Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article .com,
"kmillar" writes:

Have you been round to my house? That's exactly what it's like!
And now that spring has sprung I'm expecting to come across loads of
spiders etc down there. Last time I was down was January when it was
too cold for spiders.


I've not seen any spiders under my floor. There are plenty of derelict
webs, but I rather suspect the owners were just occasional visitors
over the last 100 years and died of starvation as they didn't catch
any food.



A long time ago (about 15 years) I had an old fashioned bin (with a lid)
in the garden that we used to collect grass cuttings.
One late spring/early summer, I took the lid of and to my amazement
found the top of the bin coated with countless webs spun by the one and
only spider in residence. It must have lived in hope for the best part
of 9 months. I'm sure I saw it blink a lot when I took the lid off the
bin :-)

Nice to know the name of those big buggers that come into my house in
Autumn. Cardinal spiders are they!

They are most welcome. I hate flies, but love spiders :-)


Dave