How big, and of what variety are these invaders? We get a lot of "daddy long legs" here, which don't bother me too much, but we also get some smaller, but more hardy-looking variety that creeps me out much more.
We have the invasion of the "sugar ants", the tiny little, harmless black ants that get everywhere.
The ants tend to remain outside, but we are like grass spider/funnel weaver heaven here. There are a group of quite blond grass spiders that get into the house, and I saw one in the trunk of the car already. Not sure what fell on my head, although it didn't look too gruesome, once it wasn't crawling around on my body.
As spider season really kicks in, there will be an influx of house spiders, grass spiders, and those patroller spiders who fall into the tub and can't get out. Harvestmen almost never get into the house, even though they like the brickwork near the door - are your daddy long legs the harvestmen, or the true spiders with disorganized webs and super thin legs?
I just get tired of having to handle the laundry so carefully in summer, because they like to nap there. Maybe if I set the laundry baskets on a table? I dunno.
well, I had to wiki to see the difference and I'm still kind of confused, and since I don't really look that closely at them, I'd just say that the very spindly legged picture of the brown thing on the Harvestmen page looked most like what we get, so I guess that's what we have. :) Mostly they are in the garage, but I do see 'em in the house on rainy days. Haven't noticed webs, try to avoid seeing them. :)
We called those guys with bodies that look like discs, like pills, no web, like to sit in the brickwork, daddy long legs, even though sites like this one say they're harvestmen. It's all confusing.
The harvestman in the photo is too gray to be local to us - we get super thin black legs on ours, like nylon bristle, almost, none of this gray coloring. Some of them are wider than my hand.
The site says they don't have venom. We used to play with them as kids, so they must not do too much biting even without venom. :)
Here (Georgia) the Harvestman is the one we call Daddy Long Legs. The Crane fly you sometimes hear called a Mosquito Hawk; and I have a bunch of those Pholcid house spiders in my house. They're actually kind of placid. No, I've never heard of a Daddy Long Legs biting, but they've always creeped me out, partly because they'll kinda poke-poke at you, and it's easy to pull their legs off by accident (gross)
Almost everything out here is gray or brown to blend in with our desert-ness. :) And we get all kinds of fun stuff around here, vinegaroon scorpions being one of the more exciting/creepy ones. But mostly it's just the spiders, ants, beetles, and the like.
Re: scary arthropodiabec_87rbMay 8 2008, 20:44:09 UTC
mmmmm SCORPIONS. Dang, that sounds entirely too exciting for me. As in, if you leave your shoes on the floor overnight, scorpions will crawl into them? And sting your little toes when you put the shoes on?
We have the invasion of the "sugar ants", the tiny little, harmless black ants that get everywhere.
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As spider season really kicks in, there will be an influx of house spiders, grass spiders, and those patroller spiders who fall into the tub and can't get out. Harvestmen almost never get into the house, even though they like the brickwork near the door - are your daddy long legs the harvestmen, or the true spiders with disorganized webs and super thin legs?
I just get tired of having to handle the laundry so carefully in summer, because they like to nap there. Maybe if I set the laundry baskets on a table? I dunno.
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http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/spidermyth/myths/daddyvenom.html
We called those guys with bodies that look like discs, like pills, no web, like to sit in the brickwork, daddy long legs, even though sites like this one say they're harvestmen. It's all confusing.
The harvestman in the photo is too gray to be local to us - we get super thin black legs on ours, like nylon bristle, almost, none of this gray coloring. Some of them are wider than my hand.
The site says they don't have venom. We used to play with them as kids, so they must not do too much biting even without venom. :)
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suuuuue, suuuuue, are you edible? are you ... tasty? *poke-a-poke with a feathery leg* can I have a ...nibble?
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH1111!
*seriously, bec, that creeped me*
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"they'll kinda poke-poke at you" gave me a little mental movie? 'Cause that is exactly what they do.
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*sniffs*
*hopes you're happy now*
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