Fucking,bastard,enormous spiders

[MoralDefective]

More wwyd....i'm still shaking... and i know what i just did was HUGELY unreasonable...but i panicked...just getting ready for bed and the biggest bastard i ever saw was in between my bedside table and the wall,please do not think i am exagerating when i say it's body was the size of a two pence and legs about two inches,usually i hoover them but couldn't get to this one so.......omg i'm such a bitch...i sprayed it with furniture polish...it ran towards my bed and i did it again until it was(i hope)dead,it's still under there and i don't know what to do..DP asleep on sofa,will not be impressed at having to crawl around to find out if it's dead or not..

[rubbersoul]

thank you foxtrottango!!

[Pixel]

We've got some spider stop, very cheap and the spiders really do hate it. I hadn't sprayed any round the bathroom window for ages and one got in and was sitting in the bath, I sprayed the stuff near it to see what would happen and it immediately took off like a rocket. So did I lol.

The other evening when dh came in the front door I shouted "mind the glass". "What glass?" he said. Well obviously the pint glass I'd been brave enough to put over the enormous spider that was sprinting across the kitchen floor, but not brave enough to do anything about after that. You know, my lovely dh really does have his uses.

[BeenBeta]

I always thought the big ones were female but just read on the interweb that the ones you see wandering about at this time of year are sexually mature males looking for a mate. Apparently the females hardly move about and are hiding behind furniture, etc.

Twas ever thus.

[BeenBeta]

Oh and apparently the female spiders that are hiding are usually bigger than the males.

[hairytriangle]

Oh OP you are so not BU!

They are fucking HUGE this year!

We've had three so far, and it's not even September - and I would have hair sprayed them to death if I'd been on my own (luckily my DP always does the honours with a glass (if it will fit over the evil gits) and a postcard).

[castlesintheair]

Has anyone tried putting citronella on skirting boards? I've heard this is effective but haven't got round to trying it yet.

[onestepforward]

Glad I am not the only one like this! One of my main concerns about splitting with my husband (well not initially admittedly but once I found my one place) was what would I do when I have an eight-legged visitor. Also live next to water and thought that might have been a tactical error. Still have lots of conkers in the flat but no idea if their mythical properties have been working as they have been here as long as me! Considering the gadget someone posted but anxious it may attract them (or even flush them out). Might get some spray though to see me through to conker season.

I can only hoover. Can't get close enough for any other course of action. That said, did bat one with my trainer but was a long legged tiny body version so not as scary but still got palpatations when it tried to leg it. Bleurghh.

Can anyone tell me if they die when you hoover them? Have a dyson so could observe but that freaks me out a bit too.

Oh and also scared to google! Have some big ones outside the flat which are dead I think (or skins that have been shedded) and am treating seeing them daily as therapy.

Whole thing makes me feel physically sick (but that's another phobia!! )

[MoralDefective]

Thankyou soo much Hairytriangle...i cleaned under the bed today and found said dead spider....it WAS freaking huge....i could barely look at it's vile dead body...i also told DSI what i had done.....bad mistake...' don't you realise how excruciatingly painful it's death must have been'...!oooh er

[Lemoncurdy]

There was another thread about this yesterday...terriers are good at eating them - can't believe you missed that trick, Valhalla.

[Mrsdoasyouwouldbedoneby]

I truly hate them. I have in the interests of my children suspended this fear to remove a spider... (small one, but tbh if left to instinct I freak. The worst time was bfing DS one night... wee small hrs... SPIDER coes up all interested (a MONSTER). I leap out of bed in ne movement and run out of the room.. DH tried to get spider but misses and it BOUNCES off of the bed... he eventually corners it and chucked it out the window (I won't have them killed). DS? All this time he was happily feeding... LOL.

DH caught one once and asked me for a glass. I gave him a pint glass. He said, "something bigger". I jokingly suggested the biscuit barrel (glass). He said it ""might fit"... and sure enough the monster he had found barely fitted in the thing!

We have lots of Steatodas (like black widows...). Haven't been bitten.. but seen less house spiders.

[MoralDefective]

Please,what on god's earth is a steatodas....

[ilovesprouts]

steps away from this thread

[Pixel]

Just been upstairs and been faced with an enormous spider and dh is out. Oh what to do? It scuttled away and now I don't want to go to bed because I don't know where it is.

The cat is up there but he doesn't 'do' spiders either!

[SolidGoldBrass]

Oh ukk yes, I share everyone's pain. Earlier tonight, when we had just got in, one the size of a fecking CAT ran across the kitchen floor and started savaging the washing machine. Luckily I was just pissed enough to be brave and not so pissed that I would have dropped it so I did the pint glass/brochure business and hurled it down the end ofthe garden.
I still sometimes console myself that though I am a big wuss about spiders I am not as bad as a former work colleage of mine who phoned a minicab and, when the cab arrived said to the driver 'I don't actualy want to go anywhere but can you go and get that spider out of the front room?@

[nannynobnobs]

Oh I love spiders and feel quite sad that people kill them :( If there's one in the house my only concern is that it will get stood on or my cat will eat it (boke). My friend used to recruit me to remove them from her damp flat and my god you haven't seen anything til you've seen those. One of them required a 12-inch Cure album and a Pyrex dish.
My mum was terribly arachnophobic and never took the trouble to hide it, so I assume I took the role of spider-removing hero rather than fellow screamer.

Just before I clicked on this thread a little spider descended from my hair, right between my eyes, swinging on a thread.

[sunnydelight]

Sorry nannynobs but around here unless it's a huntsman (the size of saucers but harmless) all spiders die. I don't really want to get close enough to work out whether it's a black housespider (harmless) or a funnelweb (deadly). We get the house professionally sprayed once a year and I have cans of spray easily accessible at all times!

[Heifer]

I have to admit I had to call DH upstairs to catch a big MF last night. I just saw him/her? out of the corner of my eyes, inches from my head!

I then got really annoyed with DH when he couldn't find it and just didn't understand what all the fuss was about at it had obviously gone now! as if!

I demanded that he kept looking, and sure enough, in the crease of the curtain was the big monster.

Even DH agreed, yes he is big, caught it and took it outside.

Sorted..

[SheWillBeLoved]

They're horrid, I am absolutely terrified of them. Our house, kitchen and bathroom mainly, is riddled with these wispy bastards during spider season. They just hang there, and thankfully are quite slow so are easy to squish! They actually make me angry, and usually say something like "You cheeky twat!" before whacking them with the nearest big enough item. I suspect that is because I know I can outrun this type of spider though, anything else and I sob in a corner until help arrives.

[pluperfect]

Interesting how this thread started out with all the sympathetic comments about spiders, then swung madly toward hatred as all the arachnophobes came scuttling out of the woodwork ().

Much less balanced than the cat-in-the-bin discussions I have seen!

[lucykate]

we've been getting loads of these! don't look if you are spider squeamish.

[Ariesgirl]

Why did I start reading this thread, why ?


I'm not scared of many things but a big spider will make me feel actually sick with revulsion. I saw an absolute monster at work yesterday and I screamed the place down. Whenever I have a spider encounter, I then jerk upright the following night, virtually frothing at the mouth, because I think there's one in the bed. I can't kill them though - the thought of the crunch makes me vomit.

[Alibabaandthe40nappies]

We had a monster on the mantlepiece last night. DH couldn't see it to start with, partly because I was shoving him out of the way in a mad stampede for the door. It was 5 inches across

I hate, hate, hate DH being away, especially at this time of year and will usually go and stay with my parents so that i'm not in the house on my own during spider season. [wimp]

[BeenBeta]

They are fascinating creatures though.

Apparently, the species we see in our houses are specially adapted and evolved to live only on houses since Roman times. They are not the same as outside spiders and if you put them out they just die. The spiders in very old houses are likely the progeny of the spiders that arrived hundreds and hundreds of years ago on the bottom of furniture.

We have some big ones with gossamer thin legs and tiny bodies that walk with a jerky movement to mimic fluff balls blowing about. Then there are the huge ones that run about and then there are the ones that build those flat sheets like webs on the ceiling and walk upside down all their lives.

Fascinating.

[ilovesprouts]

lk thats wat my dd had in her bath

[giveitago]

Oh god - I hate them too and so hate this time of year.

I'm useless with them and I faced with a big spider I dwell on it for weeks.

OK - last year I got loads of conkers and we appeared to be spider free for quite a while.

Thing is I've not been around the entire summer and I doubt my dh has dusted or cleaned and he leaves windows open all the time etc so I'm dreading going back home next week.

What's the best spray? I'll pay anything. I need something that kills them instantly rather than something that makes them scuttle off and you just have to hope it's done the job.

I have to say I used the plug in one for a time and it made no difference to us at all.