Anyone else notice a larger number of small ones round the house this summer? I'm sure they purposely hang at eye level for you to walk into them and flap around like a loon.
I now have a live and let live policy when it comes to insects and bugs, and will always let a creature out rather than squish it against the glass etc, however I always feel one kind of spider abuses my laissez faire policy. Its the spiders who decide to live in my car wing mirrors and produce enormous webs full of insects and plant matter and royally piss me off.
Has anyone had a large wasp like bug in the house? I don't think its a hornet.
Asian hornet?, I think you are supposed to grab a pic and call it in.
That ain't an accurate representation on the size of the Asian Hornets present in Western Europe. Think that is another type that actually live in Asia.
My dad encountered one of those Asian Hornets in his house, he told me about it, I said "You are meant to call them in and report them, take a photo etc" he sent me a photo of the very dead and battered Asian Hornet having taken several strikes from a moccasin. It was massive, no wonder the concern about them and the chaos they could cause to the native bees
My dad encountered one of those Asian Hornets in his house, he told me about it, I said "You are meant to call them in and report them, take a photo etc" he sent me a photo of the very dead and battered Asian Hornet having taken several strikes from a moccasin. It was massive, no wonder the concern about them and the chaos they could cause to the native bees
Well they've made it to europe it's only a matter of time before they make it across the channel ( possibly in small dinghy's)
Yep OP is definitely a Garden Spider. Just like this one I got the other day.
Talking of Hornets (bog standard, not Asian) I got stung the other day. I saw a nest when I was out and about and got too close for their comfort. It was worth it though to get some cool pics.
Yep OP is definitely a Garden Spider. Just like this one I got the other day.
Talking of Hornets (bog standard, not Asian) I got stung the other day. I saw a nest when I was out and about and got too close for their comfort. It was worth it though to get some cool pics.
I got attacked by a load of Asian Hornets when I disturbed their nest in our electric meter box, after a storm in France. It was only a couple of weeks after my kidney transplant. Reckon I was done about 10 to 15 times around the ankles and head / neck. Managed to get my gear out the van and treat the nest before collapsing on the drive. Seems I was lucky to get away with 2 weeks of fever and the obvious pain of the stings as some of the local farmers reckon that 5 stings would kill a Limousin cow.
I now have a live and let live policy when it comes to insects and bugs, and will always let a creature out rather than squish it against the glass etc, however I always feel one kind of spider abuses my laissez faire policy. Its the spiders who decide to live in my car wing mirrors and produce enormous webs full of insects and plant matter and royally piss me off.
Whenever we sort the garden out, always tell my wife not to overfill any bags she fills, so I can tie them before taking them to the tip, stop any flies, spiders etc getting out in the car on the way to the tip.
Without fail she doesn't bloody listen and I end up with a spider lurking and making cobwebs inside the car to join the ones by the wing mirror.
Spiders don't bother me at all, but they do my wife. When I met her, there was a spider in the car and she tried to get out whilst we were moving. I don't inderstand it. No spider from this country is going to do you any harm!
I really don't get on well with spiders. Imagine my horror, then, when visiting friends in Australia, and we went off to lunch. As we drove away and turned into the sun, I flipped down the visor and this giant spider fell on to me. I was petrified. I now know it was a giant banded huntsman. I don't want to meet another. Think two inch body and over six inch leg span and very, very quick.
Don't worry they don't often bite humans I was told.
(On the same trip, I was viciously beaked by an Australian Magpie and had my polo mints stolen from my pocket by a kangaroo's creepy little hands. Australia - best to avoid in my opinion.)
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All my friends were laughing, but I wasn't.
Mrs Baldy says that's it but i'm not so sure.
Talking of Hornets (bog standard, not Asian) I got stung the other day. I saw a nest when I was out and about and got too close for their comfort. It was worth it though to get some cool pics.
Without fail she doesn't bloody listen and I end up with a spider lurking and making cobwebs inside the car to join the ones by the wing mirror.
Don't worry they don't often bite humans I was told.
(On the same trip, I was viciously beaked by an Australian Magpie and had my polo mints stolen from my pocket by a kangaroo's creepy little hands. Australia - best to avoid in my opinion.)
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