lord_seagrave Posted November 17, 2022 Report Share Posted November 17, 2022 OK, perhaps a weird one, but I’ve got four or five false widows keeping themselves to themselves in various windows and crevices around the house. What can I (or indeed, should I) feed them through the winter? LS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old farrier Posted November 17, 2022 Report Share Posted November 17, 2022 My pet one in my truck is partial to tiny bits of corned beef tiny bits out of my sandwich Tuesday and Thursday very relaxing watching him 😊👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Neal Posted November 17, 2022 Report Share Posted November 17, 2022 When I used to fish I'd drop the occasional maggot into the webs in the garage whilst I sorted out my kit for the next day. I found it quite fascinating to watch the spiders dash out do their job with clinical precision! If you don't fancy leaving some meat to rot and get fly blown, maybe see if you can scavenge a few caterpillars from the undersides of leaves? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_seagrave Posted November 18, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2022 I’m not a fisherman, but I do like corned beef. I’ll give it a try. LS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dougy Posted November 18, 2022 Report Share Posted November 18, 2022 Be careful if the high salt content in the corned beef. Plenty of natural little bugs around the garden to feed them with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted November 18, 2022 Report Share Posted November 18, 2022 (edited) Do not have any problem in this old house. We have cluster flies come into the roof every winter and have plenty of spiders and a lot of the daddy long types which I understand are not acrually spiders. Like a horror film when you go up the stairs to the attics with webs crisscrossing from one side to the other. Edited November 18, 2022 by Walker570 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MirokuMK70 Posted November 18, 2022 Report Share Posted November 18, 2022 Spiders are an abomination of nature and don't deserve to live. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old farrier Posted November 18, 2022 Report Share Posted November 18, 2022 1 hour ago, Dougy said: Be careful if the high salt content in the corned beef. Plenty of natural little bugs around the garden to feed them with. It’s not the salt in the corned beef they need to worry about in my truck 😂😂 the whole thing is a moving environmental health hazard 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P08 Posted November 18, 2022 Report Share Posted November 18, 2022 I like the thought of looking after your spider's, I lived in a large victorian house with a cellar, anyhow some huge spiders would come up into the living room, never bothering you, brought my daughter up with the saying, spiders are good flies are bad, It still stands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted November 18, 2022 Report Share Posted November 18, 2022 11 hours ago, Jim Neal said: If you don't fancy leaving some meat to rot and get fly blown, maybe see if you can scavenge a few caterpillars from the undersides of leaves? It doesn’t take much, I'm still getting flies on the mouse traps I the garage, if I don't check the traps for a couple of days there wriggling, despite it being November. 2 hours ago, MirokuMK70 said: Spiders are an abomination of nature and don't deserve to live. 🤣🤣🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted November 18, 2022 Report Share Posted November 18, 2022 (edited) woooow...........what a post christ on a stick they even sell spider food on the net https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/403885242028?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=710-134428-41853-0&mkcid=2&mkscid=101&itemid=403885242028&targetid=1817264051035&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=1007246&poi=&campaignid=18521530791&mkgroupid=144999981591&rlsatarget=pla-1817264051035&abcId=9302159&merchantid=6995734&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIjvjw7cu3-wIVyJ7tCh1SFwMXEAQYAyABEgLTUvD_BwE Edited November 18, 2022 by ditchman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amateur Posted November 18, 2022 Report Share Posted November 18, 2022 (edited) 8 minutes ago, ditchman said: woooow...........what a post christ on a stick they even sell spider food on the net https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/403885242028?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=710-134428-41853-0&mkcid=2&mkscid=101&itemid=403885242028&targetid=1817264051035&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=1007246&poi=&campaignid=18521530791&mkgroupid=144999981591&rlsatarget=pla-1817264051035&abcId=9302159&merchantid=6995734&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIjvjw7cu3-wIVyJ7tCh1SFwMXEAQYAyABEgLTUvD_BwE Now, there's a business opportunity for you Rodney, sorry, I mean Simon. Next year you could be rich! You could even get fat Sarah involved (to pinch that old African lady and the watermelon joke) Edited November 18, 2022 by amateur Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrpip Posted November 18, 2022 Report Share Posted November 18, 2022 Opened greenhouse door today and a wasp flew in, this one won't need feeding for a while, bit of a scrap and dragged him up into the eaves. Nature at its best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dougy Posted November 18, 2022 Report Share Posted November 18, 2022 3 hours ago, ditchman said: woooow...........what a post christ on a stick they even sell spider food on the net https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/403885242028?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=710-134428-41853-0&mkcid=2&mkscid=101&itemid=403885242028&targetid=1817264051035&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=1007246&poi=&campaignid=18521530791&mkgroupid=144999981591&rlsatarget=pla-1817264051035&abcId=9302159&merchantid=6995734&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIjvjw7cu3-wIVyJ7tCh1SFwMXEAQYAyABEgLTUvD_BwE Cant believe it. But its given me an idea how to use any old socks, fill with meat scraps and hang out in the summer and collect the maggots, then once the casters turn box up the flies and sell on PW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisjpainter Posted November 18, 2022 Report Share Posted November 18, 2022 This thread warms my heart. Nice to see some spider love! got four noble false widows (Steatoda.nobilis) in the conservatory - Hamlet, Gertrude, Ophelia and Laertes - and they seem to keep themselves well fed. Supplementary feeding for the nobles is usually by way of woodlice. Plentiful and easy to catch. We have a couple of cupboard false widows (S.grossa) in the shed; they feed on woodlice mainly. There's also a giant house spider in there and I wouldn't fancy her chances if one of the falsies had a chance at her! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerCat Posted November 18, 2022 Report Share Posted November 18, 2022 There's a house spider in my loft that could pick up a grown man, give me nightmares going up there. Its actually run at me with its legs up before truing to have a go. Not afraid to admit I went the other way. The ones in the house I feed insecticide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
30-6 Posted November 18, 2022 Report Share Posted November 18, 2022 After seeing my neighbours leg after a false black widow bite, they wouldn't be entertained at all in my house, especially with grandkids. House and harvest on the other hand get scooped up and relocated to the garden. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
30-6 Posted November 18, 2022 Report Share Posted November 18, 2022 My youngest granddaughter had a school day recently with various little beasties. She has a picture with a tarantula crawling all over her. 8, 3 and 3, two girls and one boy, they'll pick anything up, don't seem to be afraid of crawlies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisjpainter Posted November 18, 2022 Report Share Posted November 18, 2022 53 minutes ago, 30-6 said: After seeing my neighbours leg after a false black widow bite, they wouldn't be entertained at all in my house, especially with grandkids. House and harvest on the other hand get scooped up and relocated to the garden. Any idea which species of false widow this was? The chances are that if your neighbour has them, you do too! They're actually incredibly docile, placid spiders. most of the time they're happy just to go about their business and can be handled (carefully) pretty well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robden Posted November 19, 2022 Report Share Posted November 19, 2022 I have a spider that lives in my driver's door mirror. Don't know which brand I'm afraid, but the other day whilst driving, I noticed that it was blowing in the wind, on a single strand of web and couldn't get back to the mirror................so I pulled over. The spid, shot up the web and back into it's home. How sad am I???????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12gauge82 Posted November 19, 2022 Report Share Posted November 19, 2022 I love this, a bunch of cold hearted hunters who go around the countryside blasting defenseless animals, who also feed spiders and pull their cars over so itsy can safely get back into its wing mirror home 🤣. Seriously though, it confirms what I already know, most shooters enjoy nature in all its forms and above all else, genuinely care about it and want to preserve it for the future. I'd love to see an anti read this thread and maybe change some of their preconceptions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loriusgarrulus Posted November 19, 2022 Report Share Posted November 19, 2022 Not sure what species they are, but the fields by the track down to the wood often have webs stretched horizontally across the grass when the sheep arn't there. It can look pretty spectacular on a sunny morning when the dew is on them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diver One Posted November 19, 2022 Report Share Posted November 19, 2022 I feed my kitchen spiders with flies that I have hunted down with my fly twatting electric swatter. At weekends I let the victim rest on the zapper for a few seconds to 'cook it' when cleaning the windows I collect the spiders, put to one side, clean window, put spiders back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve s×s Posted November 19, 2022 Report Share Posted November 19, 2022 On 18/11/2022 at 07:20, lord_seagrave said: I’m not a fisherman, but I do like corned beef. I’ll give it a try. LS Noooooo not beef they'll get BSE and turn crazy LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loriusgarrulus Posted November 19, 2022 Report Share Posted November 19, 2022 4 minutes ago, steve s×s said: Noooooo not beef they'll get BSE and turn crazy LOL Just like us forum members then. 🤷♀️ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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