Spiders In The GH - Orchid Board

BikerDoc5968 · #1 10-02-2008, 11:41 AM

I'd like to know your feelings about spiders in your GH or growing area.

1. I love to see them. They greet me with all of those open arms in the morning! What a joy to be had!

2. Absolutely, they keep all the other nasty non-arachnoids out or under control...and sometimes the human kind, also!

3. Death to those little devils...they eat my plants when their other food is gone....not to mention all those nasty sticky webs they create! I like to keep a clean and trim GH and with those critters, it isn't easy.

4. OMG, they scare me when they leap out at me when I'm watering.....The thought that one of them might be crawling on me right now...OH NO!!!!!! Get it off...Get it off.....

Tindomul · #2 10-02-2008, 12:10 PM

I vote for option 2. I keep a spider or two in all my vivariums/terrariums.

camille1585 · #3 10-02-2008, 12:27 PM

Me too, option 2. Except when it's those miniscule spiders that spin their webs all over the blooms! Then I get rid of them.

Jkelee · #4 10-02-2008, 01:21 PM

YIKES!! I CAN'T STAND SPIDERS!!!!!
I walk into their webs every day!!! Scares me to death, as figure if his web is on my body/head/hair, then that Spider is too!!!

Royal · #5 10-02-2008, 01:36 PM

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Originally Posted by camille1585

Me too, option 2. Except when it's those miniscule spiders that spin their webs all over the blooms! Then I get rid of them.

I'm with Camille - Love the spiders, hate webs on my orchids.

sucuz · #6 10-02-2008, 03:13 PM

I vote option #2. When it comes to choice of spiders & bugs, bring on the spiders!

DebsC · #7 10-02-2008, 03:24 PM

I do NOT like to walk into a spider web! I can just imagine the resident spider has landed in my hair or gone down my shirt collar...or worse!!

But I do like spiders. I have one that built her web earlier in the summer on the casement window of the breakfast room.

This is where you'll find me most mornings with my laptop. She's a gorgeous lady. Turns ruby in the sunlight.

Her web is HUGE!!! My window looks like s**t! But I enjoy her company and will leave her be.

In the greenhouse? If the web is high up and not where I'll walk into it, they can stay, as well as all the other critters like frogs and lizards. The more the merrier!!

Here's a couple of last falls webs in a light mist. I think they're fascinating!

Learner · #8 10-02-2008, 06:30 PM

I like the first photo showing all the connecting webs that are hard to see without the dew. The only spider I get rid of is the black widow that I sometimes find in the woodpile. Your second photo shows some spider web in the lower left, but I am wondering if the main mass might be a fall webworm. It looks too confused for a neat and orderly spider and perhaps the tree or branch has been defoliated. These things are related to the tent caterpillar but are generally not nearly as destructive. Or maybe you have very robust spiders.