To be waiting for the massive B******s?

[ladyjadey]

It's late August. This time every year as the nights start to get darker, giant, evil spiders of doom run at me across the living room carpet. They lurk next to my bed, in the hallway and climb the curtains. They barricade themselves in the downstairs loo waiting for me to inadvertently lock myself in a tiny space and spot them, mid terrified wee. I have been waiting for two weeks now and it hasn't happened yet. Has anyone else been afflicted with the influx of gigantic leggy knobs?

Well The Thing from the Crypt showed up in our kitchen yesterday - it was one of the massive, massive, old-style ones and I'm still shuddering.

Even small child, who's inordinately fond of the things, will happily let them run all over when releasing from the glass to the wild and seeks out YT videos of them , took a look, burst into tears and insisted on making DH release it at the other end of the road. I just hope they don't have a homing instinct...[urgh]

I don't mind spiders, it's fluttery gits I can't cope with. I have been known to rugby tackle the odd monster spider that I noticed running towards DH though because he ends up cowering in a corner and whimpering if he sees one. Our dog died in February but she used to run to me for protection if she saw one; it was the shock of once finding one in her food bowl that gave her a lifelong horror.

This is going to be my first spider season after doing the spider phobia course at London zoo.

I have been practising my hypnosis techniques in readiness for the onslaught 🕷🕷🕷

One woman on the course used to shoot them with an air rifle. Always an option if the catcher thing doesn't work.

This thread is making me itch!
Yes, loads over at our house. Even found one hiding in my beautiful furry throw that I cuddle up to every night! Gross. Cat too lazy to do anything about them so I'm off to hunt for conkers tomorrow which do work (although you have to pierce them to release whatever is in them that repells the buggers)

Patsy I love the air rifle idea

Apparently using loo paper in the rifle does the job without making too much of a mess.

But the little critters are now my friends . . .

WELL DONE Patsy!!!

It sounds awful but the amount we have been having like one pp has shown I've been locking out 2. Cats in a room for 5 minutes every so often through out the day hoping it jet get them!

Ha ha

pre children dh used to come home to upturned cups and glasses where I had been brave enough to trap the spiderydevils, but not courageous enough to actually get any nearer.

I have my feet up on the chair again, just in case, I have NFI why I keep coming back to this thread!

So, its in my food mixer.

Huge bloody long legs and a toddler on the rampage touching everything making me feel super anxious off to get raid.

My first

I have been known to rugby tackle the odd monster spider that I noticed running towards DH though

^^ yes they do tend to run at us dont they

Ilove think I'm the only person that saw your comment and found it funny

We have one living on our bathroom window sill it's made itself a massive web and burrowed it's home in my fucking makeup bag. It's one of those black, black huge hairy things that make you jump when you look at it

Last year I went to put the washing up away and one had climbed into the blender jug. I put the lid on and left it for DH to deal with.

When DD was little a massive one ran across the living room. I grabbed her and ran upstairs until I realised we were now trapped and DH wasn't back for hours. I crept back downstairs and attempted to kill it, only it ran faster than I could react! Under the sofa, up the other side, behind the cushion, i was throwing sofa cushions everywhere trying to stop it hiding. Eventually it ran across the carpet where I dropped the next directory on it and jumped on top to make sure the bugger was properly squashed. Then left the house with DD and sat in the car until I stopped shaking. I was impressed with myself, DH less so when he got home to the lounge looking like a bomb site.

I kill them if I see them. Bloody hate the things. We get really massive ones as we're in an old farm house. It's a them or me situation most of the time and I can't settle knowing there's one on a wall or something. I splat them, DH cleans up. Freaky little fuckers

So husband has been putting them outside, today I realised he is putting them under the fence to go in next doors garden! He says it makes sense if we don't want them to come back in our house ha ha!

So does this count as a little one or a big one? Always surprises me when I turn around and see on smack in the middle of the floor ...

Throw a book at them, hoover them up, drown them, stomp on them, beat them with a rolled up newspaper, set them on fire and then throw the match to the house for good measure. Do it all just to be sure they're nice and dead.

DH just came downstairs to talk to me and he suddenly left the room and came back with a glass, leaned over me (I was sitting on the sofa) and caught a big massive spider that was directly behind my head

He didn't tell me he was going to get the glass or let me know it was there as I would have shot off the sofa at 100mph and shit myself. I was very grateful that he kept quiet.....

We had a massive gigantic steroid taking spider running across our living room floor. DP crapped himself as usual DD ran to pick it up to play with it and well I had to be the meany mummy that squished it otherwise DP was going to exit the house whimp

I read this thread very smugly shortly after it was started. That night one of the fuckers ambushed me in the hallway on the way to bed. Two days later one ran out from under the bath panel, whilst I was mid-shit (I was in the right place I guess). It was sitting between me and the door. I screamed, and what little dignity I had soon vanished as I attempted to wipe my arse and simultaneously leap from the loo out of the bathroom door.

So let's face it, it begs the question why the fuck I've read this thread again

Hopefully the mega moth (and it was HUGE!) I removed from my washing this morning will count as my wildlife quota for the week. And mega-moth could have had any of those Aragogs

Has anyone had the giant crane flies yet? Jeez I can't believe the size of them! Had two in last night and found another this morning, luckily husband was here but my luck will run out soon!
Oh and huge spider on the loose in the living room but husband says he can't find it.

Spotting at least one a day at the moment. Fucking massive one in the hallway last night. Thank God dh was home so he could deal with it. No glass was big enough for this bastard - swear it had prison tattoos it was so hench.