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Douglas Alpenstock wrote:Phew, big bug. ..
P.S., It helps to add a 25 cent piece for scale.
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Douglas Alpenstock wrote:Do you relocate or whack-whack-whack?
I'm fairly terrirorial so I could go both ways, depending on the demeanour of the bug and the phase of the moon.
I do think about what they are eating --if they are making a good livng in my house, is this spider the least of my worries? What else is messin' around the joint?
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"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
Kyle Hayward wrote:I always leave spiders in the house...unless they are quite big and then relocate. I figure they're eating worse problems than themselves and if there wasn't a source of food, they wouldn't be there...
I believe and taught my son that the ONLY reason to kill something is if you know it's going to cause you harm or you are going to eat it.
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
Gardens in my mind never need water
Castles in the air never have a wet basement
Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
Bright sparks remind others that they too can dance
What I am looking for is looking for me too!
"The only thing...more expensive than education is ignorance."~Ben Franklin
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." ~ Plato
Carla Burke wrote:Venomous anything is not welcome, in the house. Bitey/stingy things are case by case, but rarely left indoors. Wasps, hornets, mud-daubers on or in the house …
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Pearl Sutton wrote:I have what I call franchised spiders. They are allowed a certain territory, their web, usually, and as long as they stay there, I won't often roust them. If they go walkies, they get bug-cupped outside.
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Kyle Hayward wrote:I always leave spiders in the house...unless they are quite big and then relocate. I figure they're eating worse problems than themselves and if there wasn't a source of food, they wouldn't be there...
I believe and taught my son that the ONLY reason to kill something is if you know it's going to cause you harm or you are going to eat it.
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William Bronson wrote:One of the formative texts of my youth was a little golden guide called "Spiders and Their Kin".
This solidified my love of spiders and I found out later talking to away scientist friend of mine it is still used to this day as an introduction to this very fascinating group of creatures.
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In modern times the only right way forward is to come back to nature.
Kyle Hayward wrote:Slugs in the bathtub? - never have I ever...is your tub in the garden
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Ants - can cause harm, eat your food, invade, etc... they go, but really if you eliminate the food source, they leave eventually.
crickets - cool!
Don't get me started on jumping spiders, I love watching them, they're smart too and come in so many different colors...I had one that was an inch across guarding my mailbox for awhile, that's really big for a jumper...and I saw one that had shiny metallic green eyes.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nickadel/29300513137
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
Tomorrow's another day...
There is madness to my method.
"Life finds a way"- Ian Malcolm
"We're all mad here" - The Cheshire Cat
Cat Knight wrote:I have all the nope for them. I literally woke Hubby up last night to relocate a 2inch or so (long bodied cellar spider?) in the living room. We have a bargain, they stay in the basement and I don't scream like I've been stabbed and try to kill them. This one climbed the wall with the lights on and sat there where I could see it from across the room, I think it wanted to become a pet but we already have enough pets to care for. Now it gets to live outside because I was frankly in awe at its audacity and size.
I always see the old Garfield spider comics in my head. https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1998/10/27
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yet another victim of Obsessive Weeding Disorder
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