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Not to let my mum take a hoover to her wall!!

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LEMisdisappointed · 14/07/2013 20:47

I was visiting my mum and i noticed some really good tube web nests - i am fascinated by them so agitated the outward threads of the nests to get the spiders to pop their heads out and say hello. She did have quite a few of them - she is not insisting she is going to hoover them out Hmm I know they are aliens really but i like them and they eat wasps, this is a good thing.

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LEMisdisappointed · 14/07/2013 20:49

tube webs

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Allice · 14/07/2013 20:53

I'm not scared of spiders but they are ugly! I wouldn't generally harm a spider but I might make an exception for them!
I do like that the eat wasps though.

Is there anyway you can move them outside for her?

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LEMisdisappointed · 14/07/2013 20:59

They ARE outside Alice, in the external wall of her house. I have three on the inside of my kitchen, they have names Blush and have been there about three years now.

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AliceDoesntLiveHereAnymore · 14/07/2013 21:02

dear god, I can't believe I clicked on that link. I will be watching all around me all evening now. hate hate hate spiders

AliceDoesntLiveHereAnymore · 14/07/2013 21:02

and as long as they stay outside, fine, as I also am not fond of wasps. lol

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LEMisdisappointed · 14/07/2013 21:04

They have green fangs that glow if you shine a torch on them, they are very very cool :)

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AliceDoesntLiveHereAnymore · 14/07/2013 21:21

I'll have to take your word on that. I don't plan on looking. lol

Sallyingforth · 14/07/2013 22:11

I'd certainly leave them alone since they are doing no harm. We have quite a few segestrid webs in an old stone wall and it's fun to watch them come out after prey. I have been known to sprinkle sugar around the webs to attract flies for them .

TotallyBursar · 14/07/2013 22:19

They're outside! Where they live.

I'm not a spider killer but DH gets the heebies so I take them outside. She would be vu if she hoovered outside spider webs - just tell her not to poke them...or behave in any way waspishly so they don't get confused! Grin

CunningAtBothEnds · 14/07/2013 22:25

I cannot abide spiders. But im getting better. There's a little one who lives in the kitchen. I now operate a policy of dont bug me and I wont squash you.
However.... I couldnt live with that. Mega beast.

If it were outside, and gave me no reason to fear it would:
A. Drop on my head / body
B. come inside
I would leave it alone.

If it were too close I would have DH relocate it.

If it were found indoors... If DH were not around, im afraid the hairspray would come into play!

IWantToBeAtreee · 14/07/2013 22:29

This is very interesting. Just today I was telling DP how few wasps are around this year. This week, in the garden I have noticed a lot of tube nests, I didnt see the spiders but I noticed the nests and how perfect they were. I shuddered.

I dont remember seeing those nests when the wasps were aplenty so perhaps this is why?

The spiders themselves loom fucking horrible though.

QueenofLouisiana · 14/07/2013 22:32

Hmmmm...I'd want to Hoover too. Mind you, I hate wasps far more so I would leave them be if you told me that fact as long as they aren't near my bed so they can fall on my head

IWantToBeAtreee · 14/07/2013 22:35

Since Im here, I wanted to ask start a thread about this recently. Ive noticed a new type of spider that Ive never come across this year, and wondered if anyone knew what it was.

Basically I saw a spider who was all one colour and no markings. It was like a very dark, almost black, green colour. Its defining feature was its ass. It was fucking huge. Not just huge as in big, but huge as in it looks swollen and fit to pop. If you imagine a 5p peice but in a whole full circle it was about that, which doesnt sound huge but honestly, look at a 5p and think of it as a circle and it was massive.

Anyway, it was about to wonder in the house from outdoors and I panicked and squashed it. Its butt burst (no eggs or babies) and loadsa green crap came out.

I thought surely that was a very ill spider? And a one off?

Except no. I saw another enormous bastard ass spider in my back garden hanging around my back window this time with the same sized arse.

What the fuck ARSE these things??

IWantToBeAtreee · 14/07/2013 22:36

Also they are not hair like house spiders, they are smooth and shiney. Legs shorter and smaller than house spiders but asses at least twice the size, which is HUGE.

Yonihadtoask · 14/07/2013 22:39

Are these scary beasts in the UK?/??

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LEMisdisappointed · 15/07/2013 09:31

They are Yoni, they are not indiginous but are now pretty common in coastal towns, especially in the south east - they are making their way across the country though. I think they are great, but they give a nasty bite apparently.

I want to be a tree - there are hundreds of species of spider in the UK

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Yonihadtoask · 15/07/2013 10:17

Ah right.

Spiders are okay by me, as long as they don't bite!

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