All Creatures Great & Small

[waitingman]

8 hours sleep in 144 hours...

Keeping wolves & black dogs at bay from various doors, including my own ~ although the neighbour's Blacken Retriever is currently curled up at my feet... how she got here is a mystery. I returned from breakfast at the local to find her stretched out on the loungeroom floor...??

Other unwelcome guests dealt with in the last 24 hours included hundreds of newly-hatched Huntsman spiders in a friend's bedroom. I'm sorry to report that they're all deceased ~ Mortein has a nasty effect on the new-born... & isn't so good for the adult humans wielding the can either.

I don't like killing spiders, but this was an exceptional circumstance... it's a bit difficult to convince hundreds of spiders to abandon the ceiling, walls, bed, carpet, wardrobe etc... & leave via the window. Adult Huntsmans are no problem ~ I've evicted dozens from WaitingManor over the years & a few Redbacks too. I have some Daddy Longlegs that live here year-round, even though they're a bit slack in keeping the mosquito population down in the bedroom. I only disturb them when the cobwebs get out of hand & dangle over the bed.

Curiously, this was the 2nd time I've inflicted genocide via pesticide on baby spiders at my friend's house. And the last time was in a different house ... Is Nature trying to tell her something?

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[freyaw.livejournal.com]

If you leave the spiderlings alone they leave within a week. Having them in the bedroom is, of course, much freakier than having them in the toilet (see icon).