Spiders...ewwww!!!

[kiten69]

So tonight I had a visitor on my desk...one of those big "daddy long legger" spiders . I squished it (or at least thought I did), but while I was on the phone with Des I looked up on my wall and there it was (or it was its' relative). So I used a shoe and squished the darn thing **EEK** (yes I screamed and he called me a wuss ). Des said I shouldn't have killed the thing as it was just there to eat any stray insects and meant me no harm.

So here is my question...

Does anyone else have a fear of those 8 legged things?

Regardless if you have a fear of them or not, would you allow one to live in your house just on the off chance that it would catch a stray pest every now and then?

 

[tolyk]

Generally their presence means you have other insects in your home.. but no, I kill them on sight.. I can't stand the thought of a spider crawling on me.. that's as far as my phobia runs though.. but if anything is on me, I assume spider and go for the kill. Can't stand the feel of cobwebs on me either.

 

[rise_again]

anything that would fit in my hand, looks like an alien, and has more than 4 legs.

Dead.

 

[kiten69]

Generally their presence means you have other insects in your home..

Well a fly every now and then...but other than that...NADDA!

but no, I kill them on sight.. I can't stand the thought of a spider crawling on me.. that's as far as my phobia runs though.. but if anything is on me, I assume spider and go for the kill. Can't stand the feel of cobwebs on me either.

Hehehe...I just had the image of you beating yourself thinking you had a spider crawling on you (and yes I've done that before...I looked like a crazy woman )

 

[StrixVaria]

Rule of thumb...

If it doesn't pay rent or bring food, beer or sex, then it either leaves on it's own or dies by my hand.

 

[tolyk]

Well a fly every now and then...but other than that...NADDA!



Hehehe...I just had the image of you beating yourself thinking you had a spider crawling on you (and yes I've done that before...I looked like a crazy woman )

I don't beat, just one quick slap, or brush if in public. Usually a quick brush motion is enough to kill a tiny spider anyways..

One thing I like about being in Canada is there aren't many kinds of poisonous spiders. Black Widows in some places, but not many.. and one other kind I can't recall.. but never seen one of those either.

But Wolf Spiders.. they're freaking annoying.

 

[kiten69]

But Wolf Spiders.. they're freaking annoying.

Are those the same as **shivers** wood spiders? We have those down here and they are freakishly HUGE!!!

 

[tolyk]

Are those the same as **shivers** wood spiders? We have those down here and they are freakishly HUGE!!!

Naw, not quite the same.. we have wood spiders too, and yeah, they're huge.

Wolf Spiders are hunters.. they don't make webs. They're not poisonous, but when they bite you, they itch like hell.. worse than mosquitoes. And the worst part is they always bite multiple times, so if they get you when you're asleep you wake up with a little trail of bite marks.


One year when I was a kid I went camping with my eldest brother and his best friend.. We went for a hike and my brother's friend left the tents open. Woke up in the morning absolutely covered in bites, even after we all shook out our bedrolls.

 

[starrkers]

Be thankful you don't have funnel webs.
They can kill you.

 

[Liar]

Well a fly every now and then...but other than that...NADDA!

That's cuz the spider ate 'em. *nods*

 

[Jubal_Harshaw]

The effects of drugs on spiderwebs.

 

[S-Des]

You totally started this thread because you knew I was going to come home and laugh at you on the board (stinker!). You killed Steve (I named the friendly spider, who just wanted to eat the bad insects in the house to keep them from biting her), then threw him in the trash. It wasn't right, he just wanted to watch out for you. I can just here his last thoughts now....

"Wow, I've done such a great job killing all the bugs in the house. She's going to be so pleased. I'll just come down and let her know that I've finished for now, but I'll make sure none of them bother her or the kids again. Hi kiten! Do you like....wait a minute...what are you...STOP!!!!!!!" SPLAT!

For anyone thinking I'm being to tough on her, you should have heard her scream like a girl at the sight of the most harmless spider there is (standing on her chair in the room). Thank goodness her 9 year-old was there to save her.

 

[impressive]

Rule of thumb...

If it doesn't pay rent or bring food, beer or sex, then it either leaves on it's own or dies by my hand.

My children would qualify.

 

[rachlou]

I am petrified of spiders!! I am getting better now I am older, but I still can't stand a large spider in the same room. My kids have to deal with them, or accept that spidey is gonna be sucked up the vaccum cleaner!!

there's no way on earth I could live somewhere like Oz and have to face huge whopping hairy eight legged freaks EVERY DAY! I would be in a permanent vegetative state due to emotional trauma...

 

[kiten69]

I am petrified of spiders!! I am getting better now I am older, but I still can't stand a large spider in the same room. My kids have to deal with them, or accept that spidey is gonna be sucked up the vaccum cleaner!!

Vaccuum cleaner...now there is an idea...I wouldn't even have to get close

You totally started this thread because you knew I was going to come home and laugh at you on the board (stinker!).

**Bats eyes innocently**...did not...I was just...umm...getting opinions on who does and does not fear spiders.

 

[rachlou]

Vaccuum cleaner...now there is an idea...I wouldn't even have to get close

Be warned tho....... when its a biggy, there is the danger that it blockes the nozzle!

 

[OhMissScarlett]

You wouldn't be happy out here in the corn field. We have a big time problem with gnats and little flying/biting things in the summer, so I just let the daddy long legs set up shop in the corners. They don't bother me and I don't bother them.

 

[TheEarl]

I used to be seriously arachnophobic, as a lot of people on the board will testify. The tiniest, tiniest little money-spider would have me outside the room and hyperventilating before I knew what was going on. I couldn't even approach near enough to vacuum cleaner them, let alone squish them.

I had hypnotherapy for it last year, so now I can trap and remove big ones and even pick up a little one. It's quite incredible. However, I still won't let one stay in my room. It's just wrong.

The Earl

 

[FallingToFly]

You wouldn't be happy out here in the corn field. We have a big time problem with gnats and little flying/biting things in the summer, so I just let the daddy long legs set up shop in the corners. They don't bother me and I don't bother them.

Daddy long legs and other small spiders I can handle.

Wolf spiders and mutants from Planet X, which love to live around here, no, I cannot handle. I completely freak out and killl them or my kids do (depending on how brave I am at that moment).

When I was 16 I pissed off a momma wolf spider of the very large variety as she was crawling across my face with her babies on her back. I brushed at her and she retaliated by ripping a gash into my face, so I have a scar just on my cheekbone from the evil spiders and have been terrified ever since.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

Daddy long legs and other small spiders I can handle.

Wolf spiders and mutants from Planet X, which love to live around here, no, I cannot handle. I completely freak out and killl them or my kids do (depending on how brave I am at that moment).

When I was 16 I pissed off a momma wolf spider of the very large variety as she was crawling across my face with her babies on her back. I brushed at her and she retaliated by ripping a gash into my face, so I have a scar just on my cheekbone from the evil spiders and have been terrified ever since.

Yeah, those big freaky ones are pretty scary. I think those are the kind we used to have in our basement and I'm definitely not cool with those. Anything that can look at me or chase me is subject to death by golf club. My boyfriend claims one tried to murder him, so he sprayed it with about a gallon of that clear Ortho spray, which just pissed it off.

 

[TheEarl]

My boyfriend claims one tried to murder him, so he sprayed it with about a gallon of that clear Ortho spray, which just pissed it off.

The last time we had an AH spiders thread, I was informed that oven cleaner does quite a job on spiders. Apparently, it melts them.

The Earl

 

[TxRad]

I have a spider that lives in the master bathroom.... For some reason, any mosquitoes (sp) that enter the house head for that room and he lives high on the hog.... uh.... mosquitoe(and again)

When i lived farther south, we had Bannana Spiders, a beautiful golden yellow and black that got as big as the palm of your hand and built webs 6 feet across... Very interesting to watch...... pretty too with the early morning dew.....

Black widow's aren't normally agressive unless provoked but the Brown Recluse is just plain mean.... they inject acid with their bite so the wound rots from the inside out.... and is nasty to heal.... baking soda and hydrogenpyrocide works wonders....

 

[OhMissScarlett]

The last time we had an AH spiders thread, I was informed that oven cleaner does quite a job on spiders. Apparently, it melts them.

The Earl

Good to know. And it's much safer to use than a shotgun.

 

[Guest]

My willingness to kill spiders is the #1 thing that endears me to my wife.

 

[SeaCat]

Ahh Spiders.

In New Egland we dealt with the occasonal Garden Spider. (Large, Green and Black. Absolutely beauiful and it made neat webs.) We also had the Rabid Wolf Spider, which is rather nasty because it's bite for some reasons tends to become infected. (I almost lost my foot to one due to blood poisoning.) We also had upon occasion the Black Widow, but not very often.

Here in Florida we have plenty of them, including the Wolf Spiders, (several varieties.) Black Widows and Brown Widows. (Also known as the Brown Recluse or the Outhouse Spider.) we also have the aformentioned Banana Spider and occasionally a transplant from other areas. (And yes the Brown Widow Bite is nasty. Not only do they inject a digestive acid their toxin is a Hemo or Blood toxin.)

The Daddy Long Legs is the most beneficial of spiders and the safest. t's fangs are not long enough to penetrate human skin. (A good thing as it's Toxin, a euroToxin is one of the dealiest in the Spider Family.)

The only spider I truly hate is one we called a Mite Spider in Upstate New York. It lived in barns and was a tiny red thing. (Almost too small to see hence it's name.) t's bite itched like mad.

I am happy to say that Florida has not had any reports of Australian Funnel Spiders. Picture an ambuch hunter the size of a large egg with fangs long enough and strong enough t go through a sneaker and into the foot.

Cat