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beverly
Starting Visitor
United Kingdom
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Posted - 04 June 2008 : 21:27:05
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| Being a bit of a "woose" (is that how you spell it?). We were in Symi for the 1st time last year and came across a flattened Symi spider in the road up in Chorio - even dead it made me shudder. I only heard about the existence of the native beast on our return. However, we are returning later this month and I have been in denial until this thread started up. Let's talk about the beaches, cats and dogs - anything but this horrible, fierce, nightmare provoking ceature. Worse than a woose -I know!!! |
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maziemoo
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United Kingdom
1809 Posts |
 Posted - 04 June 2008 : 22:17:25
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Hi Vickie2008...welcome to the mad house !
I'd recommend locating the mop when you arrive at your department. That way if you should come across a house guest during your stay , you can dangle it over the spider, who with luck will mistake it for a mate  and hang on for grim death whilst you have the chance to hurl it out of the nearest window....just make sure there's not some poor unsuspecting soul passing below/past the window at the time though . |
Yesterday is experience, tomorrow is hope... today is getting from one to the other. |
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Richard
Persistent Visitor
United Kingdom
1093 Posts |
Posted - 04 June 2008 : 22:58:12
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| Sound advice but nobody has told the spiders about it yet. |
In Greece, time is merely an idea in the mind of God. |
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Adriana
Persistent Visitor
1155 Posts |
Posted - 05 June 2008 : 08:39:04
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And then there's Dulcie who hangs out in the Symi Visitor office... |
The secret to survival is a well developed sense of the ridiculous. |
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lynne
Starting Visitor
United Kingdom
20 Posts |
Posted - 05 June 2008 : 09:14:11
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| OMG do you have any pics of these spiders dead or alive i'm not fussy. |
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Kojak
Persistent Visitor
United Kingdom
1628 Posts |
Posted - 05 June 2008 : 11:39:08
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Oh Lynne, you really don't know what you've let yourself in for. Richard has a gallery of the beasts and he's just waiting for the excuse to display them yet again. You'll wake up screaming in the night!  |
Who loves ya baby! |
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Tove
Symi Visitor
Denmark
213 Posts |
Posted - 05 June 2008 : 11:51:23
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Don't worry Vicki, just have a cat around. My cats eat them as snacks, really crunchy when it comes to the legs . When I see one in my bed I just need to put a cat there too, and its gone |
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito |
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The Deedle
Blonde
United Kingdom
276 Posts |
Posted - 05 June 2008 : 12:15:53
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I came across one in the ladies of a reputable establishment a couple of years ago and thought it was a toy some child had left behind. Until it moved!!
It was the size of my hand, never seen anything like it before in my life!! |
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now." |
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Richard
Persistent Visitor
United Kingdom
1093 Posts |
Posted - 05 June 2008 : 16:31:49
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| "Reputable establishment"? In Symi? Tell us more. |
In Greece, time is merely an idea in the mind of God. |
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MacDuff
Senior Visitor
Canada
669 Posts |
Posted - 05 June 2008 : 20:02:07
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| The English fear of spiders saved Robert the Bruce from the Redcoats Hence the Scots tradition of not molesting the beautiful creatures I would far rather have spiders than mosquitoes. So please leave the little guys alone to fulfill their purpose. |
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Richard
Persistent Visitor
United Kingdom
1093 Posts |
Posted - 05 June 2008 : 20:44:02
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| Yes indeed, leave them alone, they eat flies (which are always a damned nuisance) or, in the case of the Symi Spider, the occasional goat. |
In Greece, time is merely an idea in the mind of God. |
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maziemoo
Persistent Visitor
United Kingdom
1809 Posts |
Posted - 06 June 2008 : 09:30:53
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| Sorry guys but whether they eat flies or not, I refuse to let something that size share my accommodation/bed ....I wouldn't kill them , but I'm not going to snuggle up to one at night either ! |
Yesterday is experience, tomorrow is hope... today is getting from one to the other. |
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Adriana
Persistent Visitor
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Posted - 06 June 2008 : 11:56:31
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| Some of my resident arachnids are now so fat they are shedding their suits. |
The secret to survival is a well developed sense of the ridiculous. |
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Andy W
Starting Visitor
United Kingdom
22 Posts |
Posted - 06 June 2008 : 13:23:23
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The one I found on my pillow when I got woken up by a thunderstorm on Symi 3 Thursdays back wasn't that big by Symi Spider standards - the body was only about the size of a 2 euro coin, plus the legs of course. I suppose it was afraid of thunder and needed company, because it was the first time I'd ever known a Symi Spider come that close to a human - normally they scuttle off if they see you. Arachnophiles will be horrified, but I picked the pillow up and shook it out of the window till the spider dropped off into the rain.
Maybe it has found a new home with Adriana. |
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GrahamE
Starting Visitor
United Kingdom
34 Posts |
Posted - 06 June 2008 : 13:32:38
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| Thought that said a drain ;-) |
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