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Last nights little visitor
Posted: Sat 13 Apr 2019 7:18 am
by judyvin
This has to be the biggest spider, which I am assuming is a tarantula, that I have ever seen here. He/she is around 4 inches long as seen in comparison with the can! The other 2 photos are when I put it inside a pint glass so that I could photograph it before releasing it back into the garden.
Re: Last nights little visitor
Posted: Sat 13 Apr 2019 7:28 am
by Heaven
AAArgh! I would have left home!!!
Re: Last nights little visitor
Posted: Sat 13 Apr 2019 8:23 am
by Keithcaley
You do know that they always come in PAIRS, don't you?
If you only find ONE, then there's another one lurking nearby...
Re: Last nights little visitor
Posted: Sat 13 Apr 2019 8:32 am
by johnny1
she must have known they come in pairs...she left the country
Re: Last nights little visitor
Posted: Sat 13 Apr 2019 9:01 am
by judyvin
Really?
Re: Last nights little visitor
Posted: Sat 13 Apr 2019 9:23 am
by Chriswright03
Just to confirm yes really.
Re: Last nights little visitor
Posted: Sat 13 Apr 2019 9:31 am
by mrsgee
Either a tarantula or a wolf spider maybe...... either way I would run away screaming... lol
Re: Last nights little visitor
Posted: Sat 13 Apr 2019 9:51 am
by gilly123
Well over the years we've had two, separately I may add, terrified by people saying they come in pairs!
Re: Last nights little visitor
Posted: Sat 13 Apr 2019 10:37 am
by wanderer
CONQUERS /Horse chestnuts spiders don't like them and avoid them
Re: Last nights little visitor
Posted: Sat 13 Apr 2019 12:56 pm
by snd1966
Keithcaley wrote:You do know that they always come in PAIRS, don't you?
If you only find ONE, then there's another one lurking nearby...
- If she is that big she has probably mated and eaten him!!!!
generally you find his carcase and then try and find her
Re: Last nights little visitor
Posted: Sat 13 Apr 2019 1:13 pm
by Ragged Robin
I have had two :: one was stationary half way up a wall and I thought it was a toy spider that someone had left there as a rather sick joke - until it moved! The other I was alerted to by the dogs barking their heads off - a really good reason for keeping dogs, one of mine (dogs that is although I suppose the spider does too) also catches flies,
Conkers grow on horse chestnut trees and I have never seen one here so we will just have to conquer (joke ) our fears
Re: Last nights little visitor
Posted: Sun 14 Apr 2019 10:58 pm
by oneillbox
its deffo a cyprus tarantula
Re: Last nights little visitor
Posted: Tue 16 Apr 2019 12:57 pm
by sophie
Distinct difference I gather from one spider to the other i.e. Cyprus version. Somewhere way back on this forum Kemal from the Wildlife Sanctuary, explained the difference and it was somewhat reassuring!!
Re: Last nights little visitor
Posted: Fri 19 Apr 2019 8:26 am
by solic200
This little baby decided to join me in the shower when I lived in North Cyprus.
Re: Last nights little visitor
Posted: Fri 19 Apr 2019 9:14 am
by Ragged Robin
perhaps you should change your name to solic 0035 (Joke)
(half of 007 since it was such a small tarantula)
Re: Last nights little visitor
Posted: Fri 19 Apr 2019 11:46 am
by helendj
just plain YUK!