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sethrakWe have a.... thing.... setting up housekeeping in the gap between the glass and the screen of our bedroom window.
It appears to be of the arachnid persuasion, although I've never seen one that large outside of a zoo. The body from mandible to rear is as long as the diameter of a quarter, but significantly narrower. Add in the legs, and it's as big as a half dollar.
"Eeep" does not even begin to do this justice.
On closer inspection, after I raised the miniblinds, there appears to be a considerable amount of old webbing coating the upper corner of the outside of the window and the edge of the apartment perpendicular to ours. So it's been there some time. Maybe all those times we thought Callisto and Amara were futilely trying to catch birds flying by, they were really trying to grab this thing. Thank God they failed. o_o There are no gaps in the window frame which appear small enough for it to squeeze through, so I'm not going to worry too much just yet. Part of me wants to duct tape the edges of the interior window frame just in case... This thing is just freaking HUGE!
I would make an emergency trip to K-Mart and buy some spray, but I have no idea if it's poisonous, and I'm probably not supposed to be handling insecticides while pregnant anyway. I'll let Dav, native of the one state in the union which is home to all five species of poisonous snakes in North America, and probably home to most of the poisonous spiders, decide if it's something he can handle with spray or if we need to call in the apartment management's exterminators. He gets back from TDY today.
It appears to be of the arachnid persuasion, although I've never seen one that large outside of a zoo. The body from mandible to rear is as long as the diameter of a quarter, but significantly narrower. Add in the legs, and it's as big as a half dollar.
"Eeep" does not even begin to do this justice.
On closer inspection, after I raised the miniblinds, there appears to be a considerable amount of old webbing coating the upper corner of the outside of the window and the edge of the apartment perpendicular to ours. So it's been there some time. Maybe all those times we thought Callisto and Amara were futilely trying to catch birds flying by, they were really trying to grab this thing. Thank God they failed. o_o There are no gaps in the window frame which appear small enough for it to squeeze through, so I'm not going to worry too much just yet. Part of me wants to duct tape the edges of the interior window frame just in case... This thing is just freaking HUGE!
I would make an emergency trip to K-Mart and buy some spray, but I have no idea if it's poisonous, and I'm probably not supposed to be handling insecticides while pregnant anyway. I'll let Dav, native of the one state in the union which is home to all five species of poisonous snakes in North America, and probably home to most of the poisonous spiders, decide if it's something he can handle with spray or if we need to call in the apartment management's exterminators. He gets back from TDY today.
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