Anyone else been inundated with spiders?

[Glutton4...]

So THAT'S what all the fruit flies are here for. The Melon in the Fridge. D'oh!

Thanks Ladies.


*Makes note to chuck Melon to Chooks...

[lynda66]

So THAT'S what all the fruit flies are here for. The Melon in the Fridge. D'oh!

Thanks Ladies.


*Makes note to chuck Melon to Chooks...

must smell really yummy to fruit flies lol .... eat all melon in one go .... no more flies

[hamsterhead]

I was told by a member of the Leicestershire environmental health department, at the Melton Mowbray Food Festival last Saturday, that spiders are good for eating other small winged undesirables, e.g. flies and that they are also a sign of good cleanliness.

I'm like MagicLady and walkabout in the garden in the morning waving my arms about. Last week, I actually, unknowingly, brought one into work. He's hiding under the floor somwhere now.

[OverWyreGrower]

This morning, when I went to feed the chooks, OH asked what I was doing as I walked down the garden. Apparantly it looked like some sort of random ritual with a plastic tub...

I was walking down the hedge-line, wafting the tub in front of me to catch the spider threads/webs that appear overnight... the tub is there for protection, as the other day I wafted my hands and got a massive, fat spider on them *shudder*

[buzzingtalk]

eugh. i hate spiders!

I grew up in east london with no garden and hated spiders since day 1. I just about began to deal with my fear of them, which in London equates to the occasional house spider sitting in a corner of your room, when I moved up to Norfolk to live with my partner.

We lived in the outskirts of Norwich, and the spiders there instilled the fear back in me. MASSIVE spiders, and they didnt seem to do anything! big lazy buggers, still had loads of flies etc buzing about.

Now I live back in a city centre (norwich) and its a happy medium - little to no spiders around, but when i do see one, its a size I can handle. I dont know why they freak me out, but they are bloody horrible!

[Madasafish]

Lots of Little Miss Muppets then - sorry Muffits - on this thread :-)

I like spiders. They eat all sorts of things . Strangely we have very few flies in the house - ever.. I suppose they all live in our Daleks...

When you keep bees as I do, spiders are interesting diversions: no noise, no stings, no wings...If it was wasps, that would be a different matter,,

[valmarg]

that only applies to ones that aren't bigger than your hand ....

Of which there are none in the UK.

valmarg

[OllieMartin]

Of which there are none in the UK.

valmarg

That's not what I've been told by the collective female scofflaws with whom I work

[valmarg]

Lots of Little Miss Muppets then - sorry Muffits - on this thread :-)

I like spiders. They eat all sorts of things . Strangely we have very few flies in the house - ever.. I suppose they all live in our Daleks...

When you keep bees as I do, spiders are interesting diversions: no noise, no stings, no wings...If it was wasps, that would be a different matter,,

LOL Madasafish.

Love spiders as well.

They are harmless, do good and should be left to their own devices.

valmarg

[annacruachan]

That's not what I've been told by the collective female scofflaws with whom I work

What on earth is a scofflaw, Ollie? Some strange south-of-England spider-hater I assume?

[Lavinia]

Thank goodness I'm not the only one, we're in a new house and I feel like I've moved into some kind of bizarre arachnid zone where humans are merely tolerated. EVERYTHING gets covered in webs outside of our house.

[binley100]

Walking the dog this morning we came across a lady peering anxiously into her car, it was parked oddly by a junction. Turns out there was a mahoosive spider on her windscreen ( I kid you not, it was one of those bath spiders) and she was scared to drive in case it landed on her and she crashed.
Me and Jake made a brave and courageous effort and opened the passenger door at which point it came charging towards us and we managed to use a cloth to flip it out the car. It was last seen steaming off down the road ......pheeeeeeew
Not bad as I can't stand the eight legged freaks and Jake's never been at ease with them since one bit him.

[Two_Sheds]

I'm not scared of them, but y'day I walked into gh, got a big web plastered across my face and the spidey dropped down my top.
I could feel it under my layers, I could feel that it was too big to splat ... I very carefully peeled up my tops and tipped myself (and it) upside down onto the floor.

Then another one got me when I went to the shed, bladdy things

[binley100]

I must look like a complete idiot I go into the GH and shed waving things like a stick of broom in front of me . I'm really sorry to destroy the webs after all the hard work but I cannot abide walking into them .........

[blito]

actually, i`m pretty keen to know just how many species of spider are there in our gardens? The only ones i seem to see are the stripy legged, cross-on-back, upside-down in its web spider.
oh and yes, theres loads of `em here. Especially in the greenhouse.