What The?!?!?!?!?!?

[DkySven]

Originally Posted by Static_Fang

Yes, that is quite right, but the only reason for so many hospitalizations is because it was so many encounters were made when people tried to take down a banana from a banana farm, so many of them = more occerance = more bites and thus more casualties. Same with the Sydney funnel and Blue-Mountain funnel webs

Banana spiders (all of the species) are quite low in the danger rank of all spiders

Ah, ok.

I like the Bird Spider, big hairy thing and isn't that dangerous(only his hairs hurt badly I heard). Someone I know was by the marines and had at his base at Curacao a Bird Spider as pet. It ended up as mascot of the base there.

[Static_Fang]

Originally Posted by asdfghs

Ah, ok.

I like the Bird Spider, big hairy thing and isn't that dangerous(only his hairs hurt badly I heard). Someone I know was by the marines and had at his base at Curacao a Bird Spider as pet. It ended up as mascot of the base there.

I got my own bird eater as a pet, shes one year and 9 months old :>

[DkySven]

Originally Posted by Static_Fang

I got my own bird eater as a pet, shes one year and 9 months old :>

Nice. Do you feed her birds, mice or bugs?

[Static_Fang]

Originally Posted by asdfghs

Nice. Do you feed her birds, mice or bugs?

She's only a baby atm (bout |-----------| that big so far), so bugs.
Once she's big enough, she'll get mice

[DkySven]

Poor mice

How old can bird spiders become?

[Static_Fang]

Originally Posted by asdfghs

Poor mice

How old can bird spiders become?

The record keeping one is 25yrs old, most females live around 20's, males around 10-15

Static Fang is my baby girl, so she's gona be round for a while

[DkySven]

Originally Posted by Static_Fang

The record keeping one is 25yrs old, most females live around 20's, males around 10-15

Static Fang is my baby girl, so she's gona be round for a while

That's a nice age, longer than my rat lives, only 2,5 year

[Smiley2k7]

Originally Posted by asdfghs

Ah, well you're right I think but I still think it's a dangerous spider.
I just read that there are two kinds of banana spiders. One lives in North-America and his bite is less dangerous than a wasp sting The other, the brown banana spider who lives in South America was: " between 1970 and 1980 it was reportedly responsible for the hospitalization of some 7,000 people"(http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-banana-spider.htm

the picture came up with something I call a frog

[DkySven]

Originally Posted by Smiley2k7

the picture came up with something I call a frog

It's not a picture smart boy. It's the article I quoted from.