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[crumbly65]

It seems that every time I go out to my Series II at the moment, it's covered in new cobwebs.

It just seems to be that there is a glut of garden spiders this year.  Maybe it's the recent hot weather.  But my vehicle is festooned from the wing mirrors, over the bonnet-mounted spare wheel, and all around the interior.  I've the door tops off at the moment, and just the canvas tilt roof-only on....

As fast as I clear the webs off, they're back the next morning.

Is it just me, or here in the south-east of England, or has anybody else noticed that there seem to be a lot of spiders about this year? 

[oilstain]

The spiders are active in North Wales as well but seem to like my 86" more than the 11a

[Alan Drover]

I think there's a Land Rover genus of spider. Mine gets covered as well. I just drive off and the forward motion blows the external decorations  off. It doesn't bother me.

[genocache]

My spyder ? is ; Why when they get inside do they always drop down on a web right in front of me as I am driving?

[g6anz]

Spiders aren’t only attracted to series Land Rovers. My discovery gets them as well.

[kev]

For some reason, they really seem to like mirrors too.🤔

[Wittsend]

The Land Rover spider has its own part number 567 888





 

[The Shed]

Funnily enough my Son mentioned this the other day. Do you think perhaps, that a species of spider has evolved that live in car door mirrors ?
The cobwebs are around the mirror, I wipe or wash them away. Next day they reappear. His theory, and it is only a theory is that they live behind the glass.
Having evolved into mirror casing spiders ?

[Larry S.]

Spiders?!?!

[Craig T]

I'm sure I remember a sticker in the long distant past that said "Fitted with LRS" then in small letters across the bottom it said Land Rover Spiders. May have been on one of the free sticker sheets that turned up occasionally on the cover of LRO magazine.

I have a P38 Range rover and the wing mirrors are a haven for them. I took it out the other day, cleared the webs away, went out for the day, next morning, all back again.

Craig.

[Davidss]

If you research the topic, of spider webs 'use and abuse', (I just made that phrase up) you will find that new webs are made overnight, possibly in as little as an hour. This means that just because you removed them yesterday doesn't mean that new webs won't be back today.

From reading some forum posts on a canal boat forum, possibly a decade age, I seem to recall that some naturally occurring vegetation seemed to discourage spiders (or perhaps discourage their prey). I cannot clearly recall the name, perhaps it was horse chestnuts?

There are some owners of narrow boats on here, perhaps they have the 'knowledge'?

Regards.

[The Beast 233]

This is the sticker I made for the club

[crumbly65]

I just drive off and the forward motion blows the external decorations  off.

Crikey Neil!!  You must have the most powerful, fastest Land Rover.     Evidently spider silk is just about the strongest naturally-occurring thread known.  Attempts to reproduce it chemically in Labs have failed.

The webs all stay on my SII no matter what speed I do, or how windy or wet it is.  I have to remove them by hand.....

[Alan Drover]

Well, it does disappear.  An indicated 80mph is the fastest I've seen.

[diffwhine]

You are a braver man than me if you can do that speed in an 88" S3...