Resident Spider

[rac3r]

Every time I go to get the bike out there is a big web that stretches from the brake lever to the fairing, not even a straight line it's a proper round style one! :chuckle:

I destroy it but as soon as I've left it a while in the garage it's back again, can't even find the damn spider thats making it!

Anyone else have/had any creatures living in their bikes?

[Grumpy]

I've got a little devil in the right hand bar which has attached its self to the throttle!:biggrin:

[Jaron]

Ha ha - yes!! I used to have an classic black MG roadster and on this ALWAYS, even with the roof down was a little green grasshopper. Then after I sold the car there was always one on my Monster! I once rode to Dorset and it sat on my speedo all the way. I think it was some sort of guardian angel...

[rac3r]

I hope it's a small one because if a big one pops out while I'm riding :running:

Reminds me of this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B935iZOSokM&feature=player_embedded#at=234 :eek:

[He11cat]

There where huge ones in my Suzi...
They don't like the monster :)

Never mind a snake ... this thing would be my worst nightmare!!!!!.... although its not technically a spidey.. but ... my worst nightmare!

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[Kameloil]

I had a wasp sneak in under the cover on my bike and wedge itself at the bottom of the fly screen. Drove round London with me for a week without moving so I assumed he'd kicked the bucket. Went and bought a specialist screwdriver to get the screen off and he's gone!

He probably knew what was coming his way:twak:

[utopia]

I nearly always have a spider or two that live in the wing mirrors of my car (diesel astra estate, in case you're wondering). They make a web between the mirror and the bodywork. When I drive off, they rush for cover behind the mirror glass, out of the wind. Then when I park, wherever that might be, they come out and build a new web. I swear I took the same spider on a 2000 mile round Britain trip last year. It must have made a new web each night in a dozen new towns over the course of two weeks.

[Char]

I sometimes have kitty prints on my seat where my cat sneaks up inside the cover and goest to sleep in the warm

[the_adam]

I used to have a nice fluffy bee that came to visit me every time I worked on the bike...then the landlords cleared the "weeds" that were growing next to it and I had no more bee friend :(

Got a very funny looking spider that lives inside my old bike (currently in several pieces!) It's not the biggest spider but I don't really like it...it's got enormous teeth and is that strange greenish white colour which makes me think it might glow in the dark. I called him Mr Entwistle :)

[He11cat]

I would evict Mr Entwhistle ... You saw what happened to Peter Parker!!
Hmm hang on climbing buildings .. Spidey sence could be cool

I drive an Astra and the spiders live in my wing mirror as well but I evict them as I can't stand spiders!

[Scott1]

I had a rather large green grasshopper living in my headlight fairing on my S2R for about ten days, it used to crawl under the clocks once I got moving a bit, totally freaked me out but I missed it when it eventually left, I'm assuming it took up residence in my neighbour's BMW fairing.

[Gordon H]

I often find spiders webs on my 900 - often remain for sometime too as I rarely achieve enough speed to create sufficient draught to dislodge them......

[He11cat]

I love those bright green crickets :) get them in the house .
I just scoop them up and pop them outside :)
spiders no !! It's because they move in an unpredictable way!
I've had them rear up at me as well .
I was told if they have the little boxing glove things at the front it's a boy spider .
I'm really not going to get close enough to sex a spider.. I don't care if it's called janet or Fred I do not want it lurking in my bike or my house!

[the_adam]

I'm really not going to get close enough to sex a spider..

After reading that half the office seems to be coated in the tea I was trying to drink! :chuckle:

[utopia]

I was told about the boxing gloves too. On the antennae, not the legs.

[He11cat]

That's right ..
Sorry Adam!!! :) are you going to be checking out Mr Entwhistle tonight?
Maybe he's angry as he's Mrs Entwhistle?

[He11cat]

Tonight I found a baby stag beetle.....
This ones for Adam.
Someone asked what have you got???
I said a baby Stag beetle Im moving it before someone steps on it...actually its a female stage beetle.
Puzzled was the word.. how do you know????

They have different mandibles....
I am now the local stag beetle sexer and spot the looney :(

Sums me up all over...my brain hold the most stupid information... no use to man nor beast except maybe a boy stag beetle whos looking for a date..

[utopia]

I think it must be the time of year for baby beetle-like creatures. Today I found two baby earwigs..in separate locations.
And your brain doesn't have to contain useful stuff...some of it can be purely for pleasure.:spin:

[the_adam]

Yep, a brain's no fun when you have to fill it up with useful things! Makes you more handy to have around for pub quizzes too :thumbsup:

I've still never seen a stag beetle. Not too surprising in Manchester I guess but there were never any around when I was a small-Adam either...are you sure that it definitely existed? :)

[He11cat]

yuk earwigs .. .. funny I hate them but will happily pick up a stag beetle with big pincers!
The only thing I hate getting in the house is Billywitches.

The story is they get in your hair and you have to have them cut out.

I thought Billywitches where a joke ..or East Anglian Myth.. or wind up.
after 10 years of living here I saw some in my friends garden...

where I live now there are lots of trees and I have a billywitch tree in my garden :(
they often fly into my front room.
I once quickly put a hat on as I didn't want that thing in my hair!!
Had to chase the thing round the room... first time I got a good look at one!

[utopia]

Never heard of a Billywitch, but I guessed you meant a cockchafer / maybug, which google confirmed. I was well into my thirties before I ever saw one. Those things are the most unlikely looking flying bugs you could imagine seeing in this country. And the noise they make is quite scary in a darkened bedroom. I thought it was an escapee from a crate of bananas, or something......tropical and possibly venomous. It gave me quite a turn.

[He11cat]

They are so clumsey!.. I have them all in my garden in the evening buzzing round a tree.

The strangest thing I ever saw .. can't find the photo, I went to Stongehenge in summer at dusk.
There was swarms of Billywitches all over several of the stones crawling all over them hundreds and hundreds of them.. oddest thing I have ever seen.
And lots bumbling through the air... Ryan Air of the beetle world :)

[He11cat]

Hector has made a little friend .. a robin.
The bike came back thick with mud ... now years ago clean bike never I would have got out some more BBQ high heat paint and sprayed over it in the days of rat biking!

Now I have the glittery one even before I got a bath bike had his!
Hopping about right by my feet was a little robin.
He then happily perched on Hectors screen and sat a couple of inches away from me while I washed the bike.
I happily chatted to him and he cocked his head and happily sat.
Went round the other side and started cleaning my wheels down he hopped ..
He followed me round or sat on the screen again while I chatted away to him.
It was quite funny I have to say.. not in the bit frightened at all even when the hose was on!

[the_adam]

Sounds like my bee!

Robins are happy creatures :) Don't seem to see many of them anymore though... I remember a little while ago when they had the big Berlin wall anniversary, it was on the radio at breakfast and my housemate was attempting to say something serious and appropriate about it (always a mistake when I'm around!). Then he turned round and I was pointing at the hedge over the road grinning. Not sure what he had said but the response he got was "Look...the FIRST ROBIN OF THE YEAR!!!!!"

That's Adams for you...needless to say, he doesn't let me forget it :chuckle:

[He11cat]

you have not got a long lost sister have you Adam????
Thats me all over random stuff at the wrong time that has no relevence to current topic of conversation.
Things just pop into my head and I have to say it to empty some space in the noggin!!..
This could also be at 3am when I suddenly wake up and blurt out "Oh a lemon!!!"...

[the_adam]

Possibly, I've got a non-lost one that's very similar too!

The stuff isn't always random though...well, sometimes it is but it has a tendency to involve small fluffy woodland creatures :)

[He11cat]

Don't even broach the subject or Furries on here or google it ...

[the_adam]

Bearing in mind how curious Adams are...

But I'll resist googling. For now. But if I get i trouble at work tomorrow you'll know why! :D

[Dookbob]

I bought an MV Agusta lightwieght a couple of years ago that had been lying in the long grass at the bottom of the vendors garden for a few years. Got it home and took off the headlight rim and popped the lens out, there inside the headlight shell was a lovely wasps nest. It was a pity to have to remove it , but needs must. I suppose if your`e a wasp and you are going to build inside a headlamp, then it might as well be an MV. The rats liked the MV too, so much so that they had eaten the seat.

[He11cat]

My word by fixing that youve destroyed a whole mini eco climate!!... think of all the poor homeless wasps wandering about with suitcases or asking for spare change now :(
As for the rats .. if you want the seat eaten a bit more my rat fuzzy will oblige .. see hole in my leather sofa... grrrrr...

[rac3r]

Found my spider today!

I went to fit the screen I bought off adam and found him hidden between the screen in the fairing, used the alun key to lift it up and let it go in the garage (couldn't be bothered to open the door :chuckle:

It was a little brown one

[the_adam]

Mr.Entwistle is spreading! :eyepopping:

If you wanted a different name for yours you could try Mr Lundgren, it's what my sister always seems to use. We're not very normal :)