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I don't like them, but if I can, I toss them outside as I recognize they are my friend in a round about way.
I agree. I can't stand them, but I can identify the ones that bite and the ones that are less apt to. So, the wolf spiders stay in the house while biting ones get dead really quick.
The ones with questionable motives are presumed innocent and removed to the back yard.
I agree. Zero maintenance pets, and if you have a cat(s), no need to buy catnip mice.
No waterboarding first? You'd make a piss-poor Republican.
My favorite insect eaters are lizards and geckos of which live in abundance in East Central Texas. Although I'd love to have them in the house, the environment is inhospitable, not enough bugs and low humidity. Occasionally I find a lizard mummy in a corner, so when I spot one, I chase it down and gently release it into the backyard bushes.
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I'm glad to hear people still show kindness to living things. We don't have those around here, so the spiders have to stand in.
Where do you live abouts? I know Wolf Spiders have a wide range from N/S America to Australia.
Geckos are the cutest little buggers, aren't they?
I can't imagine ANYONE being upset with one being near-by or actually (if ever) on them.
I remember a Nat.Geo. special on West African desert flora and fauna, which featured the little wonders. They would raise their little ass and tail up to the ocean breeze in the early morning, and capture dew on their body. It would collect enough to gravitate down to the head, which their handy tongue would quickly capture.
Truly an environmental wonder.
We did this at work years ago to this huge spider that decided to randomly wonder across the office floor. And what do you do with a frozen spider?.... You put it in your team leader's desk drawer of course
She wasn't overly impressed to say the least, considering it was quite active again by the time she opened her drawer
This is a neat little New Zealand number. The Avondale Spider, also called the Huntsman. It's claim to fame was in being featured in Arachnophobia. We have about 50 different spiders in NZ but only a half dozen are poisonous. I like them and just live and let live as far as I am concerned.
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Geckos are the cutest little buggers, aren't they?
I can't imagine ANYONE being upset with one being near-by or actually (if ever) on them.
I remember a Nat.Geo. special on West African desert flora and fauna, which featured the little wonders. They would raise their little ass and tail up to the ocean breeze in the early morning, and capture dew on their body. It would collect enough to gravitate down to the head, which their handy tongue would quickly capture.
Truly an environmental wonder.
I think I saw that special and yes, they are too cute!
The ones I see are quite small, only 3" or so long. We leave our front porch light on have a little herd of creamy colored ones near by all the buzzing insects. I was shocked to read that this is an introduced species in the Houston/Galveston area. I don't know if that means accidentally or on purpose. I can imagine it either way.
When I lived on Guam, we had big fat geckos (in comparison) hanging out on the porch at night, but I thought I read that the tree snakes are eradicating them.
We did this at work years ago to this huge spider that decided to randomly wonder across the office floor. And what do you do with a frozen spider?.... You put it in your team leader's desk drawer of course
She wasn't overly impressed to say the least, considering it was quite active again by the time she opened her drawer
Hilarious! One day when I was a student pilot, I came into the ready room and there was this cigar box and when I opened there was a large tarantula in it. A little bit of a shock although when I was a kid I had a wild animal pet book which included tarantulas. But I could never really warm up to the idea of having one as a pet.
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New York. I thought you meant you have geckos all over in the house. My mistake. I was like, Eeeesh wouldn't like that.
This is a neat little New Zealand number. The Avondale Spider, also called the Huntsman. It's claim to fame was in being featured in Arachnophobia. We have about 50 different spiders in NZ but only a half dozen are poisonous. I like them and just live and let live as far as I am concerned.
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It's Australia where everything skittering about is poisonous.
I've never found a gecko inside, just the green anoles (sometimes incorrectly called camelions) which are all over the outside and sometimes get in.
This is a New Zealand Jeweled Gecko, but I like our Native to NZ, Tuatara. It's our prehistoric throwback to the age of the Dinosaurs but in miniature.
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