. . . fiend? Whatever the case, I recently enjoyed showering with a being who looked something like …
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She was fairly near the faucet when I turned on the shower. I was prepared for either eventuality, whether she were to be swept down the drain or if she were to escape that watery fate. I was hoping for the latter outcome, and by golly, she made it to the outer shower curtain, protected from the thundering hot stream beyond the barrier of the inner curtain.
I was wondering if she would continue hang around the bathroom or depart to obscure, hidden recesses, but by next shower, she had apparently chosen the latter option. Good for her.
I am not sure if I would have felt as sanguine about sharing the tub with a large, fat, hairy arachnid, but I was willing to accommodate a daddy long-legs, even if it were a mommy.
The Pholcidae are a family of araneomorph spiders. The family contains more than 2,000 individual species of pholcids, including those commonly known as cellar spider, daddy long-legs spider, carpenter spider, daddy long-legger, vibrating spider, gyrating spider, long daddy, and angel spider. The family, first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1850, is divided into 94 genera. (Wikipedia)
I don't like killing things and often will try to take insects outside in summer, but she wouldn't not have survived in February, so I let things take their course. I don't like killing mosquitoes or houseflies either, but I do it: not gladly but out of what I deem to be a necessity.
I never kill spiders. I'll put it on the book Charlottes Web. Flies I will swat.
ReplyDeleteI flushed one down the drain just last week. Don't think it was a daddy long legs but it was too big to share the shower with.
ReplyDeleteMosquitoes are dead as soon as they are anywhere near me to kill. Maybe flies, maybe not. I'm mixed on spiders, but I think that one would have met its doom in my world too!
ReplyDeleteI don't like those little black & white ones that jump and bite if they land on you.
ReplyDeleteWe often have similar friends in our bathroom. Also an occasional out break of centipedes or crickets. And sometimes a Wolf Spider hangs out there. I put the centipedes or crickets outside but coexist with eh others.
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