Leave house spiders inside the home if you can
Removing spiders from the home is problematic. Animal advocate Nathan Winograd has told me that one’s instinct to remove a spider from your home is problematic as many species of spider in …
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Are spiders killed when they’re vacuumed up? Can they crawl out?
A lot of people are scared of spiders. They’d rather vacuum them up and forget about them. Easy-peasy solution. But they might think about the spider inside the bag inside the hoover. …
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Can a common house spider in the UK kill a person?
The title looks a bit odd because most people consider a common house spider in the UK as being benign. Some people think that they are quite cute and certainly not dangerous. …
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Sydney’s record rainfall has lured funnel web spiders into homes
They don’t know whether the current deluge in Sydney, Australia is a result of global warming, but they do know that a 20-minute downpour last Thursday pushed Sydney’s rainfall beyond that recorded …
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2 animal-related moments during Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral
Here are two animal-related moments during this wonderful Monday when the world said goodbye to Queen Elizabeth II at her funeral. The organisers did an amazing job. Quite outstanding. It went like …
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Swarms of spiders escape New South Wales floods (video)
I have never seen this before. It’s an interesting reminder that insects as well as people make a positive effort to go to higher ground to escape flooding. In this instance it …
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