Topic: SPIDERS!!!

[sangyo soichiro]

I had two crawling inside my car windshield last night while I was driving. 

[Spanner 1]

I'll see your miniture cat and raise it a l.e.d. encrusted SKINK.... Ha

[scottly]

anyone notice more spiders indoors than usual?  I am.  

Yeah, I've noticed more indoors this year, here in AZ, also. Gnarly webs that show up overnight. Benign type spiders mostly, though I've had a couple of close calls with black widows at the shop, spinning webs right where I open the sliding door. Brake cleaner takes care of them pretty quickly!

[Old75_ratafe]

We've been getting HUGE ones here but they stayed outside....  Until last week when I came home and the lights where off and I walked into a WEB covering my porch steps with 3 of the huge ones on it.... I leave them alone usually... but when they start to trap me that's it!..... No more around my place I spent 40 Min's killing them and de spidering our siding.... Oh and FYI Brown Recluse are native to Michigan as well.  Most definitely not just the southwest.

[Rushoid]

If you can find some hedge apples, put them around your house. I put them in the corners of my basement and never have spiders down there. Apparently the chemical in the fruit repels spiders and some insects.

[gmonkey]

Anything that like work to keep away house centipedes?  Incidentally, these will eat spiders and are technically harmless to people so that might be a solution to the spider problem if you like them better.


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[Ecosse]

i had been seeing a lot of spiders lately. man, they were everywhere!



then my doctor adjusted my meds.



 


(thanks gmonkey. now i'm gonna have nightmares)

[Duke McDukiedook]

Pills!!! Pills are gooooood!!!

[gmonkey]

(thanks gmonkey. now i'm gonna have nightmares)

No problem.  I felt something touching my foot one night while brushing my teeth, looked down and saw one of these beauties, probably an inch and a half in length sitting on top of my foot.  It was big enough that I heard it land with a small thump when I kicked the thing away.

And I'm in your state.  They could be staging for an attack in your basement while you're reading this. 

[Ecosse]

No problem.  I felt something touching my foot one night while brushing my teeth, looked down and saw one of these beauties, probably an inch and a half in length sitting on top of my foot.  It was big enough that I heard it land with a small thump when I kicked the thing away.

And I'm in your state.  They could be staging for an attack in your basement while you're reading this. 

i loath you.

i only watched this video once. (sorry for the threadjack)

[Duke McDukiedook]

That is scary!!

[Damfino]

i only watched this video once. (sorry for the threadjack)

Christ!  Thanks a lot for that Bill!
As if I didn't have enough problems sleeping the first few nights after my bat visit...

[grumpy]

Anything that like work to keep away house centipedes?  Incidentally, these will eat spiders and are technically harmless to people so that might be a solution to the spider problem if you like them better.


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OH F@CH I HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE THOSE THINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AHHHHHHHHHH

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Old75_ratafe]

(thanks gmonkey. now i'm gonna have nightmares)

No problem.  I felt something touching my foot one night while brushing my teeth, looked down and saw one of these beauties, probably an inch and a half in length sitting on top of my foot.  It was big enough that I heard it land with a small thump when I kicked the thing away.

And I'm in your state.  They could be staging for an attack in your basement while you're reading this. 

That's it?  Yea they get like 3 4 inches around her and yes they do num num num on spiders therefor I leave them alone.

[74cb750]

I have not noticed more spiders this year.
When I find them, I trap them and release them outside
while the wife is freaking out. 

We have 5 ponds nearby and lots of dragonflies and praying mantis.

It's so pretty in Vermont at this time of year...

peace,
michel