Moths, wasps and spiders..

idahoblues said:
We moved a large box from a garage the other day, it was crawling with black widows, squished quite a few
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I have got to be honest mate and I don't really mind Spiders but I do draw the line on Spiders that will maim or kill me....you're a Spider whisperer and I respect that :)

Watched a video recently of a couple of metal detectorists in Australia searching the very tight crawl space underneath a house, under that house they did find the tin with all the gold buried but it was guarded by many many Redback spiders.

Fuck the gold and burn the house down I say.
 
mexico1970 said:
I have got to be honest mate and I don't really mind Spiders but I do draw the line on Spiders that will maim or kill me....you're a Spider whisperer and I respect that :)

Watched a video recently of a couple of metal detectorists in Australia searching the very tight crawl space underneath a house, under that house they did find the tin with all the gold buried but it was guarded by many many Redback spiders.

Fuck the gold and burn the house down I say.
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I had a big tent set up in my yard for several months a few years ago. When I finally went to take it down I started lifting the inner floor and there must have been at least fifty hobo spiders hiding underneath it. I got my shop vac and lifted the lining very slowly and sucked them up, that wasn’t pretty
 
idahoblues said:
I had a big tent set up in my yard for several months a few years ago. When I finally went to take it down I started lifting the inner floor and there must have been at least fifty hobo spiders hiding underneath it. I got my shop vac and lifted the lining very slowly and sucked them up, that wasn’t pretty
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Hobe Spider?
Hoover them up?

Never mind with the casual naming of them in almost a throwaway remark like it meant nothing. Here;s one of them for people who don't live in a country where you dont have to flush the toilet with hydrochloric acid before you sit on it.

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An Englishman's solution to the problem while expensive it thorough.

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-dabz- said:
I always have a window open day and night and in all seasons and I don't think I've seen a big flappy moth all year, or one of those big bastard spiders that periodically invade my house that I have to scoop up and launch...I think I have seen about two wasps all year and Crane flies seem to be awol as well. I spend about six weeks a year in rural Wales and although I've spotted a few rare things I've never seen before, the common stuff just hasn't been around, in my back garden or in Wales. Tons of flies and fruit flies though... I don't ever remember having a problem with fruit flies or even know anyone who did.
Just been my experience...I seem to recall last year being the same. Anyone else notice this?
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Fruit flies come with the type of plants/flowers you are keeping. We are like you, window open throughout the year. I have a big french door at my home office though and have had Wasps hitting heavily from a lot earlier point of the year than normal. Started about 3 months ago, Wasps do not normally get dopey or harassing until late August September.

Spiders are interesting as they come in waves and change year on year. We had false widows for 3-4 years literally everywhere! Cellar spiders (original daddy long legs) are kung fu spider cannibals and eat every spider in the house. It is not long before the cellar spiders eat every false widow. The only ones they don't touch are giant house spiders which are the ones you will see in your bath in the morning or running across the floor randomly. Giant house spiders do not actually live in the house but are normally males looking for a mate (or water).

Moral of the story is keep Pholcidae Sp. (Cellar Spiders) (Daddy long legs) in your house as they are the apex for insect elimination in the UK. :)
 
SamTheGuru said:
Fruit flies come with the type of plants/flowers you are keeping. We are like you, window open throughout the year. I have a big french door at my home office though and have had Wasps hitting heavily from a lot earlier point of the year than normal. Started about 3 months ago, Wasps do not normally get dopey or harassing until late August September.

Spiders are interesting as they come in waves and change year on year. We had false widows for 3-4 years literally everywhere! Cellar spiders (original daddy long legs) are kung fu spider cannibals and eat every spider in the house. It is not long before the cellar spiders eat every false widow. The only ones they don't touch are giant house spiders which are the ones you will see in your bath in the morning or running across the floor randomly. Giant house spiders do not actually live in the house but are normally males looking for a mate (or water).

Moral of the story is keep Pholcidae Sp. (Cellar Spiders) (Daddy long legs) in your house as they are the apex for insect elimination in the UK. :)
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We get fruit flies but we buy a lot of fruit. In this country we’re lucky there isn’t a kebab or fried chicken fly.
 
Marklr said:
Some people say that the spiders keep the flies out, but I've never seen one get a fly out of my house. Ever. They do fuck all.
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It's truly bizarre with flies isn't it.

They're determined to find their way into your house through a 5mm gap in a slightly open window, yet as soon as they do get in they instantly go absolutely batshit mental trying to get straight back out again.

Then even when you fling every door and window wide open to allow them to get out instead they just spend 4 hours repeatedly smashing themselves against the same closed window pane.
 
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Marklr said:
Some people say that the spiders keep the flies out, but I've never seen one get a fly out of my house. Ever. They do fuck all.
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Spiders are that good you don't even notice, they usher the flies out with little fuss soi that the human occupants aren't distracted or distressed.
 
SamTheGuru said:
Fruit flies come with the type of plants/flowers you are keeping. We are like you, window open throughout the year. I have a big french door at my home office though and have had Wasps hitting heavily from a lot earlier point of the year than normal. Started about 3 months ago, Wasps do not normally get dopey or harassing until late August September.

Spiders are interesting as they come in waves and change year on year. We had false widows for 3-4 years literally everywhere! Cellar spiders (original daddy long legs) are kung fu spider cannibals and eat every spider in the house. It is not long before the cellar spiders eat every false widow. The only ones they don't touch are giant house spiders which are the ones you will see in your bath in the morning or running across the floor randomly. Giant house spiders do not actually live in the house but are normally males looking for a mate (or water).

Moral of the story is keep Pholcidae Sp. (Cellar Spiders) (Daddy long legs) in your house as they are the apex for insect elimination in the UK. :)
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I'd never known of Cellar Spiders before until encountering them in my current house.

They're funny things, they look incredibly delicate, fragile and harmless with tiny bodies and long thin spindly legs yet, as you say, they'll kill and eat much bigger, chunkier spiders and other insects with ease.
 
jacko74 said:
I'd never known of Cellar Spiders before until encountering them in my current house.

They're funny things, they look incredibly delicate, fragile and harmless with tiny bodies and long thin spindly legs yet, as you say, they'll kill and eat much bigger, chunkier spiders and other insects with ease.
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My 18 month old granddaughter has much the same effect on a large plate of pasta. It doesn’t stand a chance. She won’t be delicate with spindly legs for too long.
 
It’s quite warm in balmy Bournemouth during the summer, this year we have had a magpie, several wasps, mosquitos, damsel flies, a cat and a fox enter the premises without invitation, plus a few Jehovah’s witnesses lurking on the doorstep. We managed to evict them all.
 
Spring is in the air here and I noticed some wasps building a nest under our patio roof yesterday, little sods, I got my ALDI bug spray and killed them all.
I'm a murderer.
 
Massive spider on the bedroom wall when I woke up this morning. I cant be around them, horrible fucking things. Anyway, hoovered the fucker up. Rattled its way up the pipe. Dead, I thought. Hoovered the house just now and went to empty the thing. The **** was still alive on top of all the dust and shit. Thought hoovering them up would see them off for sure. Beware.
 
mexico1970 said:
Spiders are that good you don't even notice, they usher the flies out with little fuss soi that the human occupants aren't distracted or distressed.
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Not once has a spider at mine opened the window, ushered a fly out and closed it.

This is what spiders want you to believe so they can live with you rent free
 
I was staying in a hotel last month and went upstairs to change clothes only to find a big wasp which looked particularly nasty as it was mainly black on the window.

Now the windows were an old sash type and only opened about 3 inches at the top so, I thought this fucker is going out as I didn't want it somewhere in the room in the evening when Mrs Moon and myself got back.

I got a towel and started wafting it towards to small opening at the top of the window with little success however, it did end up stuck in a couple of strands of spider web that I'd not seen.

Before I could move to get something to put it in and get rid, a spider about 30 times smaller than the wasp shot out from the window frame and wrapped it up...job done after a bit of buzzing.
 
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