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Spiders. Are they clever enough to know?

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Mercy1968 · 04/04/2023 00:35

I have no problem with spiders. Will pick them up and carry them to safety however big they are.
Dd is 29 and until she left home it was always her room they would appear in.

Ds and I don't care and our rooms are spider free.

I went to borrow something from dd s room and there were no spiders! Despite the fact that this time a month ago when she was living here I was frequently called on to remove spiders.

So do spiders know if someone doesn't like them and hang out there for the laugh or is it all a coincidence?

My mother doesn't like them either and they always go to her room, not the spare room where I stay when I visit her.

Yanbu spiders are clever and devious
Yabu it's all a big coincidence

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AllTheChaos · 04/04/2023 00:38

The devious little b*stards definitely know and they chase me around the house!

Pixiedust1234 · 04/04/2023 00:38

You are confusing spiders with cats. Cats will definitely gravitate to those who hate them.

Spiders were after the bugs who were after her food crumbs.

No DD = no crumbs = no bugs = no spiders.

Pixiedust1234 · 04/04/2023 00:40

Oh, I see you also mention your mother. I can only assume you were all cellar spiders in a previous life and DD was a juicy fly 😶

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Mercy1968 · 04/04/2023 00:41

@Pixiedust1234 ds has crumbs. Ds doesn't worry about spiders. Still no spiders.
Mum has no crumbs. Mum worries about spiders. She has spiders.

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Mercy1968 · 04/04/2023 00:43

@AllTheChaos my mum would agree. It was my job as a teenager to get rid of spiders if my dad was out.

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AllTheChaos · 04/04/2023 00:47

Yes! DD went through a phase of being scared of spiders, and they all gravitated to her room! Then she grew out of it (no I never have), and they all came back for me…

MobilityCat · 04/04/2023 00:48

They're not clever enough to avoid an early death, the average person consumes eight spiders a year, taken in while we sleep.

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Mercy1968 · 04/04/2023 00:50

@MobilityCat I hope dd never reads that information! She has always hated and feared them!

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Pixiedust1234 · 04/04/2023 00:57

Mercy1968 · 04/04/2023 00:41

@Pixiedust1234 ds has crumbs. Ds doesn't worry about spiders. Still no spiders.
Mum has no crumbs. Mum worries about spiders. She has spiders.

Then I go back to my previous life theory on who were the hunted and who were the hunters....

Very strange but very fascinating. Me and 2x DD are terrified of spiders but thankfully live in a spider free home, or maybe they have little invisibility cloaks 🤔😱

MobilityCat · 04/04/2023 01:01

Mercy1968 · 04/04/2023 00:50

@MobilityCat I hope dd never reads that information! She has always hated and feared them!

Tell her there's nothing wrong with it, they're just a bit of protein added to her diet.

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Mercy1968 · 04/04/2023 01:01

Dm and dd are very similar so back in previous life they were juicy flies while ds and I (also very similar) were the spiders...but ds was a lazy one so I got stuck with catching flies 😀

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CluelessHamster · 04/04/2023 01:02

MobilityCat · 04/04/2023 00:48

They're not clever enough to avoid an early death, the average person consumes eight spiders a year, taken in while we sleep.

I just don't believe that can be true unless they are really, really small ones. Otherwise we'd all have occasionally woken up gagging on one (a live spider would surely tickle on it's way down) or seen family members snoring away with a leg hanging out of their mouth, surely?

TheHoodedPaw · 04/04/2023 01:03

Pixiedust1234 · 04/04/2023 00:57

Then I go back to my previous life theory on who were the hunted and who were the hunters....

Very strange but very fascinating. Me and 2x DD are terrified of spiders but thankfully live in a spider free home, or maybe they have little invisibility cloaks 🤔😱

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I’m picturing eight little feet poking out from under the cloak 😂

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Mercy1968 · 04/04/2023 01:04

Our house is very old built in 1892 but dd and ds rooms are at the front (no ivy or anything trailing) and mine is at the back (ivy trailing) yet its just dd s room that was spider central.

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MMMarmite · 04/04/2023 01:04

If you're scared of spiders you notice the spider. If you're not scared of spiders you don't notice it. Hence people scared of spiders find more spiders?

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Mercy1968 · 04/04/2023 01:06

@MMMarmite I had a good look as dd asked me when I went to borrow hairspray. No spiders.

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furryfrontbottom · 04/04/2023 03:07

MobilityCat · 04/04/2023 00:48

They're not clever enough to avoid an early death, the average person consumes eight spiders a year, taken in while we sleep.

What is your evidence for that statement?

Applesinmyhouse · 04/04/2023 03:39

MobilityCat · 04/04/2023 00:48

They're not clever enough to avoid an early death, the average person consumes eight spiders a year, taken in while we sleep.

This isn’t true. It was mentioned in an article by a journalist many years ago as an urban legend and misquoted again and again. It’s a myth.

dudsville · 04/04/2023 03:50

Mmm, yummy spider crunchyness... (sp? for made up word?), but also, yes, spiders are as intelligent as we are, at least the big ones are, the ones who see us and dance the dance of "inside outside" - they want to be in, i take them out, and round and round it goes.

custardbear · 04/04/2023 06:29

I had one follow me to the kitchen once, then back to the lounge. I ended up panicking and ran to the kitchen, it followed me and I threw a bag of potatoes at it, it scurried behind the fridge freezer at that point!
Thankfully it was my dads house so didn't have to share my own house wirh the psycho spider!

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 04/04/2023 06:44

Well, they don't like conkers and are hopeless at Rock, Paper, Scissors, although this might be due to resentment of having an abundance of feet and no hands. 🕷

On the positive side, some of their webs are quite pretty, especially when they get up early to decorate them with frost. 🕸

Lieslies · 04/04/2023 09:29

I'm sure they know. Ex not phased by them, me scared but can cope using my spider catcher. Last big hairy fucker spider season 1 was found by ex, and 4 by me.

MobilityCat · 04/04/2023 11:42

CluelessHamster · 04/04/2023 01:02

I just don't believe that can be true unless they are really, really small ones. Otherwise we'd all have occasionally woken up gagging on one (a live spider would surely tickle on it's way down) or seen family members snoring away with a leg hanging out of their mouth, surely?

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You are right and I am wrong blush. I looked it up and all the sites say no.

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