Comments on: Spiders

By: tikitu (Spontson Borealis)

tikitu (Spontson Borealis) — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:47:35 +0000

Hm, hadn’t noticed that the indoor ones were any different. I’ll check it out when I get home (haven’t seen nearly so many inside lately anyway — colder weather maybe?).

By: Spontson Australis

Spontson Australis — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 05:03:01 +0000

Ah, spiders. The striped legs probably indicate Araneus diadematus (European garden spider)– very pretty, and very elegant webs. I’d be surprised if they were coming indoors though. Are your indoor companions similar in appearance? I’d be interested to know what your assailant was; perhaps a Tegenaria, the males of which tend to be out nocturnally on the razzle around this time of year. I’ve never seen one abseil, though.

Haven’t met many spiders in Dunedin, except for a white-tail which crawled out of a rivet gun I was using last summer.

By: szopa

szopa — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:17:58 +0000

Well, it’s small and full of spiders, but it’s still a garden. I hope that eventually we will be able to organize barbeques and so on (at the moment we don’t know anyone and aren’t quite sure where to buy a bbq device, no to mention coal — and are too afraid to ask ^_^).

(Oh, and right at this very moment a very very disgusting snail sneaked from the garden into the flat… I didn’t know we had some of those. It’s good that it wasn’t Julka the first person to observe the bug…)

Dutch: well, how can it be that for a week in this country no one has mannaged to explain me how should I read the names of the streets? It’s not so funny when you say where you live and people first don’t understand for a second and then start to laugh. ^_^

By: tikitu

tikitu — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 07:42:01 +0000

You've got a garden? <envies>

Dutch freaky: that's rich, coming from Mr. how-many-cases-in-Polish? ^_^

By: szopa

szopa — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 16:54:54 +0000

Heh... We just moved into our studio in Leuven and guess what... Yes we've got spiders. Lots of spiders. And they are big. And anoying -- the garden is hardly accessible due to their nets.

I think that spiders may be considered the natural enemies of foreign students in the Low Countries.

And, yes, Dutch is a bit freaky.

By: tikitu

tikitu — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:03:28 +0000

There’s a big difference between spiders capable of biting and the ones you really don’t want to bite you… Also, they’re not naturally agressive (like wasps) and they don’t tend to fly into your hair (like bees and so on) so you’re usually safe.

I don’t honestly know how many of the mosquitoes they really catch though — and those that do I guess they often only get after they’ve done their nasty little sucking thing. (Extra protein for spidey but extra annoying for me.)

By: jacob

jacob — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 18:19:22 +0000

Spiders are real cute. However I don't recall ever being bitten by one. If asked, I would say the Netherlands have no indigenous spiders capable of biting humans. Of course this is just some belief of mine I cannot justify.

I guess you could argue that if you have enough spiders in your room it becomes unlikely that there are any other arthropods around to bite you.