Spiders found in Western Australia

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HI, I DON'T LIKE THE SOUND OF THE RED BACK SPIDERS EFFECTS. I WOULD IMAGINE THE PAIN FROM ONE OF THEIR BITES WOULD BE HORRIFIC. I WONDER HOW LONG IT TAKES TO KILL A PERSON?

THEY ARE ALL DISGUSTING THEY MAKE ME CRINGE !!

I live with these sorts of spiders they are all so kool but soo SPOOKY when your asleep.once i woke up with a red back spider on my face i yelled and my girlfriend slipped it off my face she isn't even scared of poison spiders. I really need to find a new house. ONE WITHOUT SPIDERS!!! and she stopped on it after woods. NOW I DON'T LIKE SPIDERS today one was on my leg.its a spiders palace in here.

Hi Frances, just to let you know, this year i was sitting on a chair watching TV when i felt this painful sting on my bum, i thought i had been bitten by a soldier ant it was so painful!! Then the pain spread to my groin muscle and i started telling my friends "Shit! I think i have been bitten by a Redback!" They were all teasing me telling me i was a hypochondriac but then i felt the sight and it was all sweaty and really painful and i said "I swear its a Redback!" so we shook out the doona i had over me and sure enough, out fell a little Redback, which i stomped on quick smart. We rang the hospital but they said unless i started vomiting or having respiratory issues just to take pain killers and put ice on the bite. Well i survived, but it was excruciatingly painful and i felt a little nauseous for a while and had a sweaty bite site!! Otherwise i was just fine!

LOL i have to do a report on spiders so i have to print something out, i like these spiders i wanna scare my teacher lol!

HI IM IN DARKAN WA and have found a black spider with red/black legs and two big curled fangs with 5 orange/yellow spots on back/bum. do u have any idea what it is. thanks

I was laying down watching a movie the 5 January 2010. And this spider came outta nowhere. Now, i sat up to have a look at and it took off like lightning. Now the colors of this spider were, grey and black, like they greyest of greys and on it's back and halfway down its 8 legs it was black. It did come back out l8tr, but did not get a chance to kill it, i h8t spiders, they make my skin crawl.... I was wondering if any1 new wot kinda spider this was/is?

Cheers.

You should see the spiders at my mums house, red backs cross daddy long legs. They look like a black daddy long legs with a slightly larger body but still slim, also they have 3 to 4 red arrows pointing towards the head in a similar style to this >>>

I'd love to take a picture of one and mail it to you but I haven't had the chance to go there for a long time, kind of unbelievable I know but true. 13 years of red backs and daddy long legs over running 4 sheds, a caravan, and tons of tires I believe is responsible.

I came across a Golden Orb spider now that was scary!!!!!!!!

incredible little things

awesome pics....love them!

huntsman story. was having a candlelight bath once, turned my head to get shampoo and a palm sized huntsman was sitting 4 inches away from my head...he ran right down and across the floor and under the sink cupboard....he is still around somewhere i think... couldn't bring myself to kill him, since he didn't hurt me...

we also allow daddy long legs to live in the house.... as previously said they do keep away other spiders and are very useful.

we have a few orb weavers in the backyard too.... amazing webs...

love the info cherry, that's so cool to know lol!

Hi, I was just wanting to ask if you've ever seen a bright orange spider before? I have this little fellow living in my parents laundry, it's about the size a 10cent coin, bright orange with a little black on the very tips of it's front legs (I'd put a picture up but don't know how)

I'm from the southwest near bunbury

Hi, I don't like spiders but i think if we don't hurt them they'll leave us alone...not always the way. The tiny little ones don't scare me although they should!!! its the big hairy ones!!! I'm scared wen i go to sleep :)

Perth WA

Thanks for helping us identify the Golden Orb spider in our garden. Now we know that she is no danger to us or the pets, she can stay where she is in her happy home in Perth WA.

Cheers

Moving to W.A in the near future to live with relatives. Scared as hell but cant wait. I hope to get pictures like these to send back to my relatives in the UK and make them think I'm the UK's answer to the Late steve irwin

I like it when I turn into a ninja as soon as I walk through a web :D

Great site good for all interests and info we have moved here from the suffolk uk 10 months ago and have come across a couple of red backs,white tips,house blacks, huntsman,garden orb(tonight 18/5/10),and a wolf spider. And having no knowledge of them or real awareness good or bad have shat myself while trying to catch and study before removal of them, but its getting some what easier (ha ha) as we see more of them and armed with the correct info on the spiders know what to do at arms (broom lol) length so cheers keep it going

hi!!!!!! I'm jewel's little brother and i love bugs!!!!! especially spiders!!!!!!! i think they are very, very, very, very,very cool!!!!!!

I see spiders in the WA bush quite often. Over the years I have learned to appreciate them; and wonder at the construction of their burrows and webs. I wish I knew more about their behaviour, but especially the orientation of their webs in relation to natural features, water, wind, etc.

Big hairy spiders scare me a little, but I know it's an irrational feeling, and have tried hard to overcome it. They are after all important species in the ecosystems.

I HATE SPIDERS!!!!

omg I live in Perth WA and I saw this MASSIVE spider sitting on the top of our pool (seriously, it was on the water). It was like the size of a slice of toast (weird comparison, huh?). It sat there for HOURS, so we thought it was dead. Then it started RUNNING across the water... :O I was freaking out, then we got a rake and pulled it out of the pool... I don't know what happened to the thing... its a little weird, coz even if I'm terrified of spiders, I just can't face up to killing them. I'm a bit of a softie :P Great website!

Hey, somebody told me you can hold Christmas Spiders and they won't bite you or something. Please don't anyone try it though, cos I'm probably wrong!
You know it's funny how sometimes you chicken out when there's a spider and you get someone else to kill it for you (or move it). Then sometimes it's the other people who chicken out and you pretend like it's no big deal and you go and stomp on it or put it outside. I just think it's funny and since no one really cares what I write, I just thought I'd put that out there.
Also, we have a dog door, right? So it's kind of easy for animals and spiders and stuff to get in. So we have spiders all the time. My sister names huntsmen if we have them in the house. And it seems every time we try to put them outside, they come back in again on purpose.
Anyway, awesome website. Yay!

Spiders are the freakiest thing in Australia

spiders are cool

ok i have just experienced an awsome thing i was watching a spider spin its web awsome i dont know what sort if its still there in the morning ill take a pics and send it to ya(i have vids of it spining it) now i freak with spider used to love them but a few times as a kid i had unfriendly encounters.

i have heeps of huntsman storys like once at my horse riding camp we had this one called fred now he hanged around all the time we all knew him?her? and one day we going into the showers(where he lived) and the other girl was not showering with him soo i was like fine! i had 8 scary eyes staring at me the whole time iv got heeps more story but ill bore you lol now i dont hate them and i think they r amaising from a distance come near me though or touch me they r pancake usually depending what mood im in

To Adele:Garden orbs can't hurt you-my father had one that dropped from the eaves onto his hand quite frequently in the evenings before setting up it's web for the night.A colleague was bitten on the back of the neck and had no symptoms whatsoever and I used to pat one really big one occasionally without any dramas.Observe the industry of the spider and the symmetrical beauty of the web with a torch-you may grow to like it.

I have a theory that black spiders are bad and brown spiders are ok. Strange, i know but i was bitten by a redback when i was a kid and have been scared of black spiders ever since!!!

was wondering if any one knows tha name of a spider ae found lurking around on tha trampiline, it had a white body, size of a pinhead, with a orange stripe down its bak, long legs, looked very deadly to me, ne wun know hu it is?please, WA area kalgoorlie

Cool website ( get the joke!). I live in SW Western Australia and see lots of redbacks, wolf and huntsmans. I will handle the huntsman and wolfey usually to scare my missus. My son has grown up handling spiders and is not scared. I dont like killing spiders as they have a job to do.Last night on nightshift i picked up a huntsman and scared the crap out of the other guys with me, they were calling me steve irwin.
Keep up the good work

i was bitten on the back by a orange/yellow type spider it wasnt very big but im worried as i am pregnant im starting to get a lil pain in my top back does anyone know wat type it may be i live in perth wa

found a huntsman in my motorcycle helmet once, while I was riding along a major highway I felt something moving in my hair, when I pulled up at the lights when I saw a big heary leg walk across my eye and down my face, and it was a full face helmet and no easy access. thankfully I'm not afraid of spiders so I didn't panic and was able to scoop it out onto the road.

trying to get over my fear of huntsman when i was younger i was walking up the stairs i turned and on the wall there she was luckily i didnt fall ever since i cant be in the same house as one until it has been removed its so hard for me im so paranoid about them i can be near a reback and be fine but a huntsman may kill me one day out of fear lol

huntsman spider...oh god haha
i must have been around 12 years old
and i was going to bed, turned the light off
and was just laying there with my eyes open
and i looked at my wall infront of me...i had no idea what it was at the time
it looked like a star shaped object...
i turned my lamp on, and screemed my face off
it was HUGE!
oh my god.
it was the size of my head...even bigger
dad came in and saw it and laughed at me!
he got the dustpan and brush and flicked it into the dustpan..and chucked it outside...everynight i would close my window..shut my door..i would even spray my whole room with the spider killer spray stuff
:)

my hunstman story, I found one on my 9 month old baby girl in her cot (this was 4 years ago) and when I flicked it off her it reared up on its bum with its front legs in the air. after researching huntsmans a little more, im not thinking it was a big hairy grey wolf spider and not a hunstman at all. when we moved out of that house (it had wayyyy to many spiders they used to fall out of the aircon vents when I turned the ducted aircon on) I took my clock off the wall and there was a huge hunstman under there it was the size of the clock. i hate spiders, i hate living in Australia even though i was born here lol and here in WA we have these spiders that looks like munted white tails that JUMP at you! OH AND A WHITE TIP, I found one drowning in my kids bath, so I got a cup, got it out, drained the water and was going to go throw it outside, and it ran at me to bite me! SQUISH!

you fergot about the drop bears we have in Austraila man -.-

had a golden orb webbing it up next to my front door during the locus plague lmao that was one fat spider i'd catch them n feed her 2-4 times a day. she made her egg sack, we moved house, week later i missed her so went to get her, she had died n i buried her :o( i cried n took the egg sack. now just waiting for it to hatch :o) her name was honey. my boyfriend hates it HEHEHE im evil

I would recognize a huntsman anywhere I want one because they are fast and smart enough to recognize there owner they are almost never aggressive

Spiders are one of nature's miracles. People only fear things they know nothing about or understand.
Educate yourself as I did. I come across a variety of spiders on my bushland block every day. When I find a funnel web hole near the house, I leave a trap of a buried glass jar next to it, wait for the spider to fall in, then release it into the bush. Funnel webs cannot climb smooth surfaces.
And I treat huntsmans and daddy long legs as welcomed house guests. Others I catch with an upturned glass, slip paper between the glass and the surface and release the spider outside.

i hate spiders! I was outside and my friend spotted a spider crawling across the ground. We looked at it for a bit and then I realized it was covered in baby spiders! we went to squish it and they all scattered everywhere and we sprayed it with mortine (bug spray) not sure if it was a red back...

I moved to Perth thinking we had lots of spiders in SA. But boy, does Perth beat SA. I bomb my house every 3 months. Also managed to get rid of all the redbacks outside my front door and on my deck (I hope). Now I have hundreds of huntsman around the front and back of my house, even in my garage. My hubby stops me from killing them, but I am seriously scared of them. I love reading up about these creatures so that I know what to expect when I see them. Would love to be one of those people who could just take them outside, but the thought of them crawling over my skin gives me the shakes. For those who can, well done and keep it up!!

So pleased those Garden Orbs hide away during the day as they are everywhere in my yard at the moment and they are ridiculously huge and scary! I hate spiders, and am quite terrified of them, but could never bring myself to kill them, I just order someone to get rid of it and take it as far away from my property as they can!

As a Perthite I have many Spider Stories. I love Spiders in the Main, but when surprised by them its "Fight or Flight".
As a 5th Grader we all had to do Science Experiments on Silk....Silkworms being the preferred Teachers Choice. She then trips over our bags behind our desks and squashes my shoebox with my slik worm Experiment inside. I was then allowed to demonstrate how Spiders use silk. That was awesome, 6 Garden Orb Spiders were collected and as I'm standing out the front of the class with all of them on me the first 2 rows of desks were cleared back to the 3rd row as they were frightened....but I got an "A"

Huntsmen are my Achilles heel though.....Quick, Big, and aim straight for you when they run (Strange though that Tarantulas dont bother me...)
My Ex Wife is terrified of Spiders and one day while vising my Mum in Mandurah (5 Acre Bushland Property) there was this Hugh Huntsman sitting on the wooden beam right over the sliding door leading outside, I was ordered to get rid of it (the Ex is scarier than the Spider). I used Flyspray and it just sat there and took it....squirt some more...nothing....more....nothing....1/4 can later it hadn't moved. So I just turned the can over and clubed it...still not dead....it was like it had the outer exoskeleton of a Hornet...bloody tough!!!! The hunter/gather in me won out in the end!!
My Dad was bitten by 2 Redbacks (Early 80's) within seconds of each other while cleaning up his Shed (Spiderland Theme Park would be a better name). Servere localised Pain around the bites and Nausea, but he came through it after 2-3 days and didn't need Hospital treatment.
Some Experts claim that among other things we eat 3-5 Spiders while we sleep in our lifetime....I must be below average as I've never noticed a spider leg stuck between my teeth in the morning!!!!
Last Summer (2010) in a 2 week period I cleared 36 Black House Spiders (Adult), 11 White Tip Spiders (Asst Sizes), 5 Huntsman, and 1 Scorpion from my Caversham House....the Bush Fire in the Bushland opposite my house may be a big factor for the invasion... I didn't think the house spiders lived in the bushland though...

@Omg, if you think Black Spiders are bad and Brown Spiders are ok....Look up the Brown Recluse Spider and pray you don't come across one....it's like a Ground version of the Redback and very adaptable like Redbacks to Human Buildings.

I like about the flower spiders becous there white and flower and thats my favourite thing :) and nice coments to evreone :)

I was once sitting on my lounge when a huge huntsman spider ran up my arm and bit me. The bite site constantly changed it became itchy, then it blistered, went lumpy, got itchy again, had two lumps then they turned red. This went on for 3wks and then I woke up and it was all gone. I am terrified of spiders then 15 minutes ago Im sitting outside having a cuppa. and a v.small jumping spider with big fangs (fatter than his legs) bites me, my leg now stings. lol why do these spiders 'deliberatly' attack me...... :)

are there any camel spiders found in australia?

Moving to Perth from NZ this year, where the only scary spiders we have here in NZ is the whitetail.

Kinda wished I'd never read this site. Fascinated yet terrified. Won't tell my kids....

I have a pet daddy long legs =3 It freaked me out when it was shedding. I didn't know it got bigger, it was huge already! It freaked me out and I was crying and everything, but then I saw its "skeleton" twitch a bit! I didn't give up hope! Later, I came back up and saw it had moved! It had spread out its legs! It was HUGE! Then later, it had moved away from its shell and compared to what it looked like before, I think it's bigger than a regular daddy long legs! It had taken off its body of its shell and put it back on, but other then that, it looks almost ghostly! I have a new name for my pet =3 At first I thought it wasn't even a daddy long legs! It made me feel worse when I counted its legs wrong. I thought it had eight legs instead of seven! My spider has seven legs, so when I recounted, I was all like, "Oh my god yay!" Now my spider is known as Ghostly! It was called "That spider," or "My spider," or possibly "Seven," due to her legs. =D And that is the story of Ghostly the spider.