Later on we opened the garage doors to let some of the heat out of the house (33 inside at 8.30pm = urgh) and a spider dropped down from the door and it had a very unusual 'growth' on it's back. Brendan to the rescue with a tupperware container and we scooped it into that while I got my spider book.
Turned out to be a female wolf spider (not poisonous) with her babies riding around on her back, 10's and 10's of them! brendan relocated her to the reserve behind the house by way of a gentle push from the tupperware container (hope the babies had parachutes).
Gaahhh! Are you mad?
ReplyDeleteWhen I was at a friend's place (I was about 10 or 11) one of these spiders was crawling on her mother's kitchen floor. I was up on a chair screaming, my friend's father came in and went SMACK with a thong and all the baby spiders went EVERYWHERE. He didn't realise the mother was carrying babies on her back. Suffice to say, the babies met a swift end thanks to a can of Mortein.
Aaagh!! You know what I am like regarding any spider! Glad I did not meet that one!
ReplyDeleteI looked up from my laptop the other night and froze. A large, hairy monster was spreadeagled on the window pane in front of me. I made Peter check the "thing" was outside (we have had red backs inside that window) and told him to pull up the blind. Then I watched it---just in case! I barely took my eyes off it for a very long time. As soon as I did, it disappeared. I got the large torch and shone the light around the window. No idea why! Blush, blush! Anne