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11-09-2007, 08:44 PM   #11

Re: Big Spider....


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It is just a regular common garden spider Jac, you can tell by the white cross on it's back. Just a bit of a monster sized one! They are said to be a lot bigger this year due to the mild weather last winter.

I let her go outside DM.
Eeeek! To propagate and breed more??? Horrors.......



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11-09-2007, 08:45 PM   #12

Re: Big Spider....


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Eeeek! To propagate and breed more??? Horrors.......
Get these spiders neutered!!!



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11-09-2007, 08:55 PM   #13

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Get these spiders neutered!!!


Stomping works just fine for me, Mags!!!



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11-09-2007, 09:15 PM   #14

Re: Big Spider....


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_garden_spider



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11-09-2007, 09:21 PM   #15

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Oh yes, that's the one Random ....... I've never seen one of those indoors before, only the big hairy-legged ones!!



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11-09-2007, 09:25 PM   #16

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I didn't open the link because I knew there'd be pics, and I cannot look at them.....



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11-09-2007, 09:27 PM   #17

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I think she had a web over the window and I dislodged it when I opened the window because when I walked in the bathroom later she was hanging from the window stay, she must have came in to get her own back! lol!



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11-09-2007, 09:31 PM   #18

Re: Big Spider....


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I think she had a web over the window and I dislodged it when I opened the window because when I walked in the bathroom later she was hanging from the window stay, she must have came in to get her own back! lol!
Lol not helping us phobics there!!

Spiders brrrrrrrrrr



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11-09-2007, 09:33 PM   #19

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I know most of them are harmless and ecologically valuable, but I get the horrors nonetheless! Bad spider phobia!



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11-09-2007, 09:45 PM   #20

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Ok hands up how many people afraid of spiders clicked on a thread saying BIG SPIDER just out of curiousity?!



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