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Posted by chev5700 NSW Aus (My Page) on Thu, Feb 26, 04 at 2:32
we moved to the northern beaches of sydney only to find the house we bought has hundreds of holes approx half inch to an inch id all over the place.. i believe they are spider holes of some type and would love to be rid of them.. when the grandchildren come and stay they are petrified of them although we have never seen oneb during the day .. i presume they are nocturnal..
does anyone have any ideas as to the type od spyder and hpw we can eradicate them?
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RE: spider holes all over the place
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| might be best to try and id the spider first maybe hey? we have lots of holes with spiders in but they are all huntsman's fairly harmless and only nocturnal, can't see as anything would be gained getting rid of them they will be controlling bugs in your garden. if they are funnel webs then you will need an expert anyway but i think they will only nest under the house if it is on stumps and low set, there is another spider that has some venom i saw it on the news many years ago it had infested these peoples yard down your way somewhere but apparently it had bitten the kids etc.,. anyway get an expert to put you right. len |
RE: spider holes all over the place
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| If there really are hundreds of holes they are more likely to be from scarab beetles. They are the parent of the curl grubs you find in your soil at this time of the year when you dig it over. I have lots of them in my soil. I am on the Central Coast. |
RE: spider holes all over the place
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RE: spider holes all over the place
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Hi Guys
Could be the grubs mentioned above... although they most usually have a pile of little round balls of soil around the holes (I think).
I have noticed that I have a lot of similar holes under my mulch. When disturbed spiders with a sack of babies come out...the spiders are all a brown colour with a lighter stripe down their back and medium sized...as they are predators of huge benefit to my garden then I am certainly not going to murder one (or all) of them because I have no proof that they do any thing I would not approve of.
It must be remembered that entimologists tell us that less than 1% of all insect life is of any economically negative effect in gardens (farms) and almost no physical effect...how many people you know have had a negative (long term) effect from being bitten by some form of life... remember too that of all the insects (thousands of species and billions by number), reptiles, (including crocs.),sharks, poisonous fish, and other things such as scorpions...of which there are huge numbers (not by species) in Tassie, and leeches etc.etc there is one killer that takes human life more than the rest... all totalled together (each year in Australia)...that's the jellyfish
So I have had 2 events in 17 years of someone being bitten by a scorpion at my place (read also in my whole life's experience)...both in the last year and both in the my shower...but do I rip out my bathroom or shower and spray toxic chems all around the house...sure I do...not(just Joking)
Of course not I learn to live with nature...and I do so very closely here; and my life has been extremely enriched by having done so....I really cannot put into words how much I have benefitted....and in so many different ways by doing so
I get over 50 people a year coming to my place to experience life "in the raw" so to speak and of these 9 of them (this year) have returned in order to spend another (longer) term with me...one returned from Japan specifically to stay at my place to experience the experience
Mostly when they come here these people are straight from the cities of Japan, Europe, Nth America and Australia and have all sorts of fears (even phobias) about the wildlife etc..
Nearly always when they have left they are much more at ease and occasionally even (apparently) cured. Once one understands that ones fears are a result of ones ignorance (of whatever) and you learn more about what it is you fear you can then begin to understand that all your fears stem from just being fearful of one thing about which you are most likely ignorant (panic spreads internally as well as externally) and often you can rid your self of much of it by addressing just one of these fears...It does not mean that you will not still have a healthy respect for poisonous and agressive snakes for example...you do not want to play with a King Brown or a Taipan but you may be able to touch a Python eventually
Anyway...out of the 20,000,000 or so people in Australia last year...how many people suffered from long term effects of a spider bite...how many were bitten by your species of spider...I dare to venture that none at all is the answer...and in return they, the spiders, are doing a wonderful job of keeping your bad insects under control in the garden and making it less likely that you will need to use some sort of insect killing (and human damageing poison)...remember too that 99 of the good insect species will be killed to (possibly) kill the one that may be doing some (what sort of ) potential damage
And I hereby rest my rather laboured case |
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