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Author:  Peppermint [ Tue Apr 28, 2009 12:59 pm ]
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3 spiders have just terrorised me!!!

2 of the beggars were on my computer screen and one hanging eye view from the ceiling - it's like some kind iof tag team effort to scare the living life out of me!!

I annihalated 2 of them but I've lost the 3rd - too quick for me and now I feel like I'm crawling with spiders!!!!!

I feel a little sick and the workmen seem to peeing themselves laughing at me running around the office like the seat of my pants are on fire!!!!

There's got to be a nest of them somewhere, I need to find it!!!!!!!!!!

I need a hug..... I'm scared!!!!! :(
Author:  Jean [ Tue Apr 28, 2009 1:07 pm ]
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:there :there :there

I was sat on the settee last night, laptop on knee, when I heard a soft "thud" next to me, I turned my head, and there, next to me, on the back of the settee was SOMETHING that looked like this

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I jumped up, shouting for my neighbour, who said not to pick it up as they bite :shock: So I put my gardening gloves on, threw a towel over it, and ran (yes, ran) outside and threw it on the land at the back of the bungalow. I was a quivering wreck when I had finished, so I know just how you are feeling Yvonne. Just take a deep breath and wait for the little ba***rd to show its ugly head again - it will, and then you can GET IT!!! :there :there
Author:  Peppermint [ Tue Apr 28, 2009 1:10 pm ]
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What if it brings it's mates?????
Author:  Jean [ Tue Apr 28, 2009 1:14 pm ]
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Peppermint wrote:
What if it brings it's mates?????


Have a party - give them all sandwiches, then kill them while they're eating :clapping
Author:  Peppermint [ Tue Apr 28, 2009 1:18 pm ]
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I like your thinking.

I may need to tempt them with some toasted sesame bread and a cappuccino!!! :evil:
Author:  Jean [ Tue Apr 28, 2009 1:20 pm ]
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Peppermint wrote:
I like your thinking.

I may need to tempt them with some toasted sesame bread and a cappuccino!!! :evil:


Oooooh, that sounds good.

OR give them some beer, get them drunk and then KILL THEM - they wouldn't feel it then. :lol:
Author:  Peppermint [ Tue Apr 28, 2009 1:27 pm ]
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I'm all talk - if he shows his scary face again, I'll most likely scream like a banshee and head for the hills!
Author:  Jean [ Tue Apr 28, 2009 1:32 pm ]
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Peppermint wrote:
I'm all talk - if he shows his scary face again, I'll most likely scream like a banshee and head for the hills!



Must admit, so would I if my visitor returned - yuk, yuk, yuk :oops: Just be vigilant, that's all any of us can do.
Author:  Gotannatog [ Tue Apr 28, 2009 2:43 pm ]
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Maybe you need these to help you stomp on them!


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Author:  Jean [ Tue Apr 28, 2009 2:59 pm ]
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Oh, God, that's SICK !!!
Author:  Yakflyer [ Tue Apr 28, 2009 3:19 pm ]
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Think you'll find it's no more than a grasshopper or preying mantis. Don't you dare stamp on it :) :) I often pick these up and put them on the palm of my hand before returning them to a tree or bush. The trouble is that today we've become fearful of the most ordinary of God's beautiful creatures...and it's a shame when we pass this fear on to our children. Though I draw the line at poisenous spiders :) Lloyd
Author:  Jean [ Tue Apr 28, 2009 3:38 pm ]
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Lloyd

My landlord picked one out of my apricot tree (goodness knows how he spotted it), and he told me it was a biter - he held out a stick, and you should have seen it bite on it - yuk yuk. No I don't stamp on them - couldn't stand the crunch or the mess, so I put my thick gardening gloves on and disposed of it onto the field. I just hope it's not a homeing whateveritis, and it doesn't come in again.
Author:  Lesley [ Tue Apr 28, 2009 9:15 pm ]
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Peppermint wrote:
What if it brings it's mates?????


Or it's mother? *gulp*

*cries*

Lesley
Author:  geoffm [ Tue Apr 28, 2009 10:23 pm ]
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I've allway found the best way to capture any creepy crawly is to put a glass over it and slide a piece of cardboard under the glass then you and upend it and dispose of it outside.would suggest a plastic glass ???? in case a panic attach occurs.
Geoff.
Author:  Band [ Tue Apr 28, 2009 10:46 pm ]
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A couple of years ago I was pruning some trees for my mother in Paphos and when I went back to her house I looked down and there was a praying mantis (as per the photo above) on the front of my t-shirt, which must have been 8 or 9 inches long and it didn't half make me jump. I just returned it to the tree and walked briskly away.

I also had to remove a wolf spider from her front room which was too big to even put a breakfast bowl over.

By all means put spiders outside, but don't kill them! They aren't there to hurt you and they gobble up all sorts of other nasties.

PS Just remember with wolf spiders that they usually shack up with their mate, so if you find one, there is usually another lurking nearby!
Author:  tanny [ Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:04 pm ]
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I do bring Praying Mantis' and Chameleons into the house when I find them as they are great for keeping flying beasties away.

Sadly there seems to be less every year (probably because people bring them indoors)
Author:  Bassman62 [ Wed Apr 29, 2009 2:33 am ]
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Found this little beauty under our sink unit.

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Author:  Captain Fantastic [ Wed Apr 29, 2009 9:19 am ]
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Bassman62 wrote:
Found this little beauty under our sink unit.

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:shock: What is that?? Even those slippers Gotannatog posted wouldn't be enough to stomp that big brute!

Normally I don't mind being called upon to help humanely dispose of spiders, but I think I would have to draw the line there!
Author:  Peppermint [ Wed Apr 29, 2009 10:54 am ]
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Band wrote:
By all means put spiders outside, but don't kill them! They aren't there to hurt you and they gobble up all sorts of other nasties.!


That's great advice if I could in fact bring myself to go close enough to a spider to do it.

If I know a there is a spider close by I can not rest, I'm literally on tenderhooks at all times until it's found and disposed of. I know they aren't there to hurt me, but my mental anguish is sufficient pain enough to warrant spider murder!

Yx
Author:  Bassman62 [ Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:30 am ]
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Captain Fantastic wrote:
Bassman62 wrote:
Found this little beauty under our sink unit.

Image


:shock: What is that?? Even those slippers Gotannatog posted wouldn't be enough to stomp that big brute!

Normally I don't mind being called upon to help humanely dispose of spiders, but I think I would have to draw the line there!

It was in our utility room in Agious Demetrianos; my wife was frightened of it so I killed it and felt really bad afterwards, I just wish that I had taken it out and released it somewhere (in Jim's bed preferably :shock: )
Author:  Bossy Boots [ Wed Apr 29, 2009 12:15 pm ]
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Oh Jean

Please don't hurt the praying Mantis - they are beautiful and I'm sure would not hurt you! When we were in the Paradisos Hotel in Lysos one was on the back of a chair - hubby got out his camera and it actually posed for him - honest - it turned this way and that , lifted it's head and really posed! Also going up to Tsada Golf Club one day there was the most beautiful bright green chameleon (I think )walking very very slowly crossing the road. I stopped and then this pick up driven by a cypriot came the other way - he stopped also, gently picked it up and deposited in the grass verge.
All Gods beautiful creatures although I have to say I draw the line at sharing my bed with them!
Author:  Jean [ Wed Apr 29, 2009 2:00 pm ]
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BB

I wouldn't dream of killing them (although I do kill spikders :oops: ). This is a picture I took of a beautiful preying mantis on my rose bush outside my front door. As you say, it actually posed for me, but the one that landed on my settee was horrible - a dirty brown colour, not the beautiful green colour of the one in my garden. Does anybody know - do they change colour like chameleons do?

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Author:  sidpat [ Thu Apr 30, 2009 1:55 am ]
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Jean It could have been a cicada
Author:  Neil [ Thu Apr 30, 2009 2:52 pm ]
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I found a very nice Chameleon
in coral bay once , it was on the road
with another one flattened next to it ,
I took it to my office and kept it in the tree.
I then went to the vet to find out how to look after it,
he told me I had to let it go, as it was a full grown one
and would die if kept captive after being wild , so, he told me where to take it
as there is a certain tree that they like, that attracts the flies they eat ..
so I took it there and let it go ..
It was a really nice creature ...

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Author:  Bassman62 [ Thu Apr 30, 2009 4:03 pm ]
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Brill Neil. :clap :clap :clap :clap
Author:  Dane [ Thu Apr 30, 2009 6:37 pm ]
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Bassman62 wrote:
Found this little beauty under our sink unit.

Image

OMG! :shock:
Author:  Sean & Heidi [ Thu Apr 30, 2009 7:16 pm ]
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we have seen some really strange creapie crawlies outside the duck pond including baby tarantula.
girls found it fasinating
Author:  Sergio [ Mon Feb 20, 2017 7:44 pm ]
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Neil wrote:
I found a very nice Chameleon
in coral bay once , it was on the road
with another one flattened next to it ,
I took it to my office and kept it in the tree.
I then went to the vet to find out how to look after it,
he told me I had to let it go, as it was a full grown one
and would die if kept captive after being wild , so, he told me where to take it
as there is a certain tree that they like, that attracts the flies they eat ..
so I took it there and let it go ..
It was a really nice creature ...


I got other one, in olive tree ... after making pictures, I put him on my jasmine and in day or two he is gone.
Between jasmine's leaves he changed color to solid bright green, not like the patterns what you see on the picture.
Author:  PW in Polemi [ Mon Feb 20, 2017 9:09 pm ]
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Did he hiss at you, Sergio?
Author:  Sergio [ Mon Feb 20, 2017 10:14 pm ]
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PW in Polemi wrote:
Did he hiss at you, Sergio?

Sure, when I did touch his tail or hold his neck - how else he could protect himself ? :)
Author:  PW in Polemi [ Tue Feb 21, 2017 10:35 am ]
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The first time I saw one in our garden, I'd heard him hiss first - the cat was hassling him. Having heard the hiss and not having a good line of sight, I thought at first it was snake so removed the cat from, as I thought, harm's way. Then I looked to see what snake and saw a chameleon with a tightly curled up tail. :oops: :lol: So I then removed the chameleon out of harm's way - into a tree too small for the cat to get into but large enough to shelter the chameleon.
Author:  Sergio [ Thu Jan 25, 2018 5:42 pm ]
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Can you find the creature ?

If not, I'll post other picture ...
Author:  Sergio [ Fri Jan 26, 2018 9:34 am ]
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He still sitting there, at same place !
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