Fucking harvest spiders

[pleasedrivecarefully]

I’m in bed and the biggest fucking harvest spider I have ever seen in my life has just run under my bed. I was alerted to it when I heard its stupid feet tip tapping over a piece of paper DD had left on my floor, as it sprinted towards me. It was so loud!

what the fuck do I do?! I’ve shone a torch under my bed but no sign of it. There are a lot of storage bags under there.

I’m usually a bit eye rolly at the “burn the house down” comments but I have to say I’m seriously considering it.

Turn on all the taps and flood the house.?

What's a harvest spider? I am afraid of spiders so whatever type you have my sympathy. Could you sleep on the sofa? Otherwise you'll have to clear out under the bed wearing long gloves before you sleep.

Nope I would not be sleeping in that room. I’d move a few cellar spiders in and sleep on the sofa for a week until they had done their housekeeping. 😬

Do you mean the leggy ones which hang in corners? They eat other spiders, so I tolerate them.

The are harmless like daddy long
legs.

I don’t mind them because they eat the big house spiders!

I hope you manage to find it so you can sleep.

It's not interested in you, it's interested in keeping out of the way under your bed so it can deal with bigger, hairier and for some people, scarier, spiders.

Oh God. I’ve been labouring under a misunderstanding all my life. After some Googling, I’ve established it’s not a harvest spider. It’s a Giant House Spider (official name, please don’t Google it).

I quote;

“While they can be startling due to their size and speed, they are not dangerous and are generally reluctant to bite.”

RELUCTANT TO BITE?!

and it was fucking startling

Now I want a harvest spider if they eat these fuckers

After decades of horrendous arachnophobia I have finally found it receding to the point of being unbothered by most spiders — apart from the massive house spiders.

However they only come out this time of year for mating — so if you can think of it as a sad lone male who is out looking hopefully for some sex with a lady spider, that might make it less horrific?

These are called cellar spiders.

Theres no such thing as harvest spiders, there’s harvestmen which are kind of like spiders but only have 6 legs.

Hotel it is.

As long as he stays lone. I think the thought of two of them shagging under there and reproducing does not calm my nerves.

or, if he stays single, what if he goes all mental and incel on me?!

To me they are the least scary of the spider species. I’d happily handle one of these and have done so in the past. Trouble is they run so fast!
The scary ones are the big bodied, hairy legged types 😬

Spiders are brilliant and crucial to humanity.

Sorry 😊

Do you have any fly spray? Give under the bed a good spray and each corner of the room. And maybe sleep in the spare room, if you have one!

Well, you're hardly going to go under there and pick her up now, are you? So she's not going to be trying to defend herself any time soon.

Sleep on the sofa tonight. Get a jam jar and A4 piece of card ready in the morning.

Never even heard of a harvest spider so had to Google them. They look pretty weedy. I'm genuinely surprised if those weedy things can beat up the more beefier common household spiders.

Oh no... read your first post thinking who cares about harvest spiders, it's the giant house spiders you want to worry about...

Did Google tell you how fast those things are??

I had this last night.... I stood in the middle of the bed for over an hour and kept turning in case it climbed up behind me 😂 I had a chamomile tea so I stood drinking that and stood with the mug! It emerged just under an hour later and then it took me another half an hour to be brave enough to put the mug over it. Was so big I was expecting to see a moving mug so I put a book on top of it 😂😂 then I seen the posie this morning and got him to remove it for me!

They really can. I was highly doubtful too until I saw the evidence of one taking its time to demolish the other. Cellar spiders now get left alone in my house - they happily hang out in their corners gathering their energy for the next big bugger that dates show it’s face!

Op you have my empathy. This thread has also been a great reassurance that I am right to leave the stringy ones be. Having been told (and being so afraid of spiders Google is no option) that they are my friends, I sit in smug in my (probably false) satisfaction that I won’t be subjected to any of the terrifying ones through September (when they usually come out to terror) as the skinny ones will have eaten them.

Honestly whoever over at cellar spider HQ came up with the marketing strategy that they eat house spiders played a blinder. Surely it’s nonsense?

I thought the same until I saw it with my own eyes!

They hang out quite low or in corners of rooms and just wait. I came down to my living room last year to see a big house spiders (dead) wrapped in its web with the cellar spider on top of it. The whole spider was gone within a few hours.

I once had to sleep on the floor of my mums dusty hoardy house, and was woken by a tickly crawly sensation across my body. I lashed out in horror, turned the light on, and discovered an EMORMOUS spider, dead and mildly mashed on the floor next to me.

That was bad enough, but in the morning I noted that the dead and mashed spider was gone, and concluded that it had been taken by a spider that was enormous squared.

I'm taking comfort from this thread bcs it seems that the enormo-horror spiders can be done away with by mild daddy-long-legs type spiders, rather than by nightmare spiders the size of small rats? Is that right? Still a pretty traumatic memory but I may be able to begin to process it now.