A massive house spider crawled on me last night in bed!

[lillianandpip]

DH was sleeping in the lounge as the baby keeps waking up. I laid there trying to nod off, pitch black, then I feel this tickle on my arm.. I panicked, sat up and it flew in my face. Then I shook my head and flung my arms about shrieking before turning the light on. I searched the bed for a couple of minutes, no sign, looked under the pillows, then I notice it on the side of the bed frame, fucking massive it was. I am sooooooo freaked out by this! Anyone else had similar?
how do I stop this happening again!?

you cant. We had one (or maybe 2) last week. It looked at us and seemed to be saying change the channel please. Anyway out it went. Another/the same one appeared the next day. Went out again

Sorry, I don't know the solution, but your description made me laugh!! I wouldn't be laughing if it was me, though.🤭
A wasp flew into my face in Tesco yesterday and I flapped about and made squealy panicked noises much to the amusement of the staff nearby.🙈

I saw the biggest spider I’ve ever seen in my life last night. It was as big as a small adult hand!!! Contemplating spraying insect spray (that really strong ant stuff) all over the house and along the corners of the rooms when we’re out for a long period of time. But watching for ideas.

Not long ago there was quite a big one on my pillow. Now I sleep with a fan pointing at me all night, someone told me they don’t like fans / air movement.

I’m actually more worried incase the children see one of these humongous ones. They’re reasonably ok with spiders - but I think this would be different. They’re very big.

Bloody hell. I actually dreamt that something was crawling on me the other night and was hoping it was just a dream, now I’m not so sure. Why don’t they just sod off?

Youre gonna have to seek therapy girl, thats the only way to get over such a traumatic event 😭😭

Yanbu!!!

You could sleep under a mozzie net. I've done this!

That’s all very well…unless it’s already in your bed then you’ve trapped the bugger 😳

This has happened to me before. The CF ran down my arm one night. I’ve had zero tolerance for spiders in the house since then.

Get a spider vacuum- had one for years and will never be without one.

I found one on my head once, when sitting on my bed. I really think that helped me get over my fear of spiders. I kind of feel that if I survived that I can survive anything spiders can do. Still not going to Australia though.

Ha!
For a couple of years I rented a house that was made in the 1930s for Canadian soldiers which was made of a wood frame with overlapping wood on the outside and just wooden boards on the inside.
The house was riddled with false widow spiders.
At night I could go and shine a torch on the wall and in one two meters stretch could count about 20 outside.
The morning I woke up and found three of them crawling on my bed over me I told the landlord I wasn't moving back in until the house was fumigated.
Additionally my middle boy got bitten on the ankle by one in bed but luckily it didn't flare up.
False widows are the one with a kind of skull pattern on the abdomen and can be quite nasty. 99% of native spiders are absolutely harmless but can be scary.
I always try and take them outside with a glass and a piece of card.
Good luck!

Is that one of those that doesn't hurt them?

Same one no doubt. They are territorial and come back in if you put them out. House spiders can’t survive outside. You have to put it in your neighbours garden.

spiders on me is the reason i sleep covered from the tip of my hair to the tips of my toes and all tucked in, no matter how hot it is.

I was wearing a lovely, floaty dress the other day. A wasp flew up the back and stung me several times before dropping, dead and squished, to the floor.

I live in the country and this happens several times throughout the summer! I really don't like it! And it's a double whammy for me because if I accidentally hurt one while freaking out I'd feel terrible, so I have to force myself to stay calm - very stressful!!

One crawled on DD years ago in her cot, after that any that I see that look like they grow into giant house spiders are dispatched.

Also at this time of year I cultivate harvester spiders. We have quite a few in each room now apparently they eat the bigger ones. I don’t particularly like them but I can live with them as they stay up high and out of the way.

RAID in the red tins sprayed along door edges and window frames helps too. We live rurally and get some absolutely massive fuckers.

What I don’t get is why did it want to climb on me?
I googled it and apparently the male ones come out at night looking for a mate. Now I know I’m a little hairy but surely it would know a big warm breathing and dribbling lump in a bed was not going to lead him to a lady spider!?

Last year I saw three gigantic house spiders in one evening, the first scuttled at speed across the living room floor & I was able to put it outside with the glass & card method but I felt a bit jittery after that.
The next experience was horrendous as I had put on a pair of soft baggy yoga pants, after my bath & when I went to the loo a bit later, I felt something, inside the yoga pants, on my leg. It was another huge house spider that had been travelling around the house with me, inside my trousers 😱I kind of scrunched it up in a handful of my trouser leg and whipped them off, feeling as if I might have a nervous breakdown.
By then it was time to go to bed and I was on red alert, I searched everywhere with a torch and sat bolt upright in bed, scanning the room until I convinced myself that I was over reacting & there couldn't possibly be any more in one night. But at some point, I must have almost dozed off when I felt something tickling my neck, I instinctively grabbed at the place I could feel the movement & hurled something across the bedroom, it hit the radiator with quite a loud noise & when I put the light on there was a third giant house spider, crumpled between the bed & the radiator 😳😨I have honestly never forgotten that experience & I think of it all the time, it was traumatising & I am not on the extreme end of spider phobic (or I wasn't!). Until then it never occurred to me that they would crawl on me in my bed at night, or hide inside my trousers, I mean, what else do they do, that we don't know about??

Happened to me last Summer when i was pregnant laid in bed, it shocked me so much 😆. This year a wasp flew into my hair, i freaked out because it buzzed so loud, tripped over DD’s pram wheel and fell over infront of a whole cafe.

Me too, but then my cat ate it. I love her, despite the fact that she stole 3 salmon fillets off the kitchen surface yesterday and ate them. She was also hunting another one around on the floor somewhere after that too.

I think it’s a waste of time spraying doors and windows. House spiders don’t usually come in from outside. They live in your house all year round. You just see them this time of year because it’s mating season.

Maybe not but the amount we seem to get has definitely decreased since I started so I’m carrying on!

After last night’s traumatic experience, I am prepared to try spraying!

I’ve spotted two whoppers in the house in the past week. I have two spider horror stories. Once I picked up a pile of dirty washing from the landing and went downstairs carrying my baby son in my right arm. Spider climbed off the washing and ran up my arm / it took everything I had not to fling the baby so i had a hand free to brush the spider off. Sped up going down the stairs, plonked him down and swatted the monster off my neck! The other time I had got out the shower, put a towel round and hair in a turban, for back to the bedroom and felt something on my back. Assuming it was a stray stand of hair I turned to check in the mirror only to find 🕷️ crawling up my shoulder blade area. Much screaming and jumping around!