Fairygirl has now passed item one on the Australian citizenship test. The answer is of course. YES.

Question 2. Does boyfriend have emergency procedure to protect girlfriend from spiders? If not he has a male genetic instability that means marriage is out of the question. Indeed sex will be banned instantly. If yes? What sort of lingerie would you like me to wear?


Hugs Chloe

Cindy

Her sister was in my car . And they move.

Cindy

Quote from: Cindy James on August 21, 2011, 03:26:49 AM
Fairygirl has now passed item one on the Australian citizenship test. The answer is of course. YES.

Question 2. Does boyfriend have emergency procedure to protect girlfriend from spiders? If not he has a male genetic instability that means marriage is out of the question. Indeed sex will be banned instantly. If yes? What sort of lingerie would you like me to wear?


Hugs Chloe

Cindy

*hugs Cindy*  And the answer is, he'd better if he want's to keep getting some lol

Hi,

Oh dear you'v been hurting my friends . tho in this case you sqisshed it ,
I do like the bigger ones as pets , I just think they are so lovely.  tarantulas, any way i know some who dont .

...noeleena...

Quote from: Zenda on August 20, 2011, 08:05:08 PM
On average a spider will eat one to two insects[flies, mozzies or other spiders depending on the species] a week...

I don't think they like carpenter ants, even ones recently deceased.  At least the couple taking up residence in my basement shower don't.  I need to find something else to feed them.

I don't typically have a problem with spiders. It's the other insects I don't like, all the roaches, beetles, flies, and Gods-know-what the rest of these things are around here. A few spiders living in your place can be a good thing, kinda like keeping a cat to cull the rodents. For a long time a spider lived in the corner behind my desk and one morning I came out to find a huge insect caught in its web that I didn't even know was inside. Glad I left that spider alone! I felt a little bad having to destroy its web but no way was I going to leave that monster bug in the corner.

Quote from: Joelene9 on August 21, 2011, 02:37:10 AM
  When I first moved in this house 27 years ago when it was new, I had 'scorpion spiders'.  These had two small, fuzzy claws in front, short body, six legs and no tail. These things had the sandy soil like camo on their bodies.  I've have yet to identifify them.  I have dispatched black widows and brown recluses since.  I have removed trantulas from my tent and camp and relocated them.  These are harmless and eat the nasty bugs including scorpions.  I kill the recluses on the spot and leave alone the black widows if they are not in an area I traffic through.  The garden variety Daddy Long Legs we have here is actually the Harvestman and it is not a spider but it is an aracnid closer related to mites. 
  Joelene

I do pretty much the same thing.  When I find spiders, I catch them, look at them up close to see if they look cute (because I think spiders are cute) and then take them outside.  Unless they're black widows though!  Those I dispatch with great haste, but, like you, not if they're in their natural habitat.

Quote from: FairyGirl on August 21, 2011, 03:09:35 AM

Lol

oh yikes i hate hate hate spiders! If they are small they dont bother me, but anything the size of a dime and larger, and I am freaking out.  Also, cockroaches, I hate those even more then I hate spiders and I have been known to scream like a girl when i see one.

Other bugs, could care less, except for centipedes, they give me the heepy jeebies

Cockroaches eh? Don't come to Texas then, cause the ones down here are 2-3 inches long, live in Pine Trees, have wings and...FLY!

Ive been to San Antonio and Austin, and San Antonio was absolutely covered with crickets, not exaggerating millions of crickets, my dad and I saw a huge pile of wood chips outside a store, we looked closer and it was actually a pile of slowly dying crickets that had been sprayed and swept into a huge pile.

Them 2 places are in Central Texas, Hill Country, okay San Antonio is about 1,000 yds South of where the Balcones Escarpment turns West...lived in Austin, no Tree Roaches, they don't like Cedar or Mesquite.

I have never seen a cockroach, though they do exist over here.  It is spiders that are horrible and repellent.   I have gone to bed and seen a woodlouse crawling on a wall, they crawl in through open windows at night.    They don't bother me at all neither do earwigs. 

I originally came from the Appalachian area of the US (West Virginia), and it wasn't until my family moved to the Gulf Coast area of Texas that insects (roaches,and red/FIRE ants) became a part of everyday life. Would not have thought so of Scotland.

The biggest shock was the FIRE ants, their sting was like getting burned!

Worked at a Nuclear Power Plant where we had a problem with Brown Recluse Spiders. 10 months out of the year they would come out at night from everywhere, though we never found any inside the plant buildings which had a negative pressure and were air conditioned.
It was years before they started to spray for the spiders.

Update:

I was just sitting here at the computer when I noticed out the corner of my eye a tiny little spider come down from the ceiling on a single thread of web.   I, in complete contrast to Saturday night spoke to it saying: 'hello little spider'.    I noticed two things though, even though it was as small as that weekend spider was HUUUGGGGEEE, I didn't want to touch it.  Normally with very small spiders I don't think twice about touching them and letting them run about my hand for a few seconds.   Things have changed since Saturday.  Secondly, I noticed that this lil spider was the exact same colour as that monster spider the other day.   I hope that that fiend from the pit hasn't given birth to hundreds of spiderlings?   If she has they are all going to go the way of their mother!

A sequel!

Kia Ora,

I wonder what would happen if we humans decided to kill all the things we dislike ? Including people who we disagree with-people we don't like-Etc etc...

  It would be like a "free for all" killing spree...

If it weren't for many of our friends in the animal kingdom [including insects and arachnids] we as a species would find it hard to survive...

Spiders are our friends folks-helping to maintain a natural balance, so I treat them with respect...After all they are not out to get us, at times we just happen to get in their way...

Metta Zenda

Just to be clear I didn't kill that little spider.  I caught it in a glass and put it into a flower pot.   That little creature is still running around somewhere.