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Title: Red spiders
Post by: paulben on June 24, 2009, 07:53:15 pm
Anyone know what them little red spiders are that love white UPVC and leave a mark like a red pencil when you wipe sills
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Post by: concept on June 24, 2009, 07:56:23 pm
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Post by: martinsadie on June 24, 2009, 08:00:51 pm
we get loads in our backyard
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Post by: tacky on June 24, 2009, 09:28:00 pm
got a black widow .in my house n she sleeps in my bed
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Post by: lovewindows on June 24, 2009, 09:38:24 pm
Little b********* are eating my Lilies
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Post by: Tim82 on June 24, 2009, 09:41:24 pm
spider mites theyre called. Get enough of em together and you could re-paint a post box!!
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Post by: ZaNo on June 24, 2009, 10:54:54 pm
got a black widow .in my house n she sleeps in my bed
Lol!! I like this  ;D
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Post by: Oakley Windows on June 24, 2009, 11:13:59 pm
We used to call them blood spiders, me and my sisters would squash and squidge them on the front wall in the summertime when we were young. They were blood spiders as they left a red trail in the stonework after squidging them.


Now my sisters have grown-up, got married and left home I have to squidge them on the wall by myself  :-X
Title: Re: Red spiders
Post by: Tim82 on June 24, 2009, 11:54:32 pm
We used to call them blood spiders, me and my sisters would squash and squidge them on the front wall in the summertime when we were young. They were blood spiders as they left a red trail in the stonework after squidging them.


Now my sisters have grown-up, got married and left home I have to squidge them on the wall by myself  :-X

Saddo ;) ;) ;)
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Post by: Oakley Windows on June 25, 2009, 12:08:33 am
Lonely saddo actually  ;D
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Post by: [GQC] Tim on June 25, 2009, 08:44:48 am
I believe they are just baby spiders, you guys mean the tiny ones right? I think they just came out of the nest. Had them on my own sill, hundreds of them.
Title: Re: Red spiders
Post by: Tim82 on June 25, 2009, 08:54:54 am
Spider mites are members of the Acari (mite) family Tetranychidae, which includes about 1600 species. They generally live on the under sides of leaves of plants, where they may spin protective silk webs, and they can cause damage by puncturing the plant cells to feed.
Spider mites are less than 1 mm in size and vary in color. They lay small, spherical, initially transparent eggs and many species spin silk webbing to help protect the colony from predators; they get the 'spider' part of their common name from this webbing. Hot, dry conditions are often associated with population build-up of spider mites.
The best known member of the group is Tetranychus urticae (the glasshouse red spider mite, or two-spotted spider mite), which is common in tropical and warm temperate zones, and in glasshouses. Other species which can be important pests of commercial plants include Panonychus ulmi (fruit tree red spider mite) and Panonychus citri (citrus red mite).
Spider mites, like hymenopterans and some homopterous insects, are arrhenotochous: females are diploid and males are haploid. When mated, females avoid the fecundation of some eggs to produce males. Fertilized eggs produce diploid females. Unmated, unfertilized females still lay eggs, that originate exclusively haploid males.

But other than that i know nothing about them, what are they?
Title: Re: Red spiders
Post by: Oakley Windows on June 25, 2009, 08:56:41 am

But other than that i know nothing about them, what are they?

Dunno mate, but wikipedia is always handy, hey :D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_mite
Title: Re: Red spiders
Post by: Tim82 on June 25, 2009, 08:59:14 am
 Doh! I've been russled ;)
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Post by: ZaNo on June 25, 2009, 04:07:40 pm
I used to call em Blood suckers  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: Oakley Windows on June 25, 2009, 04:23:39 pm
I used to call em Blood suckers  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Arrr!! Thats the buggers :D
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Post by: windowcleaninginessex.co.uk on June 25, 2009, 06:23:20 pm
I like to call them money spiders because the more you wipe off the sills the more money you are earning and at the moment they seem to be every where.
Darren
Title: Re: Red spiders
Post by: paulben on June 25, 2009, 07:57:19 pm
Have to start collecting them and wipe all over van be like a mini fire engine with hose out the back just need blue lights then
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Post by: Oakley Windows on June 25, 2009, 08:25:24 pm
Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to decieve.
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Post by: Oakley Windows on June 25, 2009, 08:33:28 pm
Its Shakespeare mate  ;D
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Post by: Oakley Windows on June 25, 2009, 08:35:38 pm
Hotspur, Henry IV Part One


By heaven methinks it were an easy leap,
To pluck bright honor from the pale-fac’d moon,
Or dive into the bottom of the deep,
Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,
And pluck up drowned honour by the locks.....
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Post by: Oakley Windows on June 25, 2009, 10:18:28 pm
Oh thats disgraceful. How could you?  :'(  :'(






























We used to tie crow-scarers to rats, light them and set them free.
Title: Re: Red spiders
Post by: Sapphire Window Cleaning on June 25, 2009, 11:36:43 pm
We use to call them money spiders.  ;D
Title: Re: Red spiders
Post by: Stephen Dwyer on June 26, 2009, 10:54:47 pm
I was cleaning at a house this past Thursday that was completly crawling with them.  They were all over the place and by the end of the job I had a few red stains on my sill cloth.