Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Spiders
How do they get their webs right across the garden?? It's like one of those laser beam games getting to the shed without incident right now
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Permalink Reply by Maddy on
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Mine creep up in the night and spin right across the back door - so there's no way to get out without demolishing the web.
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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Their engineering skills are phenomenal. I try to move webs from across the path but it's a delicate task. They cross gaps by a three-sided route - fasten high up, drop down, walk across, climb, haul in the slack, to give the first strand across. An unsolved mystery is how these spiders get their webs across a river.
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Permalink Reply by Milda Rami on
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They are freaking me out!
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If you have big spider problems I strongly recommend the London Zoo Friendly Spider programme - an afternoon course at the end of which you will be astonished to find yourself playing with real spiders. It's all booked up now for this year (maybe they do cancellations/waiting lists?) as it's so popular. The strongest part of it is the other participants - where you all understand what it's like to be frozen with fear by a half-inch speck from across the room. Here's me at the end of it - trigger warning, this pic includes Frieda the red-kneed bird eater. Actually tarantulas are easy, its the speedy UK ones that make me jump, still, but at least now I can deal with them where we all survive.
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I used to hate spiders - partly I think because my mother always freaked out about them. Then when my son was born, I resolved not to be the kind of mother who was afraid of spiders, and taught myself to be almost completely relaxed about them, except for very big ones in the house, which I catch in a cup and slide a piece of card under it to re-locate them. The weird thing is, now my son professes to be scared of them - I blame the Harry Potter films.
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Permalink Reply by jackie Walduck on
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Wow indeed! Thanks Pam for the trigger warning, managed to look, and am very impressed, even more with the Uk ones. Will try the programme at ZSL - looks like a great idea - no wonder it's booked up ...
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Permalink Reply by Madeline on
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They fly. They use their webs like sails or a 'rope' swing and let the wind carry them across, a sort of spider Tarzan scenario. Especially the little ones like money spiders. They actually 'migrate' to a different area by casting their web to the wind, hanging on and letting the breeze carry them to a new home.
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Frieda wasn't exactly light as a breeze. And the thought of them arriving in 3D is too much. Little ones are OK.
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They can also release some web and let that drift over until it sticks on something. They then use it as a hanging bridge to get over and begin the job of tidying and tightening up all the threads before adding the rest of the web. I've seen a photo some where taken one day in an Epping Forest clearing with the early morning sun shining on all these drifting and waving threads. It must have been an ideal web spinning day that day.
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