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dont cry sushipunk
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
photo taken in cairns, i hope you guys weren't buddies or anything :( |
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| Sushipunk |
:haha:
I think that's actually a really old repost (a year or more?)
I had one of the same type of spiders in my yard, with a big ing web. It was missing a leg. I took a pic, gimme a sec. |
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| Sushipunk |
Here we go:
ing big spider :nervous: Biggest I've seen around here, anyway.
Is it a new article? Got a link? |
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| DuBam |
| I'd beat that bitch with a bat. |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by DuBam
I'd beat that bitch with a bat. |
You'd probably need one :nervous:
The arse segment on it (I don't know the technical term for it :p) is about 7cm long :wtf: |
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| DuBam |
Only in Australia :nervous:
I'm happy we don't have anything remotely similar over here.
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| quote: | Originally posted by Clive Tucker
Arse! |
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| kadomony |
| quote: | Originally posted by DuBam
I'd beat that bitch with a bat. |
It'd take it from you. |
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| Banora |
:wtf:
In your yard? I am never going to Australia. |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
yeah, ive met one of those fvckers every time ive gone to QLD, not happy!
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THIS amazing image of a mammoth spider devouring a bird was taken in the backyard of a property near Cairns.
The image, which is being circulated via email worldwide, is real, according to wildlife experts, The Cairns Post reported.
The photo, believed to have been taken earlier this week, shows the spider clenching its legs around a lifeless bird trapped in a web at a property near Atherton, west of Cairns.
Joel Shakespeare, the head spider keeper at NSW's Australian Reptile Park, has told ninemsn the spider was a golden orb weaver.
"Normally they prey on large insects, it's unusual to see one eating a bird," he said.
Mr Shakespeare said he had seen golden orb weaver spiders as big as a human hand but the northern species in tropical areas were known to grow larger.
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This is such an old news! hello??? Is there anybody thats actually doing some real news reporting here?
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what the
Mr Shakespeare told ninemsn the bird, a chestnut-breasted mannikin which appears frozen in an angel-like pose in the pictures, is likely to have flown into the web and got caught.
"It wouldn't eat the whole bird," he said.
See more pictures at The Cairns Post. |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by Banora
:wtf:
In your yard? I am never going to Australia. |
Unless you're an insect, or a small bird, I wouldn't worry about them. Pretty harmless to humans. You might get slight skin irritation form being bitten, but nothing more than that. And, they're big enough so you don't just walk face first into them, hence people don't get bitten :p
The strength of their web is incredible though! When I was a kid, we'd find them sometimes and see what kind of we could hang in their webs. We got a medium sized tree branch leaning against one once, without breaking any of the web :wtf: |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
yeah, ive met one of those fvckers every time ive gone to QLD, not happy!
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Yeah, that's the same article I read.
They do eat the whole bird though. They inject some kind of thing that rots the bird, so they can pull it apart and stash it all over their web, in different pieces :wtf: |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sushipunk
Unless you're an insect, or a small bird, I wouldn't worry about them. Pretty harmless to humans. |
yeah, walking face-first into a massive web with one of those fvckers in the middle of it in the middle of the night on a breezy summer evening. harmless. |
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