Posted on 06/10/2015 12:02:26 AM PDT by nickcarraway
These spiders don't retreat when approached - quite the opposite
This is the frankly terrifying moment fanged cannibalistic spiders attack.
Mike Rance found dozens of the huge tube spiders living on and around his friend’s home.
And when he put a wooden barbecue skewer near the thick black spiders, instead of retreating like most arachnids would, the spiders lunge.
They are thought to be tube spiders, one of the largest types of spider in the UK.
They have a painful bite, said to be similar to the pain from a bee sting, with pain lasting about six hours.
After the pain subsides, victims are left with a tender area with bite marks.
Tube spiders have six eyes, thick black bodies up to 2.2cm wide and fangs which appear to shine green. They emerge after dark.
Mike, 42, found the spiders in his friend’s house walls on Ludlow Close in Newport last year.
Shortly afterwards, Hadyn Harwood revealed how he found more than 100 of the fanged spiders on his house in Cardiff.
This week, during a barbecue, Mike found that they aren’t to be messed with.
Adding a video to Facebook he said: “My spider is in a bad mood as he hasn’t been fed.
“I thought I would just leave it but last night during a barbecue I used a skewer to get him out.
“I could feel him pulling on it.
“Normally they run out and run back in, but he was quite aggressive.”
He has been feeding the spiders, mainly giving them other insects, spiders and daddy long legs.
“I’ve got used to them and we take no notice of them,” he said.
But, for those fearing an invasion of giant spiders, Mike has some reassuring words.
“It does look bigger on video than it is.”
He added that maybe his eight-legged friends may not be as rare as he first thought.
“They’re quite widespread but I’ve still never seen then anywhere else,” he said.
Clear case of stand your ground.
First, you don’t feed spiders. You kill them. Especially big fuzzy ones. With fire. Or a Daedric bow. At a distance. From Orbit. To be sure.
No exceptions. Ever.
What’s cannibalistic got to do with it? That might be a good thing, right?
Hes been feeding them?
I guess all British have a thing for feeding things that will bite you and drink your blood.
Got one in my room that catches skeeters, why bother it?
Because it’s existence is an affront to God and all his Angels. And it’s a spider.
These sound scary too.
lol. at a summer house I had with friends 20 years ago, someone set a spider on fire that was so big, it didn’t die for about 10 minutes.
If you are feeding spiders, you are going to get more spiders.
This is the lesson of the welfare state's 'war on poverty' and open immigration (and tolerance of illegal immigration).
Some people, more adventurous than I, enjoy owning pets that shock, animals that make your blood run cold. I’m fine with the basics of dogs, cats, tropical fish and caged songbirds.
You won’t see a family of caged , winged, giant roaches in my living room, I guaran-damn-tee it.
Dear Mike,
If you were smaller than the spider, do you think it would be feeding you? Or feeding on you?
A spider the size of a car would feed on most people easily. Look at the Goliath Bird Eaters in the Amazon.
Edit. The size of a C A T
cannibalistic implies these spiders eat their own kind
like illegals
lol
Yes, a car-sized spider would definitely be eating people every day.
Most spiders possess eight (yes, 8!) eyes, though the majority cannot see very well with them. Web-spinning spiders are nearly blind, navigating their world mostly by touch and smell. Some spiders, such as those in the family Sicariidae, have only six eyes. Cave-dwelling species, and those which live their entire lives in the soil, may have no eyes at all. There are also some spiders that fall between these extremes, but always with an even number of eyes. Those spiders which hunt their prey “on foot” can have very keen eyesight. Among those sharp-eyed hunters are the jumping spiders (family Salticidae) and the wolf spiders (family Lycosidae), both of which have at least one pair of very large, forward-facing eyes.
lol
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