A brush with an intruder of Ghosty proportions...

[sandcastles]

Lying in bed on this warm peaceful bank holiday morning....

Dd: "Mum, there's a spider in the hall" note she says mum, not dad . Not too concerned as she has been known to call sugar ants spiders.

Wonder out of the room [shoeless, therefore unarmed], half alseep, look to where dd is looking & there it is....

Hoon Huntsmans brother!......Just waiting to pick a fight!

It makes a mad dash off up the wall at around the time dh realises what is going & kinda squeals like a girl....sigh.

Mad dash for the Mortien...that stuff is near on useless...I end up having to unload almost half a can on it before it stops running away, are they made of steel or something?

What I want to know......is where had the bloody thing BEEN all night! It was sitting quite happily outside our bedroom door.

[chloeb2002]

ha ha ha.. probably slept in bed next to you! was ab it nippy last night and probab;y felt the need to snuggle up under the covers!have found through mass testing that pea beau kills spiders fast!

[sandcastles]

CHLOE!!! Don't say that....

I don't really mind them too much, at a distance...dh on the other hand...

What's Pea beau?

[chloeb2002]

fly spray.. big green can! works a traet on spiders.. a friend of mine swears by fabulon spray! (ironing spray) has to aerosol type. stops them in there tracks. not tried it .... yet but will do if one snuggles up in bed with me!

[eidsvold]

pea beau is a different brand of bug spray - I find double pluggers or dunlop volleys to be the best form of loofah eradicator

double pluggers

dunlop volleys

[sandcastles]

Pmsl @ Eids....

I would have just stamped right on it, but by the time I got my thongs on it was up a wall!

Tis gone now, must have been Dd asking it nicely to come down!

[eidsvold]

hey ghosty - dh always reaches for the trusty thongs to slap them into oblivion!

[eidsvold]

oops meant to say sandcastles.

[AussieSim]

Can I suggest that a more organic/humane/cheaper way of ridding yourself of the poor defenceless spider is to place a glass/cup over the top of it then slide a piece of paper/cardboard underneath the cup thereby trapping the spider in the cup and then carry it outside to your/your neighbours garden?

[chloeb2002]

i love idea of putting said aracnid into neighbours garden.. they are evil! deserve the biggest. Can join the cane toads the house next but one 'chip' into there yard! . not sure however i have a glass big enough for some of the bruts taht seem to reside here and to add it would mean getting very close to one ..... while they are running up the wall.. will try to think green in the interests of my neighbours!!!

[sandcastles]

AussieSim....normally I would & have done that....

But being 5 months pregnant & the little blighter being up in the corner of the ceiling/wall...NO way was I going up there after it...

Dh locked himself in the bedroom, he is useless!

[robinpud]

Come on.. Huntsmans are just big and harmless! My friend in Clare just gives them an italian name and lets them get on with it. When we stayed with her last year we had a companion called Nico who was about the size of my hand. I think you'd have to be a pretty good shot with a thong to hit one though co the buggers move fast!

[MelbourneMum]

Ghosty you might just faint and never come to visit me again but we have a resident huntsman on our kitchen/living area ceiling. Every morning the boys delight in 'finding' him, telling me where is and how many flies they think he caught the night before. He seems to have become quite attached to our little house and shocking though it may sound, we've become quite fond of him

[sandcastles]

Robin,...the only problem with that is that I live with a very bad aracnophobe [sp] and I mean BAD!

You can see the sweats starting almost as soon as he even hears the word spider. Dd kept saying how lovely it was & saying spider over & over again & it sent him into a right state! We had to ask dd to stop saying the word!

If I let the spider stay, dh certainly wouldn't...harmless or not!

[ghosty]

MelbourneMum [gibber] ... I was going to ring you to make a plan but ... would you like to come round ours instead???

Sandcastles ... you have my sympathy ...
Not one of the methods mentioned can by done by me to get rid of them ... I can't get close enough to spray them/put a glass over them/hit them with flip flops ...
I ring up DH and demand he comes home