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[cjsmith]

I'm playing LJ Catch Up this morning and there's a tiny spider, smaller than my thumbnail if I count legs and all, wandering all over my computer monitor. She's clearly lost. In over an hour she has not found a way to walk OFF the monitor, nor has she set up housekeeping anywhere. Every so often she goes across the screen, over something I'm reading.

If I were wearing anything I'd just put her out. Aw heck, my back door is isolated, I'll put her out anyway. I've just been too lazy to get up and do it; that's the bottom line.

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[klwalton.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine and I have a theory. Years ago we noticed that we were both noticing a lot of baby spiders right around the same time of year and always around our computers (we stay in contact online). At the time, we both had desktop computers with the box lying horizontally and our monitors sitting on top of the box. Our theory was that the mama spider laid her eggs someplace in the box because it was warm and that they were hatching inside the computer and emerging onto our desks.

I rather liked that idea, and I rather liked the baby spiders :):).

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

I rather liked the baby spiders

Ewwww. I knew you were strange, but _spiders_?? Even baby ones. The only way any are allowed to live in our house is if they don't let me see them. indyansel is the designated spider killer, I'll just stand there and shreik....

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[klwalton.livejournal.com]

Spiders are our friends. They eat mosquitoes :).

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

I agree, but they're only allowed to live as long as they don't let me see them. It's a fair trade, if you ask me :)

[sunnydale47.livejournal.com]

Aw, you don't have to kill them!

Just take a paper cup, or any kind of drinking glass, and a piece of cardboard or a paper plate or something like that. Put the cup over the spider, then slide the cardboard in between the spider and the wall, imprisoning the spider. You don't see it or touch it -- it can't get anywhere near you. Then you take it outside and dump it out onto the ground, and it scurries away. Your house is spider-free, and the spider lives to eat more bugs -- that's an even fairer trade.

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the suggestion!

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

I'm with you, but I have standing orders they not be visible to computerchix or I must terminate their mosquito removal contract.