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    Spiders in greenhouse by the 100!!

    I don't mind the odd spider in the greenhouse but I've had a sack of 100s of the little buggers hatch out!!

    You know the black and yellow ones, I just call them garden spiders (not sure what they're called).

    What do I do, I don't want them taking over the place so how do I deal with them? Can I spray them with something that won't be harmful to my crops etc?
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    If you don't want to kill them you could try a turkey baster type thing and suck them up with it. Then let them go outside, well away from the gh.
    When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it.
    If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.

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    • #3
      Open the window whenever the weather is fine, and the door, let them find their own way out, just think of all those insects they are going to eat while growing up. And you want to spray them - WHY ?????????
      "...Very dark, is the other side, very dark."

      "Shut up, Yoda. Just eat your toast."

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      • #4
        They're only teeny little spiders - they won't hurt you. Live and let live - definitely don't use any sprays in your greenhouse - you'll be in there breathing it in

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Olorin2001 View Post
          Open the window whenever the weather is fine, and the door, let them find their own way out, just think of all those insects they are going to eat while growing up. And you want to spray them - WHY ?????????
          I let a load go this morning (loads more hatched out since) and my mrs done her nut coz now they'll be in the garden :roll: she has a right phobia of them. I'm not worried by them, I just don't want that many! Lol

          And 'weather is fine' I'm not sure what this language is that you speak

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          • #6
            Originally posted by sternyboy View Post
            I let a load go this morning (loads more hatched out since) and my mrs done her nut coz now they'll be in the garden :roll: she has a right phobia of them. I'm not worried by them, I just don't want that many! Lol
            Don't worry Sterny they won't all grow into adults. Spiders have hundreds of babies because most of them get eaten by birds.

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            • #7
              I saw a big clump of baby spiders the other day on the glass of my greenhouse. Went in there last night and each one had its own little web. Everywhere you looked tiny spiders and there webs
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              • #8
                I remember when the kids were little and they found a spider's nest in the hallway above the door. I wasn't allowed to touch it and they inspected daily until they hatched.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by chefgage View Post
                  I saw a big clump of baby spiders the other day on the glass of my greenhouse. Went in there last night and each one had its own little web. Everywhere you looked tiny spiders and there webs
                  Sounds like my kitchen ceiling No flies though

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                  • #10
                    Think of all the protein. And rising food prices. Eat a spider and save money.. Eat a hundred and save more....

                    Edit:

                    Eat a thousand and save the NHS money by dying suddenly and without pain :-)
                    Last edited by Madasafish; 15-05-2013, 01:03 PM.

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                    • #11
                      Went in gh this morning, and luckily they'd all clumped back together so I managed to get pretty much all of them into a pot and redistributed them up near my compost heap under a load of trees

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                      • #12
                        I've got the same. They're tough little buggers:



                        Must be nearly 10x its own size / weight.
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                        Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
                        By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
                        While better men than we go out and start their working lives
                        At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by mrbadexample View Post
                          I've got the same. They're tough little buggers:



                          Must be nearly 10x its own size / weight.
                          Blimey! No wonder they grow so big!! Had 1 in my garden last year and I'm sure he had tattoos!!

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by sternyboy View Post
                            Can I spray them with something ?
                            If you do, I will personally come up there, on my bike, and nut you!

                            Spiders, as I constantly tell the kids at school, are our friends. If we didn't have spiders, we would all be covered in flies, there's be flies round our faces, round our food, in our houses... Now what would your missus rather have in your house, flies or the odd spidey?
                            All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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                            • #15
                              If you don't want to destroy them you could try a poultry baster kind factor and pull them up with it. Then let them go outside, well away from the gh.
                              Last edited by veggiechicken; 15-10-2015, 09:54 AM. Reason: Advertising link removed

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