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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Oct 5, 2007 14:08:31 GMT
I really want to cut back the passionflowers and get into the GH...but there are BIG spiders everywhere....I know I'm just being a big girl's blouse...and I know that I am much bigger than they are...but oooooOooOOoooOOOooo  They seem to be bigger this year than I remember...ooo global warming....ooo genetic engineering......oooooo...anybody else got the same problem?. the webs are lovely...it's just the spidies...shudder..... |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2007 16:16:24 GMT
I share your eeeek, CPB ... there's a massive one on our rosemary bush <shuddersmiley> ... cheers ...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2007 16:19:37 GMT
i am having the same problem.
i really want to move a few things about but it will mean getting right in the bushes and i just cant handle the thought.
i cant even get hubby to do it as he is worse than me.
i will have to be brave and just go for it.
arrrrrrggghhhh
eeeeekkkk
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2007 16:23:29 GMT
Have you tried a long stick, swish about in web a bit, try to get the spidie on stick then run to said chosen location and dump!! Sara  |
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Post by Rosefriend on Oct 5, 2007 16:24:30 GMT
Oooh Sara - you beat me to it - that's what I do...
RF
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2007 16:37:38 GMT
i have a good look about and get all the blighters i can see but there are always lots hiding!!!
;D ;D ;D
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Post by Susie Snowdrop on Oct 5, 2007 17:17:13 GMT
How would you feel having put all of your heart and soul into building a home and somebody comes along and demolishes it with a stick  In the main glasshouse where I work, every morning you have to break through hundreds of webs . They're busy little blighters during the night! I used to be scared stiff of them but now, having pulled them out of my hair, from under my clothes etc for the past 6 years, I rather like them S x |
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Post by Barbara on Oct 5, 2007 17:24:13 GMT
i like 'em, to susie,
we have one in the living room. he lives on the picture rail. and comes down in the evenings for a runabout
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Post by Susie Snowdrop on Oct 5, 2007 17:25:17 GMT
What do they call him? S x |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2007 17:29:00 GMT
ewwww i think they are fascinating useful creatures and i dont want to kill them but i just do not want them on me!!!! xxxx |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2007 17:33:04 GMT
If the web gets broken they abandon it and do another ;D
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Post by Plocket on Oct 5, 2007 17:43:47 GMT
We've had some woppers in the house recently. I HATE them but can't kill them - I make OH put a cup on them (or I try and be brave enough to do it so they can wait for him to get home from work) and take them outside. Luckily I don't have much to prune at this time of year  |
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Post by Barbara on Oct 5, 2007 17:50:00 GMT
What do they call him? S x BIG harry |
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Post by Susie Snowdrop on Oct 5, 2007 18:06:07 GMT
I've got one called Esfer in the conservatory S x |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2007 18:39:58 GMT
we had one living in the kitchen for ages.
we would watch her with interest every day
then one day she disappeared.the corner has not been the same since she left.
xxxxx
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Post by Shrubrose on Oct 5, 2007 19:45:55 GMT
I was driving to work the other day and had the car window open. Stopped at the lights and was looking around when I noticed a rather 'lovely' little spider crawling along the top of the window frame. Knowing I would be setting off any second, I didn't want it being blown in and on to me. So I pressed the window button, which took the window up. I knew that if it carried on I would squash said pretty spider. Which I did not want to do. Lights go to green and I have to go, if not to cause road rage, so I do. But I take the window all the way up. I think I squashed pretty little spider and I feel so bad about that.  |
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Post by 4pygmies on Oct 5, 2007 20:53:40 GMT
Well I wouldn't be up for a meaning relationship with a spider but I do think they have the right to have nice cosy winter quarter after all the flies they catch in the summer months. My barn has huge old oak ships beams holding it together and each beam has lots of little spaces.....and there are LOTS of webs......I don't mind the big hairy spiders too much but I do not like those jangly jangly ones with little round bodies and long legs. Bleah. I know it's not sensible, but there you are. And in my little shed where the hay is stored there is the biggest spider I have ever seen.....it might even be a record breaker. Funnily enough I don't mind them at all when they're outside but I always keep a track of one if I see it wandering across the floor in the evening.
Now Daddy Long Legs.....brrr..they are horrid......
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Oct 7, 2007 18:23:46 GMT
I don't kill them...any more than I'd squish a bee as I know they are fascinating creatures...catching flies etc....it's the ones with hob-nail boots on that come clattering across the floor I'm really scared of...I always worry when they run under the sofa that they'll grow into GIANT spidies...and climb out from behind the sofa and eat me......worse is when you're lying in bed and you see one on the bedroom ceiling....oooh you just KNOW they're going to absail down and jump on you as soon as you put out the light....
perfectly rational really.... ;D
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Oct 7, 2007 18:24:42 GMT
and we call spiders Stanley in our house..... |
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Post by oldmoleskins on Oct 7, 2007 18:30:55 GMT
I've got a spider's nest on the rooflining of my disreputable old car, at the place where the sunvisor would normally conceal it.
I'm reluctant to disturb it, but just hope the visor's up when they hatch to deflect them a bit - otherwise a hundred or so are going to drop over the steering wheel...
OM.
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Post by Shrubrose on Oct 7, 2007 18:36:21 GMT
I've got a spider's nest on the rooflining of my disreputable old car, at the place where the sunvisor would normally conceal it. I'm reluctant to disturb it, but just hope the visor's up when they hatch to deflect them a bit - otherwise a hundred or so are going to drop over the steering wheel... OM. That is my worst nightmare |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2007 9:27:32 GMT
OMG, I had one in my car once, crawling down the seatbelt towards me!!! ARRGGGGHHH. Luckily I was on a rather quiet deserted road, never stopped so fast in my life, jumped out and ran across the road shaking!! I had to find a big stick to get it out before I would get back in, then I had to calm down for a while before I could drive. Can't stand them, they should be squashed at first sight, preferably by someone else!! Sorry but always had a fear! Then there was the time when in the shower, being only about 11 at the time, and it 'DROPPED' from the ceiling right in the cubicle, still makes me crawl! The other fear I have is if the OH flushes them down the loo - will it come back and get me?  Just crawling all over now. Julz ;D |
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Post by MamIDdau on Oct 15, 2007 8:12:00 GMT
I reeeeeeeeeeeeally don't like them but would never kill one and feel really bad if I do.
I was told that they don't drown when you make em go back down the plug hole because they use water tension to create a lil ball of air or summet. Dunno about the toilet, we've only ever had frogs in there lol
I hate walking into cobwebs while I'm walking around and sometimes I can feel something tickling my leg and it's a huuuuuuuuuuge spider off one of the webs <shudders>
We call spiders in our house Eric (which is why I wanted to change the dog's name!) but I can't remember why. My brother used to have a pet spider when I was a lil kid but I dunno if that was called Eric and that's where the name came from.
I don't like them, don't want one on me or near me.
I asked for the album by Space called Spiders one xmas and my Mum had really difficulty wrapping it up seeing as there were loads of spiders on the cover.
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Post by Rosefriend on Oct 15, 2007 10:01:14 GMT
I was not a happy bunny early this morning at all. I was all set to answer a few PM's when something black shot out from under my "P" key. I shot back and then there was a fight to the death with a huuuge spider....
Actually it was only the size of an earwig but big enough for me..... I squashed it in the end with my note book - horrible mess........ugh
Oooh April - you can wash spiders down the plug hole and kill them - hot water though not cold and if they get stuck because they are too big, the end of a toothbrush is pretty good to stuff the corpus delicti down......
RF
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Post by MamIDdau on Oct 15, 2007 13:48:27 GMT
No I don't want to kill them!! I just don't want them anywhere near me lol
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