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    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?
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    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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    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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    Well they are going boingers at my place. I have spent the last 4 days cleaning up the yard and killing those fuckers relentlessly, as they are everywhere.
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    padded room post if you want the real experts.
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    Quote Originally Posted by liv2ski View Post
    Well they are going boingers at my place. I have spent the last 4 days cleaning up the yard and killing those fuckers relentlessly, as they are everywhere.
    You must have stacked up quite a period of bad luck. 7 years per spider.

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    only off the indoors spiders and let the outdoor spiders off.
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    Gawd, this forum sucks... y'all are getting old as fuck!

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    the black widows are blooming in utah!!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Slaag Master View Post


    the black widows are blooming in utah!!!!
    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...
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    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.
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    Yep. Seems even more spidery than normal and has been much earlier too? The unusually dry summer?

    Also lots of wasps and vast numbers of fir cones.
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    Oh come on! It's not the dry summer! It's the pending monster heavy snow winter dewd!
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    Quote Originally Posted by PNWbrit View Post
    Yep. Seems even more spidery than normal and has been much earlier too? The unusually dry summer?

    Also lots of wasps and vast numbers of fir cones.
    and some really great tan lines at the beach!
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    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by flowing alpy View Post
    and some really great tan lines at the beach!
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    Your speedoz are where the sun don't shine?
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    yes they are and the girls had some even smaller briefs.
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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by YetiMan View Post
    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.
    male tarantulas "migrate" or travel long distances every fall in search of female tarantulas to mate with

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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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    KILL IT WITH FIRE.
    No longer stuck.

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    Just an uneducated guess.

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    My favorite late summer spider photo.



    Believe it or don't.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wra View Post
    My favorite late summer spider photo.



    Believe it or don't.
    That is a GREAT photo.

    Up in ID the black widows are very busy, so are the bees.

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