SPIDERS HELP

[Devonshire dumpling]

Am VERY phobic of spiders, old house was riddled in largeys, but this house in 11 years seen few.

Husband has just cause 4th MASSIVE spider in 3 days running around my living room, I am totally freaked out... is it excessively high number of spiders this year or do I have a problem.

Anything I can do?

no Spiders have been hurt ( scared but know they have a purpose)

 

[Dancing Queen]

im sorry - spiders step foot into my house they die

if they are in the bath, sink - boiling hot water on them
if they are anywhere else - they get sucked up in the vacuum
or they get stamped on.

My home = my castle = NO spiders!

 

[blood_magik]

I get my OH to get rid of them. my old flat was in the basement and I used to get giant ones creeping about - I used to chuck my magnum boots at them and squeal like a little girl

 

[Devonshire dumpling]

I just googled it, its mating season and the males are scuttling around the house, but why such a high number in 3 days... i can't cope much more, gonna need valium soon

 

[xspiralx]

I've heard they don't like conkers if you put them in the corners of your rooms?

I am exactly the same as you so I feel your pain - I am paralysingly afraid of them.

Read this great article the other day which exactly sums up my viewpoint. This paragraph in particular...:

"Oh, and please note I'm suggesting the use of lethal force as a default. None of this fannying around with pint glasses and sheets of paper and "putting him outside". He'll just crawl in again, stupid. If a murderer climbed through your window you wouldn't just "put him in the garden". You wouldn't rest until you saw his brains sloshed up the wall. It's the same with spiders. If it's not been reduced to a gritty, twitching smear, it's not been dealt with at all."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/sep/03/comment.comment1

 

[SuperCoblet]

What DQ said!
Just seen one scatter across the room... I set the dog on it!

If you don't kill it, it will soon make babies and you'll have a whole family of them running around... Not on my watch!

 

[tallyho!]

Awww.... spiders can't hurt you. They eat insects and are terrified of you!

I hate when I hear people pouring boiling hot water on spiders. That's not necessary and cruel, just stamp on it if you should feel it needs to be killed.

They do a good job of eating flies and other nasty insects, if wasn't for spiders, we'd be swimming in flies and wasps!

Films like arachnaphobia do spiders a great injustice. I'm not fond of them but killing them will never stop them coming back... they can't help it. They have instincts, not brains. They are just trying to survive.

 

[Devonshire dumpling]

Its been thrown in the neighbours garden lol

 

[xspiralx]

They eat insects and are terrified of you!

I refer you to the following paragraph from the above article which again sums up my viewpoint far more effectively than I ever could...

"But like I say, non-arachnophobes don't understand. Too lacking in imagination and/or basic human empathy to comprehend the instinctive primal reaction spiders provoke in genuine sufferers, they blather idiotic platitudes like "It's more scared of you than you are of it", which is absurd since a) spiders aren't gripped with hypnotic dread at the sight of people and b) the spider's primitive brain doesn't have any concept of fear, in much the same way it doesn't have any concept of what the Police Academy movies are."

 

[Devonshire dumpling]

Awww.... spiders can't hurt you. They eat insects and are terrified of you!

I hate when I hear people pouring boiling hot water on spiders. That's not necessary and cruel, just stamp on it if you should feel it needs to be killed.

They do a good job of eating flies and other nasty insects, if wasn't for spiders, we'd be swimming in flies and wasps!

Films like arachnaphobia do spiders a great injustice.

It's irrational! I don't want to be scared of them! I certainly won't hurt them, but my bottom leaps into spasm and my heart pounds and I am so terrified, my poor hubby dutifully hunts , knowing that I won't rest until its been removed.. just want them to look for their ladies elsewhere .. am okish with the little ones making my house webby, its the giant fast black/brown ones and they do hurt you BTW hubby had one hanging off his finger arghhhhhhhhhhh

 

[Dancing Queen]

Its been thrown in the neighbours garden lol

is coming back!! i knows where you live!!

 

[hayinamanger]

I really hate this time of the year, I had hypnotherapy a few years ago and it did help...I don't cry now

 

[Devonshire dumpling]

I really hate this time of the year, I had hypnotherapy a few years ago and it did help...I don't cry now

Even SPIDER in the title makes me shudder! Its such a strong fear isn't it!

 

[Dancing Queen]

I hate when I hear people pouring boiling hot water on spiders. That's not necessary and cruel, just stamp on it if you should feel it needs to be killed.

all spiders are poisonous (to varying degrees!) but they are still evil and if they come in my house then they die; they have evil on their mind!! stamping/pouring hot water - same thing and in your book cruel - its a spider!

 

[Flame_]

Its been thrown in the neighbours garden lol

Where it will breed, and its babies will breed and eventually an army of spiders will descend upon your house hell bent on revenge.

 

[Devonshire dumpling]

I have a large pot of conkers here my children have collected I could put a ring of them around me...

BUT they are poisionous to dogs!!! Damn

 

[brighteyes]

If it's that big, chuck a saddle on it and get hacking it out.

 

[MrsHutt]

There does seem to have been a lot of MEGA spiders about - I thought the rain might have driven them out! I HATE them, always have! I fainted in my Geography 'O' Level because one walked across the floor in front of me!

Cat is going to get the sack - she just watches them scurry!

 

[ivandenisovich10]

I am available for spider removal in kent area

 

[MrsHutt]

If it's that big, chuck a saddle on it and get hacking it out.

We really do need a 'LIKE' button on here

 

[rhino]

I hate when I hear people pouring boiling hot water on spiders. That's not necessary and cruel, just stamp on it if you should feel it needs to be killed.

Agreed. It actually makes me sad when I read that

All animals are equal but some are more equal than others, eh? I'm not a fan of cats, so is it ok for me to kill them by pouring boiling water over them? (Actually not funny as someone had tried to do exactly that to my dog when she was a puppy ) As far as I am aware, the most recent research shows that insects feel pain, have very similar neurotransmitters to humans in fact.

 

[superted1989]

I, too am terrified of spiders. Luckily, hubby isn't and is a dab hand at doing the pint glass, paper under thing. I don't try to drown them in the bath as, I have been told, they can roll up into a ball, trap air and cling on in the pipework! Therefore, when I'm next in the bath, they might lift the plug and join me! Can't hoover them up in case they climb back out again, hell bent on revenge! I have a 'spider catcher' device, bought from Kleeneze many years ago, that comprises of a box with a sliding lid, attached to a metre long pole. When I'm alone, I can trap the spider from a safe distance, leave whatever room it's in and wait for hubby to transport it to the furthest point of the garden.
Trouble is, I have longish hair and, once there's been a spider encounter, drifting hair onto the shoulder region definitely feels like creeping spider legs!

 

[christine48]

I've heard they dont like conkers and I've seen a chesnut spray made from conkers to repel spiders

 

[Alphamare]

I bought spider stop spray. I regularly spray all the door and window frames. I am very sorry to say I do kill them, I don't want too but at the time it's the only option available too me. It's a very real and powerful phobia.

 

[Tnavas]

I HATE SPIDERS!!!

We have one here in NZ - arrived from Australia - called a White tail spider - it likes to eat the 'Daddy Long legs' spider - you know the ones with looong skinny legs and a tiny body. They are said to be poisonous and are worse if they have been eating the Daddy long legs. Twice now I've been sitting on my sofa and come face to face with one. I'm goosebumping as I write! Cushion grabbed and rushed to bathroom where the monster is flushed down the loo. I then tend to check the loo every time I use it just in case its crawled back up to seek revenge. It's bite breaks down the skin and gets larger and larger. A friends father lost his leg following a white tail bite.

And for you UK peeps

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/...ation-guides-and-keys/spider-bites/index.html

 

[BonneMaman]

Oh god - I am so with you on this one! I hate this time of year! They always come out in the Autumn to mate so yes, someone above is very correct.

I have to add that I am totally rediculous in my phobia in that I dont mind anything else ie worms, daddy long legs, snakes, rats ... anything. I even don't really mind (but don't want to cuddle) other spiders so even go a far as to encourage the very long legged spindly ones (not harvest the ones with round bodies) in the house as I was told that these kill the other spiders!

Its something about the way they move - way too fast and always in my direction!

 

[Ibblebibble]

Read this great article the other day which exactly sums up my viewpoint. This paragraph in particular...:

"Oh, and please note I'm suggesting the use of lethal force as a default. None of this fannying around with pint glasses and sheets of paper and "putting him outside". He'll just crawl in again, stupid. If a murderer climbed through your window you wouldn't just "put him in the garden". You wouldn't rest until you saw his brains sloshed up the wall. It's the same with spiders. If it's not been reduced to a gritty, twitching smear, it's not been dealt with at all."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/sep/03/comment.comment1

pmsl now thats my thinking on the subject too

 

[benson21]

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/...ation-guides-and-keys/spider-bites/index.html

and now why did I look at that picture!!!?????

 

[M_G]

I often wish I was afraid of elephants as you don't find them under the bed or sneaking up on you while you sit on the sofa... My cat brings the huge huntsman ones in and let's them run free uninjured eewww

 

[Lexie81]

I have always been terrified of spiders but I do feel that gradually I am getting a teeny bit braver...still have to have hubby to deal with the big ones, but I can now catch the smaller ones and put the in the garden without having a total meltdown!!

The worst ones are the ones I always find when getting my rugs down from their hanging places at this time of year when I need to get them cleaned repaired etc.....enormous buggers! Have done half of my rugs already but the other half look the most spidery aaaggghh!!