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Spiders
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Has anyone else found they are getting bigger?
I have come across two monsters this evening.
I have come across two monsters this evening.
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yes, looks like there's a lot of them about
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Prudie - //I was horrified to see this thread last night but dismissed it because my phobia doesn't usually kick in until September when you usually see them come indoors. //
My understanding is that spiders don't 'come in' - they are house spiders that have been bred inside. The ones you see in September are mature males searching for a mate which makes them roam, and increases the chances of you seeing them.
Spiders travel around the house all the time - and we usually find them in baths and sinks because they slide in and can't climb out, which leads to the myth that they climb up through plug holes. Apart from the fact that spiders are far too fastidious to consider a dirty drain as a highway, they would struggle to negotiate the 'S' bend which is full of water.
My understanding is that spiders don't 'come in' - they are house spiders that have been bred inside. The ones you see in September are mature males searching for a mate which makes them roam, and increases the chances of you seeing them.
Spiders travel around the house all the time - and we usually find them in baths and sinks because they slide in and can't climb out, which leads to the myth that they climb up through plug holes. Apart from the fact that spiders are far too fastidious to consider a dirty drain as a highway, they would struggle to negotiate the 'S' bend which is full of water.
Knowing that spiders shed their old skins as they grow, I saw some skins that had been cast off in a corner of the garage and thought, jeez if that's just the empty skins, what size must they be now!!.
I heard it said that "if ants were the size of Labradors, they would rule the world" but personally I think spiders would win, hands down!
I heard it said that "if ants were the size of Labradors, they would rule the world" but personally I think spiders would win, hands down!
Maybe you have 'ants in your amps' and this is why the spiders are getting bigger. An 'ant eat' road show ?? :-)
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Andy posts this every year that they live in the house all year round and every year I and others point him to actual links written by natural historians that contradict this entirely. The large house spider spends most of the year outside only coming in to mate indoors in the warm in September or to get out of the rain in the summer. Still I'm sure we'll get told by him again.
Prudie - //Andy posts this every year that they live in the house all year round and every year I and others point him to actual links written by natural historians that contradict this entirely. The large house spider spends most of the year outside only coming in to mate indoors in the warm in September or to get out of the rain in the summer. Still I'm sure we'll get told by him again. //
I did state it was 'my understanding' - I am claiming expert etymology skills here.
I have done a bit of research, and apparently there are species of spiders that do live in houses year-round, and there are other (more common) species that do come in from outside when the weather turns colder, and it is time to mate.
So I was neither entirely right, nor entirely wrong.
Pretty much like normal then!
I did state it was 'my understanding' - I am claiming expert etymology skills here.
I have done a bit of research, and apparently there are species of spiders that do live in houses year-round, and there are other (more common) species that do come in from outside when the weather turns colder, and it is time to mate.
So I was neither entirely right, nor entirely wrong.
Pretty much like normal then!