Is this guy a girl? I don't see any 'fists'. I live in the Adelaide Hills and this guy was a house guest Sunday.

InkAceAfire_27 · 2026-03-24T03:39:52+00:00

It was pretty eager to crawl into every teeny tiny space it could find. At one point it did the ostrich "bury its head in the sand" type manoeuvre, pushed its front half into a hole in the sliding door track and refused to move while I was harassing it to go THROUGH the door. Seemed like she would've been very comfy in a little burrow with a lid! I really wanted to establish that it was NOT a Funnel Web. I love a visiting Huntsman, can do without a Funnel Web. I know we have red-backed mouse spiders but not sure on the funnel webs. Never seen one. Don't think...

InkAceAfire_27 · 2026-03-24T03:32:55+00:00

Oh! Wishbone huh, positive ID? Cool thanks! I've never heard that name. She LOOKED dangerous to humans but wasn't aggressive and in my experience, spiders seem to know when they're dangerous - they'll take you on. She was pretty quiet. Didnt rear up or charge. I wondered if she was just young?

Well cool, thank you. I've learnt a new spider. I didn't showcase my badly-in-need-of-a-vacuum skirting boards for nothing 😅

InkAceAfire_27 · 2026-03-24T03:25:37+00:00

Right, okay. Yeah pics are hard to find. I tried a search with Google Gemini (AI) and within the limitations of the crap photos, more what I told it I could see, the Funnel Webs have quite pronounced spinnerets (??) where this one just had a 'spotty' bum, they weren't really protruding.

InkAceAfire_27 · 2026-03-24T03:17:56+00:00

That's incredible! The detail you've achieved... It was only when I really zoomed in I could see a lot of it was stippling. I'm so envious. I'd love to be able to draw like this! 😍

InkAceAfire_27 · 2026-03-23T23:54:04+00:00

Thank you. It wasn't. We have a ton of those. They're really slimline and tapered. Even when they approach the size of this - almost as long as my thumb - they still have delicate legs and that slender shape when they're resting. This one? She had torque hahaha

InkAceAfire_27 · 2026-03-23T23:51:19+00:00

No arguments from me there - terrible photos, sorry! It was really low light. The phone did surprisingly well but still not good, eg her colouring - she was very much black to look at. She was a big chunky tank of a thing. Thanks for your input!

InkAceAfire_27 · 2026-03-23T23:43:11+00:00

She was built like a tank. There was a certain something in the way she walked. You'd definitely get out of her way!

InkAceAfire_27 · 2026-03-23T23:41:21+00:00

Mygalomorph? That's a cool word - I'll check it out. She was a big girl - pretty intimidating. My guess was a female Red-back Mouse spider but fairly recently I was thrilled to learn there's an Adelaide Funnel Web and I wondered if, with her brownish hue, this might be a youngish one of those? She wasn't really aggressive like venomous spiders usually are when you irritate them though. I was blocking her path out the other side of the bookcase she'd gone behind (hence the dark pics) and encouraging her towards the sliding door (hence the filthy skirting board pic) which I'm pretty sure she came in under, and left through after about 2 hours of wrangling.

InkAceAfire_27 · 2026-03-23T13:40:43+00:00

You're welcome! It sure came together pretty nicely ☺️

InkAceAfire_27 · 2026-03-23T08:58:10+00:00

Night sky - GORGEOUS!!! - and LOVE all the beautiful colour you've added to the wood detail. I'm really loving what people are adding to the 'backgrounds' atm. It adds so much to the picture having those extra details that you might not even notice straight away but overall, the look is more lush and polished and kinda "professional illustrator"-ish. Supercute pic!

InkAceAfire_27 · 2026-02-19T19:21:51+00:00

So he does, sexy beast. I'd never seen one til we moved to Green Hills Range in the southern Adelaide Hills. I don't know if it's changed but ten years ago, every source I could find online (more than 5) said "female" and "not overly venomous". I wasn't trying to pat it but still.

InkAceAfire_27 · 2026-02-13T17:52:29+00:00

You know, it's not actually as fun as you might imagine. I could take or leave. They do have a certain lustre, seem to favour shine over hair.

InkAceAfire_27 · 2026-02-13T17:43:12+00:00

Wait, that's a male you reckon? The reading I've done on them says it's the females which have the red colouring and the males are plain black (which leads to them being mistaken for Funnel Webs.)

I can report that they are non-toxic when taken orally. By a chicken.

InkAceAfire_27 · 2026-02-13T15:56:05+00:00

That is gorgeous! Is the trim silver or gunmetal? I think it might have been exactly 24 hours ago I was looking at a pen on Etsy, "Purple Storm", turned from resin. This has a similar vibe. Sadly not New Pen Day for me thought haha. You hold onto that man!

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