wandering spider found in primary school

[DBSV8]

From BBC site

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7632590...

Head teacher called it a ""near miss""
What colour are the clowds on his planet....Near miss ""my arse""

that little girl is very very lucky kid indeed,
if she got bitten by a wandering spider .....its good night.

[robinhood21]

DBSV8 said:

From BBC site

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7632590...

Head teacher called it a ""near miss""
What colour are the clowds on his planet....Near miss ""my arse""

that little girl is very very lucky kid indeed,
if she got bitten by a wandering spider .....its good night.

Thankfully, most spiders prefer seclusion and will only attack when provoked; mind, having a nest I'd say the girl was very, very lucky.

Just to scare Cloggy:

Spiders kill at an astonishing pace. One Dutch researcher estimates that there are some five trillion spiders in the Netherlands alone, each of which consumes about a tenth of a gram of meat a day. Were their victims people instead of insects, they would need only three days to eat all sixteen and a half million Dutchmen.

Taken from "Spider Women" by Burkhard Bilger.

[tonyvid]

robinhood21 said:

Just to scare Cloggy:

Spiders kill at an astonishing pace. One Dutch researcher estimates that there are some five trillion spiders in the Netherlands alone, each of which consumes about a tenth of a gram of meat a day. Were their victims people instead of insects, they would need only three days to eat all sixteen and a half million Dutchmen.

Taken from "Spider Women" by Burkhard Bilger.

Gulp



ps - what about the women?

[robinhood21]

tonyvid said:

Gulp



ps - what about the women?

Well, female spiders seem to go on the 'consummate then consume' with their partner. Not so sure this would be repeated with the human-kind though.

[Civilian47]

Why is this news again?

[jesta1865]

i thought from the title, it had just been passing and popped in for a quick bite

[wildoliver]

tonyvid said:

robinhood21 said:

Just to scare Cloggy:

Spiders kill at an astonishing pace. One Dutch researcher estimates that there are some five trillion spiders in the Netherlands alone, each of which consumes about a tenth of a gram of meat a day. Were their victims people instead of insects, they would need only three days to eat all sixteen and a half million Dutchmen.

Taken from "Spider Women" by Burkhard Bilger.

Gulp



ps - what about the women?

Can we train some and send them to wales?

[Famous Graham]

Pff...that's nothing compared to my epic battle with a Black Widow a few months ago. Titanic struggle it was. Mano a Arachnid. The stuff blockbuster films are made of.

I may have worn 3 pairs of gloves and screamed like a girl

[Skyrat]

Famous Graham said:

Pff...that's nothing compared to my epic battle with a Black Widow a few months ago. Titanic struggle it was. Mano a Arachnid. The stuff blockbuster films are made of.

I may have worn 3 pairs of gloves and screamed like a girl

In Edinburgh??

Oddly enough, one the directors in my work (also Edinburgh) was apparently bitten by a red back spider in his home. WTF?

[Famous Graham]

Skyrat said:

Famous Graham said:

Pff...that's nothing compared to my epic battle with a Black Widow a few months ago. Titanic struggle it was. Mano a Arachnid. The stuff blockbuster films are made of.

I may have worn 3 pairs of gloves and screamed like a girl

In Edinburgh??

Oddly enough, one the directors in my work (also Edinburgh) was apparently bitten by a red back spider in his home. WTF?

Nah, San Diego

[Surfr]

cute kids. Wasn't there a thread on here about banannna spiders recently?

[Tunku]

DBSV8 said:

From BBC site

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7632590...

Head teacher called it a ""near miss""
What colour are the clowds on his planet....Near miss ""my arse""

that little girl is very very lucky kid indeed,
if she got bitten by a wandering spider .....its good night.

That link calls it a Brazilian spider. Are they very smooth and non-furry ?

[Flintstone]

DBSV8 said:

From BBC site

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7632590...

Head teacher called it a ""near miss""
What colour are the clowds on his planet....Near miss ""my arse""

that little girl is very very lucky kid indeed,
if she got bitten by a wandering spider .....its good night.

What's a 'clowd'?

Funny water vapour?

[thinfourth2]

robinhood21 said:

tonyvid said:

Gulp



ps - what about the women?

Well, female spiders seem to go on the 'consummate then consume' with their partner. Not so sure this would be repeated with the human-kind though.

The human female is far more heartless as she uses divorce

[Bushmaster]

Brazilian wandering spiders are VERY dangerous and aggressive. If you upset one, it will go after you. Responsible for most spider-bite deaths.

[Pigeon]

Tunku said:

That link...

expects me to piss around for several minutes waiting for a fking video, instead of presenting it clearly and straightforwardly in a page of text that I could actually read. fking BBC.

Tunku said:

...calls it a Brazilian spider. Are they very smooth and non-furry ?

Yeah, they only have hair in a strip up the middle.