“Do you expect me to talk?” – “No Mr Bug, I expect you to die!”

13/09/2006 | blog

Daddy Long Legs - Click to view full sizeJust lately there has been a noticable increase to the amount of spiders and other insects we’ve found around the flat.

Just last night Sarah announced that there was “a huge spider in the bed!”. Thankfully it was actually tiny, so I directed it onto my hand and flung him out the window. Shortly afterwards a daddy long-legs (what is their real name?) got in and sarah made me crush it with my sudoku book. The downside to this was that it left a large flat insect laminated to the wall, which required cleaning. I argued that since I’d killed it, Sarah should clean it up. Obviously I lost.

And finally, this morning, there was a genuinely huge spider in the bath. If I’m feeling overly inhumane, I will usually flush it down the plughole. But there was no way this one would fit, so it was a glass and card job.

This phenomena is not restricted to my own household. In fact this entry was prompted by other people’s blogs today with similar experiences.

Maybe the insects are making their move to achieve world domination!

Or perhaps they’re just moving into our warm houses in time for the cold seasons.

  • James

    Crane flies they are called. I’ve had loads of spiders in my flat, but they are these really spindly creatures that just sit in the same place until they die, so I just live and let live. Poor things must be starving as i dont have a window that opens here to let flies etc in ;p

    Blame climate change, its the cool thing to do these days!

  • James

    Crane flies they are called. I’ve had loads of spiders in my flat, but they are these really spindly creatures that just sit in the same place until they die, so I just live and let live. Poor things must be starving as i dont have a window that opens here to let flies etc in ;p

    Blame climate change, its the cool thing to do these days!

  • http://blog.pygmygoat.net/ Stu

    Spiders are cool! Generally, they’ll keep flies down in your house and they have territory, so if you remove one it’ll just be replaced by another one.

    To be fair, though, I do throw out the big ones (which Sarah doesn’t like), but we leave the medium and little ones to carry on their clean-up operations!

  • http://blog.pygmygoat.net/ Stu

    Spiders are cool! Generally, they’ll keep flies down in your house and they have territory, so if you remove one it’ll just be replaced by another one.

    To be fair, though, I do throw out the big ones (which Sarah doesn’t like), but we leave the medium and little ones to carry on their clean-up operations!

  • http://www.robpannell.com/ Rob

    I’m the same. If I was alone then I’d probably just leave them (except the big ones as you say stu), but I chuck them out for Sarah’s benefit.

    As for craneflies and that type of thing, I have a zero tolereance policy!

  • http://www.robpannell.com Rob

    I’m the same. If I was alone then I’d probably just leave them (except the big ones as you say stu), but I chuck them out for Sarah’s benefit.

    As for craneflies and that type of thing, I have a zero tolereance policy!