Originally published at: Watch panicky woman sweep a gigantic hairy black spider into a box | Boing Boing
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I had one just a lil larger that this in my garage. I thought about killing it… but it prolly would have grabbed whatever i used and beat me with it…
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Good on her for trying to safely relocate rather than just smashing it as she could have with that broom.
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This is a common problem in Animal Crossing, especially when you find yourself on Tarantula Island.
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I don’t blame her for being panicky. It’s Australia, where all of nature is trying to kill you.
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Good capture. Brave woman. I don’t know if I could have done that. In my defense, the biggest spiders around here are the giant Huntsman spiders, and they’re fast. Usually, the hairy tarantula type seem slow-moving.
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Good on her; that was a big fucking arachnid.
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Maybe a Selenocosmia crassipes, Queensland whistling spider, a tarantula? Not my expertise.
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You think it was relocated. One of the problems with smacking larger spiders is the mess they leave on the wall. Outdoors = good spidey. Indoors = FFS, imagine waking to find this monster on the pillow next to your head.
ETA: The best broom-kill method is bristles down - stab the scary monster. Works best with straw brooms.
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Yeah, looks to be, well spotted.
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I’m almost afraid to ask this, but why is it called a whistling spider?
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Hissing or buzzing noise, from stridulation of it’s hairs, apparently. AFAIK, similar to this related Australian tarantula. Queensland rattlesnake tarantula lives up to its name with unearthly warning sounds | Daily Mail Online
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Ah. Okay. Good. I can handle that. I was worried it’d be a little more… I dunno, human sounding.
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D’awwww. That is exactly how I’d expect one of those little spiders to sound. They’re my favourite office spiders (unlike the giant house spiders, who are escorted out immediately).
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Agree. The charming jumping spiders are a good starter spider for folks working on their arachnophobia. Or those of us who just like them.
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Seems like a pretty calm tarantula. Knowing that they’re not terribly dangerous venom wise, seems like unless you’ve got small children or pets that they’d be good to have around to handle the smaller things that you don’t want in your house.
Here, we’ve got a strict “no killing the house spiders and house centipedes!” rule.
(and if I can convince my wife to allow these in the house, then I’m sure a cute fuzzy tarantula’s nothing!)
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Their nickname of “Scooty Gerry” (after the name of their Genus “Scutigera”) makes them a bit more endearing to me.
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They whistle before they kill you, not unlike Elle Driver from Kill Bill. They even wear several eye patches.
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