ticking spiders

[clarissa]

hi has anyone heard of a ticking spider my mum is convinced she has one in her lounge

[Socci]

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[clarissa]

there is a distinct ticking in the lounge hope its not a spider i cant bear them either

[flashingnose]

What, ticking as in tick-tock-tick-tock??

[acer]

No way, never heard of it, we get alot of scratching in our house though - MICE!!!

[Carla]

Or tut-tut, as in ticking off?????

[Surfermum]

I read it as tickling! .

Either way - ticking or tickling - you won't see me for dust.

[flashingnose]

Maybe it's swallowed a clock like the crocodile in Peter Pan

Sorry clarissa, hope your Mum isn't too upset by it.

[HunkerMunker]

DH says he's not heard of them (and he has an obsessive interest in spiders and snakes ) - he did say that death watch beetles make a tapping sound and so do cicadas.

[misdee]

are cicadas due an apperance this year?

could it be a cricket?

[Snugs]

Are you sure it isn't something dripping. We had an annoying persistant sound for weeks. Hunted high and low for source. Turned out to be a leak in the neighbours upstairs radiator pipe, dripping against the connecting wall!

[charliecat]

OMG I bloody hope not...lol...

[marthamoo]

Never heard of a spider ticking. Death watch beetle ticks....

Death Watch Beetle

[starlover]

How loud is it?
Wasps make a kind of ticking(ish) chomping noise when they are building a nest...
i have no idea if wasps are alive this time of year though.... we had a noise in our sitting room and i told my mum we had wasps and she didn't believe me, but there was a huge nest in our attic!

we also used to get a ticking noise from where the pipe to the radiator went up through the polystyrene ceiling tiles and made them move!