Grey Huntsman
Holconia immanis.
Sitting on the door frame of the back door (outside luckily!).
View all photos taken: Tuesday, 23rd January 2007, This photo: 9:43pm
Holconia immanis.
Sitting on the door frame of the back door (outside luckily!).
View all photos taken: Tuesday, 23rd January 2007, This photo: 9:43pm
Eeeiiiii - one of them damn big buggers again!
I can't bring myself to say it's cute, but it certainly is cool to see such details...such fine little hairs. Good capture.
Is this deadly/poisonous/vicious/nasty in any way? (as I know you have your fair share of those)
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Sure is David, and I had to get relatively close to him to fill the frame with my 50mm lens... eeek! And yes, stretched out, it'd be about the size of your hand.
Thanks Melissa. I'm not fond of spiders, but one can't pass up the opportunity for a nice detailed photo (usually at the end of a very long lens, but I don't have one of those right now).
According to the book I have, it is timid, will bite if pressed but should have only mild local pain (I think the exact wording was "probably mild local pain").
Whoa!
Great shot!
I'd have to use a really long lens to get that...lol
Well it can have the door... I'd sure be looking for another way to get in or out, if necessary ;-)
We have plenty of other doors Cecily, and the thought did cross my mind to use a different one :) However, since I had to get within 2 ft of it to get the shot, I figured I could siddle around it to get inside.
I'm glad it wasn't on my doorframe!! Great capture David!!
Eew, spider! I know...you had to take it for Flickr sakes. (o^^o)
Didn't realise it was that BIG! What do you do with them when they get into your bath?
Give them bubble bath? Hehehe...just kidding. :o)
Thanks Jill, luckily it's moved back to it's possie above the bathroom window (outside).
That's right Margot - otherwise I'd be nowhere near it!
Ummm, leave them be and run away, Nelly!
hehehe you're welcome to bathe it if you like Margot! ;-)
Thats the one the MOZZIE TERMINATOR!!!
Spiders in the bathtub? That would be my job, I expect ;)
Shoo, shoo, shoo, shoo, SMACK!!!! has been my general tactic in the past.
Although a good long squirt of flyspray does wonders too.
And then there was the time I squished a spider that came under the door, only to see hundreds of babies run away from the corpse :(
Did someone say TMI? <g>
These babies tend not to come in (and we don't leave screens ajar to encourage them) and on the odd time they do come in they tend to roam the top of the walls in terror. Very, very timid
We have a good daddy longleg population (ok, 2!) and they get to stay on the grounds that they are harmless and they eat other spiders! :)
Gee, I thought Huntsmen spiders were harmless!! We had heaps of them running around in the holiday house where we stayed in the Blue Mountains last week... I let them hang around... in fact when I got scared and nearly killed one of them (it was sitting on the door frame of our bathroom door - yes, inside the house) my girls screamed "Don't kill the spider".... so I left him there! I have strange children.... environmentalists or something...
Well they are harmless, in that you're probably not going to die from a bite (unless you're unfortunately allergic to them). However, they do bite if you get too close and they have nowhere to run to.
Some varieties are more aggressive than others too. For instance, the Shield Hunstman Spider is a ready biter with large fangs and mild to severe local pain and the possibilty of cardiac complications.
The other common huntsman is the Brown Huntsman and it is apparently a ready biter, but only mild local pain.
I know you just moved in but I think you might want to move again!
hehehe We've actually been here 14 months now (how time flies!)
As long as these guys stay outside I'll be happy!
Terrible shot.
narsty !! hello again !! just passing through !!
Quite so! 'tis Australia Day today, so I'll be out and about myself.