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deecyprus4
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Message Posted: 13/06/2009 09:53 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 1 of 36 in Discussion |
| ewwwwww we found a spider under our cooker hood this morning and it was huge...and I mean huge, I would say 4 inches in diameter, with a body the size of a ten bob cabbage...bands on its legs and spots down its back..what was it..apart from scary |
nurseawful
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Message Posted: 13/06/2009 09:59 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 2 of 36 in Discussion |
| Cyprus Tarantula we had 3 indoors 2 years ago. Sucked them up with the Dyson. Where one lived for nearly 3 weeks as it killed the other 2. friends used to come in just to see Boris (nickname) I wouldn't empty the dyson until I knew for sure it was dead. Yuck I hate them. |
deecyprus4
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Message Posted: 13/06/2009 10:01 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 3 of 36 in Discussion |
| Thanks nurse...i did think it was...kev wrestled it to the ground....his version of events of course lol, i said hoover it up as I have a dyson but he just chucked it out...its sure to return. |
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Message Posted: 13/06/2009 10:05 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 4 of 36 in Discussion |
| Just watch Deecyprus as there is usually 2 of them!!! |
deecyprus4
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Message Posted: 13/06/2009 10:07 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 6 of 36 in Discussion |
| yep catalkoy that it, nasty looking thing...euwwwwwwwwy.. |
deecyprus4
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Message Posted: 13/06/2009 10:09 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 7 of 36 in Discussion |
| nurse 2 of the little fekkers omg I am on spider search lol... |
kazbo
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Message Posted: 13/06/2009 12:39 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 8 of 36 in Discussion |
| we also had one last night running around the patio. My hubby shoved it with a shovel into the swimming pool. I swear it was training for the olympics. After 4 lengths of back stroke it decided to play dead. We fished it out of the pool and up it jumped, and ran away. We wont be out after dark tonight just incase it brings it mates back. |
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Message Posted: 13/06/2009 12:56 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 9 of 36 in Discussion |
| ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww |
ROBnJO
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Message Posted: 13/06/2009 12:59 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 10 of 36 in Discussion |
| Are they poisonous? |
Trudy
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Message Posted: 13/06/2009 13:00 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 11 of 36 in Discussion |
| Oh my god!!! Im not even gonna bothr looking at the link because ill die on the spot! İ hate the things, cant even look at cartoon pictures so god forbid i ever see one in my house! Really dont know what i would do! İ cant even hoover them up because i cant get that close to them and even if it was a long hoover hose, the thought of them passing through the tube that close to my hand gives me the heebies!!! Do we have rentakil here!!?? |
ROBnJO
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Message Posted: 13/06/2009 13:10 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 12 of 36 in Discussion |
| Trudy Awww! Go On!! Look at the link! My wife just did,.... and reeled back from the laptop!! Rob |
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Message Posted: 13/06/2009 13:14 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 13 of 36 in Discussion |
| Dee How awful was that I would have been doing the 5 min mile to get away from it, luckly I have one of those hand held dyson so I would have got the little BB*** with that, if I was brave enough to get near it. Bloody hell I hope he doesnt have any siblings, take care sheila xxx |
Trudy
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Message Posted: 13/06/2009 13:16 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 14 of 36 in Discussion |
| Rob When the day comes that i feel i can no longer go on in life and want to find a quick way out... only then will i look at that link!!! |
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Message Posted: 13/06/2009 13:22 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 15 of 36 in Discussion |
| Trudy, DON'T LOOK!!! i just did and it is awful and I hope to god I never get one in my house as I don't have a dyson to hoover it up with!!! |
Trudy
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Message Posted: 13/06/2009 13:26 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 16 of 36 in Discussion |
| Dont worry Scooby, i dont plan on it!!! |
ROBnJO
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Message Posted: 13/06/2009 13:43 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 17 of 36 in Discussion |
| Always look on the bright side of life! At least we don't have Great White Sharks, Crocodiles, Alligators, Hippo's, Malaria, Rattlesnakes, Piranha's, E-Bola, McDonalds, the M25! Or all those other killers! Rob |
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Message Posted: 13/06/2009 15:21 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 18 of 36 in Discussion |
| My mother always used to say if you find one spider its mate is lurking there somewhere. Has anyone ever found the white fluffy cocoons in the tops of your curtains that look like cotton wool balls, well thats where the eggs have been laid!!! |
sunrise
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Message Posted: 13/06/2009 16:04 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 19 of 36 in Discussion |
| ROBnJO message 17- sorry to dissappoint you, they've built a Mc Donalds in Lefkosa only in the North it's known as Big Mac. I also had one of those spiders on my patio, but it was dead, hate to see the size of the one that killed lol!!! |
KickingK
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Message Posted: 13/06/2009 16:39 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 20 of 36 in Discussion |
| Oh my god, that's nasty......................not looking again! |
negativenick
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Message Posted: 13/06/2009 16:54 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 21 of 36 in Discussion |
| dee - 4 inches isn't huge... Ask Garry Monger's missus..... |
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Message Posted: 13/06/2009 16:55 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 22 of 36 in Discussion |
| whilst we were waiting for our place to be habitable, yeah, we've all been there, we booked into Hilarion Village Hotel, way up high. First night my went into the bathroom and ran out screaming. What's up says I. There's a spider in the bathroom, says she. Soft sod says I, entering bathroom, exit much faster. Boiled kettle, jerked open door and chased spider round bathroom. Eventually spider put it's legs over it's head and expired. I told our hostess. She asked for description of spider. I told her it was bloody big, like a tarantula. She nodded, it most likely was a tarantula. Aren't they dangerous? I asked. Not at all, says she, after I'd breathed a sigh of relief, she added, only if they bite you. |
Trudy
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Message Posted: 13/06/2009 17:31 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 23 of 36 in Discussion |
| Rob - i would swap all the spiders in cyprus for all the things you mentioned above! Well, wouldn't want maleria. And dont know what e-bola is haha! But would have the hippos, crocs and sharks etc ... |
Sunnycee
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Message Posted: 13/06/2009 17:50 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 24 of 36 in Discussion |
| What about goose eggs and conkers? I think someone on another thread said these were good for keeping the horrible hairy things away! sc |
AndyP
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Message Posted: 13/06/2009 18:58 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 25 of 36 in Discussion |
| Dee Are you sure Kev just chucked it out?? Don't want them coming over the wall to our place. Have just shown Sara the picture and she has gone round house shutting the windows. If I find one in our house, I won't hoover it up with the dyson, I will smash it over the head with it!! Neg Nick..... You crack me up!!!! (Oh no... I have given him another chance of a pun). |
Jetski
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Message Posted: 13/06/2009 21:17 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 26 of 36 in Discussion |
| Blinkin ek you lot - they're pretty harmless and more scared of us than we are of them....... unlike the great white sharks which just happen to breed in the Med. Stay out of the water folks! |
halffull
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Message Posted: 13/06/2009 21:44 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 27 of 36 in Discussion |
| Seems they are becoming a problem, third post about spiders, I shall have to bring even more conkers out with me in two weeks time. I know they work, not tried the duck eggs though. |
minertor
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Message Posted: 13/06/2009 22:00 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 28 of 36 in Discussion |
| Jetski, WE all know they're pretty harmless and more scared of us than we are of them, but do they. You talk like someone who's never met one. |
yorkie58
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Message Posted: 13/06/2009 22:10 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 29 of 36 in Discussion |
| sent hubby into the downstairs cloakroom tonight to evict a tarantula, huge it was. |
Jetski
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Message Posted: 13/06/2009 22:15 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 30 of 36 in Discussion |
| Hi Minertor - I've actually got one living behind my fridge and talk to her most days! (The big ones are the girls). She keeps a lot of other bugs at bay, and another helpful hint - don't hoover away the spiders that live in the top corners of your rooms..... they are brilliant at catching mossies and the like. (trick learnt from the locals) |
halffull
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Message Posted: 13/06/2009 22:28 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 31 of 36 in Discussion |
| Which areas are they mostly found? We have a place in Catalkoy village |
RedSnapper
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Message Posted: 13/06/2009 23:10 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 33 of 36 in Discussion |
| The large black Cypriot snakes usually manage to keep the large spider population down at this time of year especially as the Tarantula is one of it`s favourite snacks so more than often one isn`t far away from the other... |
Navek
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Message Posted: 13/06/2009 23:26 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 34 of 36 in Discussion |
| Thanks' a lot RedSnapper, What do I tell the wife, It's OK, I got the spider, But the BIG BLACK SNAKE is still at large :-( Navek |
spangles
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Message Posted: 14/06/2009 00:30 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 35 of 36 in Discussion |
| One spider, as above, fell off bottom of dustbin last week. Large flip flop - splat - no problem. |
Trudy
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Message Posted: 14/06/2009 10:27 | Join or Login to Reply | Message 36 of 36 in Discussion |
| Jetski - post 26 - The sharks were in the sea first, they can stay!! The spiders were most definitely not in my house first - they gotta go!!! |
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