Ahhhhhhhh!

The other day my mate Erik stayed on my futon, a common enough occurrence apres les bars. When he woke up, he noticed a rather large spider had made it's home under the table, next to the futon. That's why Erik noticed it, he woke up pretty much nose to nose with it. He pointed the spider out to me, and rather casually said, "it's ok though, I don't think it's a Black Widow or anything". Well, it turns out Erik isn't an much of an entomologist, and it most assuredly IS a Black Widow. Here are some rather crap* photos of it.



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What's really AWESOME is that I discovered it around half past 12 this evening, so I'll have to wait until morning before I can go to the shops and buy gallons of the strongest insecticides known to humanity. It will die, it will die!

- Mr. Ed


* It was a difficult angle, and yes, I was less than keen on getting very close to the blighter. I'd like to see how close you'd get to a deadly poisonous spider, just to take a photo of it. Well, quite.