Lesley Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 Please, please don't post photos of spiders in here......... but does anyone know how quickly they grow? If I leave those small ones you can hardly see (as everyone keeps telling me to do) how long is it before they are those horrible big dangly things which keep frightening the you know what out of me?? We're really plagued with them through this hot spell - I feel like wearing my full beesuit to feel safe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Speckled Hen Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 The large garden spiders that you see dangling in dewy webs in late summer/early autumn are from these earlier nests so I guess a month or six weeks but I'm sure somebody on here will know better. I'll swap you my weather, Lesley and take your spiders Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 Grrr, I hate them too Lesley. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patsylabrador Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 This is not scientific, but I would say very quickly. I do ignore the little ones but they seem to change overnight into big ones. I suspect they eat each other, and I hate their webs, just spotted a huge stringy web in the hall that I'm sure wasn't there yesterday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 I was speculating the other day on what little tiny spiders eat, I hadn't thought about each other I hate those huge stripy garden spiders that you get in the late summer, do they really get that big in a few months? I really hate going outside in the morning you have to be so careful where you walk, we have a couple of them in our greenhouse and I have to remember to go in with my hands first so that i don't walk into the webs, I like to know where they are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted July 22, 2010 Author Share Posted July 22, 2010 The large garden spiders that you see dangling in dewy webs in late summer/early autumn are from these earlier nests so I guess a month or six weeks but I'm sure somebody on here will know better.I'll swap you my weather, Lesley and take your spiders Nooooooo - they come in when it rains as well! The ones plaguing me now are the harvest spiders - they live in the house and it was full of them when we moved in I'm fighting a losing battle with them. The dogs can't always see them - they come running when I squeal but then go round and round and their tails send the spiders into hiding.....they only seem able to see the big dark spiders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 I'll have to send Biscuit over to you then - he's a champion spider catcher (when he's awake that is!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lillybettybabs Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 My other half had a spider friend that used to come out every night around 10pm from under the tv cabinet, walk around the room then go back under, Until on night i was playing on th WII fit and accidentally trod on him . All of a sudden another spider came out looking for him, He now haunts me every time i go in there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 Do you mean harvestmen (which are usually in the garden) or the cobweb spiders - almost invisible and even when they get big only the body is visible - their legs still are very spindly and they have only just started living here. Not impressed as they eat my big house spiders. Poor Fred didn't stand a chance. Nasty cobweb spiders. We didn't have them until my mum brought some stuff over and one must have been in the bag, because they've multiplied since. I know I have a rule about if you want to live and thrive etc, but these do go up the hoover "accidentally". Of course the garden spiders are also my friends and they chomp all the nasties in the greenhouse - lay their eggs and we get loads of little abseiling babies to chomp even more aphids, thrips or whatever I don't want in there. Love 'em I do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 I hate those spindly round bodied spiders that spin like mad it you touch them. Are they cobweb spiders? I have loads in my house and loads of cobwebs too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lillybettybabs Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 I hate those spindly round bodied spiders that spin like mad it you touch them. Are they cobweb spiders? I have loads in my house and loads of cobwebs too Pimple spiders (my name for them), I don't like the Wolf Spiders, We get those on our house in the autumn, Othre half has to catch them and put htem outside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavenders_Blue Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 Are the wolf spiders the big black hairy things that run out from under the sofa at the most inopportune moments and frighten the life out of you? If so, in our house they either get hoovered or DH takes them outside and feeds them to the hens! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 No they are house spiders - all are called Fred. Wolf ones are usually scuttling around in the garden - little black or dark brown ones (I say little, around the size of a 10p coin at the biggest). Cobweb spiders just make lots of cobwebs indoors and their legs are so spindly that it looks like they can't walk on them. Then you have crab spiders, zebra (jumping) spiders all sorts. Most outside. And then you have those lovely velvety ones that seem to like living down the drains (mouse spiders). Ooh don't forget money spiders - they're lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted July 30, 2010 Author Share Posted July 30, 2010 Have you quite finished? I've decided that there will be fewer of them, no matter how long it takes for them to grow. I've been very busy with the vacuum and have vacuumed every visible/ invisible spider, speck of dust, bit of web........... I wondered what had happened to this thread.......how come spiders get moved but wasps don't Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted July 30, 2010 Share Posted July 30, 2010 Spiders live in your house, therefore they are family pets, whereas wasps are just pests (wasn't me that moved you, honest! ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted July 31, 2010 Author Share Posted July 31, 2010 - I definitely don't keep spiders as pets!! - definitely pests to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
