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Sep 15^th, 2004 at 8:35am

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In the fall, when temperature drops, it seems like half the spider population of sweden are looking for a place to live - in my house!
Oh the horror Grin

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Reply #1 - Sep 15^th, 2004 at 9:53am

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Where was he hiding out?

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Reply #2 - Sep 15^th, 2004 at 10:05am

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lol look at the hairy little bas***D......SQUISH HIM GOOD!

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Reply #3 - Sep 15^th, 2004 at 10:22am

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Put him on a sheet and throw it out of the window.
But please don't kill it...

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Reply #4 - Sep 15^th, 2004 at 10:26am

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Quite a magnificent specimen. Cheesy

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SQUISH HIM GOOD!

Why? Leave it be or adopt it as a pet. I'm fond of spiders myself. They eat all those horrible insects. I would never deliberately kill one. My Mum told me if you kill a spider you make it rain. Wink

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Reply #5 - Sep 15^th, 2004 at 10:47am

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Lol, neat! I like holding them, to test my bravery. But I also love feeding them to my pet rat! Shocked

She just grabs them and eats them alive! It's really neat! Grin

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Reply #6 - Sep 15^th, 2004 at 4:29pm

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my dog eats spiders Roll Eyes

Horrible creatures and the only thing on this planet i can say i am afraid of Lips Sealed

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Reply #7 - Sep 15^th, 2004 at 4:36pm

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Nexus be nice to that spider, he'll eat all those rotten mosquitos for you.
I can't understand arachnophobes, spiders eat insects that eat you 8)

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Reply #8 - Sep 15^th, 2004 at 5:30pm

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Agree....I don't look at spiders as vermin, quite the contrary actually. I'm not really afraid of them, and I appreciate their job (keeping the house clean of other insects).
However if they are just running around in my room (homeless spiders LOL), I usually place a glass over them, slide in a paper and carry them to the door and toss them out...am I not a class act landlord? Grin

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Reply #9 - Sep 15^th, 2004 at 6:16pm

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Just make sure they are not black widows...

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Reply #10 - Sep 15^th, 2004 at 6:55pm

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Just make sure they are not black widows...

I'd be more afraid of a funnel-web spider.

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Reply #11 - Sep 15^th, 2004 at 6:58pm

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black widows are not found in Sweden, infact none of our spiders are harmful to humans

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Reply #12 - Sep 15^th, 2004 at 7:03pm

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black widows are not found in Sweden, infact none of our spiders are harmful to humans

This used to be the case in the UK. Not so sure now. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2729395.stm
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Stephanie Thorneycroft, from Wimborne in Dorset, found a black widow, which has distinctive red markings on the underside of its abdomen, climbing up the side of a colander as she was rinsing grapes in her sink.

Tesco said US producers used natural predators to protect fruit, as an alternative to chemicals.

But it strongly denied the distinctive spider, whose venom is 15 times more potent than a rattlesnake, was deliberately used on suppliers' crops in the US.

Spokesman Jonathan Church said: "The idea is to reduce pesticide use by introducing natural predators instead, but we do not use black widow spiders.

"It is possible that is why the spiders in these three cases have got through because if we had used pesticides they would be dead."

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Reply #13 - Sep 15^th, 2004 at 7:12pm

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...not saying that black widows don't exist in Sweden because they do. Grin

Some months ago a newspaper reported that a man who imported an american car, got a little surprise. A black widow was apparantly included in the bargain Cheesy

The spider had built a nest in the undercarriage and the man was so dead afraid so he told the paper that he will leave the spider alone until it dies from the cold climate...well guess what, the black widow was PREGNANT, meaning thousands of spiderlings in his garage.

Talk about being royally screwed Grin

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Reply #14 - Sep 15^th, 2004 at 7:19pm

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I can't stand slugs. I don't mind spiders. Slugs make me go weak! Lips Sealed

I'm talking about the six inch sized ones here, I had a pic somewhere of a really big one, but I can't find it at the moment.

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