Why is it that anything man-made that gets abandoned gets overrun by spiders? Webs show up, and spiders soon lurk in every nook and cranny. I can't think of any other creepy crawly who makes his presence known as quickly and readily as our web weaving neighbors. I guess the webs are a good thing, if for no other reason than for alerting us to their presence. It's the ones that don't weave webs that you can't trust (jumping spiders excluded).
Thanks for the photos, Denise.
*while rubbing multiple appendages avariciously*
ReplyDelete"Now, eh--as soon as, em, a-Miss Moppet arrives (hoo hoo!) I will be able to (hee hee!) frighten the dreadful child a-way! (a-ha haaa!)"
You need one of those cool spider ladders to help them get out.
ReplyDeleteI think he is gorgeous.
I'd bet you $10 that if you turned on the faucet, the spider wouldn't manage to crawl back out of the drain. I'd also give you a mild scolding for wasting a useful creature's life for $10.
ReplyDeleteOn another note, I see that this critter's chosen a nice spot for his web; there's already a pupa of...something...caught in it.
Even when things ARE in use, those icky spiders show up.
ReplyDelete2 case in points:
1. When you go to your car in the morning and walk through some webbing attached to the door and something nearby. Starts your morning off kinda crappy.
2. We have 2 hedges (taller than me) by the entrance to our house. Almost every night in the summer, spiders would web from one to the other...big brown ones...I know this because I walked though it once, when a spider was still attached. Since then, I always swing my purse like a windmill before I go in.
Perhaps this is why my neighbors don't talk to me.
Spiders are predators; hence, they show up where their prey is. It's the insects that overrun everything (abandoned or otherwise) and the spiders are just there trying to collect a meal.
ReplyDeleteJust because insects don't make webs you can't act like they're not there. :-)
I find they're usually trapped in the sink, rather than colonizing it. Someone suggested a spider ladder - good idea! Of course, sinks and plastic tubs are among my chief means of catching the prolific Brown Recluse in my home and workplace...
ReplyDeleteThat's just it, Will. I can ignore most bugs, because I don't know they're there. Out of sight, out of mind.
ReplyDeleteHow to make your own spider ladder...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.foundationtv.co.uk/brilliantcreatures/ser4/spiderladder.html
what kind of spider is that???
ReplyDeleteI think it's a grass spider.
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