Arachnophobia

2007 appeared to be a record year for spiders, I couldn't move around here
for the damn things. I went and bought a Cyclone hoover just to keep the
garage and house clear. Christopher Lee would have been terrified to venture
into the rafters of the garage where I store stuff. Are there any
predictions for summer 2009? it's looking bad here already. Winter was bad
but it has been a very mild spring, I don't know what governs their numbers.

I'm sitting in bed watching an *enormous* bugger try to start a web in the
corner of the room. Almost the size of my palm. however it's leggier than a
Pans People dancer, the body is tiny and apparently the brain smaller still.
Breeding numbers don't seem to be moving them up the evolutionary scale. It
appears to the the most stupid and ungainly spider I've yet encountered. If
she doesn't up her act it's the window for her, and the garden is alive with
bird life at this time of year. Very hungry and smart bird life ;o)

I'm equiped now with a mental picture of the Tube Web spider. I encountered
one here last year clinging to the garden gate latch. I carelessly flicked
at it with the bike key and nearly fell over backwards when the damn thing
back up a little, reared up then lunged at my hand. Bit about their
arrival, spread and poor table manners here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7573530.stm You have been warned!

 

I hate the little buggers too, although I'm OK sitting watching them,
it's just physical contact that gets me going. Emily's a different
matter though, screaming hab-dabs at the site of a big'un.

I've just got a couple of those 'sonic' repellers off eBay, and I
haven't seen an arachnid since, although they seem to have pretty much
cleared the house anyway at the moment.

 

When I came back off holiday recently, I opened the garage and found a
sac on the bike which had opened up. Hundreds of the little shits,
there were.

This was one time I didn't hesitate to use the insect spray.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique,
typed

Were they affected by it?

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

I have already made the greatest contribution to the fight against climate
change that I can make: I have decided not to breed. Now quit bugging me and
go and talk to the Catholics.

 

Dropped like flies.

 

Yes, yes, I know that spiders aren't insects, but you tell them that
when they breath in the spray.

 

Nah, the drag from the web would have slowed me down even more.

 

Oh yes? How would a spray work on them? Interested to know.

 

I was going to say "spiracles", but apparently some do have something
called "book lungs":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider#Circulation_and_respiration

 

Nerve agent.

 

And /or block spiricles or equivalent

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heh.

 

One of the more interesting purchases the late Saddam made from the
Krauts was an entire insecticide plant, turnkey stylee.
Takes an industrial chemist a mere flick of an eyebrow to turn out nerve
agent from that.