Oooh, you want to get a longer bolt on that shackle, so you can use a nut and split pin to reduce the chance of dropped objects...........
Saying that I have some scorpions from the Androctonus family. If anything should happen to me, my wife has been advised how to safely kill them, rather than try to rehome them.
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fattail_scorpion ]Flippin eck[/url] 😯 Sat on the loo and I've just had to check behind the pan, just in case!
In the last pic looks like you've had a massive dump 😀
I'm just impressed that someone has actually said Jandals, haven't heard that word since I was in NZ in the 70s! 8)
Sounds like a brilliant job but I bet in reality the days and nights can be reeeaal loooong...
Saying that I have some scorpions from the Androctonus family. If anything should happen to me, my wife has been advised how to safely kill them, rather than try to rehome them.
Where are you? It seems irresponsible to keep such a ridiculous "pet".
I refuse to call them 'Thongs' and flip flops is way too pom.
Yeah can be pretty gruelling but I love living out here, I'm meant to be on a 3 weeks on 1 week off roster, but I'm currently on day 21 of a 59 day straight so I can have most of dec and jan off to come back see folks and ride.
Where are you? It seems irresponsible to keep such a ridiculous "pet".
Good bit of overreacting based on your own limiting understanding there. Have a sweetie. 🙂
one_happy_hippy - Member
I refuse to call them 'Thongs' and flip flops is way too pom.
Which would be the very reason I'd call them flip flops 😈
Keep the updates/photos coming. Quality thread.
The desert sky looked like this 10 mins ago, Now its raining. When it rains in the desert it REALLY rains.
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can you eat funnelweb spiders?
if you'd have eaten it the handwringers might not have frothed at the mouth so much.
Those scorpions...they're the ones that live in a case in a case in a case, yes roper?
Saying that I have some scorpions from the Androctonus family. If anything should happen to me, my wife has been advised how to safely kill them, rather than try to rehome them.
Would that, by any chance, involve nuking them from orbit, you know, just to be sure?
I wouldn't want to be taking on one of those things even with the business end of a long handled shovel...
Some nice photos.
Someone I work with is over in the Pilbara at the minute. Very good money for the work, but not much cop if you have a family/partner.
I still check round the crapper when out in the wild. Dont want to get bit on the arse.
Spiders I'm just about ok with the snakes still terrify me. Mostly as bike trail makes good basking spots
My Androctonus are A.bicolor. They do not have the worse venom compared to some other Androctonus scorpions. One can flick venom so you would need to protect your eyes too.
As long as you understand them, what they do and why, have a safe and secure place for them and NEVER handle them you will be fine.
To kill my dangerous scorps my wife will empty out the freezer and put the containers in there. The cold will kill them without putting her at risk.
Going back to the OP though. A healthy fear is good but it is also good to watch and learn. The more you understand a bug the better you can be in preventing it biting you, which can take away the need to kill it. OZ must be an amazing place for a bug safari. Saying that most places are 😀
This is my A.bicolor. You can see why they are called fat tails.
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OHH. More desert photos please, any more bugs?
That is one mean looking scorpion 😯
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Beasties!
mikewsmith - that spider is the inventor of the smiley 🙂
Love how the try hards got trodden all over on this thread. Nice one OHH. Squidged em like the do-gooder bugs they are.
Going out to Oz in a few weeks - bit more urban than there tho (Gladstone)
So far, im glad i cant see any of the pics - i aint even good with UK house spiders.
(will check back from home)
Cheers for the links/info roper, will review as soon as ive checked that my desk is not hiding anything.....
oh and from the spider id chart...
red-blacks - 13 confirmed kills (ever)
uk motorists - 13 confirmed kills (sept 2012)
Going out to Oz in a few weeks - bit more urban than there tho (Gladstone)So far, im glad i cant see any of the pics - i aint even good with UK house spiders.
Just to put this thread in perspective, I live in suburban Perth, and the most frightening animal I've seen in the last year is a slightly annoyed guinea pig. The people round here however, some of them are real scary...
Never saw any interesting beasties in Australia.
I've got a friend who says she'd never visit Oz because of the wildlife. She quite happily travels to the US though yet when I lived there we had a black widow that lived in the bathroom 🙂
oh and from the spider id chart...red-blacks - 13 confirmed kills (ever)
uk motorists - 13 confirmed kills (sept 2012)
Yeah I know its low, but then I still take precautions to drive safely. Even if a bite doesn't kill you it'll make you hell sick and in some cases give you very bad necrosis. Like I said I'm a long drive from a hospital.
I said I'd never go to oz because everything is deadly. To be honest when you live out in the bush for a while and for the first couple of weeks the toilet is a shovel and some distance from camp you kind stop worrying about the critter.
Always have to stay vigilant (hence flat funnel web) and remember the simple rule I use:
'[b]Always be wary of anything with more or less legs than you'[/b][i][u]
No more pics of bugs I'm afraid - they tend to hide when it rains. When they come out i'll get some more. But here's one of the from this evening of the approaching storm.
Storm's Coming 01/10/2012 Great Sandy Desert.
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oh and from the spider id chart...red-blacks - 13 confirmed kills (ever)
uk motorists - 13 confirmed kills (sept 2012)
Maybe we should beat every 4x4 driver to death with a shovel, might reduce those road deaths....
Pointless statistic for comparison imo. Going off the number of people on the road and the distance travelled every day giving the mega low risk of having an accident, you still wear your seatbelt don't you?
Love that last photo one_happy_hippy 🙂
Just to put this thread in perspective, I live in suburban Perth, and the most frightening animal I've seen in the last year is a slightly annoyed guinea pig. The people round here however, some of them are real scary...
A couple of months ago I put my hand into my mail box and found a baby Huntsman spider. I know it was a baby because it was only 3 inches across. I'm in Melbourne so the people round here tend to be hipsters....
oh bloody hell, i forget you lot cant function with out the correct smiley.
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just a coincidence, the number 13, for all time deaths from one spider (relevant to the thread) compared to the number of dead cyclists on UK roads last month (relevant to the forum)
Morning after the storm 02/10/2012
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As long as you understand them, what they do and why
That's what Timothy Treadwell said about bears and what that fat Aussie Steve Erwin said about stingrays and every other animal he irritated.
That's what Timothy Treadwell said about bears and what that fat Aussie Steve Erwin said about stingrays and every other animal he irritated.
No it's not.
It's not what I said either. I wrote, As long as you understand them, what they do and why, have a safe and secure place for them and NEVER handle them you will be fine.
Misquoting and making things up is just silly.
