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Thread: Fall Spiders
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09-15-2013, 01:26 PM #1
Fall Spiders
Do spiders go nuts everywhere in the fall spinning webs all over the place?
It's always the harbinger of winter here in the PNW.
Spidergawd and The Eep hour?Merde De Glace On the Freak When Ski
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09-15-2013, 01:30 PM #2
I don't know about the pnw spiders, but in Taos the tarantulas will be all over the highway right before the first snow. I don't know why.
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09-15-2013, 03:43 PM #3Registered User
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Ballooning spiders in the Fall are awesome ...... until they wrap around your face while biking to work.
I would guess that the pre-winter activity is an attempt to gain enough nutrients to to either lay eggs (and die) for the next spring's hatch, or just over-winter themselves.
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09-15-2013, 04:53 PM #4
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09-15-2013, 05:42 PM #5trenchman
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padded room post if you want the real experts.
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09-15-2013, 06:55 PM #6
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09-15-2013, 07:59 PM #7trenchman
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only off the indoors spiders and let the outdoor spiders off.
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09-15-2013, 08:20 PM #8Banned
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Gawd, this forum sucks... y'all are getting old as fuck!
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09-16-2013, 05:15 AM #9Registered User
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the black widows are blooming in utah!!!!
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09-16-2013, 10:52 AM #10
I used to mess with arachnids in my youth. Nothing to sociopathic mind you. The preying mantis vs arachnid battles, and stuff like that. But the only two times I have encountered Ms Widows scarred the buh jeebus out of me!!!
I leave the golden orbs alone, and let them take care of the flying insects outside. If they get to close for comfort on the indoors, then it's bye bye spider..."We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully." - Randy Pausch
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09-16-2013, 11:05 AM #11
Yeah, the webs all over the place are kind of annoying.
But when the rain or dew leaves jewelled nets hanging, it's a nice reminder that summer is over and winter is coming.
So I like it.Merde De Glace On the Freak When Ski
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09-16-2013, 11:28 AM #12
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09-16-2013, 11:31 AM #13
Oh come on! It's not the dry summer! It's the pending monster heavy snow winter dewd!
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09-16-2013, 01:26 PM #14trenchman
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09-16-2013, 01:32 PM #15
Greenwater squirrels are positively psychotic at present. Aggressive little fuckers are dropping cones like Assad drops bombs.
Wasps have gone rabid evidenced by my recent 19 wasp stings.
Wife killing spiders like mad... I have become Buddhaish and move them outside......karma points for me.
Signs are good.TGR Bureau Chief, Greenwater, WA
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09-16-2013, 01:34 PM #16
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09-16-2013, 06:43 PM #17trenchman
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yes they are and the girls had some even smaller briefs.
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09-17-2013, 05:18 AM #18
Indian summer is called "old womens' summer" in german because a common type of spider uses threads that look like long white hair to fly around. they apparently shoot a thread out of their butt and when it's long enough wind or rising air picks them up. Typical indian summer weather is often still warm enough for a convective boundary layer to develop during the day in otherwise very calm weather and the spiders get lifted up a lot. Eventually they fall on your face. The threads just sort of hang in the air until you walk into them.
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09-17-2013, 09:06 AM #19Registered User
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Altweibersommer!!!!!!!! yay klar for the back story!!!!!!!!!!!
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The black widows have been unusually fuzzy. That's always a good sign.
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For the NW folks, Burke Museum has a nice little site on spider myths.
Spiders are most numerous in late summer
Spiders come into houses in the fall to get out of the cold
Spiders in sinks and bathtubs come up through the drain
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09-17-2013, 10:01 PM #23
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09-17-2013, 10:08 PM #24Registered User
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My favorite late summer spider photo.
Believe it or don't.
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09-17-2013, 10:17 PM #25
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