Tiny eggs on TV screen

Willeth

I just noticed a cluster of tiny eggs stuck to our TV screen. There's 25 or so, no more than a millmetre wide, and probably closer to half that. They're beige in colour from what I can tell.

I'm wondering what they are and how to get rid of them. We do have a spider that lives in the wall behind the TV that comes out at night every now and again, but it being summer, leaving the windows open and staying up late does attract moths in as well. I'm wary to just squash them, as you hear stories of someone crushing a spider egg sac and then thousand baby spiders swarming out, and I have similar reservations about vaccuuming them up.

So, H/A, what do I do with these things?

Spacemilk

Collect them carefully without breaking them (maybe use a broom+dustpan?) then light them on fire.

Iceman.USAF

Willeth wrote: »

I just noticed a cluster of tiny eggs stuck to our TV screen. There's 25 or so, no more than a millmetre wide, and probably closer to half that. They're beige in colour from what I can tell.

I'm wondering what they are and how to get rid of them. We do have a spider that lives in the wall behind the TV that comes out at night every now and again, but it being summer, leaving the windows open and staying up late does attract moths in as well. I'm wary to just squash them, as you hear stories of someone crushing a spider egg sac and then thousand baby spiders swarming out, and I have similar reservations about vaccuuming them up.

So, H/A, what do I do with these things?

Kill it with fire!

Or you know, scoop it onto a paper plate and toss it outside. Or flush it down the toilet.

Willeth

Thanks, guys. I'll probably use a sheet of paper to slide them onto the dustpan and flick them outside.

Also, I feel dumb.

GPIA7R

I'm not sure you understand the severity of this situation.

There are things in those eggs... gestating... waiting... If you touch it, they could possibly hatch at that very moment and devour you.

I follow a very basic rule when it comes to this sort of thing.

If it has anything to do with spiders...

Sipex

This is a TV he's talking about though, TVs aren't typically fire proof.

GPIA7R

TV's can be replaced, lives can't.

Sipex

It's fruitless though, then the...whatever it is...will just lay eggs on his new TV.

If Hollywood has taught me anything, he needs Michelle Rodriguez and a band of space marines to take these out.

Zenitram

I'd be skeptical flushing them down the toilet, you don't want them trekking their way back up.

Passerbye

Generally if the eggs are about to hatch you'll be able to see little things wriggling inside. If you can't see wriggling, you're safe from spidersplosions.

Pheezer

Zenitram wrote: »

I'd be skeptical flushing them down the toilet, you don't want them trekking their way back up.

This would seem to be quite fucking unlikely.

bowen

Maybe they're alligator eggs?

Also, flushing down the toilet is the better option, they're probably not an aquatic creature, and putting them outside will just mean you have to deal with them when they hatch and come back inside.

Sipex

To be fair, fire works on both. If they're aquatic or not they won't hatch.

Unless they're phoenix eggs. Then it's awesome anyways.

SmokeStacks

What would make a spider want to lay eggs on a flat open surface like a TV?

Residual warmth, maybe?

Also, forget paper, just use a vacuum hose. This way if they explode, whatever, they're in your vacuum bag and you can throw it away.

Willeth

I've taken care of it. Paper into a bin bag, bin bag outside in bin.