Sure they eat bugs and things like that. And if they’d just find their own “out of the way” spot that is not a high traffic area it wouldn’t be so bad.
But what does this industrious spider do? He spins a ****ing web from a tree branch that is 12 feet high, connected to my neighbors porch and connected to the top of my roof and ALL THE WAY down to the grass.
So if you are imagining a 12 foot by 30 foot spider web that would be about correct, or at least until I took out the garbage and walked through the part that was blocking my yard.
He’s that little damn dot northwest of my neighbors porch roof.
God I hate these things. Worst of all it never freezes in south Florida so our insect population doesn’t face frozen extinction once a year. So they keep getting older, and bigger and older and bigger.
I’d have tried for better pictures but it was dark and I was too busy pulling yards of spider web off of me.
Walking into spider web = instant kung fu mode !!!
I am not afraid of them but there is something about walking into a web that makes my skin crawl. I also love when it rains like hell and every bug in the neighborhood decides that my house is the equivalent of Noah’s Ark and comes running, crawling, flying, you know what I mean
Well you got to hand it to them. They are industrious.
Those critters work hard to make their food traps.
We have one of those big black with yellow garden spiders that lives on the corner of our carport. As long as he leaves me alone, I’ll leave him alone. He eats well. Moths, flies, mosquitoes, etc.
I don’t let many things get to me, but I’ll admit that walking into a nice thick overnight spider web on the way out to the Jeep in the morning is one of those events that evokes a special kind of exasperation from me. Never minded it so much when patrolling in the woods with a purpose, but you more or less expect it in that environment. Getting Shanghaied on your own doorstep is just plain aggravating, and spiders – especially the older, wiser ones – should really know better.
I don’t know about that, but I’m glad that Mrs. AC hasn’t posted any related YouTube videos of me actually walking into one. The resultant flailing of hands/arms while jumping around like an idiot and muttering directionless obscenities would definitely cost me some cool points.
I especially love the whole “full coverage” facial ensnarements. Extra points if your hair gel is still setting-up (for all of the well-coiffed Jersey Boys out there). lol
That’s funny, I feel that way about snakes and opossums. If you are either of those things, you & I are mortal enemies. Lol
Spiders suck, but I’ll let em be if the let me be. Now, a Volkswagen size web spinning spider might have to go. Walking into that would just be pure filthy.
Our spider is out of the way. No chance of walking into his web. He’d be gone if there was.
The flies at our house this summer have been awful. I’m talking plague awful. One reason he has been left alone although, he probably didn’t contribute much to the reduction of the fly population.
Only ones I try to avoid (other than the brown recluse and black widow) around here are the spiny-bodied, orb weaver spiders. They’re small, but their bite hurts like the dickens, about like a deer fly bite.
Another thing that “sucks” about FL is the gnats. When I was there I sure got tired of them trying to crawl into my eyes, ears and nose.
I’ve been dealing with an abnormally high amount of spiders, and especially Black Widows in and around my house this year. I normally see about one female Black Widow per year, but this year I have seen no less than 4 in my garage, and 3 males as well.
I don’t mind spiders that much, but god damn I hate these things. I have heard being bitten by one is an awful experience that can last for days.
Yeah, the bugs are super bad in all of Florida. That is one thing I noticed while there a few years ago. I thought we had bad bug problems…we have nothing on Florida.
Worst summer job ever - property management at an older home on Lake Michigan. Time to pullout the beach chairs from under the porch? Cold, dark, moldy environment anyone?
:no: no… no thank you…
Was a scene from Arachnophobia - minus the jumping on fire spider.
