On our kitchen window today. Northern Thailand.

Edited November 19, 20223 yr by MrMuddle
location added

Brian?

https://spiderid.com/locations/thailand/

"Anyone know the name of this Spider?"

Take a look at its ID card.

Nah. It's Boris.

 

Orb weaver?

4 minutes ago, RayWright said:

Nah. It's Boris.

 

Dude! ????

 

Sing-along in Thai...

 

11 minutes ago, RayWright said:

Sing-along in Thai...

 

Got my new pickup line/song. Karma + Ray ????.

Edited November 19, 20223 yr by Simple Jack

Harmless Huntsman.

5 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

Harmless Huntsman.

Do you have them in LOS?

Just now, still kicking said:

Do you have them in LOS?

We have them in Australia. They live for many years and often in bathrooms in the tropics. I think they would also be endemic to Thailand since the latitude where I come from is the same as Pattaya.

They are not venomous...and I used to think they were harmless and would pick them up to throw them out into the garden.   

 

But one did bite me and left 2 red marks where it's fangs went into my finger.  Now I always use an upturned glass to catch them. 

It's indeed a Huntsman spider.  They are very common here and like to come into houses too.

12 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

We have them in Australia. They live for many years and often in bathrooms in the tropics. I think they would also be endemic to Thailand since the latitude where I come from is the same as Pattaya.

I know we have them in OZ but never seen one in Thailand 

2 hours ago, MrMuddle said:

On our kitchen window today. Northern Thailand.

a harmless Huntsman spider, it is your friend because it eats bad insects like the cockroaches.

 

 

2 hours ago, MrMuddle said:

WARNING picture of spider included in post!

LOL I've literally laughed here, this topic reminded me of a divers' joke, something like "what is the difference between scuba divers and normal people? - when somebody at the beach shouts "SHARK!" normal people run out of the water and divers run into the water"

Edited November 19, 20223 yr by fdsa

2 minutes ago, fdsa said:

a harmless Huntsman spider, it is your friend because it eats bad insects like cockroaches.

 

I've never seen one eat cockroaches. They may well do but they eat moths mainly.

Similar to the Huntsman common in Australia. Seen many in Thailand. No web, Runs very fast on walls when inside, 

 

If he's from Mars, it could be Ziggy.

And gekko eats huntmans spiders

It’s Harry, he finally came out. 
 

 

 Cashier. 

7 hours ago, jak2002003 said:

They are not venomous...and I used to think they were harmless and would pick them up to throw them out into the garden.   

 

But one did bite me and left 2 red marks where it's fangs went into my finger.  Now I always use an upturned glass to catch them. 

Huntsman spiders are venomous but the venom is generally harmless to humans. In fact all spiders except for a few small groups are venomous.

Don't know, looks like a my mother in law a bit....

9 hours ago, fdsa said:

a harmless Huntsman spider, it is your friend because it eats bad insects like the cockroaches.

 

 

LOL I've literally laughed here, this topic reminded me of a divers' joke, something like "what is the difference between scuba divers and normal people? - when somebody at the beach shouts "SHARK!" normal people run out of the water and divers run into the water"

I thought it was only fair to warn people there are lots of aracnophobics about!

On 11/20/2022 at 9:37 AM, MrMuddle said:

I thought it was only fair to warn people there are lots of aracnophobics about!

Some individuals can grow quite big. Up to 12 inch leg span.

On 11/19/2022 at 9:07 PM, nigelforbes said:

Brian?

Who? Must be Boris!