Huntsman wins battle with gecko

[AdamG]

Gecko battles;

JSmith

Never seen anything like that before. If I puked up a meal and it suddenly crawled away, I would be heading to Church at my first opportunity Bro!

Nature is amazing and brutal. Makes me have a newfound respect for our ancestors and how they dealt with this. In dark damp caves!

 

[AudioJester]

@restorer-john - that Huntsman in your pic is a toddler. So where is mummy???

 

[restorer-john]

@restorer-john - that Huntsman in your pic is a toddler. So where is mummy???

We have giant huntsmans here as we are in the trees and bush. Those guys actually will give me a fright, especially when they crawl out from under the engine bay and across the windscreen while you are driving. Apparently they have a thing for diesel engines- I'm not kidding.

Spiders are powerless to the vibrations of 4WDs

When spiders are disturbed by the rumble of an idling diesel 4WD, they become agitated beyond sense and abandon their normal self-preservation instinct to run towards danger. An Australian arachnologist is using the phenomenon to unearth large amounts of hard-to-find spiders at one time.

www.abc.net.au

I get none on my petrol SUV, but our other diesel one seems to attract the giant huntsmans which are about 10" span.

 

[dorakeg]

Eeks. I hate spiders!!

 

[Keith_W]

I came face to face with this guy in my bathroom a few years ago. Compared to your specimen, this guy was tiny. Only 4cm across (about 2"):

 

[restorer-john]

I came face to face with this guy in my bathroom a few years ago. Compared to your specimen, this guy was tiny. Only 4cm across (about 2"):

That's a fantastic photo.

 

[jsrtheta]

Yes. Our maggies know us, show us their offspring and generally wake me up in the morning at 5am if I have left the cover over the dog food...

I give them each two dog kibbles and they won't bother me until the next morning.

Bloody extortion.

 

[restorer-john]

Bloody extortion.

You're right!

Thing is, I reckon they run the same racket at the two houses up the road and a few opposite as I hear the same 4 birds doing the same thing. Only people with dogs. Mmm.

Mafiosa Magpies.

 

[jsrtheta]

You're right!

Thing is, I reckon they run the same racket at the two houses up the road and a few opposite as I hear the same 4 birds doing the same thing. Only people with dogs. Mmm.

Mafiosa Magpies.

If they start talking about how terrible it would be if you had a fire, call the coppers.

 

[Digby]

rare video of restorer-john relaxing with the lads:

 

[Doodski]

rare video of restorer-john relaxing with the lads:

That crocodile ran pretty fast for short legs. I'm more the put a bullet in it's head and then make some deep fried croc snacks type of person. I have little use or like for reptiles...

 

[dr0ss]

We had a gecko lose a battle with a Denon receiver a few years back. Tracked the smell down, found the poor guy's corpse stuck between the circuit board and the bottom of the unit.

 

[jsrtheta]

We had a gecko lose a battle with a Denon receiver a few years back. Tracked the smell down, found the poor guy's corpse stuck between the circuit board and the bottom of the unit.

Those Denons are killers. Never turn your back on one.

 

[Scrivs]

We have these bastards (Huntsman) in Hawai’i as well. Especially around cane fields, but also pretty much anywhere else that provide a modicum of insectoid food and shelter. Smashed a giant on the West side the other day. Wasn’t expecting the ichor to smell quite as foul as it did.

Kinda smelt like rotting crab.

 

[restorer-john]

We had a gecko lose a battle with a Denon receiver a few years back. Tracked the smell down, found the poor guy's corpse stuck between the circuit board and the bottom of the unit.

A few geckos killed the entire controller board for one of our airconditioners a while back. Found charred PCB, blown components, burnt geckos and a few white gecko eggs. Not impressed.

 

[antcollinet]

Not impressed.

I'm guessing the geckos wern't best chuffed either.

 

[001]

How about half a rat in the switchboard? I heard the chorus of UPSs before I noticed the smell... All in a day's work

 

[JSmith]

rare video

JSmith

 

[Steven Holt]

John, I want you to tell me -- PLEASE TELL ME -- that one of those things have never been inside your house. You know which one I mean.

 

[Doodski]

JSmith

That guy in the first video could have whipped out his pig-sticker and done some damage to that beasty. It's weird how a hunting dog permitted that kangaroo to headlock it.