Comments on: Rain spider http://www.wildcapetown.com/?p=1120 Daily photo's of Cape Town, located at the Southern tip of Africa Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:22:52 +0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: geraldine, henk http://www.wildcapetown.com/?p=1120&cpage=1#comment-4853 geraldine, henk Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:34:03 +0000 http://www.wildcapetown.com/?p=1120#comment-4853 we are planing to add a few fire ants,will that complete the food chain? we are planing to add a few fire ants,will that complete the food chain?

]]> By: geraldine, henk http://www.wildcapetown.com/?p=1120&cpage=1#comment-4852 geraldine, henk Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:30:36 +0000 http://www.wildcapetown.com/?p=1120#comment-4852 I gote 2 rain spoder in a bottel with a crickit but I think the crickit going to eat the spider? so can you gays help me?????25.cm high and diametre of 20 cm? I gote 2 rain spoder in a bottel with a crickit but I think the crickit going to eat the spider? so can you gays help me?????25.cm high and diametre of 20 cm?

]]> By: Lorraine http://www.wildcapetown.com/?p=1120&cpage=1#comment-4791 Lorraine Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:08:17 +0000 http://www.wildcapetown.com/?p=1120#comment-4791 I got the fright of my life as I live in a block of flats in Wynberg, Cape Town, off Rosmead Avenue, but the area is quite built up and I live, my flat is right at the top, so how on earth did a big spider - my neighbour says it's a Tarantula, get into my tiny little flat? It looks similar to the picture of the rain spider, but it was black and hairy, the size of a hand when its legs were spread out, but after it died, the legs shrunk. It did not die easily, I used up about two half tins of insect fly spray before it eventually curled up and died. Not before putting up a fight, but I drenched it in fly spray. I was sick for the whole day today, I still am (of the shock). What if I had been asleep and it had bit me then, without me knowing, or seeing it? I got the fright of my life as I live in a block of flats in Wynberg, Cape Town, off Rosmead Avenue, but the area is quite built up and I live, my flat is right at the top, so how on earth did a big spider – my neighbour says it’s a Tarantula, get into my tiny little flat? It looks similar to the picture of the rain spider, but it was black and hairy, the size of a hand when its legs were spread out, but after it died, the legs shrunk. It did not die easily, I used up about two half tins of insect fly spray before it eventually curled up and died. Not before putting up a fight, but I drenched it in fly spray. I was sick for the whole day today, I still am (of the shock). What if I had been asleep and it had bit me then, without me knowing, or seeing it?

]]> By: admin http://www.wildcapetown.com/?p=1120&cpage=1#comment-1576 admin Mon, 04 May 2009 08:26:09 +0000 http://www.wildcapetown.com/?p=1120#comment-1576 Yeah the spider survived, that I promise you all - I do not kill anything of such beauty. Living in Tokai, so I guess the right part of Cape Town, pretty much bordering the Tokai Forest. Apart from spiders this summer I have already had a visit from a boomslang as well as a baby Cape Cobra. So in a nutshell I love where I live, it keeps me on my toes - lol... <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomslang" rel="nofollow">Boomslang </a> <a href="http://www.reptilechannel.com/reptile-species/snakes-profiles/cape-cobra-2.aspx" rel="nofollow">Cape Cobra</a> Yeah the spider survived, that I promise you all – I do not kill anything of such beauty.

Living in Tokai, so I guess the right part of Cape Town, pretty much bordering the Tokai Forest. Apart from spiders this summer I have already had a visit from a boomslang as well as a baby Cape Cobra. So in a nutshell I love where I live, it keeps me on my toes – lol…

Boomslang
Cape Cobra

]]> By: Nixgrim http://www.wildcapetown.com/?p=1120&cpage=1#comment-1501 Nixgrim Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:24:24 +0000 http://www.wildcapetown.com/?p=1120#comment-1501 True, but their bite isn't that bad... about as bad as a bee sting. (OK, that's still pretty sore, but my point is that they aren't lethal.) And if that thing was on your pillow, then you're living in the wrong (or maybe the right, depending on what you're looking for) part of Cape Town!! True, but their bite isn’t that bad… about as bad as a bee sting. (OK, that’s still pretty sore, but my point is that they aren’t lethal.)

And if that thing was on your pillow, then you’re living in the wrong (or maybe the right, depending on what you’re looking for) part of Cape Town!!

]]> By: Bill B. http://www.wildcapetown.com/?p=1120&cpage=1#comment-1500 Bill B. Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:46:24 +0000 http://www.wildcapetown.com/?p=1120#comment-1500 If it didn't bite you, it could probably carry you off. We have some big ones here, but nothing like that. If it didn’t bite you, it could probably carry you off. We have some big ones here, but nothing like that.

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