On May 11, 2:42=A0pm, n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Nick Maclaren) wrote:
> In article
<0b84ac72-76ea-4a8e-b420-3c7a6022d...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,Des Higgins <dazzhigg...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
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> |> On May 11, 12:16=3DA0pm, "Wally" <wally_...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> |> >
> |> > And can I hope that they will eat the flies and
> |> > bugs that live off my vegetables?
> |>
> |> Wolf spiders (genus Pardosa from Lycosidae) are small (body about
> |> small or medium finger nail size) and dark and run around. =A0They
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> |> prey on foot so to speak and you seem them all over when the soil is
> |> open. =A0They run very fast and the females often carry bags of eggs
> |> attached to their rear ends. =A0You do not get them much indoors.
>
> The ones in my childhood were body about walnut size, and you did get
> them indoors. =A0Scary but harmless - unlike the s****s and scorpions!
I take it from this, you were brought up in a zoo or Australia?
It is very hard to have a sensible conversation about venomous animals
with Australians in the room. They are apt to interject with
statements like:
"the ones back home are the size of a dog and will take your leg off
clean at the knee as soon as they look at you."
Comparing Irish Spiders to Oz ones is like comparing a packet of
crisps to 5 courses in a double Michelin Star restaurant.
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