To burn the villa down

[Kinkyroots]

We’re staying in a villa in a hillside villa in Cyprus - DH (thank fucking god it was him and not me) went in to top our drinks up and a fucking tarantula was sat in the kitchen. He managed to catch it in the pool net but I am totally freaking out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaetopelma_olivaceum?wprov=sfti1

is this similar to the one spotter in your villa @Kinkyroots?

That was not necessary!!

We have the cats - a mum and dad and 5 kittens that I’m feeding secretly who perhaps need to expand their diet. Right now.

Yes.

Someone suggested Indorex on here a few years ago to me, I spray the house in August and never see a spider now.

I love you OP.

I got that eventually! It does help too.

😱😱🤮 who needs warm holidays anyway (thankfully I live in cold Ireland so no snakes either!)

Thanks be to St. Patrick!

Um … which non UK holiday destinations would that be then? Please tell me not Spain, Italy or Croatia?

That’s a definite nope for Cyprus 🙈

Cyprus was borderline off my future holidays list for this but seeing as it’s also discussed on the WW3 thread with people saying you can see misiles from the Israel/iran conflict in the sky, I think it’s definitely off the list now

I live near Sydney. To catch a big (non-poisonous) spider, you pop a glass over it, then slide a piece of paper/cardboard under inverted glass and then take spider outside. I have never done this as I am not really worried about non-poisonous spiders. However, small nasty ones like red-backs or funnel-webs, I will spray with fly spray, even though I know I shouldn't.

I am mid 50s and I"ve literally spent the decades since I was ten persuading my subconscious that a massive fucking furry spider will not be sitting on my face when I wake up.

I was wrong, Mr Bond.

I will never ever ever go to Cyprus.

Any posters who have experienced furry enormous spiders with the capacity however remot to face-sit please state the location so I can add it to my no fucking hairy hand-sized spiders on my face spreadsheet.

I’m gonna leave it to better, braver posters to do the Goog on those countries. I’m pleased to be able to say our visit to Mexico yielded lizards, agouti, caypu, a small fox and a tiny hippo looking thing in the dark. Despite being writhing in numerous vile spider species.

Not helping!!

I mean many posters were asking for pictures, op didn’t manage to get one… it’s a picture of a spider not the actual spider…. 😂

Also - the ‘indorex’ spray posters have mentioned stopping them in the house - which one is it? I’m finding flea spray . Does that kill spiders ?

Tarantulas? We’re off to Cyprus in the summer holidays. I’d done a bit of reading about WW3 but was still ok with the idea of Cyprus. Not now though. I won’t be able to sleep with a thought a tarantula could just be roaming around!

Immediately takes Cyprus off the holiday list.

Just burning the villa is very unreasonable.

Lucky he didn't throw it out onto the balcony ...

Prior to September, spray it around the edges of the rooms and doorways where they’re most likely to get in. It’s really good.

edit: I’ve not tried actually spraying it directly on to a spider.

I have no current plans to go outside of Europe, but until this thread I had no idea there were tarantulas anywhere in Europe. To think that to date I’ve only worried about mosquitos!

OP, I am so sorry. If you are phobic this must have absolutely horrendous for you. I am an arachnaphobe and I feel really ill just reading what happened.

Definitely! I am absolutely horrified by this!