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Something to look out for as you prepare your food

Nov 26, 2003 1:53AM PST

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(NT) Grapeful for the advice, MK, thanks. ;-)
Nov 26, 2003 2:36AM PST

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Re:Something to look out for as you prepare your food
Nov 26, 2003 3:22AM PST

Hi, Mary Kay.

I have a friend who swears he brought home a trantula in a bunch of bananas <shudder>!
-- Dave K.

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Re:Something to look out for as you prepare your food
Nov 26, 2003 6:02AM PST

Used to have grape arbors in the back yard. Full of spiders. Used to pick them and then hose them down outside. Spiders erupted everywhere.

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Not surprising, even if very upsetting when you find them
Nov 27, 2003 1:09AM PST

I would suspect that grapevines, even commercial row on a fence vines, are full of spiders as well as other insects.

While no doubt they spray, you never kill everything. And it seems spiders of some type always show up somewhere, and they seemed fairly resistant to poisons as bugs go.

Plants attract other bugs and insects, and they attract spiders.

Interesting unrelated spider observation, it seems since hurricane Isabel there has been more web building spiders around my house and neigborhood. On a heavy dew morning you can see new webs everywhere. Some are evidently the type that actually build a web overnight then tear it down at dawn, to rebuild at dark. But there is a very short leg, oversized abdomen brown one, that I've seen a lot of since then.

Vaguely seems they're always around from a late seasonal storm till cold weather. I guess maybe fall is their prime time for spreading.

roger