Too many spiders

Cat501

Gingernutty wrote: »

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

oh my lord this just gets worse!!:eek:

I am NOT looking at the link!!

This thread has made me laugh, when I moved from a ground floor flat to a top (second) floor flat, I naively hoped spiders wouldn't bother their backsides climbing all that way......:o:o

thehappybutterfly

Oh my good God! My skin is crawling......

I HATE spiders - terrified of them and as far I'm concerned, they serve absolutely no purpose whatsoever. Except to scare the bejesus out of me. I don't care that they eat flies - I'll take a houseful of flies over one spider any day. And yes, they do come back in the house - I've seen the evidence. My son and hubby are under strict instructions to kill every single one they see. And I can spot them at a hundred paces. I've phoned my hubby to come home from work to kill a spider, I've asked strangers off the street to kill them too. I've sat in my car for hours because there was one on the move in the lounge and there were no strangers around.

I even had a spider in a 7th storey flat - how the hell did it get there? People ask me why I don't get 'cured'. Why? Too !!!!!!! scared to!

Kill them all I say!!!!

gtx

dandy-candy wrote: »

I trained my kids not to dislike them so they could deal with them for me - how devious is that?

I thought I was the only one to do that!!:T

they're both in their late teens now and find it hilarious to scare me with creepy crawlies now:eek:

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

I've seen the wlespider in South London and Bournemouth.

I blamed the boyfriend at the time for bringing it up in his bags from Dorset, just as he said 'what, like that one there?' pointing at a male one trundling down the street on the way back from sainsburys.


I have a soft spot for the stocky one that ran up behind the cat and appeared to boot him up the bum, going by the way the cat lifted up of the rug where he was sleeping.

Uniscots97

We had a resident spider in my parents last house (in the corner of the kitchen, they had a 17th century stone cottage), which we've never been able to identify. This thing ate all the black and brown spiders in the house, it itself had a body 3-4 cm long and legs 6-8 cms long, it was pale cream with black stripes. My parents refused to let me get rid of it, I'm scared stiff of spiders

Dazi

anything that comes into my house with more legs than me dies. I either hit it very hard with OHs shoe, cover it with a bowl till someone rescues me (note I said me and not the thing with more than 2 legs) or hoover it up, the last option slightly scares me as I think the beast with more than 2 legs may sit in the hoover bag, grow to immense proportions, burst out and scare me somewhat!

Oh by the way this does not take into account the various fluffy things like dogs, cats, rabbits, smaller animals unless they are mice or rats, then they will be subject to the above rules although in the case of mice and rats I would seek professional advice I have NO wish to have one of them either under a bowl or in my hoover bag (((((shudder))))

littlerat

I never used to be scared of spiders, but an somewhat nervous these days - no clue why. They're only allowed in my room if they stay places that aren't over my bed. And aren't too big or move a lot.


The truly phobic amongst you would likely be horrified to learn there's a reasonable population of non-native spiders in the UK, some of which can give nastier bites than most of our natives. Oh and some tarantulas.

evilwitch

Hate spiders, although since we moved to Aus I'm getting better. Although those horrible huntsman things seem to come out when husband isn't around to dispose. Three encountered so far, all on nights when he is away. Sorry to say but a spider the size of a plate dies when its in my house or my car.

We also seem to have a never ending supply of redbacks in the garden, they like hiding under the kids scooters etc. Strange that our next door neighbour has never seen any in his garden yet every time I go 'hunting' I can find at least two! Maybe they're stalking me!!:eek:

gravitytolls

DH is afeared of spiders too. He once saw one walk across the lounge floor, lifted his legs up, screamed and as I went to pick it up, it went under his chair.

'Ah well', says I, 'I'll get it when it comes out.'

DH changes seats, keeping one eye on the chair. Out it comes, he screams 'it's following me!' Dashes off to bed, can't remain no matter how good the film is.

Anyhoo, it goes beneath the sofa he was sat on.

I watched the film and as I left the lounge, there was the spider heading out of the door ~ d'you know, I actually think it might've been pursuing him after all?

He almost succeeded in passing on his phobia to DD1. When she was 7ish, she picked one up with the glass and paper method, held the paper and glass against her tummy and popped in to torment daddy. The spider had left the glass and was sitting on her tummy. DH screamed and pointed, 'OH MY GOD, IT'S OUT, IT'S OUT...IT'S EATING HER, IT'S EATING HER!'

It wasn't eating her, but with him almost fainting from fear and making such mad statements, she began screaming and flailing too, until she (or the poor spider) was rescued by DS1 ~ sadly I was too busy laughing to be of any use whatsoever.

rosalie-lavender

My daughter is frightened of spiders probably caused by daddy's silly games of "a spider is coming to get you" when she was little. My boys however, aren't. For a long time my daughter wouldn't go into the cupboard under the stairs because there were so many spiders in there. Eventually we found out why there were so many. DS1 had been rescuing them and putting them all in the cupboard!

The boys really went a step further though when one of them came to me and said "Mum we are worried about Nigel." Oh dear I said "who is Nigel?." Nigel turned out to be the spider that had been living in their room for a few weeks. Poor Nigel apperently was on the ceiling and he was hardly moving. They started catching him flies to try and tempt him to eat.:rotfl:

Nigel did die in the end-of natural causes and now if a spider turns up-after DD has fled from the room- there is often a discussion about whether it is related to Nigel.

And going back to the OP I doubt if they would come back across the road. I think they would just go to a sheltered place or terrorose the neighbours instead.