Can anyone help identify this spider? Found on a celing in Austria.
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I know what you mean. I live in Florida and people always mention alligators. Truth is you can go a decade and never even see a gator. When you finally do, it's probably in a zoo or something. I mean you do hear stories and it's no surprise because you live in Florida. That's where they are.
But Australia sounds like a whole nother level. I mean you guys have a venemous ant for crying out loud AND it's aggressive. I mean the shear concentration of things that can kill you down there is off the charts. Crocs, box jellyfish, snakes, spiders even friggin kangaroos! Am I wrong?
Truth is you can go a decade and never even see a gator.
... How? I grew up near Orlando, and seeing a smaller alligator next to an apartment complex retention pond or just in a random lake was extremely common. The week I moved away from Florida, some kids was killed by an alligator in the lake I learned to water ski in, although people being killed by alligators is extremely uncommon, they're generally pretty chill and don't go after animals that are bigger than them.
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That's Geoff
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Truth is you can go a decade and never even see a gator.
... How? I grew up near Orlando, and seeing a smaller alligator next to an apartment complex retention pond or just in a random lake was extremely common. The week I moved away from Florida, some kids was killed by an alligator in the lake I learned to water ski in, although people being killed by alligators is extremely uncommon, they're generally pretty chill and don't go after animals that are bigger than them.
You're right. Probably you would see one. But a lot of people just go to work and go home and go to work and go home. It is possible not to see one in person for a long time, but admittedly maybe not 10 years. Seeing it on the news is a different thing. I meant in person. I've seen them many times but, for instance, the last time I saw one, I was playing putt putt golf and they had some babies in a little pond out front that you could feed (436 in Orlando actually). So not, you know, in your house, or under your car. I've lived here virtually all of my life and never once had one surprise me in my swimming pool, in the yard or anything like that. That's what I was actually referring to. Should have been more specific.
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Kids mess with those ants when they're 5 and are fine. Sure it hurts but not really different to a bee.
The only one I'd say the average Australian has above average exposure to is jellyfish, assuming they go to the beach even semi regularly. But I mean, they just float around, they aren't coming for you on the attack.
Spiders there's only 2-3 anyone actually worries about, they're rarely seen and even more rarely bite anyone. Same for snakes. You also won't die even if you do get bit unless you can't make it to a hospital/contact help for a very long time.
Crocodiles are barely a concern outside select areas (eg think whether the average American would be concerned about alligators at all).
Kangaroos can theoretically attack but generally want to keep to themselves. But also to give you an idea how much of a non issue they are there are zoos that don't even have them in pens, they just roam around with the people.
But that doesn't fit the narrative that the danger is EVERYWHERE.
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Yeah. I have no idea why it has this name.
From the Wikipedia link above:
The abdominal black marking evokes the vampire of the 1922 German silent film Nosferatu, which led to the common German name of the spider, Nosferatu-Spinne.
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Taken with the ufo-picture-taking camera
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I’d say it’s a common house spider but those significantly longer front legs throw it off for me. Might be the perspective or picture
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Cutie pie
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Good question, I think this one is called Bob, but it could be his brother Frank too.
It can't be Bob. Bob was, errrr, with me...
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Brenn die Bude nieder… nah, aber dem Foto zufolge düft‘s sich um a Krabbenspinne handeln.
Sehr schirch, ganz leicht giftig aber ungefährlich.
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