Do spiders survive in the cold?

[bhd812]

Pat he stops cause the cold Cryo-treated him causing an Extreme tweaking!

 

[EnOYiN]

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Q. Are spiders cold blooded or warm blooded? A. Cold-blooded animals do not have a steady inside body temperature. These animals have an inside body temperature that matches the temperature outside. Spiders are cold blooded and don't like the cold weather. Many spiders' life cycle sees them live through Summer and Spring and then die off in the cooler months. Those that live longer will slow down in winter and even appear to be hibernating.

I found this here. I guess spiders just don't like cold weater.

 

[lmilhan]

Just re-wire the spider with a nordost product of some sort. He will be even better than before due to 'tweaking too extreme!'

Seriously though, you need to get yourself a girlfriend A.S.A.P.

 

[bong]

On candystripe legs the spiderman comes
Softly through the shadow of the evening sun
Stealing past the windows of the blissfully dead
Looking for the victim shivering in bed
Searching out fear in the gathering gloom and
Suddenly!
A movement in the corner of the room!
And there is nothing I can do
When I realise with fright
That the spiderman is having me for dinner tonight!

"Lullaby" by The Cure

seriously though, if i see a common house spider at home i usually just leave it alone... if it's on my bed however i'd make it leave my room.

oh, i've also read that "eating spiders in your sleep" thing, dunno how true it is but it's pretty funny.

 

[Thelonious Monk]

if i see a spider, it's dead. there's no way that i'm going to let a spider crawl around in my room and just end up in my cozy bed.

and ****roaches... when i see a roach, it's open season. for every one roach you see, there are 100 roaches elsewhere in the house. i have roach motels and those shiny blue lights of death for a reason... i don't like bugs. also, i've had a spider crawl up my nose before. i woke up and had to sneeze the little bugger out... blagh.

i'm not scared of bugs, i just don't like having creepy crawlies scrambling around my room constantly.

also, my favorite thing is when you kill a spider and all of the little baby spiders come scurrying out of it... that's wicked cool, i want to see a video of it

 

[Ingo]

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Originally Posted by Thelonious Monk /img/forum/go_quote.gif for every one roach you see, there are 100 roaches elsewhere in the house.

That really depends on the circumstances. If you only see a couple roaches a year then it's likely that they just made their way in from outside. If you see a couple a week, then you probably have an infestation. This year I found a few roaches around inside my house. I had never seen an American ****roach as big as these ones. They were litterally almost 2 inches long. I should have submitted their carcasses for scientific research.

 

[Thelonious Monk]

well i was definitely exaggerating, but i get really worried whenever i see a roach, regardless. they are pretty annoying, what with all the hissing.

although, i did eat a Madagascar hissing roach at Six Flags last October for free cuts in line for the entire night for me and the rest of my party. just felt like mentioning that for some reason...

 

[Uncle Erik]

Spiders are cold-blooded. They slow down a lot when cold, which is why many enjoy moving inside during cold weather.

When I lived out in the middle of nowhere (central Oregon) we had a lot of hobo spiders. For those that don't know the little beasts, here's a link:

http://www.hobospider.com/info/

I had the house sealed up tight, but they could get into the garage where I liked to work on furniture and my truck. I'm not at all into killing animals, but hobo spiders are different. They skitter around fast, don't always hang around a web and have a venomous bite.

I kept a can of spray adhesive handy. It has a good range and was the only thing that effectively slowed them down. After that, they were easily dispatched. Still feel a little guilty about it, since my usual MO is to seal houses and apartments up tight to keep critters outside where they belong. I just couldn't get a good seal on the garage doors and they kept coming in.

 

[Cid]

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Originally Posted by Uncle Erik /img/forum/go_quote.gif Spiders are cold-blooded. They slow down a lot when cold, which is why many enjoy moving inside during cold weather. When I lived out in the middle of nowhere (central Oregon) we had a lot of hobo spiders. For those that don't know the little beasts, here's a link: http://www.hobospider.com/info/ I had the house sealed up tight, but they could get into the garage where I liked to work on furniture and my truck. I'm not at all into killing animals, but hobo spiders are different. They skitter around fast, don't always hang around a web and have a venomous bite. I kept a can of spray adhesive handy. It has a good range and was the only thing that effectively slowed them down. After that, they were easily dispatched. Still feel a little guilty about it, since my usual MO is to seal houses and apartments up tight to keep critters outside where they belong. I just couldn't get a good seal on the garage doors and they kept coming in.

Luckily we don't get anything dangerous like that over here, but it's still annoying having anything crawling around especially when my brother is only 4 years old and he's terrified of them. (You can thank my sister for getting him scared from them in the first place)

I notice they mostly come from under the skirting boards, especially when they haven't been put in properly. Is there anything you can use to seal the bottom of skirting boards? It sure would help a lot, everytime my sister screams I just know there is a spider in the bathroom or something. I suppose they would come through the windows aswell, but I don't know if there is any way you can leave the window open, but still stop spiders from coming in.

 

[Jahn]

when you sleep at night with your mouth open, that spider crawls in where it's warm and moist and lays its eggs in your inner cheek lining. beware.

 

[hYdrociTy]

That was too much detail jahn...
Simply "you eat spiders at night" would have done.. Moist, warm, eggs, crawl, spider definately should not be in the same sentence...

brrrr... arachnophobia..

 

[Thelonious Monk]

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Originally Posted by Jahn /img/forum/go_quote.gif when you sleep at night with your mouth open, that spider crawls in where it's warm and moist and lays its eggs in your inner cheek lining. beware.

yeah... when i was a little kid and heard about this, i started sleeping face-down. i can still breathe, and i'm safe from the spiders! however, there's still a chance of a ****roach crawling into my ear and having to get it surgically removed, since once it goes in it can't get back out.

 

[Jahn]

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Originally Posted by Thelonious Monk /img/forum/go_quote.gif yeah... when i was a little kid and heard about this, i started sleeping face-down. i can still breathe, and i'm safe from the spiders! however, there's still a chance of a ****roach crawling into my ear and having to get it surgically removed, since once it goes in it can't get back out.

and thus was my fear of IEMs born as a child!

 

[Patrick82]

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Originally Posted by werdwerdus /img/forum/go_quote.gif maybe you should have squashed like a bug HAHA but seriously, squash it.

I have problems killing living things.

Once I accidentally stepped on a spider, it was inside one of my slippers when I woke up. One of its legs was chopped off and it was running around in circles on the floor. After a few hours I was able to step on it to take away his misery, I got goo all over my slipper, it took a while to get it off. Afterwards I had nightmares for a week, I was expecting a giant foot would come crushing through the roof and into my bed while sleeping.

Now everytime I wake up I shake the slippers before putting them on.

 

[splaz]

Depends on the spider. Daddy long legs, eh, I let them go. I woke up once and a spider was crawling off my arm and onto the ground, I considering killing at as I had no idea what it may have done while it crawled on my while I was asleep. Then I realised I couldn't be bothered and it was a pretty harmless spider. Huntsman can be creepy but they're harmless and a little too big for me to bother messing with. Also I have found some small ninja spiders I've released outside and spared them my wrath. I remember putting one outside, it ran up to the steps jumped down the next level then crawled upside down underneath it in about a second. That thing could really run and jump like crazy. Can't recall how I even captured it in the first place.

Ones like red-backs though, instant squishing if I see them. There are other spiders I don't like the look of, but they usually hang around in some corner of the garden so I let them be.