On Jul 18, 2:24 am, "Suzanne D." <sdall...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> So we've had our little problems with giant monster roaches in the last
> month or two. No biggie. Roaches don't hurt nobody, and these are outdoor
> summer roaches that will go away when the weather changes anyway. And maybe
> now and then we get the occasional earwig or cricket; nothing too wild. All
> controllable with a squirt of Fantastik, if we even want to bother killing
> them at all.
>
> Today, we noticed a few daddy longlegs up near the ceiling in the living
> room. Then we saw a few more. So for fun the kids and I started to go
> around the house upstairs to count the spiders! At the end of the run, we
> came up with 25. One in the bathtub, and the rest on the walls near the
> ceilings. Mainly daddy longlegs; a few common house spiders.
Did you know there are two types of arachnids that have the long
legs? One is actually a true spider and one isn't. We have the
former...they are sometimes called cellar spiders or pholcidae, and
they are very prevalent here in the Summer. The latter is the
harvestman, which is an arachnid but not a spider.
Some pics to compare....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Pholcus.phalangioides.6908.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Harvestmen_Close_Macro.jpg
I would be willing to bet that you have the true spiders there....they
are just nasty. :-(
As far as your black widow problem--definitely get rid of those
suckers! We had a few outside, hiding in a nice, cool lawn chair
crack. (((Shudder)))
Peach
