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Peppa Pig 'spiders can't hurt you' episode pulled off air in Australia – again
The Guardian ^
| 9/4
| Naaman Zhou
Posted on 09/07/2017 2:47:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
Don't know about Australia, but in the northeast USA we don't have a lot of deadly spiders to worry about. I stopped vacuuming up spiders and spider webs in our house a couple of years ago.
Letting the spiders live has a great benefit: They eat all the pest insects. For years I had a problem with meal moths (nasty things that get into your cookies, cereal, flour, bread etc - laying their eggs - which soon hatch into gross little worms).
Most pesticides make me sick, so having the spiders eat up all the meal moths was great.
To: T-Bone Texan
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09/07/2017 6:04:00 PM PDT
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Oztrich Boy
(Winter is coming)
To: fruser1
Is Peppa Pig a scientific educational show, or entertainment? Sounds like Peppa would make a great sidekick for Bill Nye.
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09/07/2017 6:05:51 PM PDT
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Charles Martel
(Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
To: shhrubbery!
For years I had a problem with meal moths (nasty things that get into your cookies, cereal, flour, bread etc - laying their eggs - which soon hatch into gross little worms).
Personally I would rely on keeping all screen doors closed rather than spiders...............
To: shibumi
"Those funnel web spiders will chase you, they can bite right through a sneaker."And they can bite through a toenail too. Eeek.
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09/07/2017 6:50:40 PM PDT
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60Gunner
(The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
To: Oztrich Boy
Yep 6 or 7 inches would be about right for the length of the legs. Some of these are just huge.
BTW, you need to change your tag line to Summer is coming. It hit the upper 20s in Perth today :)
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09/07/2017 10:27:30 PM PDT
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JosephW
(Mohammad Lied, People die!)
To: shibumi
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09/07/2017 11:05:17 PM PDT
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Salamander
(I'm on the wrong side of Heaven and the righteous side of Hell...)
To: Hot Tabasco
Personally I would rely on keeping all screen doors closed rather than spiders...............Good advice, but meal moths don't always come through an open screen door.
Mine arrived in a box of cereal purchased at a supermarket. When the box was opened, out flew a cloud of meal moths. That cloud began a years-long infestation. I sprayed pesticides and began storing vulnerable food in moth-tight containers. But they still persisted.
The only thing that finally worked to get rid of them was ..............spiders.
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