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sally_in_wales
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Joined: 06 Mar 2005
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Location: sunny wales

Posted: Sun Sep 24, 06 3:37 pm Post subject: Spiders
Just took the bin bag out to find the prettiest orb weaver spider I've ever seen standing guard over a huge web stretched between the bin and the hedge. She was huge, all tiger stripes and orange markings. Good thing we don't use the bin to excess, would hate to disturb her unnecessarily.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45754
Location: yes

Posted: Sun Sep 24, 06 7:57 pm Post subject:
plenty food here nice big spiders and lots of them

Penny Outskirts

Joined: 18 Sep 2005
Posts: 23385
Location: Planet, not on the....

Posted: Sun Sep 24, 06 10:38 pm Post subject:
Went to the loo earlier today, and heard a buzzing - turned round to see a daddy long-legs caught in a spider's web, but the spider was about a tenth of it's size. It was still managing to wrap it up though. Amazing things spiders, I really like them.

treaclepuss

Joined: 30 Aug 2006
Posts: 139

Posted: Mon Sep 25, 06 2:01 pm Post subject:
Me, too. I get teased as a rescuer of spiders

Northern_Lad

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
Posts: 14210
Location: Somewhere

Posted: Mon Sep 25, 06 2:07 pm Post subject:
I've got a couple who look like moving in for the winter. Put it this way, I won't have any trouble with mice this year.

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 06 3:40 pm Post subject:
we've had a lot of spiders brought into work for identification this year, its been a good season for them, some of our perfectly normal but more unusual ones have been much more visible recently

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Location: yes

Posted: Mon Sep 25, 06 3:47 pm Post subject:
the locals seem very plump

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 06 3:54 pm Post subject:
Don't they just, our house spiders are almost making conversation this year

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Mon Sep 25, 06 5:10 pm Post subject:
We had a whole succession of spiders who lived in the bathroom and liked to sit on the bath towels. They were all called Monster. Sadly, Ben likes to play with them now, and eats them when their legs all curl up. I have to distract him if I find one in the wood pile and evict it for its own safety.

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 06 5:22 pm Post subject:

wellington womble wrote:

We had a whole succession of spiders who lived in the bathroom and liked to sit on the bath towels. They were all called Monster. Sadly, Ben likes to play with them now, and eats them when their legs all curl up. I have to distract him if I find one in the wood pile and evict it for its own safety.

Ours are always called Freddy

Penny Outskirts

Joined: 18 Sep 2005
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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 06 5:28 pm Post subject:

sally_in_wales wrote:

wellington womble wrote:

Ours are always called Freddy

Ours are called Incy

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45487
Location: Essex

Posted: Mon Sep 25, 06 5:33 pm Post subject:
ours are called spider

dragonnefyre

Joined: 24 May 2006
Posts: 42
Location: The Wirral

Posted: Mon Sep 25, 06 5:44 pm Post subject:
When I fnd caterpillars on my brassicas I feed them to the spiders in my garden. One of them has grown quite well now. I always call them Spidey and think of them as females as I believe the biggest ones are females. I have quite a few on my allotments as well. They keep the frogs and toads company

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Location: yes

Posted: Mon Sep 25, 06 6:31 pm Post subject:
i usually eat the catterpillars on my brassicas

Lisa

Joined: 31 May 2005
Posts: 248
Location: Cheshire

Posted: Mon Sep 25, 06 7:08 pm Post subject:
Ew. Shudder. Sorry to be all crap and girly but they scare me stupid. All those legs: t'ain't natural. (Crabs disturb me hugely too with their scuttly sideways leggy thing.)

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