In Memory of Bert the Spider

That monstrous beast.... when I came near him and tried to take a pic, he took a bungee jump of 50cm, I jumped and screeched and almost fell from my table and then he was playing dead hanging there on his rope. And my second chance came, I ran to the kitchen, fetched a glass and caught him. Wohooooo

Here he is still playing dead


And here after trying to ecape the glass


Guess he will have to rely on his bungee abilities when taking the plunge from the balcony  

He may be smaller than expacted from my tale but sometimes size doesn't matter only speed does

oh boy, better not taking any pictures of mine, most are the size of my palm, I like your little one

Freedom for every spider! yeah!

I am more frightened of that torture instrument near the glass,

oh Splinty, mine are usually as big as rats....

Minty he is tiny , did you put him outside or simply burnt the house down? You would have a hard time getting all of Bert's legs under that glass. It's a shame he wasn't fast enough to get out from under my feet.

BTW, I really love these silly conversations.

Ist doch bloß ein Kuli

He has already taken the plunge, will probably land on fist floor balcony and terrorize the neighbours.
@ splinty - the big ones are not such a problem for me... because they don't make it up to fourth floor ... and they are living with you anyways

I know he is tiny.... but he was so fast and that is my real fear.... 8 legged spiders running or jumping with enormous speed...

a pen? looked like sort of tweezers...
must have read too many crime stories now

Bertie, RIP
and you all, sleep well...

nightie night.... don't dream of torture devices

Catsworld wrote:oh Splinty, mine are usually as big as rats....

but I do have very big hands!!

minty wrote:I know he is tiny.... but he was so fast and that is my real fear.... 8 legged spiders running or jumping with enormous speed...

yep the jumpers are the worst!

Uh oh, glad I missed that picture. I have resorted to spraying a homemade spider repellant using peppermint oil. And I must admit I haven't seen those creepy speedy black long legged jumpy (?) brrrr... ones for some time now. And my home smells good too but now there are way to many mosquito's... Always something, huh...

The bangle is delicious!

I was about to add something... But the modification option gave a glimpse of what was coming... That size is simply horrifying, I think to many people.

Then better look away now sita: (scary pic gone)

I guess this is the spider living in your house splinty?

(Imagine enormous hairy rainforest/splinty's bathroom spider of the size of a turkey, which actually looks only half as scary to me as the tiny jumpy one)

Kill it with fire! Wow that's a turkey eating spider.

No!! Make it go away!! ok so I still have a spider phobia after all...when they're that furry!    I have to put a warning on your thread now pandabee ~ or can I delete it? (I meant delete the spider piccie not the thread, too much for phobics I think!!)

I'll do it for you

You meanie
I just measured one of mine...12.2cm...but not that fat or furry!!

I like the furry ones.... the fur conceals the creepyness of the extremities

When you can measure yours, they must be really tame and not jumpy

No the really big ones just sit in the same place for days at a time. Then they disappear. Then they appear again in the same place. They're part of the furniture now

No no no to furry spiders. They still move creepily and cringily

That was horrific, thank you for removing, Minty. Though I can live it when a thread gives a warning at least.

Wow, that you're able to analyze its anatomics is incomprehensible to me. I'd simply faint.

Smaug wrote:That was horrific, thank you for removing, Minty. Though I can live it when a thread gives a warning at least.
Wow, that you're able to analyze its anatomics is incomprehensible to me. I'd simply faint.

I screamed "Noooooooo" out loud!

lol.... ever since that uni trip to morocco, spiders are really not my worst fear anymore... but I still wouldn't touch one willingly, but looking at pictures is ok... you should have seen me jumping and screeching when I cought the tiny one... you would have been rolling on the floor laughing

But sometimes spiders can be quite cute...

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9GgAbyYDFeg

Smaug wrote:That was horrific, thank you for removing, Minty. Though I can live it when a thread gives a warning at least.

Wow, that you're able to analyze its anatomics is incomprehensible to me. I'd simply faint.

I guess we won't ever see a faerybeads spider then

Pandabee(uk) wrote:But sometimes spiders can be quite cute...

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9GgAbyYDFeg

OMG hilarious... zis is ze male... he is looking aeround trying to fined ze feemale