Here's a neat looking spider that was on front of my house for about five days. You can't tell from the picture but it was about 5 inches from leg tip to leg tip and it caught a butterfly.
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PaulKreider
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Looks like a banana spider to me, I was always told not to mess with them as a kid!
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Benefits of a house spider:
1) They out compete more deadly spiders like the brown recluse for food, this starving them out.
2) they keep flying bug populations down.
3) their webs can make great catch-alls: I once lost a $20 bill while sleeping and the cats managed to fling it into a spiderweb behind a book shelf. Thanks spider.
4) they freak people out, so point them out to people after they stare at your frags for too long without buying one. No I didn't!!
1) They out compete more deadly spiders like the brown recluse for food, this starving them out.
2) they keep flying bug populations down.
3) their webs can make great catch-alls: I once lost a $20 bill while sleeping and the cats managed to fling it into a spiderweb behind a book shelf. Thanks spider.
4) they freak people out, so point them out to people after they stare at your frags for too long without buying one. No I didn't!!
I don't kill spiders or snakes, except for black widows and brown recluse...I kill them with a vengeance. I'd rather deal with a few spiders then roaches and other nasties. I will pick a spider up with a paper towel and toss it out in the yard though.
You're right, in the south they call these banana spiders or golden web spiders and it is actually a small one. They are actually relatively harmless as far as venom but have huge teeth (for lack of a better term) and can deliver an extremely painful bite so it's best to leave them alone. This one was so neat looking and it's web was so cool I liked it in front of my house. I watched it for at least twenty minutes a day, it was neat watching it spin the butterfly after the spider caught it.
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Spiders and I have an understanding in my house. If I see one and he's just keeping to himself and minding his own business he will be dead within 10 seconds, or however long it takes my wife to kill him.
Velodog2
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Spiders are the only animal I find disturbing. I justify it by pointing out how predatory and dangerous they look. I have however house spiders out the ying yang and they don't bother me at all. They just look silly and I have no problem grabbing one by a leg if it has set up shop someplace annoying like the shower stall. If you grab it by one leg they will oblige (if that leg doesn't come off in the process) by holding all their legs out stiffly so that they can be easily disposed of. I will never, ever find out if other spiders behave the same way if you grab a leg! I also have a healthy population of wolf spiders in the basement and treat them all the same way I do the black snakes (which don't squeak me at all) in the barn. I would rather have them than all the vermin they eat.
As for pests in my tank, well those stupid, pestilential chinese stinkbugs that are taking over the world are attracted to light and float very well.
As for pests in my tank, well those stupid, pestilential chinese stinkbugs that are taking over the world are attracted to light and float very well.
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So you are the house spider whisperer! That's a YouTube video waiting to happen. I'm loving what this thread has become. Let's see some more? Anyone ever get seagulls?
I would hire a spider trainer. Just sayin. :behindsofa: This is me watching you train my spider.
OH YES, that reminds me...uh...My spider from the Original post is now MIA...The fish room gets in the high 50s at night so he probably lives in the sweatshirt I just put on. I can just feel him crawling on me with my mind. yuck!
Damon
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I agree this thread should come with a warning! Lol, I have butane torches and other things to take care of the majority of these rodents(and they are rodents)..
Lol, this reminded me of an episode of LA Fishguys where he had rat poop in his stand. I just thought to myself: how is this person living. Made me sad and a bit disgusted, and I never watched the series again..
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Lol, this reminded me of an episode of LA Fishguys where he had rat poop in his stand. I just thought to myself: how is this person living. Made me sad and a bit disgusted, and I never watched the series again..
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Crap! Mouse poo isn't reef safe is it?!
