Too many spiders

Mado

Arch... You are reminding me of the good old days when we lived in Australia. We had a resident huntsman in the house that OH forbade me to remove as it eats all the mosquitoes and makes no web.
Once the baby sitter closed the curtains in the spare room and found a huntsman nest, with hundreds of baby huntsman running away in all directions. I think she drowned them with the insecticide she was so hysterical!!!:D

Spendless

Byatt wrote: »

they also kill butterflies, bees and moths or anything that has the misfortune to get trapped in their webs and what a horrible way to go.

They don't have a Sainsbury's or an Aldi.:p

dandy-candy

!!!!!! wrote: »

Of course they do, they got the instructions on how to do it from the web :rotfl:

Nottoobadyet wrote: »

Install a little pedestrian light at about 2 inches off the ground, on your side of the road. Just paint the little red man on and they'll eventually tire of waiting for it to turn green and will go elsewhere.

Aww you both gave me a good chuckle with the above!

meritaten wrote: »

I am not fond of spiders (hate to admit it but I scream at the large ones!).
I went to clean the windows and found a web right across one and this spider sitting in the middle of it. I went to sweep it away with a duster and the darn thing turned and looked at me! it was at least two inches across - I stepped back and it CROUCHED! I went to sweep it away and it JUMPED at me! I am ashamed to say this - but, I retreated and got OH to clean the window! and no - I dont care if he squished THAT spider! I can tolerate most of them - if they dont bother me I dont bother them - but this one was an aggressive bu99er!

Don't feel back for getting OH to do it - I trained my kids not to dislike them so they could deal with them for me - how devious is that?

Once when I was about 8 years old, mum and I were in a staying in a tiny cotswold cottage and there was a huge spider on the toilet door. We were both too scared to get rid of it, so mum ran into the road and collared the first bloke walking past and got him to come in and remove it! :rotfl: I think she gave him a couple of quid for a pint after - aren't we daft?!

dandy-candy

Gingernutty wrote: »

Hi OP.

Have you thought of one of these?

http://www.betterware.co.uk/betta-bug-katcha.html

I'm not scared of spiders, in fact, my party 'trick' is picking them up and throwing them out the door for the scaredies when I visit them.

You really don't want to see what's in my bathroom btw - it freaked me out when I first saw it :eek: - but I'm cool with it now :cool:

With my eyesight i'd probably miss-aim and squish it :eek:

and i'm not looking at your photo link!! No thank you!!

maryarm

My friend says no they don't, they swing across on their silken Web like spiderman!!!! Think maybe she is taking this thread to seriously lol

Byatt

Spendless wrote: »

They don't have a Sainsbury's or an Aldi.:p

So true, we need a campaign...:p:rotfl:

Don't get me wrong, I don't kill unless a last resort, I have all sorts of humane spider gadgets as well as deterrents that are environmentally friendly, but I can and do make myself ill with fear as the phobia is so bad. Having said all that, I do open windows now which I had stopped doing.

Dandy, don't look at the link, it's imprinted on my brain now.:eek:

Great sense of humour on this thread.

Ginger, hope you're ok today and no more corpses!

thistledome

I want to know where Ginger lives (actually I want to know where the scary monster in her bathroom lives....).

Ginger, are you North, South, East or West? Don't give an exact location if you're worried about privacy, but a very rough guide to area of Britain would be gratefully received by us fearties.....:o (OK, don't bother seems you are in the region of the midlands-ish).

I didn't look at her link but I got the gist from the :eek: :eek: 's of others!

EDIT: OMFG

They are usually to be found under logs in warm places, often close to woodlice. They have been found in houses. They spend the day in a silken retreat and hunt at night without the use of a web. Their diet consists exclusively of woodlice which—despite their tough exoskeleton—are pierced easily by the spider's large chelicerae.
The courtship of these spiders is typically aggressive and mates risk injury from each other's large chelicerae. The female lays her eggs in a silken sac and is believed to look after her young after hatching like the "Mothercare" spider (Theridion sisyphium).
They have been known to bite humans if handled. Their bite can be painful but the venom causes no major medical problems. Localised itchiness at the bite site has been reported in some cases. [2]

Gingernutty

dandy-candy wrote: »

With my eyesight i'd probably miss-aim and squish it :eek:

and i'm not looking at your photo link!! No thank you!!

It's too big to miss but it's too fast too. :eek:

Byatt wrote: »

So true, we need a campaign...:p:rotfl:

Don't get me wrong, I don't kill unless a last resort, I have all sorts of humane spider gadgets as well as deterrents that are environmentally friendly, but I can and do make myself ill with fear as the phobia is so bad. Having said all that, I do open windows now which I had stopped doing.

Dandy, don't look at the link, it's imprinted on my brain now.:eek:

Great sense of humour on this thread.

Ginger, hope you're ok today and no more corpses!

Um. Nope. To add to the two dead mice Sunday and Monday over the Jubilee weekend, there's something leaving dead mice outside my kitchen door too. :eek:

!!!!!!?!

thistledome wrote: »

I want to know where Ginger lives (actually I want to know where the scary monster in her bathroom lives....).

Ginger, are you North, South, East or West? Don't give an exact location if you're worried about privacy, but a very rough guide to area of Britain would be gratefully received by us fearties.....:o (OK, don't bother seems you are in the region of the midlands-ish).

I didn't look at her link but I got the gist from the :eek: :eek: 's of others!

EDIT: OMFG

It's no secret. Wolverhampton. Under the bath.

I live in a little terraced house with a downstairs bathroom which consists of a cardboard box tacked onto the back of the ground floor - there are all sorts of damp and insect/creepy crawly ingress issues.

Byatt

Thistle, you shouldn't have looked, once seen, never to be erased...:eek::eek:

I live in a damp, old cottage, with my bathroom downstairs too. I also have infestations of wood lice, which I considered harmless little things...but where there's wood lice, there must be wood lice spiders! Oh !!!!!!. :eek:

I was also going to have a nice wood pile for the wood burner, not any more.

Ginger, are there cats around that might be bringing you these thoughtful gifts?

Gingernutty

A large collection of pets and feral puss cats - two main tribes - the 'black and whites' and the 'gingers'.

The 'gingers' are borderline psychopaths hellbent on reducing the human population - I can't see any one of them leaving gifts....