Anyone know what this was, lurking in a WWI bunker in Macedonia the other week, my local guide ran off which is never a good sign?
RWR - It's a spider!
I hate the things, but it is unnerving how the human eye is tuned into their movement. Caught one make a dash across the living room carpet the other night. Fastest I have moved in centuries, out of armchair, slipper off, wham! "Sayonara sucker"
Please Don’t kill them. I don’t like them either but better to pop a glass over them and move them outside.
My mum is lethal with them, used to drive my dad up the wall scraping bits of spider out of the carpet or freshly painted wall. Me and him were kinder to them, my wife is petrified of them and demands they be executed. The way she reacted to one in her old flat made me think someone had broken in!
I pick them up and put them outside, my old job meant lots of working underground and believe me you get some monster ones there. Don't get me wrong I don't like things crawling on me uninvited but I have no willingness to kill them. They eat flies, wasps and mosquitoes which is fine by me
Anyone know what this was, lurking in a WWI bunker in Macedonia the other week, my local guide ran off which is never a good sign?
RWR - It's a spider!
I hate the things, but it is unnerving how the human eye is tuned into their movement. Caught one make a dash across the living room carpet the other night. Fastest I have moved in centuries, out of armchair, slipper off, wham! "Sayonara sucker"
Please Don’t kill them. I don’t like them either but better to pop a glass over them and move them outside.
That's exactly what Mrs Blackpool does while I'm standing on the sofa screaming encouragement.
Anyone know what this was, lurking in a WWI bunker in Macedonia the other week, my local guide ran off which is never a good sign?
RWR - It's a spider!
I hate the things, but it is unnerving how the human eye is tuned into their movement. Caught one make a dash across the living room carpet the other night. Fastest I have moved in centuries, out of armchair, slipper off, wham! "Sayonara sucker"
I do the same with dogs in my car. Fairwell fluffy....
What's the difference between the brown ones and the identically shaped black ones with white markings?
I know real black widows have red markings... But been finding these black and white ones in my garage a lot lately.
Hard to say without very close inspection, and often just different colourings within the same species. All false widows are from the genus Steatoda, but there are six species found in the UK. S. nobilis are the ones usually referred to as false widows but S. Grossa are remarkably similar and the others aren't greatly different. If you'd like to post a picture I'll have a go, but it's tricky so I can't make any promises.
Just another excuse for teachers to take yet more time off.
Turn the discovery into a nature lesson first, then maths (counting the amount of them then multiplying that number by their leg count etc.), then geography (discussing which spiders are indigenous to which continent) and then a first aid course when someone gets bitten.
Just another excuse for teachers to take yet more time off.
Turn the discovery into a nature lesson first, then maths (counting the amount of them then multiplying that number by their leg count etc.), then geography (discussing which spiders are indigenous to which continent) and then a first aid course when someone gets bitten.
I've got at least six different steatoda all living within a couple of metres of each other in my garden. My guess is that they are all siblings, but I don't know that.
Be careful, I was heading back home as @kellycafc was opening the door I touched the wall and felt something, turns out it was a false widow spider, I believe I moved before it bite me, but be careful as they are clearly around again
I've got at least six different steatoda all living within a couple of metres of each other in my garden. My guess is that they are all siblings, but I don't know that.
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I pick them up and put them outside, my old job meant lots of working underground and believe me you get some monster ones there. Don't get me wrong I don't like things crawling on me uninvited but I have no willingness to kill them. They eat flies, wasps and mosquitoes which is fine by me
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I know real black widows have red markings... But been finding these black and white ones in my garage a lot lately.
Turn the discovery into a nature lesson first, then maths (counting the amount of them then multiplying that number by their leg count etc.), then geography (discussing which spiders are indigenous to which continent) and then a first aid course when someone gets bitten.
Just do what I do.
Ask the Mrs to get rid of the hideous looking 8 legged monster.
Obviously I would do it myself but I don't want to hurt it.
All talk and no bite.