Spiders!
Feb 1st 2011 | 10:26 am
#16
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Re: Spiders!
I'm not looking, really I'm not. 
Feb 1st 2011 | 10:26 am
#17
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Re: Spiders!
What did your neighbours across the road have to say about that? 
It was as much as I could do to kill the spider.
Being nice and gentlemanly to it while it was perched there just above my head would really have been asking too much 
...I'm not terrified of spiders but they do give me the heebie jeebies. A bit.
Anyway to catch them do this:-
1. Get a large kitchen sieve. You can tape a longer handle on if need be. (I don't, I use it as is).
2. Get a piece of card - a side of a large cereal box will do.
3. A broom.
Always keep these handy.
Work the spider to a lower level using the broom. When it is within reach place the sieve over it with a dash of speed. Once trapped, slide the card under the sieve and you have the spider. Carefully lift the card and sieve with spider together and choose a neighbour to let it go and visit.
Job done.
Last edited by Alfresco; Feb 1st 2011 at 10:30 am.
Feb 1st 2011 | 1:43 pm
#18
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Re: Spiders!
OR - stop leaving yer doors and windows open.
Feb 1st 2011 | 3:21 pm
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Re: Spiders!
It's all bush for a long way so no harm done. I know they won't come back because only chickens can cross a road.
Anyway to catch them do this:-
1. Get a large kitchen sieve. You can tape a longer handle on if need be. (I don't, I use it as is).
2. Get a piece of card - a side of a large cereal box will do.
3. A broom.
Always keep these handy.
Work the spider to a lower level using the broom. When it is within reach place the sieve over it with a dash of speed. Once trapped, slide the card under the sieve and you have the spider. Carefully lift the card and sieve with spider together and choose a neighbour to let it go and visit.
Job done.
Anyway to catch them do this:-
1. Get a large kitchen sieve. You can tape a longer handle on if need be. (I don't, I use it as is).
2. Get a piece of card - a side of a large cereal box will do.
3. A broom.
Always keep these handy.
Work the spider to a lower level using the broom. When it is within reach place the sieve over it with a dash of speed. Once trapped, slide the card under the sieve and you have the spider. Carefully lift the card and sieve with spider together and choose a neighbour to let it go and visit.
Job done.
The noisy ones please
Feb 1st 2011 | 4:53 pm
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Re: Spiders!
sorry alfresco Im with scottishcelts on this one.
By the fact that you save (shudders and goes white at the thought) these huntsman spiders i presume these arent that scary.
Those with a sick sense of humour need not reply
I dont want to google it cos i will then have to read everything and see pics which means then I will run out of PRN which i need lol
By the fact that you save (shudders and goes white at the thought) these huntsman spiders i presume these arent that scary.
Those with a sick sense of humour need not reply
I dont want to google it cos i will then have to read everything and see pics which means then I will run out of PRN which i need lol
Feb 1st 2011 | 6:25 pm
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Re: Spiders!
Found this dead one in my kitchen, i think it's a female
Feb 1st 2011 | 6:30 pm
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Re: Spiders!
did it look like this? If it did it was a Huntsman
Feb 1st 2011 | 8:52 pm
#23
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Re: Spiders!
It's all bush for a long way so no harm done. I know they won't come back because only chickens can cross a road.
Anyway to catch them do this:-
1. Get a large kitchen sieve. You can tape a longer handle on if need be. (I don't, I use it as is).
2. Get a piece of card - a side of a large cereal box will do.
3. A broom.
Always keep these handy.
Work the spider to a lower level using the broom. When it is within reach place the sieve over it with a dash of speed. Once trapped, slide the card under the sieve and you have the spider. Carefully lift the card and sieve with spider together and choose a neighbour to let it go and visit.
Job done.
Anyway to catch them do this:-
1. Get a large kitchen sieve. You can tape a longer handle on if need be. (I don't, I use it as is).
2. Get a piece of card - a side of a large cereal box will do.
3. A broom.
Always keep these handy.
Work the spider to a lower level using the broom. When it is within reach place the sieve over it with a dash of speed. Once trapped, slide the card under the sieve and you have the spider. Carefully lift the card and sieve with spider together and choose a neighbour to let it go and visit.
Job done.
Feb 1st 2011 | 8:55 pm
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Re: Spiders!
Out of all the pics that I've seen on the internet it looked the closest to a huntsman. The body was a lot fatter though.
Now that looks nasty!
