Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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May 2, 2017 | #31 |
Tomatovillian™
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Location: Illinois, zone 6
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I have these guys around the house. I rescue them when they get stuck in the sink or bathtub. My own name for them is "face-jumpers," because they can jump a foot or so in the air to catch prey, like moths. I just looked it up and the actual name for them is White-Spotted Jumping Spider, so I wasn't that far off. |
May 2, 2017 | #32 |
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Wichita Falls, Texas
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Oh, that is useless as they can't pick it up and hold it to read it. Plus, the snakes would litter as they have no pockets to put the forms in.
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May 2, 2017 | #33 |
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Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: Joplin MO
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Around here we have a lot of Black Widow and even more Brown Recluse. When I find those I go into kill, spray, bomb, kill kill kill mode. No doubt some collateral damage occurs, but sadly this is war.
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May 2, 2017 | #34 |
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Steve, we had the same problem here in the late 80s and 90s with Black Widow and Brown Recluse spiders. Everyone we knew back then was spraying and killing them any way they could.
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May 3, 2017 | #35 |
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Location: Hudson Valley, NY, Zone 6a
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Officially, the Brown Recluse does not inhabit my area, but there have been several sightings in recent years suggesting that it has expanded its habitat. Black Widows definitely live here, but I haven't seen one. I'd probably scream like a banshee. Actually, if I made a list of critters that have made me scream bloody murder, it would include black and yellow garden spiders, salamanders, a baby fox that I mistook for a lost puppy, house centipedes, hornworms, and a suicidal squirrel that ran under my tire one morning on my way to work. Robert, I can't imagine how you managed to take that awesome photo of your slithery friend...
Cole Robbie, your jumping spider looks like a cartoon character. I wouldn't want one in the house, though. <<shudder>> |
May 3, 2017 | #36 |
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I've gotten a black widow or two in the greenhouse...lurking on the bottom of a flat of plants I was carrying. (yikes). Mud Dauber Wasps are their natural enemy.
The recluse and the harmless cellar spider look very similar. The easiest way I can tell them apart is by their behavior. Cellar spiders hang on ceilings and walls, out in the open. The recluse is true to its name. It likes to hide, then scurry away when exposed. |
May 3, 2017 | #37 |
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I had my fishing pole anchored between the slats of the dock one afternoon, and the line went straight out - doink, doink - a big one. when I went to get the pole, there were two wasps circling my pole - I hestitated. after examination, I found that the wasp were gearing up to attack a tarantula by my pole.
I went for the pole real quick, and the red wasps (2) hammered my pinkie knuckle. 17 pound cat on the line reeled in, but, man, my hand hurt. After about an hour, my hand looked like a boxing glove. |
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May 3, 2017 | #39 |
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A girlfriend of mine a long time ago lived next to an old strip pit mining lake. I remember laying on a trampoline, and I got bit through the trampoline and through my t-shirt. Florida and Caribbean mosquitoes never could have pulled that off. They are not nearly as big as the Illinois ones. I haven't been very far north of me, but in Minnesota and parts of Canada, I have heard that they resemble small birds.
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I told them they should have bought a 410 and went mosquito hunting. |
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May 3, 2017 | #42 |
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Unfortunately you can't eat them. Only vice versa.
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May 3, 2017 | #43 |
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They also told me they didn't have to go hunting - that they were the ones being hunted.
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May 3, 2017 | #44 |
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Location: nc
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Down East NC. No joke here.
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May 8, 2017 | #45 |
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