SPIDERS!!
 

I hate spiders, I have an huge fear of even the daddy long legs. If it is less than a millimeter in length, I hate them. Ever since moving down here, it seems there are ten times more spiders around. I have to walk out my front door and wave my hand almost every morning to break up the webs that have appeared overnight. The worst part is that they have taken up residence outside my sliding glass door! I am not talking little ones either, I am talking about big nasty ones that have red and black legs. I don't know what the tops of them look like because I only get the bottom view. There are 2 of those and about 3 that look like daddy long legs, but are harvestmen and aren't really spiders. Don't care, they still look like ones. I was trying to idetify the ugly ones but totally creeped myself out with all the pictures. I don't care if they are poisonous, I just want them to go away!!

Spiders
 

Spiders are totally cool. How about I send you my Palmetto Bugs (wood roaches) and I'll take your spiders.:neutral:

(ok, I admit, I had to look them up) AAAAHHHHHH, NO, NONONONONONO!!

bbro, the vacuum cleaner is your friend. :D

I spray starch 'em, then kill them by throwing a shoe across the room at them. I don't get close because they jump and they are out to get me!

Stupid me bought one without attachments!! :smack:

They actually aren't too bad since they are outside, but I can't open the blinds because I will stare at them, expecting an attack to shatter the glass and wrap me in a big cocoon the second I look away. The thing that REALLY creeped me out is what happened the other day. I noticed that spiders were building webs, so I closed my screen door on the outside of the glass door. That way, I can open the door, shattering the webs, hopefully dislodging the spider so that it runs away for a bit and walk outside. This is also useful if they don't run away, I can always slam the door closed. Well, the other day, I did this, not seeing any spiders. And they BOTH dropped from where ever they were posed to attack. I slammed the screen and glass door shut and had the wilies the rest of the day. One of them just sat there and LOOKED at me!! I know he was!!!


*shiver*

I love spiders...I hate it when ppl kill them. I HATE roaches...I have nightmares about those...
So I can understand the spider-fear (can't remember the name for it and don't have time to look it up)
Try building a frame or something (you can use it to grow vines on) farther away from the house and that might lure them there because the vines would also attract bugs for them. Good luck!

We are all in this together... spiders are your friends.

arachniphobia (sp?) - I remember because of the movie :D

I don't always kill them unless they are in the house, then they are invading my home. I just want them to go away. I don't know why they like it there, though, I never have the outside light on in the back.


Spiders like me way too much. I always get bit by them. It must be the warmer climate that makes it seem like there are sooo many.

Lots of spiders in the basements in Colorado when the weather gets cooler. I still hate them, but we have decided to coexist as long as they stay out of my bed and don't skitter across my computer screen when the lights are out in my room.

One spider in the house is good luck. don't kill your good luck spider!

Ok, I will leave one. In fact, I know which one! He lives by the mini crawlspace under my stairs. He kills other bugs I don't like and just chills there. Very small, too. He only showed up a little bit ago. Maybe it is a good sign!!

It is said hedgeballs (Osage Orange) repel spiders. I tried with one and had none in that corner of the room, but that may have been coincidence. They grow in more southerly climes... occasionally you can find them in grocery stores too.

Huh. I never heard them called hedgeballs. Makes sense, though.

Damn, Osage repels spiders, too? Man, that's a vicious plant.

Read the chapter in The Hobbit where they go through Mirwood, then the chapter in The Two Towers where they go through Cirith Ungol. Then get rid of all the rest of the bugs in your house - the spiders are there to eat THEM, not you.

Spiders are just like snakes. In the wild, they're fine. In the house, they are dead.

Could be a regional term. I've read it's a myth - that the fruit don't actually repel spiders since spiders can't detect odors. My guess is that the fruits repel enough insects that the spider leaves for a place with better food availibility.

We have a number of them around here. Not landscaping, along the edge of the road. We always called them Monkey balls, but it's Osage Orange for sure. ;)

Here's a picture of one of them. It was the best I could get with my cell phone. Ew

LOOK OUT!! HE'S GOT A GUN!! :eek:

These are my favorite kind. They live all around my house in TX...although there has been less in the past couple of yrs :-( I think its the drought

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.ed....JPG/view.html

I don't think those are the same kind, they do not have any yellow on their backs. The legs are also different, there are alternating bands of red and black, not like the one in the picture.

Nice Bruce ;) Made me laugh out loud.....now I have to go check for spider WMDs!

What's really freaky is when you see a spider on your leg when your driving. That happened to me yesterday. It was a small one though, but startling. Not as bad though when you see a spider in your mailbox that looks like a black widow! :eek:

When I was a lass I got into a car accident (rather bad one) due to a spider coming in thru the sunroof. I was in a VW bug and we hit a Caddy head-on. And, no, I wasn't the driver.

sorry i shouldv'e done the link and then the text. I was just showing my favorite kinda spider, called garden or zipper spider around here. I don't think I've ever seen those red&blacks around here. They seem neat though.

I've worked for two Sheriff Offices as a secretary, and the common school of thought for single car accidents with no known cause...are insects. Bugs and spiders freak the driver out, driver loses control, crashes and dies...and the bug or spider is either unnoticed in the wreckage, or flies/crawls away...

We have Black/Yellow/White striped spiders here, called Zipper Spiders (garden spider) and they make an orb web with a sticky, thick, white "zipper" of web material in the center. I name them all "Charlotte", as long as they are outside. Any spider inside must die.
Hubby is called for the massacre, I am unable to do it. They move too fast, are unpredictable and what if it falls on me when I reach up with the wand?

I think yours is what I would call an "Orb Spider", making an orb web and having thick legs with alternating bands of color with a large body. They vary in color from light to dark. We had them in California in the late summer, early fall and I would NOT exit the house after dusk. They would hide during the heat of the day and make their webs in the early evening around the house, letting the lights attract their dinners.

I am an arachnophobe.

We've got ludicrous quantities of Osage Orange around these parts. Also called Bodark (from the French term "Bois de Arc", meaning "the tree what the injuns made their bows outta"), these trees were planted in endless long, straight lines around the perimeters of homesteads and cultivated fields as windbreaks way back when. Ever since I was a kid, we called the nasty green sticky things that they produce "hedgeapples".

The only certifiable use I ever found or heard of for them was as projectiles in treehouse wars. Whoever finds something truly useful to do with those things will rule the world.

Hedge burns extraordinarily hot and clean, making it a highly desireable wood stove/fireplace fuel here in the Midwest.

I vaguely remember being pelted with them when I was young by my brothers.

HH - These ones are active during the day. I don't know why they like the back door. I never turn the light on out there. One of them did start to do a zipper thing in the middle. I wonder if it is a spider couple. Oh, god, could you imagine spider babies all over my glass door???? *shiver*

It's very pretty wood as well, but seldom straight enough for lumber.

Yeah they tend to grow twisty. When planted in hedgerows, they tend to weave together into an impenetrable fence.

Hoof, i think it was a zipper the praying mantis munched in IOtD. :cool:

our lucky spider
 

my wife and i always try to have at least one "pet" spider around the house. years ago, we were lucky enough to have a web behind the kitchen garbage can. when i would get home from work the first thing i would do....after petting the dog, but before kissing my wife, was to check on my little brood of young spiders in our "momma spider's" nest.

one time my mother in law, walked into the house, and without any hesitation, destroyed our pet spider's nest and killed her and all of her little babies.....a terrible tradgedy that we will never forget.

this is my first post. i hope that spelling and punctuation, and grammar don't count on this site.

Not in the least. Wait until you get a load of your sibling, ZippyT, and your cousin buster.

Don't sweat it. It's all about the content.

Welcome to the Cellar, BobT.:D
I can see why losing your house pet would be a bummer, after all, they are so cute and cuddly.

my pet spider
 

WOW...your picture is FANTASTIC! this one i did with a Canon EOS 30D, but i was only using a: Quantaray AF 70-300 1:4 - 5.6 LD Tele-Macro (1:2)....just a toy to the one used to take YOUR picture.

this one lives outside our living room window on the deck of our house in Gatlinburg, TN

I used a Dell Dimension 8200 to catch him on the web.;)

a flame-thrower would be more appropiate.......

UG was busy. :D

I need a camera.

Get naked and go outside.....I'm sure a camera will show up. :D

Bruce, you are killing me. 3 lol moments on this thread alone -hubby thinks I've finally cracked. :lol: