How the heck do you Australians sleep at night….

Growing up on a farm, my mum told me it was bad luck to kill a spider, so when it rained for long periods (not very often), we had a few visitors find their way inside, and when the sun came out, they disappeared. Can't remember finding a spider inside my house - ever.
 

OneEyedDiva said:
Oh I could deal with a spider, even one that size. Almost every time I see an article about a snake in someone's house, it's in Australia....well except the time one got in my apartment...
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This is my daughters' place in the Spanish Mountains .. snake in the garden was a regular occurrence, and the slimy snake slithering out of the pool was another ( I took these pics) ... the dogs used to have a field day going after them, but they weren't poisonous..

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hollydolly said:
This is my daughters' place in the Spanish Mountains .. snake in the garden was a regular occurrence, and the slimy snake slithering out of the pool was another ( I took these pics) ... the dogs used to have a field day going after them, but they weren't poisonous..

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I guess maybe if they are a regular occurrence, one gets used to them. I don't think I ever could. :eek:
 
fuzzybuddy said:
No way I'd have that thing crawling around my house. If that's the spider, what the hell do the flies it eats look like????
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So glad you asked.

This fly was in our back garden and I moved to to get a better photo.
It is sitting on a newspaper on the kitchen table.
It was quite passive for the whole exercise and afterwards I took it back to the bush in the garden where I found it.

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This is an assassin fly, so called because it does not feed on carrion. It attacks it's prey in mid flight.
Not sure how it would go in a head to head with a huntsman spider.
 
Warrigal said:
So glad you asked.

This fly was in our back garden and I moved to to get a better photo.
It is sitting on a newspaper on the kitchen table.
It was quite passive for the whole exercise and afterwards I took it back to the bush in the garden where I found it.

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This is an assassin fly, so called because it does not feed on carrion. It attacks it's prey in mid flight.
Not sure how it would go in a head to head with a huntsman spider.
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Oh jeezus mudder of God, that thing was in your HOUSE... ???? and you're still SANE.... :eek:
 
Those roaches are everywhere, I went to bed last night, turned on the light and omg there was a big black roach on the floor, yikes I hate them, I got him with fly spray I think, they are so hard to kill
Warrigal, This is not a criticism,so many times I see an Aussie flicking his hand to get the flies off their face, no matter were they are, why is their so many, I know it’s hot over there, as it can be here but.!
 
Bellbird said:
Those roaches are everywhere, I went to bed last night, turned on the light and omg there was a big black roach on the floor, yikes I hate them, I got him with fly spray I think, they are so hard to kill
Warrigal, This is not a criticism,so many times I see an Aussie flicking his hand to get the flies off their face, no matter were they are, why is their so many, I know it’s hot over there, as it can be here but.!
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They are well fed. They thrive in cattle country because of all the cow pats and sheep droppings. Attempts have been made to reduce the time the droppings are on the ground by breeding and releasing dung beetles but it is a massive problem.

They are not so bad in the city now because if improvements in waste disposal methods.

Here's a tip for new chums. In the Outback never shoo the flies off someone's back, even if there are dozens of them. They are just hitching a ride and enjoying the damp of his sweat. If you disturb them they will move around to his face, which is so much more annoying.
 
wcwbf said:
from what i've heard, you need something in pic to give this bug sense of scale. aren't they 3-4"long?
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Anyone native to the south, knows this roach as the “palmetto bug,” and indeed, it’s a fact of life in the humid Florida climate. The nickname might sound friendlier than cockroach but it’s still just that—the imposing, and to strangers unforgettable American cockroach. This big bug can create big problems for homes and businesses.
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