...to feel awful about killing this spider :(

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Just walked into the bedroom to be confronted by another of these foot long monsters on the wall.

Beat it to death with a rolled up magazine :(

Now I feel just awful. But I have a huge phobia, DH is out and I couldn't have left it as I wouldn't have gone back into that room, never mind slept there. We've got so many at the moment I'm permanently on edge.
My anti-spider plug in usually keeps them away, but it doesn't seem to work on these whopper ones :(

AIBU?

Huntsmen are (apparently) the size of a dinner plate!

Don't worry me outside, but don't come inside spiders if you value your life.

Sorry!

I kill without compunction.

I can assure you that there aren't any tarantulas on Spidersnet today saying 'I feel awful about killing that human earlier on'.

YABU - like squoosh, I kill spiders without compunction. Well, I lie, I have other members of my family kill spiders for me without compunction - my preferred method is squish in a tissue and then burn for good measure.

Y.N.B.U. I could never kill one either.
Can ask what's a spider plug.

Tarantulas don't kill people.

Had a huge black one on the net curtain in our bedroom just this morning. Piercing screams, running into the back garden barefoot in my nightie, husband sighing resignedly and squashing it with his slipper. Horrible brown spidey juice on the curtain....

I'm a member of our regional Wildlife Trust, and I'm thoroughly ashamed of this phobia, but the terror is impossible to describe. I feel awful for the poor creature; he's only trying to survive/look for a mate etc. My husband quite likes them, but in the house they have to be killed.

Have never worked out why the size matters. I can bear a spider up to the size of a 5p piece, but any bigger and I flip. Strange, that...

And snakes, rats, mice, cockroaches no problem. Even venomous snakes and scorpions in Africa, which I kept away from at a safe distance but enjoyed seeing.

YANBU to feel bad. Perhaps take measures to not feel this bad again, by getting yourself a technique together for dealing with spiders.

I couldn't ever kill one on purpose. I appreciate spiders for their creativity, and the fact that their existence means that despite running a rodent rescue for years, I never had any flies!

Now, doing up a crappy old house in the middle of summer, still NO FLIES. Love spiders. They rarely do any harm, let them be.

Perhaps saying huntsmen meaning harvestman?

It's not huntsman or harvestman - not sure where I got that from! Apparently the spiders we have have the rather unimaginative name of Giant House Spider. Makes sense! from leg tip to opposite leg tip (do spiders have toes?) the females we get easily measure up to about 4 inches. Our house is also permanently riddled with Daddy Long Legs spiders (or peabody spiders, as my sister and I refer to them). I've given up on them now and when they get too numerous I'll just hoover them up, webs and all. It's pointless catching them to put them out as they only live in buildings.