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Man that's one big beast! I found one outside under our gas heater, could be the heat bringing them out.

"Redback spiders are found throughout Australia, in drier habitats and built-up areas. They are common in dry places around buildings, outdoor furniture, machinery and stacked materials"

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Haven't noticed many redbacks, but every couple of months I find whitetails inside the house and normally there will be two at a time for some reason (sometimes spaced by a day or two). Nasty little f**kers.

me too! male/ female ...

kill one, the other goes in search for it, kill that too... have a can of RAID on hand for the babies ..

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Don't get many redbacks in my area. See them all the time in the holiday house at Raymond Island (near lakes entrance in gippsland). In my area I seem to get a lot of Huntsmans. They do a wonderful job of destroying my ear drums if my partner ever see's them. They are too big to squash so I usually suck them up in the vacuum cleaner.

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Brake clean works the best on spiders ;)

if you wanna be more cruel throw a match in there too :D

I like to spray paint them.....If someone leaves the door on our spray booth open,flies get in there....They also like to be painted...usually when im about to put some clear on i do a patrol an hit em with 2 pack clear....they really spiral down quick!

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Ive only seen 2 red backs in my life.. once when i was young i was watering the garden and it crawled up the hose..

and once i was moving an old Tyre in the back yard and it came out of no where.

both times i squealed.

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its wierd.. how some pplz have never seen one yet i'm seeing them daily atm, especially around the pool equip,

but only very recently. def the drier wather.

and yes" i always keep the daddy long legs alive cause they love to munch the flies.

ahh still no photos. i was hoping someone had some scary photos lol, but genuine ones not interweb searched

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I rekon I've seen 2 red backs in 33 years around Melbourne.

However do we get black widows in Vic/Australia?

Cause we always get around our place something that looks like a red back,

but no red stripe and is a bit bigger than a redback.

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I found and killed 6 at work about a month ago, all in the one day.

They can be aggressive little bastards too, as soon as you stir them, they want to come after you :P

Obviously they didn't realise that my boot is far bigger than they are.

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when i miss's moved house, they had left over corigated iron sheets in a pile .

gumboots and long gloves up the the elbow went on. if you spotted one sitting, there was another 3on the move, took me about 1hour to shift it, and no lie i would of seen no less then 15 in that time

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Haven't seen one since I was a young kid, playing with a nest of them with my cousin...there would've been about 20-30 babies and the big 1 which I assume was the mother...

lol while u were doin that, why didnt u go to a bee hive and poke it with a stick and try to touch the queen bee?

i hate spiders all together...you know i once heard this apparant fact

"at one point or another in your life, a huntsman spiders will drink slyvia from you mouth"

not sure of its validity but fkn disgusting if its true

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I rekon I've seen 2 red backs in 33 years around Melbourne.

However do we get black widows in Vic/Australia?

Cause we always get around our place something that looks like a red back,

but no red stripe and is a bit bigger than a redback.

Na we don't get black widdows here, that's north america. Red back is a relative of it. Sometimes they don't have a red stripe it can be brown or not there at all (males). I seen one as a kid which had the red arrow stripe and white dot's on the abdomen.

Also we do get Funnel Webs here in Vic, just not the bastard huge aggressive Sidney one... Yet

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lol while u were doin that, why didnt u go to a bee hive and poke it with a stick and try to touch the queen bee?

i hate spiders all together...you know i once heard this apparant fact

"at one point or another in your life, a huntsman spiders will drink slyvia from you mouth"

not sure of its validity but fkn disgusting if its true

We were kids, and they weren't exactly gonna jump off the fence, so it was fun...

Funny thing is, I'm now pretty much arachnophobic...

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The question is: Did you squeal like a girl???? ROFL

what do you mean. you cant even hear some girls scream they do so, so loudly their voice cracks, others opt to freeze on the spot, hyperventilate then end up with the feeling hundreds of them are crawling all over them and run around like mad trying to flick them all off...and for others its a combo of all of the above not necessarily in order. But....ah I wouldnt be speaking from experience or anything :laugh:

As for red backs, have heaps at work...one of my cars was parked out the back for a couple of months and they moved house into it, sold the car shortly after, god help the new owner. A few of the guys at work keep them as pets on occasions, yes we have heaps.

After many bug bombs I have managed to reclaim my garage and my skyline, from the savage mother of all spiders...but I was staking out for quite a few hours. Needless to say, I hate them, dead, alive, skins I dont discriminate. I have even been known to jump up in the middle of the night screaming and flicking like a moron trying to escape the spider on me...boy can i think of a better way to wake up at 2.45 in the morning. My poor room mate must think I'm psycho.

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Don't get many redbacks in my area. See them all the time in the holiday house at Raymond Island (near lakes entrance in gippsland). In my area I seem to get a lot of Huntsmans. They do a wonderful job of destroying my ear drums if my partner ever see's them. They are too big to squash so I usually suck them up in the vacuum cleaner.

Don't they just crawl out through the tube later?

I found and killed 6 at work about a month ago, all in the one day.

Geez, what kind of work do you do?

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Was about to grab the mail when I noticed there was a redback between my hand and the mail in the letterbox... I'll come back later

That redback ain't gonna leave. They love mailboxes - the perfect abode. You need to get the surface spray that repels insects and just go nuts into your mailbox..

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Lived in Melbourne all my life, never seen one in the flesh.

Huntsmans though, I see those f**kers everywhere. Seriously, I kill at least one per week.

i think this the breeding season for huntsmans. saw a big f**ker a few weeks back and managed to chase it outside and off the balcony. made an audible thump when it hit the ground outside. then yesterday i had to catch and release like five 50cent sized (the coin not the rapper) ones.

daddy long legs .....

leave them, they get the flies and seeker ants ... (those stray ants looking to bring the rest of the clan in)

daddy longlegs are cool. never hurt no one.

My godt just found the biggest bastard in the middle of my garage wall :)

but thanks to a whole can of brake cleaner and my trusty redback work boots i came on top :)

hahahaa ironic innit?

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