to ask for help on my SPIDER EMERGENCY?

[softlysoftly]

DDs are in bed, I'm 36wk pg and exhausted.

DD1 awake still DD2 a light sleeper. There is a MASSIVE spider on their floor which keeps going under the bed then ip onto the duvet and under again.

WTF do I do, I hate them I can't catch it. I could try and hoover it but then DD1 will know and her mattress is onffloor (trying out room sharing and I can't lift her frame) and she also hates them so won't sleep. Also DD2 will wake and she's a nightmare to get to sleep.

But can I ignore it, it's going to do a spidery bastard climb on my babies

Arrgghhh

Nice shot Gerund

The fuckers can also survive an 'accidental' drowning in the paddling pool. One self-resuscitated on the lawn this afternoon after DH fished it out.

I've just had to get out of bed, turn lights on, shake bedding and move bed further away from wall reading this thread.

It's a completely illogical phobia but they still terrify me.

Oohh loft hatch pole. Never thought of that.
Although the ones we get are too big to defy gravity on the ceiling. It's the big thumping floor walkers.

HIIDEN Thanks for that clip

or worse wander up to you with the spider still in her mouth.

infact just and again.

My fear on hover or glass, is not a leg being trapped, but the thing launching itself up the hoover and up your arm...then getting trapped in ones hair frantically getting itself tangled in it and requiring real one on one intense fiddling to free it

Last night - mahoosive large-bodied spider, sprinting like Usain Bolt across the bedroom floor, about to disappear under the bed.

It was doomed the moment I saw it, because there was no way I could sleep with it lurking in the same room as me(or even the same county).

So I stood on it.

It burst.

White gooey stuff and bits of spider legs all over the bedroom carpet.

Heaving, I ran from the room, yelled for DH to clean it up and slept in the spare room.

Stealth - I have the same problem when it comes to sucking them up the dyson. I make dh do it and then he has to empty it in the outside bin. I also had the misfortune to encounter a huntsman in Oz - it was in the shower block of the campsite I was staying at. I decided to smell that day, despite the 35+ degree heat.

Like Sovery there is not a hope in hell that I could do the glass & card trick. I have, however, got DH to teach small child said trick for when he's not there. .

The occasional chasing of me by small child with glass of horror in hand is but a small price to pay...[sighs]

I recommend moving house to avoid. Small price to pay for peace of mind.

I was most annoyed with our solicitor who refused to consider a clause put in the contract when buying the house that they would refund half the money if I saw a spider bigger than an inch inside the house within a year. Apparently it was unreasonable. [anger]

I find that an old 4 gallon plastic ice cream box and a plastic fly swat work the best, I use the swat to herd the spider into the box and it is (usually) deep enough to contain the spider for release outside.

I can deal with all but the largest spiders with this combination, larger ones get left for my DP to deal with as he is fortunately not scared of them!

Have to say my phobia has improved with age and I have no idea where it comes from as my parents are not frightened of spiders at all and happily co-exist with even really large spiders (usually in the corner of the downstairs toilet where they can be left relatively undisturbed).

www.primrose.co.uk/katcha-bug-spider-catcher-p-12273.html

Works okay for spiders up to about an inch. After that I'm not getting close enough to use this. Then the hoover comes out.

somebody please tell my cat she is supposed to eat them ...not sleep with them (bottom right)

Any mileage in an emergency spider-removal business? How much would you all pay someone of impeccable character and unthreatening appearance to pop in and carry the beast away?

If you can bear to allow cellar spiders to remain in the house (those whispery thin ones that are barely visible) then keep them. They don't tend to run across the floor and they are brilliant because THEY EAT OTHER SPIDERS INCLUDING ONES BIGGER THAN THEM.

I have two cellar spiders in my downstairs loo. They never appear to move. Yet since they've moved in I haven't seen a single other spider in the house (touch wood) and I used to get 3/4 hugeish ones a week. So if you can bring yourself to tolerate the spindly ones then you won't have to deal with the other ones.

I like the spindly ones. they get to live unless they actually get onto me when there wiill be a bit if screaming. I think of them as occupying at least one part of the habitat and therefore the big hairy fuckers have less space to live.

AShadowStirsWithin

I like having harvestmen around for the same reason although they apparently are not true spiders but a close relative they certainly seem to make spiders scarce!

Mine like to live in the downstairs toilet as well usually only one or two for obvious reasons!

AShadowStirsWithin Very interesting but how do the cellar spiders catch the other spiders? they always seem so flimsy and slow.

I like spiders, always have done. I happily co exist with all the UK ones, they don't creep me out at all and they can't do any real harm. I've never been bitten yet in years of scooping up with bare hands although I have heard they can.
I am the go-to person in this house for removal of mini beasts of all descriptions and dead mice as DH and both DS's are way too scaredy or squeamish.
Don't like wasps at all though, am utterly terrified of those evil fuckers.

The glass trick was a non starter, I thought I could do it but really I was just prancing around convincing myself I could get my hand that close.

I think the DDs have too many toys anyway, maybe those ones can be outside fluffy animals?

Can't sleep now as DH home and said "it'll be because we've been on holiday there will be loads from the house being empty".

Should I LTB?

spider protection league members if any of you are South Wales based would you like to buy a reasonably priced house at short notice?

I'm glad you're alive, softly. Have resuscitated this thread as am intrigued by the cellar spider theory - we have lots of these, and they're marginally less hideous than the hairy huge ones, so am willing to tolerate them if they'll kill the others...

It's true! Omg this is amazing, I can tolerate the cellar spider so this might be the answer to my prayers...

Clever buggers tolerable and kill other spiders good survival strategy!

I don't want to google cellar spider.
Is that the ones with wee tiny round body and big gangly long legs?

last year we had one so big that I heard it trotting across the floor

yes, I heard the stimpy stamping of eight spider feet across my wooden floors, the next thing i heard was an unearthly wailing screech, but that was me.

The dog ran in first and took one look, and ACTUALLY recoiled in horror as he spotted the Giant Spider. ....the dog in question is a 7 stone GSD btw

dh followed and said some very bad words...
ds2 came next and said "NO!" and then shut himself in the sitting room, he is normally my spider saviour.

I did manage the glass trick...a very large pint glass.... but I crimped its spider feet ON BOTH SIDES OF THE GLASS RIM.
Then it had the cheek to rear up at me and brandish its front feel-ery feet.

Dh did throw it out and he said it limped off down the path.

I hate spiders.....far too many legs, far, far too many.