Anyone know what this is?

[Warp]

I've grown up with these things being fairly common but not sure what they really are.

Obviously I'm only using the plastic container for photographic purposes...

[donnygeoff]

That looks like a common HOUSE SPIDER.

 

 http://www.animalphotos.me/spider/spider-hse.htm

 

[riyadhcrew]

Must be a big bl**dy house.

[Polly]

It's a spider innit?

This time of year they come into open windows, you can hear them trekking across the carpet and argh! they jump.

Wolf spider??? House spider...I wouldn't care to offend it by calling it 'common'.

[Polly]

Is the blur because your hand is shaking?

[Polly]

I use marigolds for spider eviction from the boat, picking them up then is not a problem for me.

[ranworthbreeze]

The last spider I caught running across our lounge carpet, I caught by placing a pint glass over it, I seemed to have one handy at the time.

The spiders legs touched the sides of the glass, Tan swears it was grinning at her.

 

Regards

Alan

[JennyMorgan]

Attached Thumbnails, that's comforting, something to chew on!

 

Utterly harmless on wooden boats but lethal on plastic. The humble polyestermite can be devastating  but those things are grp's worst enemy.

[MauriceMynah]

How comes Peter? I tend to encourage them on my boat, to keep the nasties away!

 

Though they do tend to poo rather a lot!

[JennyMorgan]

John, have you ever heard of spider cracks in wooden boats? Probably not, but I suspect that you have in plastic ones. The web is full of advice on mending them in tupperware boats, but not in timber ones:

http://www.diy-fiberglass-boat-repair.com/spider-cracks.html

[donnygeoff]

have you ever heard of spider cracks in wooden boats? Probably not, but I suspect that you have in plastic ones. The web is full of advice


Made me laugh, especially THE WEB bit.....

 

 

[MauriceMynah]

Slaps hand over eyes and groans a bit!

[Hockham Admiral]

John, have you ever heard of spider cracks in wooden boats? Probably not, but I suspect that you have in plastic ones. The web is full of advice on mending them in tupperware boats, but not in timber ones:

http://www.diy-fiberglass-boat-repair.com/spider-cracks.html

That's a really useful article, thanks Peter, but I guess we'll have to wait until she's out of the water again....  :clap

[CooWee]

You could try a terrier, she doesn't approve of anything smaller than her being allowed to live.  Leigh is a bit slow for rabbits these days, but frogs, spiders, flies and moles are fair game to her.  The not quite so lean, mean, killing machine.  Dave, I have a son who was a rather good roughie toughie rugby player but cannot stand spiders and I rather suspect his wife Sandra plays a similar role to Jen. :shock:

 

Personally I don't mind one or two hanging around, I like flies less.

 

Keith

[Polly]

.  Dave, I have a son who was a rather good roughie toughie rugby player but cannot stand spiders and I rather suspect his wife Sandra plays a similar role to Jen

 

Keith

[CooWee]

"So moving to Australia was aversion therapy??"

 

Not really Pauline, while we visiting Hanging Rock towards the end of the Australian trip a spider with a red spot on its back landed on Gareth and boy you should have seen that dance routine.  With the usual wifely sympathy, Sandra couldn't stop laughing.

 

Keith

[Timbo]

I'm usually all for the conservationist types (or beardy weirdies) but when they start releasing these things on the Broads the inevitable outcome is going to be my size 12 making contact...with a little added grinding motion just to make sure! 

[MauriceMynah]

The article said...

"They're big, they're beautiful and they have to fly the flag for other species."

 

Yeah, right!... I'm with you Tim!

[Hockham Admiral]

An old chestnut but we keep conkers in a bowl in the cabins and other places.

We don't have a problem with spiders that way!

Don't forget "If you wish to live and thrive,let a spider stay alive!

[BroadScot]

As I live in a very sandy soil area the blighters are getting bigger and bigger to the extent, I too now use the accidental size 11 with the twist the foot motion just to make sure. 

 

Working in attics and below floors they never bothered me including many old webs, but when they dash across the floor its kerzap time!

 

Iain.

[Polly]

Note to self, avoid Strumpshaw Fen!

[CooWee]

Beautiful is not a word I would use Tim, if I saw one on board though I would throw it overboard rather than that squashed mess to clear up. "Use your own raft not mine."

 

Strumpshaw Fen is one the places we are thinking of visiting next time there, since we'll have a 12 year old nature lover with us.

[SPEEDTRIPLE]

John, have you ever heard of spider cracks in wooden boats? Probably not, but I suspect that you have in plastic ones. The web is full of advice on mending them in tupperware boats, but not in timber ones:

http://www.diy-fiberglass-boat-repair.com/spider-cracks.html

 

 

Would that be a "spiders web" full o f advice?.

[Guest]

.....Utterly harmless on wooden boats but lethal on plastic. The humble polyestermite can be devastating  but those things are grp's worst enemy.

 

 

Anyone wishing to dispose of an old GRP hull would wish that were true Peter, the damn stuff is all but indestructible, unlike beautifully varnished "bio-degradables". 

 

I'm like John, I find conkers work quite well, though I've never found a shred of scientific evidence to prove it.

 

On the boat I also use anti-spider chestnut spray, which presumably works for the same reasons, (and can be used to freshen up conkers mid-season, like putting tomato sauce on tomatoes.) (yummy)