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How wasps are here (spiders)

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flybyinalowride · 24/01/2024 23:04

Can't stand them. Big giant black one on the white wall in the downstairs cloakroom. Tried fumigating with husband AuSavage but I think its encouraging it to be more aggressive. Every time I open the door and peek in he lifts his legs at me in a threatening manner

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sprigatito · 24/01/2024 23:52

@Somatosensational you lightweight with your poxy Pyrex. I had a box camel spider in my room when I was a student, it had already bitten my leg to anaesthetise it and was lying in wait for me to fall asleep so it could come back and chew my calf muscle off. It jumped all round the room until we managed to trap it in a bucket. The RSPCA sent a spider expert out to collect it. He had a fancy reinforced bucket.

flybyinalowride · 24/01/2024 23:53

Somatosensational · 24/01/2024 23:35

I've just reread your post. Are you saying you're joking that the spider is giving you evils as a joke? That is more worrying.

No I'm absolutely sure he's giving me evils. He's breached the chestnut force field and is invigorated by Dior Au Sauvage. Intelligence (peeking around the door) reports show that he's taken a hostage in his evil web of doom (wee s*der) and is complating total dominance of flybys home

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SimplyDiana · 24/01/2024 23:55

Somatosensational · 24/01/2024 23:48

A cup is nothing. I had one that was so large I had to capture it in a Pyrex dish. I put it on my balcony unsure of what to do with it, but then felt bad so fed it caterpillars. It leapt at them like a cat. I went for a walk with it and freed it in the park because apparently if you free them close-by find their way home.

I have an actual cat now who makes short work of them. I sometimes hear a racket in the night and wake up to find a dead spider waiting for me on the floor.

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I don’t know what I’d do if I saw someone walking to a park with a giant caterpillar slaying spider in a Pyrex dish. Buy you a wine on your way back? That’s really impressive.

My cats just follow them around. Watching them move and gazing at them dolefully. But if a beautiful butterfly makes its way in they conjure their inner demons and tear through everything in sight until it disappears from view.

Vergeofbreakdown23 · 25/01/2024 00:01

flybyinalowride · 24/01/2024 23:30

How have I come across as sadistic and cruel. I haven't pulled its legs off/ hoovered it up or set fire to the house. it's still there and I made a joke about it giving me evils AS A JOKE

I'd move house!! ♥️ Hopefully your hubby will be along to relocate the darling (disgustingly awful) thing soon enough 🤣😶‍🌫️

flybyinalowride · 25/01/2024 00:03

He's actually been caught by neighbour across the road relocating them into her bush

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BFPeva · 25/01/2024 00:09

Oh really?
I used to live and let live until I got bitten, now they can stay out of my house or get hoovered.

TousBous · 25/01/2024 00:18

I hate to make things worse but…

To answer your question about how they are getting in despite your conker force field, they aren’t “getting in”. Those big fat black house spiders have been living there all year round! Sorry! They’ve just come out of hiding now as they are feeling frisky and are looking for a mate. They spend the rest of the year lurking out of sight.

Somatosensational · 25/01/2024 00:19

sprigatito · 24/01/2024 23:52

@Somatosensational you lightweight with your poxy Pyrex. I had a box camel spider in my room when I was a student, it had already bitten my leg to anaesthetise it and was lying in wait for me to fall asleep so it could come back and chew my calf muscle off. It jumped all round the room until we managed to trap it in a bucket. The RSPCA sent a spider expert out to collect it. He had a fancy reinforced bucket.

Luxury. I once had a black widow spider with 16 legs and 8 eyes in my room as a student (if you could call it a room, it was more of a cardboard box but without the sides) and it bit my leg clean off. I had to hop to the other side of the box, slipping in my own blood, to get the broom that was missing a handle and a brush so that I could beat it to within an inch of its life. A renowned entomologist came to collect it in the middle of the night but it was too big to fit in his bucket, so the AA had to come out and tow it away in a shipping crate.

flybyinalowride · 25/01/2024 00:20

BFPeva · 25/01/2024 00:09

Oh really?
I used to live and let live until I got bitten, now they can stay out of my house or get hoovered.

Well you're a cruel sadistic biatch. You should have surrendered your house to the spider. You deserve to have been bitten because you're bigger than it 😂😂😂😂

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sprigatito · 25/01/2024 00:22

@Somatosensational well... I got eaten by a great white shark. Yesterday. I'm DEAD.

sparepantsandtoothbrush · 25/01/2024 00:22

flybyinalowride · 24/01/2024 23:30

How have I come across as sadistic and cruel. I haven't pulled its legs off/ hoovered it up or set fire to the house. it's still there and I made a joke about it giving me evils AS A JOKE

Well you tried to suffocate it with aftershave which is pretty sadistic. I'm glad your neighbour had some compassion for the spider and removed it for you

flybyinalowride · 25/01/2024 00:23

Somatos a spider bit your leg off??

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sprigatito · 25/01/2024 00:23

Spider of the Sea they called him, on account of his spindly fins. He ate my mum for pudding.

flybyinalowride · 25/01/2024 00:29

Anyway … we stopped for a drink at the most haunted pub in Scotland. Think it was about 16th century. Really medieval and it occurred to me that all the spiders living there were descended from Middle Ages spiders

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flybyinalowride · 25/01/2024 00:36

Spare pants read before you post. My husband takes alive spides across the road and puts them in 'over there'neighbour's bush. She's seen him do it and hasn't complained

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BFPeva · 25/01/2024 00:38

But so are you OP! Not descended from Middle Ages spiders, obv, but from genuine Middle Ages people.
Anything interesting in that pub apart from spiders?

flybyinalowride · 25/01/2024 00:43

BFPeva · 25/01/2024 00:38

But so are you OP! Not descended from Middle Ages spiders, obv, but from genuine Middle Ages people.
Anything interesting in that pub apart from spiders?

Cobwebs were probably medieval too. Absolutely filthy

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BFPeva · 25/01/2024 00:50

Mustn't disturb the spirits I guess.

flybyinalowride · 25/01/2024 00:57

BFPeva · 25/01/2024 00:50

Mustn't disturb the spirits I guess.

lol you're so right. Maybe they shouldn't use a hoover 😂

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Babla · 25/01/2024 01:00

Some strange posts on here tonight

JaneJeffer · 25/01/2024 02:34

They’ve just come out of hiding now as they are feeling frisky and are looking for a mate.
And now they're on the pull wearing Eau Savage

WiddlinDiddlin · 25/01/2024 03:46

They don't 'get in'.

They already are 'in'. Most of the spiders you find in your house were born and bred in your house. (The very few that weren't would appreciate the glass and card trick as they'd prefer to be out and only got in by accident probably on your clothing or stuff you brought in.)

You can't keep them out, and if you could your house wouldn't be an environment you could actually live in.

DBSFstupid · 25/01/2024 05:38

flybyinalowride · 24/01/2024 23:21

Jesus Christ what a pile on. I didn't kill a spider, ffs. It's giving me evils lol 🙄 obviously Hope everyone slamming me doesn't drive/ catch a bus/cycle/walk incase u squash a worm/flea on your travels

You're just bloody weird, or have been on the Sherry.
You deseve the pile on. What a cruel thing to do to an innocent creature.
I don't like spiders but I won't torture them or kill them.

Itwasafterallallaboutme · 25/01/2024 07:46

JaneJeffer · 25/01/2024 02:34

They’ve just come out of hiding now as they are feeling frisky and are looking for a mate.
And now they're on the pull wearing Eau Savage

No, I'm sorry @JaneJeffer but that is just too early. They are allowed to rent my rooms in March and October for their love fests, and that is it. March and .October. Not a day sooner, and not a day later.

I also have two house* *rules.

a) They have to keep out of my sight. If I see either (any, if they intend to have an orgy) of them - even a leg disappearing around a corner - they will be evicted immediately, and will be blacklisted in the future.

b) They have to clean up after themselves. I don't want to find any tiny, sticky, salty, white globules dripping down my walls, and I definitely don't want to find any sacs of eggs nestled into any corners, or anywhere for that matter.

Itwasafterallallaboutme · 25/01/2024 07:55

WiddlinDiddlin · 25/01/2024 03:46

They don't 'get in'.

They already are 'in'. Most of the spiders you find in your house were born and bred in your house. (The very few that weren't would appreciate the glass and card trick as they'd prefer to be out and only got in by accident probably on your clothing or stuff you brought in.)

You can't keep them out, and if you could your house wouldn't be an environment you could actually live in.

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