You would tickle the underside of the spider and it didn’t move?
Yep, this one stayed around for ages and ages, I'd regularly accidentally break the web, which was always in the same place - it probably just rolled all its eyes and put up with me! I do like a chunky spider.
I tickle my frogs behind their ears and they don’t seem to mind. I would guess their neural wiring is not arranged such that they can conclude “someone is tickling me behind my ears would be if I had ears”. Maybe spiders lack that “oooo, someone is tickling my belly” wiring too.
I have a large widow in my bedroom that I would rather not be there. I put a super-sticky yellow fly catching strip over her lair. But no, she will not be caught. She very carefully avoids the whole thing and uses it as a handy lair-defence. You would think she would, one day, wander on to it by mistake, but she is far too smart for that. I will keep a count of how many years she is in residence.
Awww 😢 Put an open jar there, she'll probably web it. I had 3 frogs, and I used to give one a little stroke on the head too. I think I only have one left but he's shy. They used to sit by the bird dishes and wait for the slugs to wander onto their dinner plates. 😄
A beautiful, large diadem (or cross) spider on the community plot today. In encouraging it to sit still, the spider ran up my arm, which I tried to enjoy, but all the legs, moving at speed, tickled too much for me to feel entirely sanguine about the experience.
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In this pic you can see the spider silk retracted in on itself, like slack rubber. It's still attached to the spider, having swung from my arm. It's one of those things you only see in a photo and didn't notice at the time. It could spin at such great speed - as if the spider was falling without falling.
You can see the diamond markings that gives its name. I hope it wasn't too much of a cross spider.
Awww 😢 Put an open jar there, she'll probably web it.
@Slow-worm I like spiders, but I draw a line at a widow in the bedroom. I've always regular spider bites (with puncture marks) in my bed in my current house and I don't appreciate them.
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Put an open jar there, she'll probably web it.
I had 3 frogs, and I used to give one a little stroke on the head too. I think I only have one left but he's shy. They used to sit by the bird dishes and wait for the slugs to wander onto their dinner plates. 😄
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@Slow-worm I like spiders, but I draw a line at a widow in the bedroom. I've always regular spider bites (with puncture marks) in my bed in my current house and I don't appreciate them.