Spider ID

[RockDr]

The best way to protect kids is education. Get an ID chart and learn about the spiders, where they live, what they look like etc.
If they're too young for that, then maybe implement a look but don't touch policy. Encourage photo taking rather than collection.

[browny]

Wait til you meet a Spider Wasp! Spiders are nothing compared to that!

The female catches spiders of various kinds as food for her larvae. She stings the spider to paralyse it and then usually drags it into her burrow where she lays an egg on it. When the larva hatches, it starts to eat the still living spider. When mature, the larva pupates to emerge as an adult the next summer.

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[essess]

here in the UK weve got HUNDREDS on the ivy...am not liking them at all , Aussie hubby flattens them as soon as he sees any spider.."only good spider is a dead spider" he saysSpider.jpg

[Diane]

We had a big fat black furry one on the floor of the laundry yesterday, it had shortish legs and was kind of jumping (not very high, just to turn around and face the other direction) - didn't jump fast enough to avoid the big bag of kitty litter that got dropped on it though - but did make a nasty squelchy mess on the tiles!

[Kat+Rocco]

Wait til you meet a Spider Wasp! Spiders are nothing compared to that!

The female catches spiders of various kinds as food for her larvae. She stings the spider to paralyse it and then usually drags it into her burrow where she lays an egg on it. When the larva hatches, it starts to eat the still living spider. When mature, the larva pupates to emerge as an adult the next summer.

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Erghhhh that's just gross looks huge!! Do they bother people too?

[katsmajic]

Were over worrying about spiders, kill white tips and red backs but leave the others alone. Got a couple of orb types out the front, theyre pretty and a cple of black house spiders out by the laundry door, theyre pretty nasty - the chunky black ones, but their doing no harm and keep the bugs/flys down...got some daddy long legs in the house we leave them be and same when we get a hunty...although the cats do a good job of catching and playing with the spiders.

[Weeze]

Katsmajic, I'm not sure a smiley face on their bum is that appealing. Maybe one of their face would be slightly more acceptable! haahaa

[boesman]

That is truely disgusting looking. Dead right, it looks only vaguely good squashed and down the loo or in my rainbow cleaner.