Ok, cure me please: SPIDERS!

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Don't know of it's the curse of this place and that bloody thread About spiders, but over the last few days I've had massive spiders in my house.
They freak me out!!!!

Why are they coming in?
Why are they so freaking big?
What am I so scared of?
HOW CAN I STOP BEING SO FREAKED OUT????

There's no point telling me I'm bigger than them blah blah, there's no point (sassy) telling me they catch flies blah blah or even that they spin little cute webs and make orphans blankets.
I don't care.

I hate them and they freak me out.

Any one got any good cures for me? Please??   

Nems wrote:

feelthelove wrote:As a teenager I lived in the country and the spiders were pretty meaty   They scared the life out of me, my Dad used to come home to various pots, glasses, cups etc confining them! I'd find them in my bed, freaked me out big time!

The ones I see now are nothing in comparison, babies  ::pntyswrd::

In the bed !?   

Can you imagine???!!! I would scream the house down, shake my quilt and sleep on the settee

feelthelove wrote:

Nems wrote:

In the bed !?   

Can you imagine???!!! I would scream the house down, shake my quilt and sleep on the settee

I dont bloody blame you. I still have palpitations about the time I closed the curtains and a big black hairy spider fell on me.

Nems wrote:

feelthelove wrote:

Can you imagine???!!! I would scream the house down, shake my quilt and sleep on the settee

I dont bloody blame you. I still have palpitations about the time I closed the curtains and a big black hairy spider fell on me.

OMG!!! Fantastic smiley x

Sassy wrote:

eddie wrote:

victorisnotamused wrote:

nope...you need the alcohol content to dissolve the oil in the lemon grass......

Can I use anything other than vodka?
And also where would I buy plain alcohol from vic?

Rubbing alcohol/surgical spirit from a chemist would do it Eds.

Thank you sassy

Nems wrote:

feelthelove wrote:

Nems wrote:

In the bed !?   

Can you imagine???!!! I would scream the house down, shake my quilt and sleep on the settee

I dont bloody blame you. I still have palpitations about the time I closed the curtains and a big black hairy spider fell on me.

WTF NEMS!!!

Get rid of that emoticon now!   

Have we changed to autumn, all the things that normally come indoors in autumn seem to be here, spiders all over the place.

Sassy wrote:Have we changed to autumn, all the things that normally come indoors in autumn seem to be here, spiders all over the place.

Exactly!!!   

Get a pet Tarantula it will eat all the little ones. We could all help with suggested names again.

My first suggestion is Tarentino   

http://www.thespidershop.co.uk/tarantula-care-guide/

 

I squish redbacks.

Funnelwebs, I usually drown in metho'..

Any others, I normally encourage them to build their webs in the garden for natural pest control, while most of those that find their way inside, I'll leave alone...

gerber wrote:Get a pet Tarantula it will eat all the little ones. We could all help with suggested names again.

My first suggestion is Tarentino     

http://www.thespidershop.co.uk/tarantula-care-guide/

LOZL nup

Cellar Spider (the Aussie Daddy long legs... where the myth about daddy long legs being dangerous comes from)

P.S the White tail is a DANGEROUS spider more dangerous than Any spider in Europe


I have seen Cellar Spider kill and eat hunts man that woudl be several hundred times their size (Huntsman with leg spans similar to a man's hand width)

veya_victaous wrote:

OMG that even freaked me out

WTF VEYA????   

eddie wrote:Well sassy that may work if I was three!! I am very calm in front of Jas who loves them (they are all Incy wincy lol) but I still tell her "mummy is wrapping them in tissue so they can swim in the toilet"

Vic, I've thought of that but I wouldn't get near one let alone hold one!!

Do you think it's the element of surprise I dislike??

Killing spiders will not cure you - in fact it will make you worse. Encouraging your child to kill them will make her the same. If you treat them like living creatures which have a right to be on this earth, that will be a start. I cured myself after a spider ran all over me on a train, and two of them appeared in the car when I was driving. When you realise that you can't avoid them and that you might actually crash your car, you tend to want to stop being so silly about it.

Once you can get to the stage of being able to put a spider out of the house without killing it, it's best to keep the materials handy. A plastic transparent cup and a piece of cardboard in each room is a good start. If you can't face getting so close, you can get spider removers with a long handle. I haven't tried one myself but they sound like a good idea.

Always put the spider some distance away from the house or it will come back in again.   

Raggamuffin wrote:
Once you can get to the stage of being able to put a spider out of the house without killing it, it's best to keep the materials handy. A plastic transparent cup and a piece of cardboard in each room is a good start. If you can't face getting so close, you can get spider removers with a long handle. I haven't tried one myself but they sound like a good idea..........................

  

 ://?roflmao?/: 

SPLURK !!!

G'DAY, Ragga' ~ what wimp gave you that advice ?

Keep a plastic cup and a card handy in each room !
Buy yourself a (no doubt overpriced, imported - and ineffective?) commercial 'spider remover' !

I'm just surprised there wasn't a 12 ga. shottie as a 'backup' mentioned in there..

 ::rfth:: 

Lone Wolf wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:
Once you can get to the stage of being able to put a spider out of the house without killing it, it's best to keep the materials handy. A plastic transparent cup and a piece of cardboard in each room is a good start. If you can't face getting so close, you can get spider removers with a long handle. I haven't tried one myself but they sound like a good idea..........................

  

 ://?roflmao?/: 

SPLURK !!!

G'DAY, Ragga' ~ what wimp gave you that advice ?

Keep a plastic cup and a card handy in each room !
Buy yourself a (no doubt overpriced, imported - and ineffective?) commercial 'spider remover' !

I'm just surprised there wasn't a 12 ga. shottie as a 'backup' mentioned in there..

 ::rfth:: 

Well it works for me. If I see a spider, I can immediately catch it. If I have to leave the room to get the cup, it's gone by the time I get back! I also keep one in the car so I don't get caught out that way again.   

As I said, killing spiders will make someone worse because they have no respect for them, and they fear what they don't respect.

I think it's the bent knees I don't like, and the scuttling!

Raggamuffin wrote:

eddie wrote:Well sassy that may work if I was three!! I am very calm in front of Jas who loves them (they are all Incy wincy lol) but I still tell her "mummy is wrapping them in tissue so they can swim in the toilet"

Vic, I've thought of that but I wouldn't get near one let alone hold one!!

Do you think it's the element of surprise I dislike??

Killing spiders will not cure you - in fact it will make you worse. Encouraging your child to kill them will make her the same. If you treat them like living creatures which have a right to be on this earth, that will be a start. I cured myself after a spider ran all over me on a train, and two of them appeared in the car when I was driving. When you realise that you can't avoid them and that you might actually crash your car, you tend to want to stop being so silly about it.

No you misunderstood me; I don't teach my daughter to kill them, she thinks I'm saving them and putting them in the loo for a swim lol

I know I'm being silly, I can see that, but I can't stop it.

eddie wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:

Killing spiders will not cure you - in fact it will make you worse. Encouraging your child to kill them will make her the same. If you treat them like living creatures which have a right to be on this earth, that will be a start. I cured myself after a spider ran all over me on a train, and two of them appeared in the car when I was driving. When you realise that you can't avoid them and that you might actually crash your car, you tend to want to stop being so silly about it.

No you misunderstood me; I don't teach my daughter to kill them, she thinks I'm saving them and putting them in the loo for a swim lol

I know I'm being silly, I can see that, but I can't stop it.

Do what I did, hang fire and cope best you can until your daughter can put them out for you  ::D:: 

eddie wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:

Killing spiders will not cure you - in fact it will make you worse. Encouraging your child to kill them will make her the same. If you treat them like living creatures which have a right to be on this earth, that will be a start. I cured myself after a spider ran all over me on a train, and two of them appeared in the car when I was driving. When you realise that you can't avoid them and that you might actually crash your car, you tend to want to stop being so silly about it.

No you misunderstood me; I don't teach my daughter to kill them, she thinks I'm saving them and putting them in the loo for a swim lol

I know I'm being silly, I can see that, but I can't stop it.

She'll find out one day that you're killing them. You're giving her the message that spiders are bad and something to be afraid of. Besides, there's no need for you to kill them. As I said, if you do that, you will continue to be afraid of them.

Nems wrote:

eddie wrote:

No you misunderstood me; I don't teach my daughter to kill them, she thinks I'm saving them and putting them in the loo for a swim lol

I know I'm being silly, I can see that, but I can't stop it.

Do what I did, hang fire and cope best you can until your daughter can put them out for you  ::D:: 

Really bad idea. Having to depend on other people to remove spiders is so restrictive. I have a friend who had to ring people to come round and remove them for her!

The thing is that in the UK at least you can't avoid spiders. It's not like having a phobia about snakes, for example, where you rarely have to deal with a snake. The best thing is to get over the fear. I still don't like them obviously, but I can deal with them myself now.

Raggamuffin wrote:

Nems wrote:

Do what I did, hang fire and cope best you can until your daughter can put them out for you  ::D:: 

Really bad idea. Having to depend on other people to remove spiders is so restrictive. I have a friend who had to ring people to come round and remove them for her!

The thing is that in the UK at least you can't avoid spiders. It's not like having a phobia about snakes, for example, where you rarely have to deal with a snake. The best thing is to get over the fear. I still don't like them obviously, but I can deal with them myself now.

No I manage thank you I once sat on top of a dining room table for four hours until ex came home as there was a spider between me and the door.    

Nowadays if all else fails I have a super long hoover pipe that means I can get them from 6 foot away.

Nems wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:

Really bad idea. Having to depend on other people to remove spiders is so restrictive. I have a friend who had to ring people to come round and remove them for her!

The thing is that in the UK at least you can't avoid spiders. It's not like having a phobia about snakes, for example, where you rarely have to deal with a snake. The best thing is to get over the fear. I still don't like them obviously, but I can deal with them myself now.

No I manage thank you I once sat on top of a dining room table for four hours until ex came home as there was a spider between me and the door.    

Nowadays if all else fails I have a super long hoover pipe that means I can get them from 6 foot away.

So you wasted four hours when you could have dealt with it yourself.

When a spider ran across me and I didn't scream because I was in public, I realised that the fear was all self-induced and could be controlled.

Raggamuffin wrote:

Nems wrote:

No I manage thank you I once sat on top of a dining room table for four hours until ex came home as there was a spider between me and the door.    

Nowadays if all else fails I have a super long hoover pipe that means I can get them from 6 foot away.

So you wasted four hours when you could have dealt with it yourself.

When a spider ran across me and I didn't scream because I was in public, I realised that the fear was all self-induced and could be controlled.

When my ex husband though he was being funny taking me to a tarantula tank at the zoo I screamed the place down, vomited on his shoes and fainted.

Well I've made the spider spray
We shall see .

eddie wrote:Don't know of it's the curse of this place and that bloody thread About spiders, but over the last few days I've had massive spiders in my house.
They freak me out!!!!

Why are they coming in?
Why are they so freaking big?
What am I so scared of?
HOW CAN I STOP BEING SO FREAKED OUT????

There's no point telling me I'm bigger than them blah blah,  there's no point (sassy) telling me they catch flies blah blah or even that they spin little cute webs and make orphans blankets.
I don't care.

I hate them and they freak me out.

Any one got any good cures for me? Please??   

It's spider mating season. The spiders you're seeing are 'males seeking a female'.

Don't kill them. They're just horny.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/natureuk/posts/A-life-story-of-large-house-spiders

Use conckers placed near the window to stop them coming in. It's what garlic is to vampires.

so what? they cant stay in their own homes and watch pay for porn on Tv?

and I don't have conkers over here.....so now what??

eds what is this spray you have?

Cass wrote:so what? they cant stay in their own homes and watch pay for porn on Tv?

and I don't have conkers over here.....so now what??

eds what is this spray you have?

You're not very hospitable. A good host would have prepaid porn in their guest room.

Cass wrote:so what? they cant stay in their own homes and watch pay for porn on Tv?

and I don't have conkers over here.....so now what??

eds what is this spray you have?

Alcohol mixed with lemongrass oil Cass.
Sprayed all the outside windows and doors as well as indoors.

I'll let you know

Fuzzy Zack wrote:

Cass wrote:so what? they cant stay in their own homes and watch pay for porn on Tv?

and I don't have conkers over here.....so now what??

eds what is this spray you have?

You're not very hospitable. A good host would have prepaid porn in their guest room.

hey that's not fair.....I offered to put eds up in my attic crawl space.....

eds let me know how you get on.....I have booked the pest control guy for Wednesday....you have to out here at least quarterly...I wish I could at work.....the beetles have gone now we have crickets AND A REAL LIVE SCORPION ON SATURDAY MORNING.......sorry for the screaming.......I hoovered him up with the vacuum hose....may he rest in pieces.....

We should live in peace with the hardier species that will eventually inherit this planet we're making uninhabitable for ourselves! But here, here's a gif -- if you can accept its reality, you can live without fear of spiders ...



They (the hundreds of them just in this one tiny space) truly mean you no harm

I agree with Ben. They exist, just like you, me, and millions of other life-forms, therefore they have a right to that existance.
As said, the simplest and kindest thing to do, if you can't pick them up, is catch them in a container and put outside.

Traditionally the Chinese wouldn't harm a spider because they do catch the flies. Fear of them can be tackled and overcome if you think along diffrent lines.

Poor little buggers, they can't hurt you can they, unless you're in the tropics and they are poisonous.

PS: I suppose it's easy for me to accept creepy crawlies, being born and bred in the country. City people obviously don't come into contact with such things in the quantity we do.

Ben_Reilly wrote:
We should live in peace with the hardier species that will eventually inherit this planet we're making uninhabitable for ourselves! But here, here's a gif -- if you can accept its reality, you can live without fear of spiders ...



They (the hundreds of them just in this one tiny space) truly mean you no harm

GOTTA admire the way that the idiotic cowardly wimp on that video is using a cotton bud to disturb the spiders nest...

IF he/she were a real man, she'd be using bare hands !

I've probably disturbed dozens of spider nests over the years that contained hundreds and even thousands of babies..

NOT just a few dozen !

Guest wrote:I taken a photo on my phone of the spider that was in the cupboard, which was the same as one I had found in the bathroom on the scales to other day.   It was a Huntsman Spider definitely:



Matched my the pic on my phone exactly.  

THAT doesn't look like ANY Huntsman spiders that I have ever seen !!!

That's the last time I open this thread.  Nearly had a heart attack. Seriously.

THE following images were taken using an Olympus µ 5mp compact camera, set on "Auto" :

Huntsman Spider - I left this one in the house to eat any flies, mosquitoes and cockroaches that crossed it's path..


THIS python had it's eyes on a possum living in a neighbour's garage here, before I dragged it out ready for a snake catcher to relocate it :

Diamond Python -


HERE, we have a swarm that set up home in a stack of boxes that were waiting to be repainted :

European Honeybees -

Frazzled wrote:That's the last time I open this thread.  Nearly had a heart attack. Seriously.

ditto. I feel quite ill now. and I wonder what bugs/icky things await me at work today.......

I hate this thread!
You're all weird spider-loving freaks of nature!

WHAT all of you ladies need is to have a seat, and take a load off your feet :



::dunno::

eddie wrote:Don't know of it's the curse of this place and that bloody thread About spiders, but over the last few days I've had massive spiders in my house.
They freak me out!!!!

Why are they coming in?
Why are they so freaking big?
What am I so scared of?
HOW CAN I STOP BEING SO FREAKED OUT????

There's no point telling me I'm bigger than them blah blah,  there's no point (sassy) telling me they catch flies blah blah or even that they spin little cute webs and make orphans blankets.
I don't care.

I hate them and they freak me out.

Any one got any good cures for me? Please??   

It can be done eddie. This is the time of year when spiders will come into the house, so you don't want your life to be ruled by fear of these critters.

When you've had a massive spider run all over you on a train and managed to not freak out, then you will be on the way to a cure - try it, it works.

Lone Wolf wrote:

WHAT all of you ladies need is to have a seat, and take a load off your feet :



::dunno::

GO AWAY YOU HORRIBLE MAN......

yesterday one of my patrons told me she had a green Mojave outside her back door.......she lives 1000 feet or so from the library......lets just hope he stays there ......by the time the animal control people came he was long gone.....I'm. off to Home Depot shortly to buy a machete .......

Reptiles love to sun themselves in the morning. Once had a friend who had a job on the Papago Reservation, in a house trailer. She would arrive every morning with 8 or 9 side-winders sunning themselves on the steps.

She said the first one in the morning had to take a broom (left for the occasions) and sweep the critters off the steps before entering.

Original Quill wrote:Reptiles love to sun themselves in the morning. Once had a friend who had a job on the Papago Reservation, in a house trailer. She would arrive every morning with 8 or 9 side-winders sunning themselves on the steps.

She said the first one in the morning had to take a broom (left for the occasions) and sweep the critters off the steps before entering.

a broom? don't make me laff......I'd use tactical warheads if I had the cash

I have to admit, she was a bit cavalier when telling about it.

Can someone tell wolf he is absolutely off my Xmas card list!

DON'T LOOK!!!!










(don't say I didn't warn you!)








But what you need to take care of those mean ol' snakes is a (galloping) spider:

Okay see this is why I disbelieve all the crap I've been told ie:
Spiders will away run into cracks and walls etc so if you see a spider in your bedroom it won't go near you it'll run and find a hole

Bollocks!!

The other night, I saw a slider in my hallway, went to grab a tissue to kill it and it ran under the cupboard door in the hallway.
Then the same spider must've run out of the hallway cupboard and into my daughter's bedroom (opposite cupboard and yes, it was the same one!)
Again, I tried to kill it but missed and it ran under her bookcase. I sprayed the area with my lemongrass oil spray thingy and all was quiet.

Them just now!!! Same fecking spider ran under her bed!!

I killed the fucker.


So they don't just "run away and hide" they stalk the hallways and bedrooms of innocent unsuspecting people.

eddie wrote:Okay see this is why I disbelieve all the crap I've been told ie:
Spiders will away run into cracks and walls etc so if you see a spider in your bedroom it won't go near you it'll run and find a hole

Bollocks!!

The other night, I saw a slider in my hallway, went to grab a tissue to kill it and it ran under the cupboard door in the hallway.
Then the same spider must've run out of the hallway cupboard and into my daughter's bedroom (opposite cupboard and yes, it was the same one!)
Again, I tried to kill it but missed and it ran under her bookcase. I sprayed the area with my lemongrass oil spray thingy and all was quiet.

Them just now!!! Same fecking spider ran under her bed!!

I killed the fucker.


So they don't just "run away and hide" they stalk the hallways and bedrooms of innocent unsuspecting people.

Uh-oh, hope you don't end up on the wrong end of a spider vendetta ...

Ben_Reilly wrote:

eddie wrote:Okay see this is why I disbelieve all the crap I've been told ie:
Spiders will away run into cracks and walls etc so if you see a spider in your bedroom it won't go near you it'll run and find a hole

Bollocks!!

The other night, I saw a slider in my hallway, went to grab a tissue to kill it and it ran under the cupboard door in the hallway.
Then the same spider must've run out of the hallway cupboard and into my daughter's bedroom (opposite cupboard and yes, it was the same one!)
Again, I tried to kill it but missed and it ran under her bookcase. I sprayed the area with my lemongrass oil spray thingy and all was quiet.

Them just now!!! Same fecking spider ran under her bed!!

I killed the fucker.


So they don't just "run away and hide" they stalk the hallways and bedrooms of innocent unsuspecting people.

Uh-oh, hope you don't end up on the wrong end of a spider vendetta ...

Eh??? do you know something I don't????

Ben_Reilly wrote:
DON'T LOOK!!!!

(don't say I didn't warn you!)

But what you need to take care of those mean ol' snakes is a (galloping) spider:

I CAN well believe that video clip if that was a baby snake only about 10-15cm or so long...

BACK in the mid 1980s, I rescued a similar sized young snake from being caught in a spider web underneath a table, and released it in scrub on the north bank of the Brunswick River (about 20kms north of Byron Bay..).