topic Re: Spiders in Community Spirit

Spiders

azureline** — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 02:25:08 GMT

I am totally petrified of spiders, makes no difference if they are daddy long legs, redbacks or tiny ones.

Right now I am in the sewing room, with a towel at the door and 2 dogs and a 4 yo in here. No food, no water.

I had to get a box of paperwork from the garage and bring it inside to find something for my FIL's house sale.

So, I am looking.......... and from between the folds of papers, out comes a massive spider!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It isn't a hunstman it is bigger and huge!! So, lots of screaming, grab the surface spray and almost empty it, grab the vac and up it goes.................. then another one runs across the floor! The rest of the spray is now gone and spider 2 is up the vac with a plastic bag tied over the end.

As I went to replace the papers, another one is in the box!!!!!!!!!!!! so, opened the door, turfed it out on the patio, whacked on a lid and put a can of fuel on top.............

Now waiting for someone to come

The spider is massive, has a huge bulb type back end and dark brown.

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punch*drunk — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 02:36:30 GMT

Oh no, I feel your pain! I had to fend for myself against one huntsman recently and that was scarey enough, not sure how I'd cope with a whole family of big spidies. I can deal with dady long legs because I tell myself the kill the huntsmen, dont even know if thats realy true or not.

Is someone coming to save you?

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azureline** — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 02:38:24 GMT

No one is coming any time soon. My daughter is coming to collect the 4 yo in about 2 hours............. I am thinking of moving, taking only what is in my sewing room............

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punch*drunk — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 02:38:07 GMT

And those spiders with fat bodies are the scariest too.

I used to ring my dad and get him to save me from the spiders when I lived closer to him.

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cherry*135 — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 02:41:52 GMT

:shudder:

You need to get someone to let off an insect 'bomb' in the garage asap. How many others are at large in there?

I don't mind small spiders but big ones freak me out.

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nevillesdaughter — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 02:48:38 GMT

I'm a little concerned about you, the little kid and the dogs locked in a small room after spraying around all that poison!

Should we send out a SWAT team (small joke there)?

Good luck (with me it's cane toads - if there was one near my car at night, I'd sleep in the car and hope it was gone in the morning),

Marina.

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*ibis — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 02:53:02 GMT

when I die I want to be be reincarnated as a spider

just to hear the words "oh my god, it's massive!"

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cat_mioux — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 02:54:24 GMT

Oh those naughty spiders made their home in the box until you disturbed them!

That's happened in my house too. Picked up a box from a storage place and literally hundreds of baby spiders came scuttling out. We were still spraying the house days later.

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cat_mioux — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 02:56:50 GMT

@nevillesdaughter wrote:

Good luck (with me it's cane toads - if there was one near my car at night, I'd sleep in the car and hope it was gone in the morning),
Marina.

For me it's Euro wasps. I have been known to drop everything and run around screaming like a crazy woman so of course they chase me all over the garden.

Once there was one in the house. I almost had a heart attack. Wasps feature in my nightmares too.

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lionrose.7 — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 03:23:50 GMT

Spiders are beautiful, how can you kill them ??????????????

You are million billion times bigger then a spider and you are scared hahahaha

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joz*garage — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 03:30:05 GMT

those poor spiders

i got a beauty livin' the inside of the corner window

i sometimes watch it catch stuff when theres nuthin entertaining on cs

*oh look he caught another fly*

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purple_haize — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 03:48:50 GMT

Best thing for killing spiders.....hair spray, it imobizers them, and it doesnt take much.

In saying that, I hate spiders, and cant go near them, so OH or someone else has to spray them. If there is a huntsman in a room, I cant go in that room until it is caught.

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azureline** — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 03:48:53 GMT

Spiders are not beautiful to me.................... and do not belong in my house. The spraying was done in the kitchen, so no fumes here, lol. Someone better come soon...............

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cherples — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 04:09:55 GMT

@azureline** wrote:
Spiders are not beautiful to me.................... and do not belong in my house. The spraying was done in the kitchen, so no fumes here, lol. Someone better come soon...............

Have you ever woken up as a spider runs across your face?

Spiders love me. They move in and build webs every where, including my car.

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azureline** — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 04:37:36 GMT

@cherples wrote:
@azureline** wrote:
Spiders are not beautiful to me.................... and do not belong in my house. The spraying was done in the kitchen, so no fumes here, lol. Someone better come soon...............

Have you ever woken up as a spider runs across your face?
Spiders love me. They move in and build webs every where, including my car.

Goodness no! I would probably have heart failure!

All fixed now, daughter came, child gone and I am less freaked out. However, I am never going in the garage again!

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twinkles**stars — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 04:55:15 GMT

giggling here.......easiest way to remove a spider is place a large glass over it then slide a piece of paper under the glass....lift the paper with glass on top and let the spider go outside.

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freshwater-2 — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 05:00:13 GMT

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freshwater-2 — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 05:04:14 GMT

That's what I do too, Twinkles.

I see no reason for killing them. They are one of nature's miracles and just trying to survive....like the rest of us.

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i-need-a-martini — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 11:50:07 GMT

I was laying on the couch with my daughter recently when we felt all these little things drop on us. Looked up at ceiling and there were hundreds of baby huntsman spiders scurrying across.

We have a couple of palm trees outside our loungeroom that are a haven for huntsman spiders. We had the windows open so I suspect they all got blown in or something.

I was sorry to had to do but I got the spray out and sprayed as many as I could. Felt like a murderer!

But given the frequency with which we see huge ones in the house I suspect I missed quite a few lol.

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poddster — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 12:12:08 GMT

Anyone for a nice long shrill scream?