To start killing spiders

[SaddenedHeughta]

Just opened my door to pee and there as a mas dive golf ball sized long legged brown spider outside my door. I woke up my cat to go hunt it and she is but i wish I just threw my slipper on it.
I hate killing spiders but I'm so scared of them. He's obviously come up from the floorboards since im redoing my floor but I have to move stuff out of a cupboard tomorrow and I'm scared he will run out if my cat doesn't catch him!

Suck up in hoover, empty hoover contents in bin, tie bin bag up, and leave outside, end of

I am so spider phobic, I have a special squeal reserved just for the moment I see one (it's not purposeful, I'm not that weird). DH knows the noise and knows I've seen a beast and has to rescue me. Not it, they get squashed (sorry spider lovers).

OP the last time I saw one I considered selling my house, maybe an option for you to consider?

Strangely, those wispy spiders that just sit in the corner don't really m bother me, they don't scuttle. Eurgh.

What's worse is in a coupe of months time, it's that time of year again! Argh!!

Sorry but I kill too. The house spiders just come straight back in so are fair game as fair as I am concerned. If OH is here I ask him to put them outside buy if I'm alone I have to be rid of them else I won't sleep a wink I am a totally ridiculous person

Nope. Nope nope nope nope nope. If it has more than four legs and few than two, it has no business being in my house!!

Yes, but, donyourway, False Widows are so huge and powerful and scary that they will probably break out of the hoover before I've had time to seal it up. And they'll come for me!

I'd spray some sort of chemical over them hun. Make sure you have loads at your disposals and keep spraying them till you win lol

We never kill spiders in our house. During the war someone killed a spider in FIL's house and the next day the house was bombed. No-one in our family will harm a spider willingly.

Since moving to Australia I have tried very hard to just live and let live. Funnel webs, red backs (cousins of the black widow), even huntsman which are considered harmless as they"only" leave an extremely sore and vicious bite ....

But. Two years ago DH ended up in icu follows by an antibiotic drip 24/7 for 10 days because he was bitten in bed by a white-tail. It doesn't poison you or anything, just had a grubby bite so you get a staph infection, sometimes necrotising fascitis (sp!!), or maybe heart failure. He was very sick.

My tolerance has subsequently gone down to zero. I now have a pest man who sprays the house every six months with chrysanthemum extract. .

Didn't stop a bloody red back dropping down (mission impossible style) into the kitchen counter into the pack lunch prep. Maybe the chrysanths are now causing feisty mutants. I'm over it.

The virgin man was here to fix the phones and unscrewed the box at the front of the house and the biggest fecking spider I've EVER seen scuttled towards him! He squealed and stabbed it with his screwdriver!! He qualified his squeal with "I'm not normally scared, it just took me by surprise"......in a garden, in a plastic box, covered in web yuh huh!!

I hope you said "my hero" Hawkeye

We've had masses of spiders in the house recently and I'm afraid they get the slipper if they cross my path. DS1 likes me to put them out, so I have to do it sneakily!

I think we have a false widow in the compost bin. Not sure what to do about that one ...

I wish I had dewee!

Didn't stop a bloody red back dropping down (mission impossible style) into the kitchen counter into the pack lunch prep.

In fact, your whole post lucretiab made me shudder.

dp got bit on the bum in the outback in Australia and started running around screaming, 'I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die'

unless you suck the poison out. what daya say ??

'you're gonna die, your gonna die'

I don't remember false Widows? Have they always been in the UK? Does false mean they are some neutered version that doesn't kill you if you leave one in your sandwich? !

Juneau - it truly is astonishing what you get used to. *

• plus there has never been a spider between me and the front door. This is key.

I think they're new-ish lucretiab. I'd certainly never heard of them until recently, when there have been several stories in the papers about people being bitten by them and ending up in A&E.

www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/life/insects-spiders/false-widow/

I am not scared of spiders and have quite a healthy eight-legged population in my house. However ... there's a massive spider nursery in the loft. It's a dangly, multi-story web that was teeming with babies this time last week. It's fully the size of a room!

It's taken all week to decide whether to go in for the kill, by which time I suppose all the babies will have grown up I shall be hoisting the vacuum cleaner up there later today - it's a Dyson, so I'll also be squirting a can of insecticide in there and/or putting the drum in the freezer before emptying it.

Sorry, spiders, but you're taking the piss.

During the warmer months I move my spiders to the garden and give them a stern warning. During the colder months I move them to the landing storage cupboard and tell them to play nice with each other.

Although the other day I did lob a suicidey spidey out the bathroom window after it dived into the tub three times and was in danger of being burnt to death...hope it survived the fall...

Moths on the other hand...had a huge bruiser who beat his way into my room last night, I was a screaming loon throwing packets of uncooked poppadoms at it until I took out the light and had to do a crazy dash barefoot out onto the landing. I still think bleeding feet are better than being held hostage by a huge beast of a moth. I slept in the kitchen. Thankfully dp is back tonight so he can sort it out

Tortoise, we need to live next door to you.

I'll put your moths out, anything with wings is fine by me, even the Yellow Stripeys.

In return you can adopt or put out the door all 8 legged critters for me.

I can't kill them, you have to get close for more than a millisecond. They Houdini out of all makes of hooverator, heavy books just squish them into the carpet, as soon as you lift it they get up and run, our tiles are slate and aren't flat... eek!

Fortunately we have just had a bit of a flea infestation, so I get to spray the house again. So I get to kill off all the spiders again... the flea spray kills everything in its path

I disagree - terminate with extreme prejudice!!!

And how do you feel about dentists killing lions? I assume you're all for it?

And how do you feel about killing lice, staph aureus, worms, candida?

It's all living creatures, so I assume you are entirely against it, penisland?!

lazyloulou it's a deal!

Fucking fluttery things are pure evil. Give me 8 legs any day!

I am terrified of spiders but I don't kill them. They eat the flies (now they really are bastards). I was really disappointed when my mum killed a spider in my house yesterday. It was in the sitting room in a corner minding its own business. My mum's reason was that they can bite. So can the dog but she hasn't splatted him.

On the wasp thing, I avoid killing them as they emit a hormone when dead/injured that attracts their bigger, harder mates to come to assist.
I once came home to find a hornet in my bedroom. I have no idea who it got in as all the windows were closed. Did the glass/paper trick and carried it down the road (for quite some way) before releasing it. It regarded at me the whole way with its head cocked to one side. It looked quite intelligent.