Spiders - normal ?

elegant_elephant

One of the giant house spiders appeared on my kitchen wall this morning: cue constant, paranoid visual sweeps of all walls, beams and ceilings until Christmas.

I can just about deal with seeing them downstairs but if they are in my bedroom they die. And why do they seem to favour the beams above my bed? Horrid things.

bazster

elegant_elephant wrote: »

And why do they seem to favour the beams above my bed? Horrid things.

Best place from which to drop into your mouth during the night!

Mayflower10cat

Those strange, wispy hair-like spider are very strange - I'd not seen them before we moved to the S.West. I named them 'Wiltshire Long Legs' and whilst they don't frighten me too much, I always use a glass/card to shift them. Husband picks them up in his bare hands...! One evening in our very first home (old Victorian terrace) a large house spider scuttled across the lounge as we watched the telly. Our fluffy white (toothless!) older cat Magenta dived off my lap and chased the spider into a corner. For a few seconds I thought, oh dear, I really must rescue that spider (but it was a bit bigger than my bravery limit) as Magenta gobbled it down. With much lip licking, swallowing and some rubbing of paw over mouth...... Hours later, lying in bed, hearing familiar sound of cat retching and hawking under the bed, thinking ohhh nooooooo. Trust me, 'barely digested by cat' spider vomit is the nastiest most repulsive puddle I've ever had to clear up....

Bambam

We have massive spiders with large bodies and thick black legs in our house - a bit like tarantulas really

A few years ago my OH was playing cricket on a Sunday (all day *moan*) and while he was away I encountered three of the little blighters in my living room. I can't kill them and I was panicking about what to do.:eek: Spider number one ended up with a 'peach punnet' (minus the peaches) put over the top of it. Spider number 2 had an empty yoghurt pot covering it and spider number 3 had a tupperware container placed over the top of it. When my OH came home he thought I'd completely lost it when he walked in and found these containers over the floor

raven83

We get lots of them spiders, you describe in your OP in our house in the corner of the ceillings, but to be honest they do not bother me and I tend to leave them be. When we first moved in there the lounge was full of spiders on the floor all different types and it was a bit of a pain at times, but we blocked off the possible holes in the walls and got new flooring laid and never really have them anymore, but we do have 5 cats so that probably has something to do with it. I must admit though, the big black massive ones I am not so keen on, and they have to be gotten rid of, we have had about 3 massive ones in this house since we lived here (3 years this month) touch wood. (no doubt I will see a big one now I've said that).

OP, I am not sure if this has been mentioned as I haven't read the whole thread, but conquers in the room are meant to be a spider deterrent as they don't like the smell of them, so maybe as it will be coming up to conquer season soon, collect a load and put them around your house, see if it helps.

thehappybutterfly

You two - Jojo and bazster - are horrible! I'm going to have nightmares tonight and will never look at my cats with quite the same adoration ever again!

bluebeary

harvest spiders are vile grotesteque things, incidently theyre not spiders at all but more closely related to scorpions although not as harmful lol

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

thehappybutterfly wrote: »

You two - Jojo and bazster - are horrible! I'm going to have nightmares tonight and will never look at my cats with quite the same adoration ever again!

But surely, your cats are protecting you from the eight (and six) legged marauders?

Shouldn't you be appreciating them even more than before?

claire16c

babymoo wrote: »

Euch reading this has given me the shivers. I can't stand spiders. I literally freeze on the spot, can't do anything when I see one and when I can finally scream, I do and DP will kindly put them outside for me. He won't kill them and tbh I wouldn't want them killed I just don't want them where I can see them. I actually don't mind them in the house as I know they do good things I just hate the thought of actually seeing them. I know I have 2 living behind my fireplace but I have seen them once in 7 weeks so they can stay.

I have a cat who still lives with my mum (he's too old to move house now, he's happy there.) and he won't go near spiders.

I am dying to go to Australia to see my uncle but the one thing that is seriously putting me off is the spiders, if I could get over that I would be fine. It's a fear that has been there for 20 years though.

Go anyway. I have a massive fear of spiders but I spent 3 months in Australia last year and I could count on one hand how many I saw.

I saw 1 huntsmen when I was cleaning a blind - I got down off the chair I was standing on, and got my OH to come and get it. I was shaking but managed not to scream. Which was extremely restrained for me.

Then another time we were eating dinner in this huge hall on a farm and one girl pointed one out on the ceiling, it was really far away though so I just stopped looking at it. We stayed in these old prison cells on the farm in bunk that had bits of spider webs on them, I would check all around the bunk before going to sleep!

My DH was doing some work on the farm one day and a huntsmen crawled up his body near to his face. I probably would have had a heart attack.

What was worse was the cockroaches that live in peoples houses. That is why I could never live there! They are disgusting.

You could go on holiday there and possibly never see any especially if you stay in a high rise hotel.

Its really also about luck. My friend stayed with family in their house for 2 weeks and saw quite a few big ones I hardly saw any in a much longer time period. So dont not go because of your fear!

when we were in peoples gardens they told us to watch out for redbacks though, which was a pain looking underneath everything you picked up in sheds etc. Definitely never emigrating but can do holidays there!!

tea_lover wrote: »

I think you may be my soulmate .

They've given me panic attacks, made me faint, made me pack a bag and go and stay with my parents (who thought I'd been attacked when I turned up at 11pm crying my eyes out)... just a spider my arse, they are evil.

Yeah I have slept on the sofa before, called my Dad home from work when I lived at home because I couldnt do my homework because there was one near the computer. And I dread it when my DH goes away because Im scared of a spider being in the house that will be too big for me to get. If that were to happen I would drive to my parents for sure!

CharlieRabbit01

My partner and I both dislike spiders but he's braver than me once one ran out from under the microwave at work and I screamed and jumped back nearly landing in the lap of the new male temp! Cue bright red face and sheer embaresment luckily said temp was very sympathetic and removed the spider.

Normally I'm quite good its only when they jump out on me!

One weekend I was home alone OH had gone to see friends which also happened to be spider invasion weekend. He came home to find half a dozen up turned glasses with spiders trapped uderneath, I kindly passed him a price of card left him to flush them in the loo!