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Post by tommy on Sept 28, 2013 9:35:02 GMT
Never been keen on them after watching a lad pick up cross spiders and try and get them to bite his finger when kids or throw them at other kids. During the hot spell I noticed 50 odd small ones on the motorhome and left them figuring they had landed on the wind and would move on, but climbing the laddetr the other day I was faced with a "teenage" one that had grown a bit and probably eaten a few of its sibblings - and it was a peculiar shape I hadnt seen before. I washed it away and didnt think much more about it untill weeks later I was clearing the odd scruffy web around the top of the front and back doors of the house and decided to fly spray a telephone junction box the spider was living in.
It wasnt long before a spider emerged and it was the same as the one on the motorhome which prompted me to look up the strange shape and appearance and both appear to be a "false black widow" which I m none too keen on being neighbours with.
Anyone else noticed them, I am in the midlands ?
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Post by millie on Sept 28, 2013 22:12:02 GMT
Robmac recently told a story about a huge spider with fangs - not sure but think it may have been one of his fishermans tales
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Post by robmac on Sept 29, 2013 20:21:33 GMT
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Post by millie on Oct 6, 2013 19:06:56 GMT
That frightened the life out of me Rob - just screamed out loud and it was only a picture!!!
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Post by Etienne Le Croq on Oct 6, 2013 19:47:46 GMT
I like spiders!
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Post by millie on Oct 9, 2013 15:37:03 GMT
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Post by robmac on Oct 9, 2013 15:43:50 GMT
Luckily we haven't found any more.....yet! They are not pleasant creatures.
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Post by Is it spring yet, dormouse? on Oct 9, 2013 15:52:01 GMT
Not too sure about the poisonous foreign jobbies, but British spiders are a gardener's friend so they get my vote every time Life: unfinished threads in a never-ending tapestry
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Post by robmac on Oct 9, 2013 15:59:37 GMT
I don't mind the British ones either. These things are something else though, like blimmin Tarantulas!
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Post by n brown on Oct 9, 2013 16:07:17 GMT
talking of spiders- I went into a water mine in Portugal,a tunnel really,and saw the ceiling was covered in a thick black fur about 30cms thick-millions of spiders clumping together.i got a stick and dislodged a a big chunk,which fell to the floor in one piece,then exploded into activity as they all ran to the nearest wall to climb up and get back with their mates .
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Post by Is it spring yet, dormouse? on Oct 9, 2013 18:12:18 GMT
I have a smaller version do that in my greenhouse every year It's fun poking the babies with a cane or your finger and watching them spill away. They're always back together in a their webby clump about 10 mins later Just wish they could eat slugs and snails, but there is a Mr Toad in residence (loads in the garden too!) and he seems to do quite a good job He lives in the greenhouse border under the soil. Life: unfinished threads in a never-ending tapestry
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