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Tolerate False Widows on the house?

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Didn't someone post such a window on one of the makeover threads but maybe it was a door
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    edited August 2020
    Tolerate False Widows on the house?
    Hell no!
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I have very much come to appreciate spiders in the house as I have a clothes moth infestation. I leave the spiders webs and the spiders, in the hopes that they will help the situ. I don't like the large, black scuttly spiders that you see, from the tail of your eye, dash under sofa. Ugg. But I don't have those on the whole. I have the very elegant, spindly spiders that are almost transparent.

    I should say that I do often get bitten by spiders in bed (double puncture marks, very itchy) but I don't even mind that much any more. If I saw false widows in the house or large hairy creatures, I would mind a lot more.

    I don't envy Blue Onion her real black widows in the garden. Crikey.
  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066
    Spiders don't bother me, don't think I have ever been bitten by one.  I usually leave them alone.  Never had a big hairy spider in the house, not sure how I would feel about that.  I like to think about them eating all the flies which I really hate.
    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • Fran IOMFran IOM Posts: 2,872
    @B3  Yes it was a door under thread heading "the mysterious door in my garden".
    That was extremely well done. Could fool anyone except us on here.  :)
  • Sazz101Sazz101 Posts: 248
    Just wanted to give an update on the toleration of false windows 😂


    I was bitten on the wrist by a small one caught under my glove whilst moving a pot. It wasn’t awful. Swelling, pain and itching for a few days. Small scar. Definitely not as bad as a wasp sting.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Ungrateful buggrr😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • NewBoy2NewBoy2 Posts: 1,813
    Why dont we kill things ?

    Because WE can.   >:)
    Everyone is just trying to be Happy.....So lets help Them.
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Surely a false widow is one who helped her husband fake his own death for the insurance money.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Why?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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