Spiders

Post by **Claw** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 1:40 am

It is that time of year where they start running for cover... fought off two weird looking things tonight while heading for the bathroom... the missus says that putting a Conker in different parts of the room/home keeps them at bay because they alledgedly don't like them... I'm not so sure...

Post by **Trig** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 11:43 am

Spiders dont like conkers?
Sure about that?

Post by **Hammer** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 1:13 pm

Trig wrote: Spiders dont like conkers?
Sure about that?

Yes get a conker on a piece of string and whack a spider with it. They don't like it.

Post by **Clingy** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 4:09 pm

Well your typical house has thousands.....my three loft 17/18th century cottage must have millions of the little buggers. Certainly we have no need of fly paper!

Post by **Claw** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 1:21 am

Clingy wrote: Well your typical house has thousands.....my three loft 17/18th century cottage must have millions of the little ******s. Certainly we have no need of fly paper!

Next LAN at Clingy's then...

Post by **Trig** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 9:25 am

Parkings a bit poor tbh

Post by **Claw** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 12:11 pm

Trig wrote: Parkings a bit poor tbh

Parking shouldn't be a problem at all... everyone will be sleeping in their cars much further down the road somewhere...

Post by **Tumble** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 9:58 pm

No they won't. Dakky knows why

Post by **ryanside** » Sat Sep 18, 2010 10:53 am

A big one crawled put from underneath my tele the other night, I welcomed him with the bottom of my shoe. Spiders in England don't really bother me, it's the big ones in Australia that I squished that freaked me out a little!

Post by **Claw** » Mon Sep 20, 2010 12:32 pm

Ryanside wrote: A big one crawled put from underneath my tele the other night, I welcomed him with the bottom of my shoe. Spiders in England don't really bother me, it's the big ones in Australia that I squished that freaked me out a little!

...and what did you do with the gooey-ick that remains there?

We have an official spider catching container that was formerly a huge chocolate raisin tub from Costco. As a family we surround the beast (on elevated locations if it's on the floor) and then quickly place the tub over it. After this is the deftly inserted card or large envelope to encourages it to run further into the tub. If the spider runs too early, before we get the tub over it, then some tactical screaming from the missus and daughter confuse it enough to give me time to restrategize and neutralise... if that doesn't work then me and my son's screaming usually does the job...