Nasty little bugger!

[scrolling_grandma]

I think that you could turn that picture into a pretty cool scroll saw pattern.

[f250]

So just a day or so ago, we didn't practice the catch and release thing. Right next to the trampoline where my girls jump we spotted a big old black widow. She was quite pretty, black black with a bright red hour glass on her. She was chowing down on a big old nasty roach. I tried to squish her, but she took off into a crack in the wall. I had to fill the crack with bug killer.

Can't have that nasty bugger hanging out with the kids.

Tom

[minowevie]

spiders are like snakes to me, I think they are beautifull, in nature, but if they are at or in my house, they are dead meat. no matter where, or why. they are gonners. Evie

[Plaquerd]

Jeff
Good on ya. Spiders eat many harmful insects. As for Spiders, Snakes and Crawly things check out these pictures I took exactly three years ago. It is a Daddy Long legs eating a dead Garter snake, with a "crawly thing" behind them. My cat killed the snake........bummer......., I put the snake on the stone wall along the patio. Kept it to show my then four year old grand daughter what a Garter snake looked like. Found the Spider eating the snake that night while taking the dog on his walk. Had to take some pics.

[JohnB]

Originally Posted by minowevie

spiders are like snakes to me, I think they are beautifull, in nature, but if they are at or in my house, they are dead meat. no matter where, or why. they are gonners. Evie

Evie, I'm on your team.
In the yard or house, the only good spiders or joe blakes are dead ones.

We have RED BACK spiders that like to live in dark spaces, mostly outside and under things.

They can be deadly if they bight a youngster or elderly person and make all other's pretty crook.
Every year, during simmer I give all the eves, Fences, Rubbish bins and any other hiding place a good soaking with residual insecticide. It sorts the blighters out.

AS for Snakes, just about every type around here is deadly, so if I see one they don't get a second chance.

[greatdane2]

Seeing as how most people on this site play with wood, you should make bat boxes. They are not fancy and you hardly ever see them but bats take out a lot of flies etc.
My scout troop used to make them each year and place them on poles and trees out near small lakes and ponds. Of course some also went home with the kids. Alot better way of getting rid of mosquitoes. Not sure if they eat spiders but I would think they would.

Alan.

[minowevie]

Originally Posted by minowevie

spiders are like snakes to me, I think they are beautifull, in nature, but if they are at or in my house, they are dead meat. no matter where, or why. they are gonners. Evie

Drats, I wont to edit my post. I did mean it, but I forgot to mention, I have some great snakes hear in the desert. gofers, kings, and garters and red racers, I acturaly used to bring gofer snakes home from my horse patrol in the mountains where I worked on a possie. and they keep the rattlers out of my yard. and eat mice underneath the house where a cat cannot go. also. some of the garden spiders, are beafishale. preying matis, and garden spiders. they are soooo ugly, but keep the other bugs in toll. I have tons of black widows, and now getting less, scorpions, and centipieds. but I do kill those if fown in the house or property. now we are gettin so many more preators that prey on the good stuff, that I am on the war path now. I never used poison, but dang, now I have too, just to protect myself, and other animals. sooo just wonted to clear that up. we are also getting the recluse or vialion spider now. they dont always make a web, and hide in places like shous, cloths, and that kind of stuff. they are dead meat when I can find them. we also have city rats, big as a small cat. and the cats dont mess with them, and squirls. never had squirls. and moles, gofers, and kids all over the place. mean kids, brats really. and i love kids, but not these. they were black hoods, and say all kinds of bad words, way wors then me. and I can't touch them, they trow rocks at my horses. and tease my dogs, and if I could I would breake there little necks. but can't. so back to spiders and snacks, they are prdictabale. people arent. just mean. sorry got on a roll again. Evie

[workin for wood]

I did make a bat house, and I think it has some bats in it this year too.

[newscroller]

Evie, I agree spiders and snakes have there purpose but I'm sure it was meant to be OUTSIDE, not in the house. If we find one in the house it is history.It's amazing how fast some of those those spiders can spin a web.
Hank

[Rolf]

We always get the Orb weavers this time of year. Their webs are very symetrical, I leave them alone.