Tarantula in the washing basket!!!!!!!!!

5plinter


Joined: 04/04/2010
Posts: 3

Message Posted:
01/05/2010 14:05

I am partially deaf on the right side from the scream my misses gave out when she found this spider under the washing.

I have been checking out on the internet and it looks like a brown widow tarantula.

Can anybody tell me if these are native to cyprus?

I am just going to the pest control guys to see if they can confirm if or how deadly this potentially is as i have an 8 month old boy in the house.

Is there are any experts/enthusiasts around who could help identify or would like it for themselves please let me know.

Phone: 5338743918 or 00447866438382.

Any help or advise would be very much appreciated as the misses wants to move house



Thanks

Gordon

nurseawful



Joined: 06/02/2009
Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
01/05/2010 14:16

Gordon,

These spiders are native to here and as far as I know not deadly. Just have a wee poke about as they are often in two's I always seem to find mine on the ceiling!! But a friend finds them behind her chest of drawers. I would check where your wife keeps the washing basket first.



Chris

Quarmby


Joined: 15/09/2008
Posts: 975

Message Posted:
01/05/2010 14:26

Have you any Banana trees close by?

joandjelly


Joined: 24/02/2008
Posts: 2953

Message Posted:
01/05/2010 14:27

Yes it is the European Tarantula. We had one in the kitchen, he was ejected and returned the next day!!

gingernut



Joined: 30/08/2009
Posts: 16

Message Posted:
01/05/2010 14:51

http://i746.photobucket.com/albums/xx106/ginger919/263.jpg

found this walking down the street if you look closely you can see tatoos

everon


Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 956

Message Posted:
01/05/2010 16:46

we had a big one in the bathroom! no banana trees nearby either x

5plinter


Joined: 04/04/2010
Posts: 3

Message Posted:
01/05/2010 18:22

European bugger!! Have looked all day for his mate but to no avail, Had the pest guy round and he's fumigated the whole house as i found a couple of roaches behind the washing machine during the hunt. Have ripped a big ugly bush from the front of the house and found what looks like lots of his little off-spring so hopefully that's the source, I hope my missus doesn't read this about coming in pairs or i'll be up all night as sentry at the end of the bed. Haven't noticed any banana trees about, i'll need to investigate as the wee man loves a banana!!

I left the Spider in the caring hands of the pest control guy... I was wanting to keep him but orders dictated otherwise!

cheers for the info, ginger that looks like the very chap, similar size which we were told was a 'baby'

Amazing!

Linnyloos


Joined: 30/11/2008
Posts: 483

Message Posted:
01/05/2010 19:14

OMG!! How big, and this is a baby? Do they bite? Are these dangerous?



Hate spiders at the best of times. Yuk

Tootie


Joined: 28/08/2008
Posts: 2037

Message Posted:
01/05/2010 19:31

Gordon, For reference do you have the number for the pest control guy?

Navek



Joined: 01/06/2008
Posts: 2656

Message Posted:
01/05/2010 20:08

Try this link...

http://www.onemotion.com/flash/spider/

Navek

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
01/05/2010 20:15

Tarantula bites are meant to be bit like wasp or bee stings... painful but not deadly unless to are allergic to the venom.

Pippie


Joined: 02/12/2009
Posts: 1288

Message Posted:
01/05/2010 20:35

Just out of interest, what should you do if you get bitten by a tarantula?



There's a banana tree in next door's back garden, should I be worried???

Tenakoutou



Joined: 27/07/2009
Posts: 4110

Message Posted:
01/05/2010 21:40

No worries - not every dog in the street will bite ya!

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
01/05/2010 22:13

Despite their often threatening appearance and reputation, none of the tarantulas is known to have a bite which is deadly to humans.



Read



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula#Bites_and_Urticating_Hairs

Tenakoutou



Joined: 27/07/2009
Posts: 4110

Message Posted:
02/05/2010 08:36

Poor 'Banana Spider' - give the guy a break!



Think of all the other 'nasties & bities' it predates on that bother you, like centipedes, scorpions and other biting spiders!

Tatlisu4me


Joined: 26/01/2008
Posts: 436

Message Posted:
02/05/2010 10:23

We had a tarantula in the downstairs bathroom on our last visit in December (Baby spider and dead), we visited last week and found another in the bathroom (Dead). Scary !

lippylush


Joined: 29/12/2006
Posts: 197

Message Posted:
02/05/2010 14:08

We found a scorpion outside in our garden. It was only a small one and on it's own but given that small ones grow it went down the ravine.