[SpongeG]

eegads i am looking up some spiders found in BC

have seen some creepy ass ones in my living room before - i swear it was huge

but some pics of some found here in BC regions

http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/canada_spiders/images/habitus/Tegenaria_agrestis1.jpg
Tegenaria agrestis (http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/21188)

http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/canada_spiders/images/habitus/Tegenaria_domestica.jpg
Tegenaria domestica (http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/21218)

http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/canada_spiders/images/habitus/Tegenaria_duellica.jpg
Tegenaria duellica (http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/21222)

[giallo]

I've seen those before. I'd have to say the black widow is the most dangerous though. The others are just big.

I used to find these everywhere in Kelowna. My mom found one dead in my sister's bed once.

http://i.ehow.com/images/GlobalPhoto/Articles/2109266/19582-main_Full.jpg

[SpongeG]

ugh

did you know there are 10 tarantula species in Canada - 6 of them are in BC

[MolsonExport]

I do recall scorpions and black widow spiders in the Okanagan. Plus those really gnarly wolf spiders.

[240glt]

Arg! There whould be a warning in the thread title for us arachnophobes!

We had a black widow infestation in our house in Winfield...the whole east side of the valley was crawling with them one summer

Absolutely terrifying.

[MsMe]

And the scary part with the global warming, makes you wonder what other insects and animals are going to enter the regions in the future. And we are going to be clueless about them not knowing anything about the new creatures which really could be a big problem.

[MolsonExport]

Arg! There whould be a warning in the thread title for us arachnophobes!

We had a black widow infestation in our house in Winfield...the whole east side of the valley was crawling with them one summer

Absolutely terrifying.

Wholly shit. I used to live in Winfield (1994).

[Ayreonaut]

I've got friends in Winfield.

[240glt]

Wholly shit. I used to live in Winfield (1994).

Heh.. I was there 1994-1995 while attending OUC!

Small world huh.

[Only The Lonely..]

Thank God for Manitoba, -40 winter kills all.

I'll definitely take mosquitoes over that.

[Calgarian]

I was expecting another shit throwing thread. lol

Yeah BC has lots of bugs, Earwigs creep me out the most, I left my bathing suit on the rail of my Grandparents deck to dry overnight after swimming in the pool and found 3 or 4 of them in there one time. lol

[Metro-One]

About 10 years ago in maple Ridge i went into the garage and found an all black spider that was about the size of the palm of my hand (with the legs spread out). It was the meanest looking spider i have ever seen, so of course i had to poke it with a stick. While most spiders would cower this spider went nuts and started attacking the stick. Thats when i decided to leave it alone, hehe.

Another bug i have seen here in BC i never got a name for was a large beetle that had entenas about 6 inches long. It was the craziest thing i had seen.

[lubicon]

When I was living in Edmonton my company got a shipment of equipment from Nigeria. When my colleague and I opend the crate a bunch of spiders ran out, it scared the crap out of me. It was the midle of winter so I don't think they lasted long.

[Calgarian]

Speaking of Spiders, anyone ever seen this video?

sHzdsFiBbFc

[Coldrsx]

and here i thought it was the asians...

[rather_draconian]

and here i thought it was the asians...

Jackass.

[Calgarian]

When I was living in Edmonton my company got a shipment of equipment from Nigeria. When my colleague and I opend the crate a bunch of spiders ran out, it scared the crap out of me. It was the midle of winter so I don't think they lasted long.

Were they big spiders?

[touraccuracy]

When I was living in Edmonton my company got a shipment of equipment from Nigeria. When my colleague and I opend the crate a bunch of spiders ran out, it scared the crap out of me. It was the midle of winter so I don't think they lasted long.

I worked for a warehouse in BC and basically everything we received was from China. Things I can remember coming across include: lizards, millions of tiny spiders, cockroaches, various other beetles, bird shit, decent amounts of blood, a mushroom, a lighter, and asian newspapers. :tup:

[SpongeG]

I worked for a warehouse in BC and basically everything we received was from China. Things I can remember coming across include: lizards, millions of tiny spiders, cockroaches, various other beetles, bird shit, decent amounts of blood, a mushroom, a lighter, and asian newspapers. :tup:

my friend worked at a store that imported furniture from china and they had one buffet side board thing that was probably found on some farm and he opened the bottom and it was full of chicken poop

was probably used as a chicken coop or something now selling here as an antique

[Distill3d]

I worked for a warehouse in BC and basically everything we received was from China. Things I can remember coming across include: lizards, millions of tiny spiders, cockroaches, various other beetles, bird shit, decent amounts of blood, a mushroom, a lighter, and asian newspapers. :tup:

huh. and china is so stringent on what comes in from everywhere. if you ship something to china, it cannot be on a wooden pallet because that could house bugs and rats, so they make you ship your shipment on plastic pallets....thought i'd throw that in for good measures

[vid]

Thunder Bay has the biggest spiders!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3265/2847436111_5611fa22b8.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/vidioman/2847436111/)
NOTE THAT THE IMAGE LINKS TO THE PHOTO PAGE AND NOT JUST TO THE IMAGE ITSELF! THAT IS BECAUSE I AM NOT A RETARD!! :)

Zygiella x-notata, iirc, is Latin for "curls up and dies of fright when you touch it". That thing was really less than an inch long. They're fun to watch. They live in my window. Dozens of them. Sometimes they come indoors, too! :)

[lubicon]

Were they big spiders?

Not overly big, but very unlike the ones we are used to seeing around here.

[Kevin_foster]

I have family in Winfield :) Love it there.

Also, Alberta has spiders too. So many that they require their own website

http://www.spidersofalberta.com/

[Ayreonaut]

vid, you should get a vacuum.

[Rico Rommheim]

I...fucking....hate....spiders. I'm never moving out in BC.

[vid]

vid, you should get a vacuum.

I have one. I don't mind the spiders, though.

[240glt]

Alberta has spiders too. So many that they require their own website

http://www.spidersofalberta.com/

Jeezus Christ. Why did I click on the link.

I had a couple of huge spiders up in the eves this fall. One dive bombed me as I was leaving the garage one day.

That m.f.'er got what was coming to it.

[SKYSTHELIMIT]

:lmao: Jeezus Christ. Why did I click on the link.

I had a couple of huge spiders up in the eves this fall. One dive bombed me as I was leaving the garage one day.

That m.f.'er got what was coming to it.

:lmao:

[Calgarian]

Just be glad BC isn't Australia, their spiders catch and eat birds!

[tayser]

^ tee hee. check this shit out: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=733954 :)

btw, those pics in the first post look what we call the bog-standard "Huntsmen" - big ugly, practically harmless however.

[Greco Roman]

Just be glad BC isn't Australia, their spiders catch and eat birds!

That is pretty rare for Australia. This is much more common in South America's Amazon, where there is at least (to my knowledge) one species of tarantula the size of a dinner plate that preys on large birds, especially nesting mothers and chicks.

[Ayreonaut]

My dad has always said he would love to visit the Amazon, but he's a squeamish guy. I watched a show on all the creepy crawlers of the rainforest, I'm not sure how much he would actually enjoy himself.

[0773|=\]

Seen a tarantula when I was in South Africa earlier this year. It was almost the size of my hand.

Don't really have arachnophobia but that thing moving fast towards you was pretty creepy...

[Greco Roman]

I actually felt something moving across my back while sleeping last night.

It moved very fast.

:uhh:

[1ajs]

Speaking of Spiders, anyone ever seen this video?

sHzdsFiBbFc

bahaha yea i seen that ages ago never gets old :tup:

[1ajs]

I actually felt something moving across my back while sleeping last night.

It moved very fast.

:uhh:
perhaps it was a mouse........

[1ajs]

this little guy was about the size of my fist........ tropics of belize found it while racking the leaves in the yard captured it took it up to the road and shot pics of it then let it go
http://pointdouglas.com/plugins/p17_image_gallery/images/799.jpg


but yea i would be more worried about scorpians and ants then spiders.........

[Ilex]

I lived in BC for 13 years and the worst we ever had were hobo spiders.

EARWIGS though were absolutely terrifying where I lived...

[Greco Roman]

perhaps it was a mouse........

Uh, no. There is a huge weight difference between a mouse and the spiders we have around here.

[1ajs]

Uh, no. There is a huge weight difference between a mouse and the spiders we have around here.
i wonder if u swallowed it in ur sleep?

[SpongeG]

did you know in your lifetime i don't the number but they said on average while sleeping people will swallow x weight of insects over their lifetime during sleep

ick

[ssiguy]

When I was on SaltSpring Island {hence the id 'ssiguy'} I say a spider that was the size of my palm. I'm not shittin you either. The body was the size of a timbit!

I rent from an Aussie and he says that in Sydney you NEVER put on your shoes or sandels without emptying them for fear of spiders. In Tasmania the ants are monsterous and sting and you have to be very careful in house or out.

[JBinCalgary]

...i thought this thread was gonna be about the horrible sports fans...

but this is worse! spiders can lick my ass

[francely57]

reasons not to come to Quebec

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e24/francely57/mauvais/17.jpg

It's amazing how spiders survive everywhere... like in the middle of downtown MTL you never see any mosquitoes, flies, etc. but there are tons of spiders in windows and street lamps

[feepa]

^ those spiders are why you dont see many mosquitoes or flies, etc

[le calmar]

Where I used to live dowtown MTL there were tons of these spiders in the windows outside, on 10th floor.

[Greco Roman]

Vancouver is by far the WORST city in Canada in terms of spider population density, likely due to the milder climate. No matter where I stay in Vancity, or anywhere in the lower mainland, there are spiders everywhere I turn. I don't hate spiders, but I'm not a big fan of them either.