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  • 28-11-2013 6:17pm
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    tp25
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    I just met my neighbour, this time Steatoda grossa

    the net is facing north side of the compass (perhaps due to lack of sun and wetter than south side)

    s.g. has fallen from the net and tried to climb the door when I spotted it.


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    FirstIn
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    tp25 wrote: »
    I just met my neighbour, this time Steatoda grossa

    the net is facing north side of the compass (perhaps due to lack of sun and wetter than south side)

    s.g. has fallen from the net and tried to climb the door when I spotted it.
    The significance of this is?


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    tp25
    Registered Users Posts: 298 ✭✭tp25


    FirstIn wrote: »
    The significance of this is?
    to you none I imagine, if someone is allergic to bites then there is some significance to some


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    Zoo4m8
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    FirstIn wrote: »
    The significance of this is?

    False black widow spider, bite can get your attention...


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    pixbyjohn
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    http://www.gardenofireland.com/workbook/?p=536


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    Annasopra
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    tp25 wrote: »
    I just met my neighbour, this time Steatoda grossa

    the net is facing north side of the compass (perhaps due to lack of sun and wetter than south side)

    s.g. has fallen from the net and tried to climb the door when I spotted it.

    OP a couple of people have reported this post/thread. Could you please clarify - is the discussion specifically relevant to Greystones?

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    d31b0y
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    tp25 wrote: »
    I just met my neighbour, this time Steatoda grossa

    the net is facing north side of the compass (perhaps due to lack of sun and wetter than south side)

    s.g. has fallen from the net and tried to climb the door when I spotted it.

    I honestly had no clue what you were talking about when I first read your post. Why so obtuse?

    I have a heap of false black widows in my house. Sure they are grand. :)

    1236239_10151830906926072_695866035_n.jpg

    Sorry for the crummy quality.

    The markings on some of them are incredible. The one above had a gold rim all the way around it's body and the design on it's back looked like the transformers symbol.


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    tp25
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    d31b0y wrote: »
    I honestly had no clue what you were talking about when I first read your post. Why so obtuse?

    I have a heap of false black widows in my house. Sure they are grand. :)

    1236239_10151830906926072_695866035_n.jpg

    Sorry for the crummy quality.

    The markings on some of them are incredible. The one above had a gold rim all the way around it's body and the design on it's back looked like the transformers symbol.

    confirmed - this post relates to CL.

    the spider I approached was an exactly same species as the one above


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    tp25
    Registered Users Posts: 298 ✭✭tp25


    mango salsa wrote: »
    OP a couple of people have reported this post/thread. Could you please clarify - is the discussion specifically relevant to Greystones?

    yes clarified - it is.

    Moreover I think I have seen one years ago (the one at the time was huuuge, and I say huge means about inch.

    http://www.gardenofireland.com/workbook/?tag=false-widow


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    d31b0y
    Registered Users Posts: 2,028 ✭✭✭d31b0y


    tp25 wrote: »
    confirmed - this post relates to CL.

    the spider I approached was an exactly same species as the one above

    Ah, not quite I'm afraid. I have absconded from CL ;)


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    tp25
    Registered Users Posts: 298 ✭✭tp25


    :( tonight i saw babies... the larger one I removed the other day must have been a female.

    i will seek chemicals to treat the whole entrance area to the property


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    Annasopra
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    Thread moved to Zoology. It's not specifically relevant to Greystones forum

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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