disappearing spiders!
#16
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Re: disappearing spiders!
I love spiders.
Great free pest removers. They eat the pests flying around your home, and rarely bother you. Anything that can get rid of mosquitos and roaches is a thumbs up in my books. I never kill, always remove and let them live. I hope the repayment is Pest Control.
Great free pest removers. They eat the pests flying around your home, and rarely bother you. Anything that can get rid of mosquitos and roaches is a thumbs up in my books. I never kill, always remove and let them live. I hope the repayment is Pest Control.
#17
Re: disappearing spiders!
I too evict large spiders carefully with a glass tumbler & a piece of card, but I usually let a few small ones stay in the corner catching whatever insects make it into the house. Even the most benign spiders have venom to help kill their prey, so you don't want to touch them & risk a bite....
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Re: disappearing spiders!
It's not that I hate spiders or are scared of them, it's just that if I see one and then they disappear, I get a bit creeped out by it, because I don't like the thought of them crawling on me. Totally irrational I know, because half the time I probably don't see the spiders in the house in the first place. So there most have been loads of time when if I had been looking in the right place, I would have seen a spider and then it would have disappeared at some stage.
But I totally agree with the points about them being better than mosquitoes and flys and that they are great for catching those. Also, I do try to catch them, I certainly don't kill them on purpose. I'm just glad we don't have huge furry ones here or deadly ones.
Even when we had mice in the house, I humanely caught them and let them go in the woods down the road. I will kill earwigs and mosquitoes though.....
But I totally agree with the points about them being better than mosquitoes and flys and that they are great for catching those. Also, I do try to catch them, I certainly don't kill them on purpose. I'm just glad we don't have huge furry ones here or deadly ones.
Even when we had mice in the house, I humanely caught them and let them go in the woods down the road. I will kill earwigs and mosquitoes though.....
#19
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Agree with both your points. Spiders are fabulous. Here in the USA the only exceptions seem to be black widows & brown recluses--both of which are distinctive looking enough to tell apart from all the other 'good' spiders.
I too evict large spiders carefully with a glass tumbler & a piece of card, but I usually let a few small ones stay in the corner catching whatever insects make it into the house. Even the most benign spiders have venom to help kill their prey, so you don't want to touch them & risk a bite....
I too evict large spiders carefully with a glass tumbler & a piece of card, but I usually let a few small ones stay in the corner catching whatever insects make it into the house. Even the most benign spiders have venom to help kill their prey, so you don't want to touch them & risk a bite....
Mind you, I'll take the odd bite from a spider anytime over a mass ankles attack from fire ants!!!
#20
Re: disappearing spiders!
You're all fricking weird. Well except for Nutek. The only good spider is a dead one, regardless of whether they do good deeds or kill you. Anything with more than four legs has no place in my world whatever country that may be.
#21
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Re: disappearing spiders!
The little jumping ones with rolling eyes freak me out
#23
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Re: disappearing spiders!
I may be able to cope with spiders, but the thing that I never saw in UK and seems to be in every basement I have ever walked into are those millipedes, or centipedes or whatever they are!! I am so sure they have more than a million legs and are just the most horrible thing that crawls - fast too!!! And I don't see any of those spinning webs and catching mosquitoes or flys!!
#24
Re: disappearing spiders!
Nothing should have more than four legs.
Ever.
Except chicken buckets, because mmmm... food buckets.
Ever.
Except chicken buckets, because mmmm... food buckets.
#27
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Re: disappearing spiders!
It's jumping spider season around here, apparently.
The only spider which might be characterised as 'cute'... though maybe not when they're leaping for your face.
The only spider which might be characterised as 'cute'... though maybe not when they're leaping for your face.
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OH - you had to mention leaping at your face!!!!