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I think that spiders are getting bigger
Jackruss a Grand Master of Tea and Toast, Keeper of the comfy chair, who is spending a year dead for tax reasons! DNA! Started conversation Oct 21, 2011
Just found a bloody big spider, horrible looking thing, bit like the mother-in-law only with eight legs, talikning of which she due a visit as its nearly halloween 
I think that spiders are getting bigger
Mrs Zen Posted Oct 21, 2011
I think you are right. There's a huge one that lives in the bath.
I think that spiders are getting bigger
ITIWBS Posted Oct 22, 2011
The biggest spiders we've got locally are hairy black tarantulas that live in gopher warrens, preying on pill-bugs, sow-bugs and suchlike (rarely more than 3" leg span). That particular tarantula is notable for being slightly less intelligent than a potato bug.
There is a second black tarantula native to California, a hairless one, that's been reported to live in warrens of up to fifty spiders, usually a ground squirrel warren they've taken over. I used to see those all the time among the road kills piled up along the roadsides in the Central Coast area. (Inland from places like San Luis Obispo and Morro Bay, south of Big Sur and north of Santa Barbara.) This particular black tarantula, with an abdomen slightly larger than a golf ball, looks like a giant sized black widow spider. So far as I am concerned, it is one.
The biggest spider I have ever seen, southwest Oklahoma, 1954, was a 6" leg span wolf spider, much bigger than they usually grow (about an inch in length, with an inch and a quarter leg span), the year of the giant grasshoppers. The giant grasshoppers were really only about 8" long by 2" in diameter, not nearly as big as they were portrayed in the movies. (That particular species of grasshopper usually grows only about 2" long x 1/2" diameter.) I've heard good report by an Oregon dairy farmer of a foot long grasshopper. He said it tasted like a lobster. Also saw a foot long black praying mantis sw OK, 1954 and a foot long centipede of a type that usually grows only about 3".
Cause for all that was probably an accidental radiation release at the Amarillo, TX facility.
I think that spiders are getting bigger
Jackruss a Grand Master of Tea and Toast, Keeper of the comfy chair, who is spending a year dead for tax reasons! DNA! Posted Oct 22, 2011
ahhh, the accidental reaiation theroy............ so cool, might work in the cotswolds, yeah it'll work in the cotswolds, seen a few mutants mincing around Stow on the wold, or was the christians!
RJR
I think that spiders are getting bigger
Mrs Zen Posted Oct 22, 2011
Nah, Londoners. But what do you expect in Stow?
I think that spiders are getting bigger
Jackruss a Grand Master of Tea and Toast, Keeper of the comfy chair, who is spending a year dead for tax reasons! DNA! Posted Oct 23, 2011
Stow on the wold is now full of christians!
I think that spiders are getting bigger
tucuxii Posted Oct 27, 2011
Couldn't you train the spiders to eatr the Christians
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I think that spiders are getting bigger
- 1: Jackruss a Grand Master of Tea and Toast, Keeper of the comfy chair, who is spending a year dead for tax reasons! DNA! (Oct 21, 2011)
- 2: Mrs Zen (Oct 21, 2011)
- 3: ITIWBS (Oct 22, 2011)
- 4: Jackruss a Grand Master of Tea and Toast, Keeper of the comfy chair, who is spending a year dead for tax reasons! DNA! (Oct 22, 2011)
- 5: Mrs Zen (Oct 22, 2011)
- 6: Jackruss a Grand Master of Tea and Toast, Keeper of the comfy chair, who is spending a year dead for tax reasons! DNA! (Oct 23, 2011)
- 7: tucuxii (Oct 27, 2011)
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