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[Lesley]

What is the life cycle of spiders? - those horrible dangly ones?

 

I'm so sick of finding these horrible things and we appear to have a nest of them as well. I splat or vacuum the little tiny ones as I think they grow quickly into the big ones.....Carl thinks I should leave them alone as they are only tiny.

 

How long does it take for them to grow to full size? - I can't Google it as there may be photos

 

Please don't post any photos........

[Happy chickens!]

Good news or bad news?

 

Good - not posted any pics

 

Bad - grow quickly and can live for several years

 

Good - they catch the flies - that's why I always leave a few cobwebs around!!

[Space Chick]

They can live 2-3 years in good situations.

 

I encourage spiders in my utility room, as it helps to keep out flies

 

I quite like spiders

[Scramble]

I like spiders

I wanted a pet tarantula , but mum wouldn't let me

 

Spiders,

Snakes on the other hand...*shudder*

[theherd123]

I like spiders

I wanted a pet tarantula , but mum wouldn't let me

 

Your mum is very wise!

 

Oh Lesley are they the ones with the little pea bodies?

[Happy-Mama]

i don't mind spiders too much as long as they aren't in my bedroom and keep their distance, I tend to use my insect catcher from lakeland (acts like a small hoover) to catch them and put them back outside

[Looney]

Our house is full of spiders. Big ones, small ones, long spindly-legged ones, short crunchy looking ones, big hairy ones, stripy jumping ones.....we let them stay but unfortunately it does mean I have lots of cobwebs around

[Looney]

Oh, I should have also said that I had no idea how long they could live. (some live shorter lives than they should as they quite like to eat each other )

[Redwing]

There is a spider living in the wing mirror on my car, its been there several months

 

Its safe, I never bother washing the car

 

I also kill the ones in the house but elsewhere I leave them

 

I didnt know that they lived for years

[WarrensWorld]

We've a wolf spider that's been wandering around the cottage for some years. We call him Eric, he always turns up when you least expect him.

There's a very large Garden Cross spider, just turned up in the poly-tunnel. She's spun a web between two tomato plants. No idea where she came from, but she's big.

 

What I really miss is the Zebra Jumping spiders we used to have in Bexley. You just touched them and Zap they were gone....

[Redwing]

What I really miss is the Zebra Jumping spiders we used to have in Bexley. You just touched them and Zap they were gone....

 

Thats just wrong, jumping spiders? no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

[Space Chick]

 

What I really miss is the Zebra Jumping spiders we used to have in Bexley. You just touched them and Zap they were gone....

 

When I lived in Bexleyheath, there used to be a massive Zebra spider that lived in my garage. I called him Bernard, he was there for about 2 years and got huge

 

Edited to say: Just decided to look up Zebra spiders and now don't think that Bernard was one, as the write up says they only grow to 6 to 7 mm, and Bernard must have been easily 10 cms.

 

I wonder what Bernard was The picture (not posted for Lesleys sake!) looks like a Zebra spider but it can't have been.

[WarrensWorld]

 

What I really miss is the Zebra Jumping spiders we used to have in Bexley. You just touched them and Zap they were gone....

 

When I lived in Bexleyheath, there used to be a massive Zebra spider that lived in my garage. I called him Bernard, he was there for about 2 years and got huge

 

But weren't they entertaining. If there were no spiders, just imagine how many flies there would be......... I destest flies, sorry we detest flies....

 

edit; We detest Bexley too, perhaps more than flies even........

[Lesley]

Oh no!!!! - grow quickly and live for myears

 

I've just had to put my feet up off the floor

[BeckyBoo]

When the conkers come, gather piles of them and put them in the corners of your rooms, they "allegedly" keep the spiders away. Failing that I'll lend you my cat, he makes a bit of a drama of it, you'd think he was lion killing or something, but he does dispose of a few (by eating them!)

 

We used to have a big wolf spider that scuttled between the sofas of an evening, haven't seen him for a while though, he might have been Franked!

 

BeckyBoo

[Lesley]

I've tried conkers

 

Jazz is great at spider catching for me - I've trained her - but these often dangle from the ceiling and creep along the coving........Jazz isn't so good up there

 

As long as I've got my trousers tucked into my socks, have wellies on and wear gardening gloves then I can cope with them in the garden and polytunnel (when gardening I hasten to add - I don't go around wearing that lot usually ) and I know they are good......but I just don't like them in the house

[Alis girls]

You have my sympathy Lesley, I wanted to read snake thread recently but couldn't in case of pics. My downstairs loo has these spiders with pinhead bodies and big legs - pale coloured no idea what they are

[Faye&Ant]

Oh no!!!! - grow quickly and live for myears

 

I've just had to put my feet up off the floor

 

Me too, I didnt realise they lived for years I honestly thought they died after a couple of weeks. I hate this time of year as they seem to pop up everywhere. I have a real phobia and have to call someone to get rid of them or I wont go back into that room.

[Faye&Ant]

You have my sympathy Lesley, I wanted to read snake thread recently but couldn't in case of pics. My downstairs loo has these spiders with pinhead bodies and big legs - pale coloured no idea what they are

 

They dont bother me as much as the big black bodied thick legged ones. The thought of them is making me nervous so im going to stop now!

 

The weird thing is I cant pick up daddy long legs and throw them out......

[Mrs Webmuppet]

We had a big black spider, known as Septimus that lived in our house when I was a child. He lived in Mums bedroom during the day and the living room at night......we would pass it in the hallway at bedtime, it always moved along the wall to avoid the dog/being stood on by small feet.

 

I once had a spiders nest in the sun roof of my car..............the OH opened the sun roof (he forgot about the nest) one day and out popped thousands of baby spiders took me days to get rid of them.

[Seagazer]

Wow I didn't know we had jumping spiders here in Bexley Borough! I shall have to keep a look out for them. I never kill spiders in the house, I like the fact that they eat flies. I wouldn't particularly like one to be crawling on me though.

 

Warrensworld - I get the feeling you really,really hated life in Bexley

[Lydia]

I love spiders. Last year when we had the kitchen done I deliberately relocated Ethel from the kitchen window to the lounge window so she'd be safe from the builders

 

Lesley you'd hate it in my house. Apart from the spiders we have an army of escapee stickinsects at the moment - we keep finding them on the kitchen ceiling! As of today though I've beefed up security so they should stay where they're meant to.

[Geoid]

When I was in Australia, there was a spider on the window the size of a (large) dinner plate! I ran upstairs and hid under the covers.

[Chook n Boo Mum]

When I was in Australia, there was a spider on the window the size of a (large) dinner plate! I ran upstairs and hid under the covers.

 

I hope you checked before you leapt under the covers Fred

 

We've found several false widows in our house......goodness only knows where they came from...rather they hadn't found our house though

 

Sha x

[Lesley]

I feel I have to read this thread as I started it.......but I wish I didn't have to.

 

My daughter has the same dangly legged, pin-head bodied spiders - she names them and leaves them be - she doesn't get it from me

 

The worst thing is having to get up for the loo in the middle of the night.....I can just about manage to creep along to the bathroom in the almost dark......but I have to put the bathroom light on

 

A fair few years ago when I used to use the local phone box to phone my Mum, I had to accost two young boys on bikes to stop and clear all the daddy long legs out - they'd all been attracted by the light being on all night and there were hundreds of them!!

 

I do like snakes though