Who shares your home?

[Cypress]

Do you live & let live?

I share my little house with hundreds of spiders, some mice in the roof, countless beetles and yesterday a shield bug appeared in the bathroom, my collection of pet mosquitoes is on the decline though - I only have 2 left now

It's flippin' hard trying to vacuum round the spiders but I cannot and will not kill anything, except the swarms of flying ants which came through a gap in the living room door frame in summer, a friend had to spray them - I felt very guilty though

[dan-fisher]

At least one spider in every room, which appears to change regular as they squabble over the terrortory. The beetles are downstairs and i think it's all good as the spiders and beetles take care of the nasties.

Have about 5 regular birds nests in the eaves and one area has overgrown with grass and moss as a result. 2 Blackbird return and nest in the front conifers as well.

[glsammy]

I've no problem with any number of spiders in our house, we've got a few large one we see most evenings scurrying across the floor.

I draw the line at ants though, especially when they're on our worktops. I must admit I took the opportunity to take some shots of them whilst they were eating the poison.

[Lancashire Lad]

Don't mind spiders and the odd woodlouse at all, or even bees & wasps, but I draw the line when flies get in. - Good for nothing desease spreading varmints.

Regards
Mike.

Edit - I'll temper that thought with the fact that they are good as food for other more worthwhile critters.

[shirl]

Oh the list is long! Apart from the spiders (and 2 called Boris), woodlouse, flies, slugs the dogs bring in after their walk, beetles etc etc, during the winter months the mice move into the loft and last year so did the rats. I though rats and mice didn't tend to occupy the same territory - wrong - and they live in the same areas outside too.

I don't kill anything, if it's unwanted I catch it and take it outside somewhere safe - apart from the rats who are so clever they don't go into the live mammal trap, they just sit & wait until spring and off they go!

Shirl

[Ida]

The only lodgers I'm aware of at the moment are five ladybirds hibernating in the kitchen, but I'm sure there must be a few assorted spiders around too.

I never kill anything either, but a do escort any of the larger spiders out into the garden - just for peace of mind!

[Cypress]

Ooh yeah I forgot about woodlice, how could I, they're a fave of mine..awww, lol!! They're very shiny in Worcs, when I lived in Stafford they were huge and much duller..
There's sparrows all in the roofs too, and in the nest boxes

[Jim Ford]

A couple of years ago we were privileged to have a hornet's nest in the eaves of the porch. We were quite excited, but had to rope off the area to prevent the postman getting stung!

Jim

[smartie]

Spiders of course - the house is full of them. One variety I've not yet identified particularly like the mouldings on the front door, in which they make woolly nests. Moths in the bathroom, beetles, ladybirds and wood lice. We had a snail in residence for a while in the summer - it kept leaving trails over everything overnight and then became invisible during the day. I finally caught up with it half way up the kitchen wall.

Mice and the occasional squirrel in the garage. Something - we suspect a mouse - even made a nest under the bonnet of the car, using insulation material it had nibbled off the inside of the engine compartment.

We keep a rescue kit in the conservatory to save and release the many butterflies, dragons and damsels, bumble bees and other flying things that find their way into it in the summer months. I've even learned to overcome my irrational fear of wasps sufficiently to catch and release them rather than run screaming from the room.

[canonman]

Hi
We have the usual suspects, and the same as smartie a mouse that lives in the shed over winter, never managed to see it yet but always find it's little messages
Mick