Spiders Do Not Like Conkers

How do you like that! A bit more research, and I find that they are all over the US, too. And to think I was going to throw in 2 tickets to the Zoo.

Not realy, although my daughter is a bit.

I just pick them up and throw them out knowing they are faster back in than my daugter can get back to sleep ha ha ha. One day she called me up to the tv room saying there is this huge spider. When I got there it was a wolf spider which was still growing and maybe only about 1 inch footprint, small in my book. I threw it out the front door and she went back to her tv room. Later that night I went to the bathroom, also upstairs, to find a 1 inch wolf spider in the bath. Must have been the same one. It was in there for 1 day before I decided to let it out with a towel around the edge as they cannot climb the enamel. It disapeared behind the bath under all the wood and to date my daughter has not had a bath as she thinks it is still under there.

Heard an amazing fact the other day about what spiders eat worldwide in weight. Cannot remember but will try to find it tonight.

My daughter is also very scared of creepy-crawlies...every time she sees one, she howlers for my son to go take care of it. I don't think he ever killed anything (except for mosquitoes, of course); he gently carries them outside to release them in the "wild". He used to watch over our shoulders whenever we'd be digging the yard (planting and such) and freak out when the shovel accidentally hit a worm...he'd carry those out of harms way too...

Haha , those kids are hilariously funny sometimes. Mine will not have them killed either, she is a nature lover except for those rotten mosquito's as well.

Cherish the sight of a spider eating a mosquito. free of charge

Depending on the size of the spider, that's not a mosquito. It's either a crane fly or a mosquito hawk.

I don't know in which country it was taken thus we must conclude that it could be something else. It has rather long legs doesn't it?

Maybe it is one of those daddy longlegs we have in the UK. Is that what you call a crane fly?

If it is it is a stupid spider as those eat mozzies as well.

Do you eat mozzies btw?

No, daddy long-legs don't have wings. In other places, daddy long-legs are also called harvest masters because they appear in numbers during harvest time. Also, they only have six legs, which (of course) makes them an insect.

A crane fly looks like a very large mosquito, but they don't bite. They tend to be sort of red in color. A mosquito hawk looks like a very very large mosquito, is kind of tan colored, and eats mosquitoes.

I do believe that in the UK at least the Crane Fly is called the Daddy long legs.....

The crane fly is called daddy long leggs in my book, I thought it was a naf book but that seems too far out even for a bad book.

Maybe the nomenclature differs geographically and it does refer to the same animals.

Harvest spiders are bulbous long legged creatures called pholcus phalangoides. These are sometimes also called daddy long legs spider as they resemble the crane fly.

The crane fly, called tipula paludosa, does not eat mosquitos and I was wrong on that. These can be a pest for agriculture as they eat roots and lower stems of a wide variety of grass like plants. Apparently rooks and other birds like them.

Still not got to trying the conkers bit.

Round here, popular name for "Crane fly" is "Daddy-long-legs".

"Daddy-long-legs" also used for the Pholcus phalangioides (AKA Harvestman).

Larvae of Crane fly (Tipula paludosa) known as "Leatherjackets" - they do the damage.

Wonder what bikes they ride?

If they wear white socks as well that fold over the boot, than they surely ride old brit bikes.

They have to have the jackets studded first though and also have a 69 rockers badge or ace cafe lapel pin.

Here in America, while the crane fly is harmless, they do a number on the artichoke harvest.

I carry worms out of harm's way, too. OH, my wife just informed me that a worm's natural habitat is NOT the nearest fish-containing body of water, and that trading a worm in for a fish is NOT an-invertebrate sensitive trade. Shoot, and all I thought I was doing was trading up, and rescuing a worm in the process.

Well, on the bright side, I guess I won't have to buy so many fish-hooks anymore.

Micah

Searched for it but found this!

Also to do with spiders.

these are pecan nut haloween spiders

and olive egg spiders.

Mjummy I am hungry now

This one would have your conkers before breakfast. Be afraid, be very afraid.

I have those all over my garden. They look ugly, except that the often have a smiley on their backs.. but they seem pretty harmless...

This is really interesting. A few years ago, a spider like this appeared in my backyard. It was an orb-weaver and its web was about four feet in diameter. The spider was all black (no spots), and had to be about four inches from leg-to-leg. The things that really made it scary was the spikes on its back, the fact that its legs ended in really scary, black hooks, and the fangs were visible and very large!!! I didn't disturb it, and it disappeared after about three or four days. That wasn't the only large, exotic spiders that started showing up.

Behind us, lived a family from Costa Rica. They visited their homeland often - I always wondered if they were bringing back hitchhikers, because I could never type these things out with field guides for my area.

Can you provide me with more info on the guy in your picture?

Hey, Vermin. Do you see many Black Widows in your part of CA? (California, for those who might not know. NOT Canada, although I'd be interested to know if they show up there, too.) I lived up in the Sierra Nevada mountains as a kid (Pollock Pines was the town) and we saw them with bodies as big as your thumb, quite often. We burned a lot of firewood for heating, and it was a normal part of life to pick up a chunk of wood, bang it (HARD! Those things can really get a grip!) on the woodshed floor to dislodge any Black Widows, and then trundle it into the house. Then you banged in (HARD, remember?) on the concrete, rock, or fieldstone hearth to shake loose any you missed the first time, before putting it in the bin for later. Or you just chucked it on the fire, and sat back and enjoyed the sound of popping poisonous spiders, since they never seemed to move fast enough to escape before the heat got them.

I wonder if Chestnuts would have worked to drive them out. Raid and Black Flag killed them, but falling asleep to the smell of DDT on my bedroom walls and ceiling lacked something, esthetically speaking.

Micah

OH YEAH! Big suckers, too! I've seen them with abdomens about an inch and a half wide. Needless to say it's best to stay out of attics, basements, and old outdoor toilets.

Funny thing, they're very shy and scare easily, except until the have an egg mass - that's when they get aggressive.

Thanks for the reply (shudder!). I saw them often as a kid, but the one that sticks most in my mind was when I was getting ready for bed, on my top bunk, in a room with one of those tongue-in-groove style tiled ceilings. For some reason I still don't understand, I became convinced there was a black widow hiding in one of the gullies created where the tiling meets the molding at the ceiling. I got a can of Raid, soaked it, and about 10 minutes later SHE!!! fell out. Huge monster, don't even know how she fit the space. But it killed her. My foster brother had the bottom bunk. I slept in the living room that night.

But thankfully, I never saw any as large as yours. Mine were only as wide as my adult-sized thumbnail, probably not over (I didn't measure it) and inch.

Keep yours, thanks. I'll stick with the Eastern Diamondbacks where I live now.

Micah

Ah, ha! A clue to your whereabouts! We'll soon be on your doorstep !

Rotsa Ruck. Big Doorstep!!

Hmm - "Rotsa Ruck" - couldn't find that on the map .

It's overseas, in the Pacific, and the SOJ. Cameras there don't say "crick" but the people sell shoes with Reft and Right printed on the toes so the wearer knows which foot to put them on.

On a similar theme, Lavender oil, used sparingly on exposed skin will ward off Mosquito's and similar. In fact a lot of "nasty" bugs don't like it at all, but good bugs, Bees and the like love it!!!

Old English cottages often have (or did have!) a big bunch of Lavender growing at each corner of the house, so no matter which way the wind blew, the house was "protected" so to say.....

My wife grows a lot and in spite of being in a fairly strong Mosquito area, we see very few of them around or in the house....we do have screens, but they are not 100% infallable....

I tried that, covered myself with lavender oil, and was sacked and pillaged by a mob of little old ladies, who wudda thawt?

DID YOU GIVE AS GOOD AS YOU GOT?????

Are any pregnant?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygy7UDADXDg

Hi Andy.

While living in Norway I learned that rubbing the leaves of the bog-myrtle on your skin certainly kept the mosquito's at bay! Try it sometime, it is always growng near marshy ground. Spencer.

Tea-tree oil in massage oil is good too. I swear by it!

I tried tea-tree oil shampoo one time... I thought my head was going to explode!!!

We all thought that it had!!!

Wrong end!

UGGHHH!!!! DON'T TELL ME !!!!

Uh, yes. It has been my experience that spiders definitely do not like condoms. Especially those very large ones, with the ribbing, and lots of that... How should I describe it... The, uh, slippery, jelly-like substance. Filthy, little eight-legged bastards can't stand the things. And that's how we took care of them in the Crimea.

WHAT, you s*****d (or F****D) the little buggers to death, how quaint!!please correct if I misunderstood your meaning in some manner.....

Out of curiosity, the little blighters would place them over their heads and then suffocate!!!

Just 'cos it's got 'tea' in the name, doesn't mean you're supposed to drink it!

Chinese have tea from these flowers. My wife's mum, who is Chinese, she loves the stuff. They drink it all the time and even think (big "think" here), that it has medicinal powers. bs if you ask me but there you go.

It does not stink or even mildly smell weird though, maybe the life flowers do but not the dried ones.

I was talking about the leaves of this plant (myrica gale), it only grows in the northern part of the northern hemisphere! Google; Bog myrtle, you will see what I mean. Spencer.

I know, that is why I replied to another post where they mention Chrysanthemum .

Sorry but what is the point of replying to a particular post if people don't read that part of it.

Just as I now reply to your post, it tells other readers so we can have a little get together and discuss the virtues of good reading while they can go elsewhere and do what they want to do. If we did not know what or who we are replying to all this would be a mess.

Rant over, bad day

Lovely to hear from you again. Wear yew bean?

We are contemplating the enemy. Exactly what evolutionary advantage this thing has by having a head for a bottom I don't know. 'KrisDel Products don't make spider killers (yet), but if we did they'd be'.........The ethics committee is being summoned . Children could be enslaved and dispatched to gather conkers. Shells could be air-mailed world-wide. How much will people pay ? Our costs would be minimal, and the kids would have hours of useful exercise gathering raw material. P&P will of course vary.

<I apologise to Carlesburg for this shameless pilfering of an advertising line. Spider entrapment is being considered.>

I dare to differ!

You, being a first class skwerel, are very good at finding nuts. You should therefor doing the nut finding and not pass the buck and employ children.

You are not very clever, as your question about evolutionary advantages prove, as these are two mating dragonflies, namely the common Sympetrum dragonfly. Please leave the inteligent stuff to others so that we can have a smooth running little enterprise here instead of the shambles we got when you were in charge of the bath breaking.

I am available but I am not cheap, I give you a few hours to discuss this with your more inteligent partner, Del. Offers for employment in my mailbox please no later than 20:30 tonight.

Kind regards,

It is just one dragonfly. Honest. Would I fib ? My nuts are not subject to negotiation, and as for Del being more intelligent, why does it take several minutes every morning for him to wake up ? Oh, bugger. I just knew I should use the spill chucker. Do you charge by the hour or is it piece work ? The cat is probably ******g in my boots as I type. I'm seriously unqualified for this thread. Hang on, you changed the title ! Admirable - you must have been an accountant at some stage in life.

If you EVER call me an accountant again I will have to come and check your books. I hate accountants, if there is any accountants in this thread please say so now and I am gone.

I work for hours and do a lot of pieces in those hours. I said OFFER, not some feeble attempt to see what you can get away with

Anyway, I am not available anymore, Mrs pyramid just came home and needs me. Oh shit, its only to carry the shopping, darn.

Sorry , have to go and ride the enamel pony, nice expression that.

At least you have an enamel pony ! As you well know, my enamelled chum has just bit the dust. His ceramic friend is beeing 'eyed' with intent. Shall I save it for X-mas or just 'go for it' ? One day I'll go completely potty.

If I had known I could have sold you this one I have just sold on E-bay.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=230183584755&ssPageName=STRK:MESO:IT&ih=013

That would have solved your problems.

On e-bay, how do you know I didn't but it ? Right this very moment I could be sitting astride the pony.

That is ok then, you seem to have no arse left to get caught in that cracked plastic lid of that porta potti.

Plastic pony has not got the same "ring" to it somehow!

Urban dictionary says the following:

"He must have been riding the brown plastic pony, means:

Using cough syrup that contains Dextromethorphan to get high.

"That guy was going on about the secret meaning of Xenogears...he must have been riding the brown plastic pony!"

Does "completely potty" mean you'll finally take a crap that is a singular crap and you'll get it all out at once?

My advice is less Beef Wellington, and more salad!!!