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  • 10-08-2018 7:18pm
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    Lemonposset
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    Hi, anyone have any idea what this is. It's growing on every surface of my garden!


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    looksee
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    Looks like sacs of spider eggs?


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    newbie2
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    spider eggs


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    Lemonposset
    Registered Users Posts: 106 ✭✭Lemonposset


    I just did not want these answers to this question.

    Anything to be done about it?


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    newbie2
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    brush them off if you want, but its the time of year for them, flogging a dead horse imo


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    macraignil
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    newbie2 wrote: »
    brush them off if you want, but its the time of year for them, flogging a dead horse imo

    Killing your garden spiders will make your fly population much safer, numerous and annoying. I'd be inclined to let the eggs hatch before brushing them off.


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    Lemonposset
    Registered Users Posts: 106 ✭✭Lemonposset


    macraignil wrote: »
    Killing your garden spiders will make your fly population much safer, numerous and annoying. I'd be inclined to let the eggs hatch before brushing them off.

    Safer but more numerous & annoying? I'll take spiders over flies any day but these sacs are on every surface of the garden and all of the toys inside it!


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    If they are a nuisance then brush or wash them off.


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    Lemonposset
    Registered Users Posts: 106 ✭✭Lemonposset


    Thanks for your help guys, my hubby is all for leaving them to hatch but they just look so horrible! I appreciate you all getting back to me though


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    macraignil
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    Shouldn't take long for them to hatch but it's up to yourself really if you'd like to brush them off now. I'd at least leave some to their own devices to keep the population of spiders OK for catching flies in your garden. One sack could produce a large number of small spiders so just leaving a few could still be enough to stock your garden again with the useful spiders. When I have had to brush off the odd spider nest (if I was bringing something inside from out in the garden for example) I'd usually try to not damage the nest as much as possible when removing it from the surface it's attached to, but as I said as long as some of the nests are OK there's unlikely to be any major ecological damage done by cleaning them off. There's even some small spiders spread by the wind so in the long term you could get new spiders in from outside the garden anyway.


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    looksee
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    You have toys in the garden? You have children. Show the children and let them watch for them hatching. Honestly dozens/hundreds of very tiny spiders is really quite cute, and they vanish into the garden. I suppose birds get a lot of them. You are still going to have to scrape/ wash off the sacs though, they are well glued in place.


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