Tegenaria Domestica
The name sounds completely made up to me, but I found out that our spidery little friends are called tegenaria deomestica. They’re more commonly known as the British house spider.
We’ve had an interesting time with the spiders this past weekend. My husband and stepson decided to put two in the same plastic container and watch them spar to the death. I was not happy. I don’t like them, but I don’t want to be cruel to them either. When I expressed my disapproval they both said, “We just wanted to see what would happen.” Typical. Later my husband said he felt guilty.
Now that we’ve gotten rid of the spiders, we have to work on getting rid of the ants under the sink and the loud clumsy bumble bees that come through our bedroom vent in the mornings. Bees are such early risers. If they would just keep it down, I wouldn’t mind their morning visits.
June 2nd, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Here’s a suggestion for the ant problem. Since Patrick & Miharo are into spider battles, have them divide the ants up into group A and group B then label them accordingly. Then the ants will go into the ultimate battle.
Side benefit: It’ll keep Miharo occupied for quite some time and give Patrick something to do while he’s waiting for more gigs.