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Discussion Thread 🌮 Wednesday 14 January 2026 (aussie.zone)

submitted 2 months ago by YarraByte@aussie.zone to c/melbourne@aussie.zone

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[–] TheWitchofThornbury2@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I didn't do laundry last weekend. Me bad. So the washing line spider had time to build a gigantic web across the support and the horizontal bit. I just found out when I walked face first into the web. Very glad it's a little house spider and not an orb weaver. Orb weaver bites HURT but aren't poisonous. This was merely a surprise and some frantic brushing off of cobwebs. Gertrude (my resident huntsman) is falling down on the job - she should have eaten this bastard by now.

[–] Catfish@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My resident huntsmen are generally called Anslem, I forget why

[–] TheWitchofThornbury2@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago

The eccelesiastical connexion no doubt.