Spiders

[squeaker]

they mainly eat other insects that you also don't want in your house...

Or garage: just been doing some maintenance on our wooden garage doors - amazing stacks of woodlice exoskeletons in the crevices!

[Jdsk]

That's much more worrying: where's the damp?

Jonathan

PS: You can see lots more spiders if you set a head torch as close to your eyes as possible and have a look at night... the internal reflection from their eyes gives them away.

[Mick F]

What are spiders actually for?

I believe this attitude is called Anthropocentrism.
Viewing the world in terms of Human values and experience.
You might with more justification ask what are Humans for?

Not made myself clear with that question.

Spiders have to stay alive like we all have to .............. by consuming food to grow and reproduce.
Procreation and prolonging the species is the only goal.

Spiders in our house build webs .................. why?
Nothing to catch.

What do they eat?

[Jdsk]

What do they eat?

Which species of spider?

Jonathan

[Mick F]

Goodness knows.
Not seen any at all, just their webs.

[jimlews]

What are spiders actually for?

I believe this attitude is called Anthropocentrism.
Viewing the world in terms of Human values and experience.
You might with more justification ask what are Humans for?

Not made myself clear with that question.

Spiders have to stay alive like we all have to .............. by consuming food to grow and reproduce.
Procreation and prolonging the species is the only goal.

Spiders in our house build webs .................. why?
Nothing to catch.

What do they eat?

My apologies, Mick.

I'll get down off my high horse, now.

You may have guessed that I like spiders. I have big fellas (actually ladies; the fellas are a lot smaller- another reason to like them: arachnid matriarchy) who charge across the room late at night. They are big enough that I can hear their footfalls. And I'm deaf!

[Mick F]

They must come out very late at night, and silently too. I have good hearing!

[Mick F]

I'm killing them on sight now.
Fed up to the back teeth with the damned cobwebs.

[thirdcrank]

I rescued one the other day.

I was about to chuck some scalding water down the kitchen sink but when I removed the washing-up bowl before doing so there was a big spider lurking underneath. I rescued it and took it a bit up the street and when I released it, it shot off back down the street. I didn't see where it went, even though it was a big one.

[mercalia]

I believe this attitude is called Anthropocentrism.
Viewing the world in terms of Human values and experience.
You might with more justification ask what are Humans for?

Not made myself clear with that question.

Spiders have to stay alive like we all have to .............. by consuming food to grow and reproduce.
Procreation and prolonging the species is the only goal.

Spiders in our house build webs .................. why?
Nothing to catch.

What do they eat?

My apologies, Mick.

I'll get down off my high horse, now.

You may have guessed that I like spiders. I have big fellas (actually ladies; the fellas are a lot smaller- another reason to like them: arachnid matriarchy) who charge across the room late at night. They are big enough that I can hear their footfalls. And I'm deaf!

I think some pictures are in order? I used to have a big one I used to see scuttle across the floor havent see it for long time .

[sjs]

I spotted amazingly long legged one outside my front door a couple of days ago (not a Daddy-Longlegs)

I think that's a harvestman, not a spider.

[tatanab]

Spiders and harvestmen are lovely. I live in a damp area, high water table, and there are a lot of woodlice. Thousands in the garden and frequent visitors to the house which the spiders etc are welcome to. There's a harvestman right by my front door which caught a woodlice two days ago, it remained fixed to its victim for possibly a full day.

[Jdsk]

I spotted amazingly long legged one outside my front door a couple of days ago (not a Daddy-Longlegs)

I think that's a harvestman, not a spider.

Or a daddy long-legs spider. Quite common, and utterly confusing to children who are being introduced to taxonomy by counting legs on minibeasts.



Jonathan

[Mick F]

I'm killing them on sight now.
Fed up to the back teeth with the damned cobwebs.

Four squidged this afternoon.
Two yesterday.

[colin54]

I stopped to have a sandwich in Red Rock Lane the other day and noticed this one on my bottle cage,
it was still there when I got home (about 10 miles). Currently residing in the house somewhere.