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14-10-2008, 03:29 PM   #1

Bad news for those frightened of spiders


More exotic spiders are making their homes in the UK....... they are believed to be arriving in imports of food and plants and are surviving thanks to our increasingly mild climate.......

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7573530.stm

Not only spiders either.........

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7574102.stm



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14-10-2008, 03:31 PM   #2

Re: Bad news for those frightened of spiders


Very interesting Mags, luckily I am not scared of spiders...Have not seen any of them yet though....



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14-10-2008, 03:43 PM   #3

Re: Bad news for those frightened of spiders


omg!!!!



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14-10-2008, 04:26 PM   #4

Re: Bad news for those frightened of spiders


I don't like spiders at all ........... shudder.

Certainly have seen those bright red lily beetles though - they've been here for several years now.

PS I squish 'em!



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14-10-2008, 04:33 PM   #5

Re: Bad news for those frightened of spiders


im not Scared of them..............just dont want them near or on me!!! !!

oh my god!!!!!!!!!! the Steatoda nobilis spider looks scaryly like the FOUR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i found outside in these werid bushes!! EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW i feel sick i hope it wasnt them 4 of them following eachother they were SO big YUKKKK

OH! i have also seen 2of them ladybirds i just thought they were a diff colour!!! one came in about 3 day ago and the cat went mad!! !



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14-10-2008, 04:51 PM   #6

Re: Bad news for those frightened of spiders


Eeeek! I had to stop looking at that link when the pics appeared; gave me the shudders! There's a story here, don't know if it's true or just an urban legend like alligators in the sewers, that tarantulas have been found in banana bunch imports.....



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14-10-2008, 06:10 PM   #7

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Originally Posted by dandysmom
Eeeek! I had to stop looking at that link when the pics appeared; gave me the shudders! There's a story here, don't know if it's true or just an urban legend like alligators in the sewers, that tarantulas have been found in banana bunch imports.....

Yes Eileen, we have been told that here also ........I'm sure I recall a news report of one being found in bananas,,,



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14-10-2008, 06:17 PM   #8

Re: Bad news for those frightened of spiders


Just wondered, I have evicted a couple of big spiders the past couple of nights, but did not really look at them, just caught them and chucked them out, wonder how many other people do that...For all I know they may have been an import!!



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14-10-2008, 06:28 PM   #9

Re: Bad news for those frightened of spiders


I love spiders! They are our friends, eat nasty flies.
Always try and keep a few spidies up near the cornice. Don't like them on the floor tho, or finding them in shoes, ugh. Just keep to their high places and we get on fine!



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14-10-2008, 06:35 PM   #10

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I am the same PP, rather have a spider than flies any day!



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