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[Closed] Can anybody identify this critter?

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judging by the irrational fear and panic in some replies it must be a 29er...


 
Posted : 15/08/2013 11:30 am
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I found another one tonight, this one was only a baby...

OH MY GOD IT'S HAVING BABIES!!!??


 
Posted : 15/08/2013 9:55 pm
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Leave, now - don't look back.


 
Posted : 15/08/2013 10:51 pm
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OP, it looks like a really, really filthy carpet.
Your bedroom you say? Makes me shudder.


 
Posted : 15/08/2013 11:36 pm
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It's the space between the bedroom and the landing - but fear not jkomo, the reason it looks scruffy is because I've taken the carpet up to fix the floorboards underneath in preparation for NEW carpet (we've just moved in you see). But thanks for your professional flooring appraisal!


 
Posted : 15/08/2013 11:50 pm
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Phew, thanks for the update.


 
Posted : 16/08/2013 10:06 am
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We have loads of False widows here in Worthing on the south coast.

They can bite and my Mrs has been twice but she hardly reacted at all, a tiny bit pf swelling but nothing major, I have gently handled them but normally move the ones that are inside with some paper, they are not overly aggressive and don't want to waste their venom.

A work colleague's father was bittern and he reacted badly and had to go to hospital but that is no really any different to the fact some people react badly to wasp stings etc.

Leave them be and you will be fine, wasps on the other hand need torturing before death as are evil sadistic sting happy monster !!!


 
Posted : 16/08/2013 10:57 am
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Fresian?


 
Posted : 16/08/2013 12:41 pm
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No on one - it looks quite warm actually


 
Posted : 16/08/2013 12:55 pm
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Another critter identification request please.
Came home just now to this whopper of a moth (it looks bigger in real life, I promise 😳 ) on the wall.

When it flew off there was a flash of red on the covered wing parts.

Any ideas?

[img] [/img]


 
Posted : 20/08/2013 3:22 pm
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After extensive research (30 seconds running it through UK Moths database) I'm going to go for a Mottled Beauty
http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=48

You can try your luck here: http://ukmoths.org.uk/keywordsearch.php


 
Posted : 20/08/2013 3:31 pm
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Oh. Em. Gee.

Found a regular house spider in the bathroom last night - large brute. Went to get something in a girly attempt to kill it, came back, it had gone. I have a proper fear of spiders and didn't sleep much last night.

Kill them. Kill them with fire.


 
Posted : 20/08/2013 3:41 pm
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[i]it had gone[/i]

Not gone, lurking.

hth.


 
Posted : 20/08/2013 3:42 pm
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http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?bf=2452
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It's attracted to dirty fingernails. 😉

Actually, I had a Looper Moth lay it's eggs in my bathroom last week - came in to fine 1000 hair-fine caterpillars - I was reluctant to use Henry on them, but I had no idea what they'd eat anyway so up they went.


 
Posted : 20/08/2013 4:08 pm
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