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allotment_chick:
.....SPIDERS!

Eugh!  They give me a turn every time I see one!

I was horrified today when, on splitting up a pot of perennials, I found what had to be an alien!!  :o

A spider with a red front half and a white body.    :'(
Couldn't rest until I identified it and here it is:

http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/bugquest/bugid.htm#spiders

Who'd of thought it?  A wood-louse eating spider.   I'll have to (very carefully) release it from its jam jar now - the woodlice are a bigger problem than the spider!

AC x

jammyd:
Cool! I didn't know there was a spider whose diet was just woodlice (they must get bored with them)...  

I love spiders myself, it's flies and their maggots that make me shudder  :-/

Glad to hear that your alien will be released without harm!

see ya,
jams  8)

eileen:
Hey I could do with some of those spiders!!  8)

I have some weird and wonderful ones here that I can't identify - maybe it's about time a bought a spider book!!  :-/

Ceri:
I'm sure I tried that diet once - I've tried all the other bl**dy ones!

allotment_chick:
It's either an ancestral memory thing, or I was frightened by a spider at a young age or I'm Miss Muffett reborn - they do my head in!  

I make every effort not to hurt them tho' - I try and catch them under my supply of spider traps - otherwise known as Bonne Maman preserve jars - so that others living here can release them outside!

What give you the shivers, guys?

AC x

PS - Outstanding reply C!   :D

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