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Although that's justification, I'm not so heartless as to kill something just to kill it. (Although rattlers and cottom mouths in the yard get dispatched pretty quickly by either Denise or I!)
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I just KNEW there was a reason I live'd in Minnesota and put up with winter 17 months a year....thanks....
Al....who'll never complain about moskitoes again...well, not for awhile anyway..
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I like to think I'm helping spiders evolve:
I only kill the ones stupid enough to put a web where I can walk into it.
Yoga class makes me feel like a total stud, mostly because I'm about as flexible as a 2x4.
"Design"? Possibly. "Intelligent"? Sure doesn't look like it from this angle.
We used to be hunter gatherers. Now we're shopper borrowers.
The three most important words in the English language: "Front Towards Enemy".
The world makes a lot more sense when you remember that Butthead was the smart one.
You can never be too rich, too thin, or have too much ammo.
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"She" is still there, and that web is pretty full of dead little bugs. So "she" is doing "her" job quite well. I plan to leave "her" alone...that is until I open the spa, which I haven't done since I found "her" there. Unfortunately for "her", she's positioned in such a way that the spa cover will make a direct hit to "her" and "her" web upon opening. Hopefully "she" won't be harmed and can find a safer place to set up house and continue eating all our pesky little bugs.
(I put all the gender refrences above in quotes, since I find it odd, with my disdain for spiders, to be referring to "her" in such a way!)
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Don't have much problems with snakes here in SE Michigan. Don't even see a lot of spiders despite living in a hardwood forest up a hill from several acres of wetlands. The spiders I generally do see are wolf spiders in the house and I love them. One of their favorite prey is cockroaches which makes wolf spiders high on my list of favorite insects. Especially since they don't spin webs. On the other hand, I have seen one jump about 8 feet off a wall to land on a cockroach(several houses ago though). Quite impressive although it can give you a start.
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Sorry to burst your bubble, but I had 3 or 4 of those garden spiders under our deck just a week ago. They do a number on anything that lands in their web and weave the biggest nicest looking orb webs around.Originally Posted by Al Willits
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I just KNEW there was a reason I live'd in Minnesota and put up with winter 17 months a year....thanks....
And if you are around bluffs - there are some rattlers around here too.....
No black widows or brown recluse this far north that I know of so you are safe there.
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My wife just pointed out one of those in our garden today. Must be a female, because the body of these beastie looked like it was about 2 inches long.
Funny coincidence.
Where did I put that tape measure...
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