Spiders Vs. Cockroaches

[Buffy]

Ecosystem question: In a house with both spiders and cockroaches, who wins?

 

 

Beauty and seduction is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we love, :phones: (well, maybe not in this case)

Buffy

[pgrmdave]

The exterminator?

[Buffy]

The exterminator?

 

It's a CLOSED ecosystem...

 

 

How high must we build these walls Around the fields of paradise? :phones:

Buffy

[pgrmdave]

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2007-12-16/news/orsimply16_1_spiders-cockroaches-recluse

"Wherever Huntsman spiders reside, cockroach populations decrease along with other pesky home invaders such as palmetto bugs, crickets and silverfish."

Cockroaches don't feed on living things, so their only real defense would be their reproductive rate.  

It's just about numbers - what are the initial numbers, what are their reproductive rates, and how frequently do spiders feed?  I'd place my money on the spiders.

[Buffy]

Holy crap, those suckers are huge! They're in Florida though, not California, so I'm loathe to import a family of them (especially with all the whinging going on about "illegal" immigrants, not to speak of Worker's Comp and minimum wages).

 

 

No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin, :phones:

Buffy

[pgrmdave]

Some poking around seems to indicate that the spiders that tend to feast on cockroaches do tend to be large, and hunters rather than web builders.  There are other things that eat cockroaches, including some insects (certain wasps and centipedes, though I think I'd rather cockroaches) and geckos (they can also save you up to 15% or more on your car insurance!).  

If cockroaches were easily defeated then they wouldn't be the vermin we've come to know and hate  :P 
 

[Buffy]

Yah, my Dad lived in Hawaii for 20 years, so as a frequent visitor, I got to know and love geckos (even the ones without English accents that sell car insurance), but they also are non-native to Southern California.

 

Right now I've got an alternative use for my flats (which have been replaced by flip flops, so they're fine for bug mashing), and am heading to the store for Roach Motels (Eww! Thank god for BFs...), but would love to find an alternative that's cleaner. We do have spiders but they're web-builders and stick to the small vermin.

 

So far the cat has shown no interest in chasing them. Not even for fun and torture.

 

 

What's worth doing is worth doing for money, :phones: (Wait....wrong one....)

Buffy

[LaurieAG]

Yah, my Dad lived in Hawaii for 20 years, so as a frequent visitor, I got to know and love geckos (even the ones without English accents that sell car insurance), but they also are non-native to Southern California.

 

Right now I've got an alternative use for my flats (which have been replaced by flip flops, so they're fine for bug mashing), and am heading to the store for Roach Motels (Eww! Thank god for BFs...), but would love to find an alternative that's cleaner. We do have spiders but they're web-builders and stick to the small vermin.

 

Those gecko's are good at catching them. I was woken up one morning to a terrible racket and it was a house gecko trying to swallow a flying cockroach that was larger than itself. Luckily the gecko won.

[Moontanman]

Hell buy two or three red legged tarantulas and turn them loose, they are harmless and tend to keep away annoying visitors as well...