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sex craved spiders loose in Kent and London .... my Plumstead rellies have never said anything about this maybe it is a secret they keep with the Trotters

http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/14723606.Sex_crazed_spiders_as_big_as_mice_set_to_invade_London_and_Kent_homes/?ref=ar

anyway just keep going on Shooters Hill

,,,and Hampshire, and, to be honest almost every County.
It happens the same time every year.

Come May/June, we're likely to be 'invaded' by
sex craved 'giant flying beetles' AKA Cockchafers.
That happens every year too.

Are people (in particular local reporters) so unaware of
their surroundings that any insect/arachnid bigger than
a ladybird or money spider is a 'giant'?

Edited the text, as URL is too long
Didn't you suggest 'tiny URL's'to others on more than
one occasion, Rollo?

Thank You very much Rollo! ;-) ;-)

Now what will I do about my imminent Kent holiday?! :-0 :-0 :-( :-D :-D

The Kent spiders are harmless Jem ;-) ;-)

As most are :-D

not all of them

http://metro.co.uk/2016/08/30/mum-finds-worlds-most-venomous-spider-in-lidl-bananas-along-with-its-babies-6100248/

a day in darkest woolwich

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA0ffVBw584

I'm not going to look

I'll do as the Three Wise "Spider Monkeys" did!

see no spiders, hear no spiders, speak not of spiders :-D :-D

If you don't mess with them they won't harm you.

They like gravestones though... ;-) :-D

Where about are the scorpions isn't that London docks in the walls ?? I'd be more worried about them I think

Oh dear, Maggie, I'm surprised that your post has not been rr'd for the juxtaposition of some words and ideas in your second paragraph ;-) :-D :-D :-D :-D

Now now Allan don't give anyone any ideas...

:-D :-D :-D

This thread is more wide than long! :-S

Well, Allan, the 'giant' spiders that are (apparently) invading our homes are 'sex crazed' too.
It's their breeding season.
The species would die out if they didn't procreate, but according to reports, this means they're 'sex crazed' :-(

I realise that, Maggie, journalistic licence and all that, but that beetle's name should really be changed. :-D :-D :-D

Who's got a potty mind, then!!
It's more often called the May bug - or June bug :-D

But it's a cockchafer, which is probably what it suffers from in July :-D

:-D :-D :-D

The poor things aren't doing too well, and ignorant reporters don't help.
They used to come down my chimney, but not for many years :-(

They've had a hard life, even ordered to leave town:

https://www.buglife.org.uk/bugs-and-habitats/common-cockchafer

Have the scorpions migrated? There's definately a colony of yellow-tailed scorpions in the Sheerness dockyard walls. Mind you, as they are supposed to have originated from Italy in the 18th Century and hitched a ride on a ship, it always possible some prefered to see the Capital rather than a Kentish town.

we HATE the cockchafer here ............... larvae must have been in some incompletely washed and cleaned roots of plants imported by a nursery some years ago, and it LOVES it here.

.......................... especially the lawns on the West Coast. Almost everyone now has bare lawns or lawns with bare patches because the larvae eat the roots, then along come the raccoons and the crows to pull up the grass to get at the larvae.

We cannot get rid of them because we are not allowed to use the pesticides needed. The only treatment appears to be the application of solutions of nematodes which has to be done during a certain 3 weeks in June, lawns kept well watered BUT we have lawn watering restrictions in June


and anyway .......... the neighbour doesn't do it, so you just get an infestation coming from their adults

Maggie, why would ignorant reporters have come down your chimney in the past?