Is it spider season already?! [MNHQ warning - spider pics!]

[Steben]

What the actual fuck?! I thought I had at least until early September before the panic and cold sweats set in - two big bastards in less than half hour - what is going on?! One mashed with a slipper (the other can wait til DH gets in)

Genuinely prefer cockroaches to spiders.

I do feel very sorry for people with a spider phobia. I've seen it in a friend who suffered badly. She is very intelligent and knew that they were harmless, but she still screamed when she got too close to one.
Fortunately she got treatment for the phobia (free, through the NHS), and now loves them.
It's a shame that others can't or won't get treatment, because in the majority of cases it is very successful and changes peoples' lives - not just the phobics themselves but their children who don't then learn the phobia from their parents.

LEM you've totally fucked the thread for me

There was one in my house with a body the size and thickness of my thumb. I swear it grinned at me!
I freaked out until my dds friend got rid of it. I stopped putting my washing on the line last year around the end of September, even though the weathere was lovely, because I couldn't risk bringing in a 8 legged intruder. I'm getting to that point again now :-/

LEM - What an amazing spider!!! Beautiful beast, she is.

I love spiders. Though I have been bitten a fair number of times, and once in the UK where it ulcerated. Poultices of bicarb and tea-tree seemed to work well.

They really are fab! I actually used to be incredibly spider phobic, would not stay in the same room, would shriek and cry and need them put out. Then i did some work for a friend who works with tarantulas and figured when i have worked in a room with spiders as big as my hand, a teeny little house spider was going to be no problem. It took me a while but i grew to love them. I still am not that comfortable if they are on my bedroom ceiling, but if i give them names and have little chats with them, informing them they risk being squashed if they fall on my bed in the middle of the night, it seems a satisfactory arrangement all round.

I even managed to evict a false widow, unharmed, from a clients house the other week.

Never been bitten thankfully.

This is MY thread and I said no spider sympathisers

Tough!
You posted in IABU without even asking if you were.
You don't own the thread and people will respond however they like.

Spiders are beneficial creatures and don't need to be killed.

I'm genuinely sorry for your phobia, but it's your problem, not the spiders' problem.

And yes YABU.

My top has those annoying ribbon loop things on and as I was reading this thread, one of them brushed my arm. I haven't leapt out of my chair so quickly in years! I'm not even that scared of spiders!

I've met a few recently one huge one ran out of my closet

at the spider who came out of the closet. Good for him!

If you like spiders why would you even bother commenting on this. Go start your own spider thread entitled I Love Spiders and let us phobics sit here and sympathise with each other in peace!

I got bitten by a spider a couple of weeks ago, I had to get antibiotics when a red "tide" started heading from my knee toward my bikini line. I have pictures if anyone is interested...

Yes chipped we are!
I flushed a hideous spider away yesterday. I object to sharing a bath with them.

This is 24 hours after the bite...

I can heartily recommend one of these:

Lakeland Spider Catcher

They keep you far enough away from the buggers while you are catching them, and you can humanely dispose of them at the end of the garden.

At the spider coming out the closet

DH killed a massive one recently. All I could hear was crashing and banging and DH whimpering "it's fighting back"

I've had 2 big house spiders on me in the space of a month. One was in bed with me sitting happily on my arm.

The other one was in a towel I had around my shoulders while dying my hair. That one was on my arm too.

Years agao I rented a flat that was part of a lovely converted manor house. That place was a fucking nightmare. You would be sitting watching TV and they'd run down your arms, they would gallop up the quilt towards your head in bed, if you left anything on the floor you'd find giant ones in whatever it was and if you left water in the sink you'd find the bloated, floating corpses. One was so big it couldn't even climb the louvre doors on the wardrobe and had to be beaten to death with a Vilda supermop. It was too big to fit in a glass even if we'd dared get that close.

I have never been so relieved to leave anywhere.

We have cellar spiders, I love them! They can stay.

LEM we used to have tube webs in the garden fence at our previous house. If you went out for a fag late at night it looked like hundred of pairs of bright green eyes looking at you. Until I discovered it was their fangs glinting that is.

Spindly spiders aka pholcidae (cellar spiders) aren’t that adorable, they leave hard white poo drops and heaped up bodies of woodlice everywhere and their long traily web lines brush across your face like in a Ghost Train. I was always tolerant of spiders until that mob took over the house; now I brutally hoover them off the ceiling. Spiders with less disgusting habits are welcome to move back in.

I used to be spider phobic, horribly so - now im not, so you can change. There are always going to be spiders - find out about them, once you understand them a bit more they become fascinating rather than revolting.

It is a bit silly to stamp one's feet about it being your thread though. I believe that spiderphiles and spiderphobes can get along in harmony.

I defy anyone to not find this picture cute

once you understand them a bit more they become fascinating rather than revolting

Except for when the fuckers bite you and you get sent to A&E...

Hi - I'm not at all spider phobic but we live in an old house which seems to attract them and I was sick of having to climb on steps to clean webs from room corners etc. Webs are some damn sticky hoovering just doesn't work.

Anyway - I tried this stuff and it is amazing! (I am in no way connected with the company btw). You spray it where you have issues - in our case around skirting boards and around top of walls and it seems to remain effective for quite a few months before re-application is needed. It smells a bit when first applied (a bit like fly spray) but that goes in about a day. I believe it has conker extract in it which is a smell spiders hate.

www.amazon.co.uk/Spiderex-Aerosol-Spray/dp/B003R0E9V6/ref=sr_1_sc_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1437235085&sr=8-2-spell&keywords=spiddex

They're complete and utter bastards.

Why?! Just.... WHY?!