Cursed spiders!

**Kongamato** · 09-20-2006, 15:47

I got three of them yesterday, two very small and insignificant, and one a larger, typical house spider. I'm thinking that the after-summer breeding and the cooling weather is driving the spiders indoors.

Also, during summer mornings I walk between a 2-3' space in between my car and a shrub. It seems there are always some invisible traveling threads left between the two.

**Silver Rusher** · 09-20-2006, 15:50

Another thing I was wondering was how the spiders get from one bush to another. Do they jump, or walk across the ground whilst leaving a long slack of web trailing behind, or do they somehow 'throw' the web strand across and pick it up again when they get there?

The mind boggles.

**Braden** · 09-20-2006, 16:44

Dunno where you live Silver but currently in the UK there is an official epidemic of spiders as the summer has been “perfect” for their growth.

Very hot and arid for long periods with sudden brief periods of heavy rain.
Plenty of food (flies and other smaller insects).

Yup, officially the year of the spider here in the UK. I do have a phobia of spiders (my father was bitten by one when I was very young, saw it all = later life phobia) but it isn’t too bad as long as they’re not in the house too much.

Besides the wife deals with it when they are.

They’re getting less and less now as the weather gets colder though.

**Silver Rusher** · 09-20-2006, 17:07

Originally Posted by Braden

Dunno where you live Silver but currently in the UK there is an official epidemic of spiders as the summer has been “perfect” for their growth.

Yep, I suspected something like that. I live in North London btw.

**Kongamato** · 09-20-2006, 23:10

Originally Posted by Silver Rusher

Another thing I was wondering was how the spiders get from one bush to another. Do they jump, or walk across the ground whilst leaving a long slack of web trailing behind, or do they somehow 'throw' the web strand across and pick it up again when they get there?

The mind boggles.

I believe that they plant a thread down on the leaf they are on, dangle off the leaf on the thread, and let the wind do the work from there.

**Csargo** · 09-21-2006, 02:21

This story reminds me of the story The Birds I think it was called where the birds came and killed people pretty good story except its with spiders now.