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Lulu The Lurcher
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This little fella is in my bath. Should I be afraid?
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Think it's one of the orb web spiders - not a False Widow if that's what you were concerned about.
If you don't like it being in your bath, and it's not a good place for a spider to be 'cos they can't get out, place a tumbler over it and slide a piece of card under it and lift it up, holding the card firmly to the opening of the tumbler - take it to the end of the garden and set it free
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The spider should be frightened Lulu, you might turn on the hot tap
In the sticks near Peterborough
Poor wee thing!
Has anyone had success with little bug ladders to help beaaties escape the bath?
No success here Clari, got one for OH and he's been in there a week.
Poor Devil. Bit early in the year for his annual isn't it?
Spring has come early Clari
but I'm worried about the pots & pans I put in with him.
Soz Lulu, for doing sillies on your thread
KEF
Thanks for this thread. I've been seeing a lot of these in my porchway at home (and one in the house the other day) and steering well clear thinking they were some real nasties. I can't keep up with home much their is to learn when you live in a rural area, in particular which beasties you need to be afraid of and which you dont. If only I wasn't such a total wimp when it comes to anything creepy crawly and anything winged it would be so much easier!
Got him safely out of the path and deposited him down the bottom of the garden
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