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Don’t know if anyone else is getting invaded by spiders but, in recent days, I must have “gently lifted 10 of the little blighters up and placed them outside”, aye right.
Some of them are fairly big so it’s good that I am OK with getting rid.
They say they keep other creepy crawley’s away and you should leave them be but ” no”, sorry, can’t have them around me.
The only person who got all his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe.
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Autumn is when spiders go looking for a partner to mate with. Then the female looks for places to lay her young. My car wing mirrors seems to be a popular place.
As for the indoor spiders, they have to face off against my 2 cats.
Joss
Current car: BMW X2 sDrive 20i M Sport 5dr Step Auto In metallic Portimão Blue. 04:10:2025
Previous car:Peugeot 308 GT Premium 1.2 Pure tech Petrol.yep its that time of year there are zillions of the randy little and not so little blighters all over the garden, i reckon they like the bark chippings. i went to dead head the roses and it was like something out of one of the harry potter films cobwebs everywhere between all the plants it was like sticking your hand into a tub of candy floss. never seen so many. loads in the house too mind not been bothered by many flies this year so the spider must be eating well lol.
Yup. Walking in the garden first thing is like going under the “cobweb” bit in a ghost train. So many transport threads hanging down/across everywhere. Certainly more than normal this year. Also flies and butterflies (cabbage whites everywhere with their caterpillars munching my nasturtiums). Anybody in our village with box plants (including us) has lost the lot – to a disease spread by spiders, I’ve been told.
Didn’t want to write here before in case I jinxed myself, but I really can’t stand spiders. Little spiders make dust-collector webs in awkward corners I can’t get to with the dusters; Daddy-long-leg spiders creep me out with the way they move and, again, lurk in corners I can’t reach with the hoover (yes, sorry, I’m afraid I vacuum them up with the extension tube thingy – that’s as close as I can bear to get to them); House spiders . . . Well. I can’t even be in the same room as a House spider. DH has to deal with those.
Cardinal spiders – I’m very grateful that I have only ever seen one of those. I can’t even think about them without swearing in my head.
I would not do well in Australia. DH has been there many times and has lots of exciting stories about the large spiders that hide behind curtains and then literally jump onto people when they open the curtains. And big ones that explode green goo everywhere if they get run-over or trodden on (not that he ever deliberately did either, but some people do) – he said it was like Alien: “It’s got a wonderful defence mechanism. You don’t dare kill it.”
And yet I’m absolutely fine with rats and mice, bats in the garden, birds in the house, snakes and slow worms, slugs and snails, the remains of half-eaten nameless ‘crunchy’ things the cat used to bring in during the night and eat on the bedroom floor in the dark . . .
@Georgie Ask DH about the Aussie bog seat spiders. ???They hide under the seat, so when you sit down, they bite yer bits!
Joss
Current car: BMW X2 sDrive 20i M Sport 5dr Step Auto In metallic Portimão Blue. 04:10:2025
Previous car:Peugeot 308 GT Premium 1.2 Pure tech Petrol.For flips sake! I’d just finished recovering from DH dealing with a house spider I found in the kitchen sink and then I open the door into the dining room and a whacking great daddy-long-leg spider plummets down before me from above the door and just hangs there at eye level!
I swear the [bleep-blee-bleep bleep] was grinning at me.
They’re both at the bottom of the garden now, but I’ve warned them both that it’ll be the hoover next time.
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