Hundreds of cicada's though, love the noise they make, always reminds me of xmas. As for spiders my pop always told me it was a terrible thing to kill them and it stuck with me.
Happened to come across a spider catcher in one of those catalogues full of weird things many years ago, its excellent, no more trying to catch them in a glass.
Funny spider story (to me at least) - a few weeks ago at about 2am heard lots of noise coming from my sons room, I called out to him and he waited a bit and then answered that he was trapped in his room and couldn't get out. There was a note of hysteria in his voice, so I immediately started thinking terrible things. As I walked towards his door - he yells out "Don't touch the door mum, there's a spider sitting right on the handle, I swear if it doesn't move soon I am going to murder it".
He is 6ft 3 with size 15 feet, the spider was a baby hunstman, who was eventually captured and relocated to the garden.
I was having a giggle fit.
except for flies
