What Would You Have Done?

[NorthernLights24]

Black widow spider found in Aberdeen in US shipment

If it was me how discovered this wee beastie I don't think it would have lived.

[cow]

There are many species of poisonous spiders in Scotland. It's complete lies that we don't have poisonous spiders or snakes.

[fine-n-dandy]

There are many species of poisonous spiders in Scotland. It's complete lies that we don't have poisonous spiders or snakes.

 

 

The UK only has two types of snakes (native) the grass snake & the adder.

The grass snake is completely non venomous but the adder is not exactly what you'd class as very dangerous (unless you also class a bumble bee as very dangerous) cos the adder is no worse than a bee sting unless you had some kind of rare allergy to it (as with a bee sting) or if you got attacked by a shitload of them at once (like a swarm of bees).

 

Plenty dodgey spiders (up to a dozen) but still not that you'd class as very dangerous, again unless you had some kind of rare allergy to it.

[cow]

The UK only has two types of snakes (native) the grass snake & the adder.

The grass snake is completely non venomous but the adder is not exactly what you'd class as very dangerous (unless you also class a bumble bee as very dangerous) cos the adder is no worse than a bee sting unless you had some kind of rare allergy to it (as with a bee sting) or if you got attacked by a shitload of them at once (like a swarm of bees).

 

Plenty dodgey spiders (up to a dozen) but still not that you'd class as very dangerous, again unless you had some kind of rare allergy to it.

 

 

So we have poisonous spiders and snakes. Like I said.

 

Thanks for affirming.

[ChutneyLove]

The Daddy-Long-Legs is the most venomous spider by a long way on the British Isles. Fortunately for humans and especially kids that enjoy picking the legs off the wee critters, they do not have fangs that are capable of breaching human skin and therefore no delivery method for the venom.

[AndrewW]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

Myth.

[360]

The Daddy-Long-Legs is the most venomous spider by a long way on the British Isles. Fortunately for humans and especially kids that enjoy picking the legs off the wee critters, they do not have fangs that are capable of breaching human skin and therefore no delivery method for the venom.

 

I like picking the legs of daddy-long-legs one by one.

 

The most satisfying moment I can imagine is discovering a spider in a bathtub that also has a showerhead.

 

Run the hot water and enjoy listening to it suffer in silence.

[ChutneyLove]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opiliones

 

Just saying like ....

[ChutneyLove]

If you get the link in time I have edited the page.

 

Otherwise, unlucky.

Why would anyone kill a spider? I have a rule. Kill it, you eat it. If you're not prepared to eat it, don't bloody kill it. Flys are the exception, they deserve to die. There is nothing in the food chain that eats flys that doesn't also feed on something else.

[Sonoftherock]

 

Black widow spider found in Aberdeen in US shipment

If it was me how discovered this wee beastie I don't think it would have lived.

 

I get tonnes of these things (they call them redbacks over here) in our porch and garden - even though I spray the area regularly, they still keep coming back - fortunately they don't often come in doors.

 

 

There are many species of poisonous spiders in Scotland. It's complete lies that we don't have poisonous spiders or snakes.

 

No it's not 'complete lies'. There are no poisonous spiders in Scotland - you can eat as many as you like. However, all spiders are venomous to some degree, but the spiders in Scotland are completely harmless to humans.

[Ke1t]

This is what I consider a Daddy Longlegs

 

[ChutneyLove]

Some people call them "Jimmy Long-legs".

[Sheep#1]

Some people call them "Jimmy Long-legs".

My missus calls them 'Jenny long legs', but she has loads of weird Ayrshire words and phrases I have never heard before.

[Bluto10]

A hunky black bloke and a tube of lube usually does the trick in my household.

 

 

oh my word!

[Sheep#1]

A tin of Lynx and a lighter usually does the trick in my household.

Africa, Voodoo or Java would be my preference.

[360]

[looksgoodinred]

poisonous or not.. i'd have squawked a bit. if no one else was around to deal with it, taken off my shoe and whacked it a gazillion times, til i was certain it was very, very dead. i kill spiders. i don't like them.

[StandFree1982]

Cruel bastards; the lot of you!

[King Street Loon]

poisonous or not.. i'd have squawked a bit. if no one else was around to deal with it, taken off my shoe and whacked it a gazillion times, til i was certain it was very, very dead. i kill spiders. i don't like them.

Spiders are your friend.

[Bluto10]

Killing spiders is for the weak

[Ke1t]

All spiders must die

 

http://youtu.be/6DCaykZVKLo

[Bluto10]

And old, I mean literally old, drinking partner of mine would cover his beer glad top with his palm when drunk. A remnant of his time in Australia when a redback dropped into his beer glass.

[Sheep#1]

And old, I mean literally old, drinking partner of mine would cover his beer glad top with his palm when drunk. A remnant of his time in Australia when a redback dropped into his beer glass.

Did he consume said spider?

[looksgoodinred]

Killing spiders is for the weak

 

[Bluto10]

Did he consume said spider?

Not sure, presume not.

 

60+ year old, ex oxford uni graduate woo would out drink me. Some character.

[chaos_defrost]

Some people call them "Jimmy Long-legs".

 

Or just jimmys for short

[chaos_defrost]

I'd have hoovered the black bastard up or placed a bucket over it and phoned the beastie people to come and take him away.

[daytripping]

The only living creature that I go out of my way to kill are slugs in the garden, I even feel guilty about doing that.

 

In my youth I'd shoot anything that moved with my air rifle, I think once I realised the error of my ways I swung to the opposite end of the scale

 

I regularly pick up spiders and put them outside, my daughter is terrified of them, if they're just in the same room as me I'll even leave them alone if she'd not spotted it, the cat eats them as well after toying with them so I've been known to save one from her as well.

[Bluto10]

Oi DT, stop being a pussy you big poof

[daytripping]

Oi DT, stop being a pussy you big poof

 

I'm an animal and insect lover bro, me and nature are like two peas from the same pod, I love all my fellow creatures. Nothing better than dancing naked through a field of wild flowers seeing all the beasties after a hard day knocking out huns at the football.