:33:11 pm: This is one of mine, we are having a hug (Brazilian rainbow boa if your interested, he's about 6ft long)
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Post by: happygolucky on June 27, 2013, 03:52:14 pm: :sofa:
ARRRRRRRRRRHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Post by: HappyHippy on June 27, 2013, 05:30:43 pm: Much prefer your Rainbow Boa to your death head cockroachy things Alistair *shudder*

I've got a photo in an album somewhere of me cuddling an albino corn snake (well, 2 actually ;)) will have to dig it out - I like snakes :thumbsup:
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Post by: Bionic on June 27, 2013, 05:37:18 pm: Quote from: HappyHippy on June 27, 2013, 05:30:43 pm
Much prefer your Rainbow Boa to your death head cockroachy things Alistair *shudder*

Definitely agree with Karen :thumbsup:
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Post by: plumseverywhere on June 27, 2013, 05:38:38 pm: Not feeling the love for the spider :sofa: but here's a pic of my Eloise when she was 5 with 'Marmalade'. She's going to be a vet, apparently (Eloise, not the snake )
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Post by: Bionic on June 27, 2013, 05:40:02 pm: thats a lovely picture. She looks intrigued by the snake.
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Post by: john and helen on June 27, 2013, 07:40:56 pm: Sorry but you can keep your 6 legged hairy crawlers and your wrigglies slimey skinned snakes.. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr :innocent:
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Post by: Fleecewife on June 27, 2013, 08:14:28 pm: Quote from: Alistair on June 27, 2013, 03:33:11 pm
This is one of mine, we are having a hug (Brazilian rainbow boa if your interested, he's about 6ft long)

What a beautiful animal 8)
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Post by: MAK on June 27, 2013, 08:20:08 pm: We are on snake watch here after the large one we removed from our neihbours kitchen. I am a bit phobic of them but I don't share my neighbours intent to kill every one they see. the poor things are just trying to carve out a life and eat the odd meal - a bit like me really.
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Post by: Alistair on June 27, 2013, 08:42:13 pm: Dwarf platinum retic when I picked him up (he's 14ft now)
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Post by: happygolucky on June 27, 2013, 09:48:48 pm: :sofa: Arh, that must have been before all your limbs fell off!! that's one very tidy set up and sort of nice looking snake.......well sort of :innocent:
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Post by: Alistair on June 27, 2013, 10:04:40 pm: Very tidy setup it's the shop where I got him
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Post by: Lesley Silvester on June 27, 2013, 10:41:04 pm: Nice snake.

Quote from: john and helen on June 27, 2013, 07:40:56 pm
Sorry but you can keep your 6 legged hairy crawlers and your wrigglies slimey skinned snakes.. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr :innocent:

Spiders have eight legs which is how they are able to scuttle and why they are so scary. Give me a great big snake any day although I am getting braver and can hoover spiders myself now unless they are very big.
Title: Re: I don't like spiders but...
Post by: Fleecewife on June 27, 2013, 10:55:39 pm: Quote from: Mad Goatwoman of Madeley on June 27, 2013, 10:41:04 pm
Nice snake.

Quote from: john and helen on June 27, 2013, 07:40:56 pm
Sorry but you can keep your 6 legged hairy crawlers and your wrigglies slimey skinned snakes.. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr :innocent:

Spiders have eight legs which is how they are able to scuttle and why they are so scary. Give me a great big snake any day although I am getting braver and can hoover spiders myself now unless they are very big.

Oh MGM - don't vacuum them up. Think what happens once they've disappeared from sight - whirling round and round, slowly suffocating in dust. If you really have to kill them, then squashing them would be kinder. But why not just catch them in a jamjar with a card over the top then flip them outside?
Title: Re: I don't like spiders but...
Post by: plumseverywhere on June 28, 2013, 07:33:18 am: I can't kill anything, even woodlice which I'm terrified of but Murphy has taken to jumping on spiders and then eating them :o then I feel really guilty!
Those snakes really are beautiful Alistair :)