saw my first daddy long legs spider today

[Tegenaria]

well I think thats what it was anyway! I was in coast to coast exotics eyeing up their Ts and I noticed a long legged true spider hanging near the tanks. It had a long slender pale coloured body and was hanging upside down-looking at I thought there's no way this thing would be able to walk!

[Mary]

Thats squish fodder alright Larry, awful spids them, I hate them yyyuuukkk.

[benm2000]

Couldn't have said it better mary! :laugh:

[Tegenaria]

hey i think they're cool spiders,would love one in a tank! i just think you should treat all animals the same,none of this aww its cute lark,i won't even step on an ant if i can held it!

[Kismet]

Awwww live and let live guys! :hmm:

No squishing!

I refused to sell a T to a guy at work because in spite of his interest and long enthusiasm I caught him crushing a spider which was living on his wing mirror. Spider abuse. :shocked:

[Mary]

Thanks Ben.

Emma, one of the flamin things has eaten a calceatum and a regalis sling that got away at feeding, they eat our native Tegenaria, they bite humans, they don't deserve to live......................oh and they get into tanks with T's..........

[benm2000]

Yup, they ate all the Tegenaria that lived in the barn i work in, I'm hoping that they'll be few appear again this year and i can take some home. If they keep on eating our native spids as fast as i've witnessed there won't be any left in the wild.

[Tegenaria]

Thanks Ben.

Emma, one of the flamin things has eaten a calceatum and a regalis sling that got away at feeding, they eat our native Tegenaria, they bite humans, they don't deserve to live......................oh and they get into tanks with T's..........

But Pholcus phalangoides, the daddy long legs spider in question, is native to Europe,possibly britain. And come to think of it rabbits are imported from china so should we kill all those fluffy bunnies?

[Mary]

But Pholcus phalangoides, the daddy long legs spider in question, is native to Europe,possibly britain. And come to think of it rabbits are imported from china so should we kill all those fluffy bunnies?


A fluffy bunny does not eat foxes for want of a for instance...........

[Tegenaria]

A fluffy bunny does not eat foxes for want of a for instance...........

no but they are an agriculutural pest, but then so are farmers ;)

[Dan]

i get a sense of deja vu when i read this thread. i don't squish them but they are not welcome in my house they wanna live they must survive outside which at the moment i doubt they will

[Kismet]

Thanks Ben.

Emma, one of the flamin things has eaten a calceatum and a regalis sling that got away at feeding, they eat our native Tegenaria, they bite humans, they don't deserve to live......................oh and they get into tanks with T's..........

Just to take a little shimmy out of the debate he was squishing a little garden spid...an innocent little garden spid! No Ts for him!!!! Hah!

[Mary]

They are awful Emma, and they think one bit my leg to start this ulcer off.....

[c_strike]

Theyv always been something iv had an appreciation for, but theyr so damn pathetic,lol.

I wouldnt have ever guessed they were as described.:shocked:

[PhilR]

They'll eat anything though :)

[Steve T]

But Pholcus phalangoides, the daddy long legs spider in question, is native to Europe,possibly britain. And come to think of it rabbits are imported from china so should we kill all those fluffy bunnies?

Bunnies are also a pest in habitat management for the conservation of native species. If this daddy longlegs is eating native spiders and it is native itself then thats one of the functions it has evolved to do they are important predators of invertebrates I love them!