To expect HUGE spiders NOT to move into my house when the weather turns cold!

[DaphneMoon]

.............here we go again, summer on it's way out, winter on it's way in and all the bloody huge, hairy spiders are marching their way to my house. I had one last night galloping its way across my carpet, which I could have almost predicted as DP away.

.......now have spider size of donkey trapped under glass mixing bowl in middle of lounge, which will stay there until DP gets home tonight!!

Then had to spend rest of evening with feet on coffee table in case it's big brother came looking for it!

ooh, we had this the other week. Citronella oil in a water can and spray all over the room, plus put conkers everywhere. I did it two weeks ago and so far so good...

daphnemoon, it was pretty unpleasant [ewwww]

Giant house spider huh. I'll have to look up a picture.
Here in the states (southwest) we get wolf spiders. They never bothered me until I was in Okinawa and had moved into a marines house and found they had left a mattress outside. This mattress had ventilation holes in it.
We were to drag it from the back to the front area to be picked up. Well, we did only to find a wolf spider had set up housekeeping in it.
They make lovely mothers. They carry about 100+ babies on their backs and it doesn't slow them down one bit. I thought it was a mouse scurrying across the floor but when my husband stomped on it all the babies started to radiate out in an everwidening circle.
It's amazing the thoughts that race through your head at a time like that.
Oh, about the jumping. Tarantulas can jump to 10 feet. They have nice little rubberband type muscle structures. In the mating season you get herds of the males traveling along to search for females.

YUUUUUUUUUCK!!!!!!!

Wehaveallbeenthere, I feel faint...

I like them. I don't like flies. Spiders are my friends. Also, the wasps are nearly over for another year. What the hell are they for?

Piddly spiders here in UK. We have one behind the TV. I call him Albert. He comes out to see us every night. He is lovely. No bitey.

If you lived in Australia or Africa, blardy hell you would freak.
F'ck me tis only a big brown spider - they eat all the flies and chill in a corner - live and let live!

please tell me its not just me thats causes themselves an injury when running away and screaming at spiders and wasps.

ive got a massive bruise on my leg from trying to bat one away from ds's head during tea and hitting myself with the table leg, only for it then to fly at me and me to get up screaming - and yet again hitting my leg against the table

oh the joys of insect paranoia...

you are a wuss!

they are aracnids or insects.
We are at the top of foodchain
No biggie.

no biggie!!!! but but but...

yeh im a wuss

im still paranoid of them

and to be fair i am allergic to wasp stings, i puff up like a big... puff ball

Most people I know who are terrified of wasps are men. I don't like them but seem to be quite calm. My 3 year old boy was stung twice in the face by one a couple of weeks ago and very calmly came to tell us he'd been stung before starting to cry. Put lemon juice on it - we were in a pub garden - and he felt fine very quickly but had a balloon face for a couple of days. Poor little fellow.

asps are nasty I agree, but spiders are cool.
I like them.

MrsBates, you and I are possibly the only people on MN who dont mind spiders.
I am seeing a few in my house right now, tis true. I trapped a massive one under a glass so I could set it free out the window.
I'm guessing I shouldnt post the pic I took of it on my profile.

They kill flies so that's fine by me. And I've held a tarantula - it was quite cute really.

They give me the heebegeebies, but I like the adreniline rush and I think they ar elike a supercool rock group - We all worship but fear at the same time.

Too deep for a Thursday nightt??

Oh and Gingerbear - you too!

Naw, more spider lovers here....

girls this is the thread for angry MNmobs against spider's

not "lets set up a spider rock-band formation"

i am joking of course... but still it scares me even thinking about liking spiders!!

madameOvary

ethanchristopher tsk

SpidersofRock are out to get ya! hahahahaha!!!!

Sorry, I empathize with your arachnophobia completely in true MN spirit of course!

Glad to meet a few more spider lovers. Off to the web for a snooze. Sleep well Spiders of Rock.

We only seem to get many spindly efforts and the odd whopper in this flat thank the lord. Used to get seriously huge ones in my Mums house. I remember walking through the hall with my supper in my hands and feeling something hit my face, thought nothing of it and sat down to eat. A couple of minutes later a huuuuuge spider ran across my boobs, I flung the plate and screamed at the top of my voice. I was shuddering for frigging days.

But then again I also remember (in mums house) waking up briefly in the middle of the night and seeing a big black spider on my outstretched arm. Being half asleep I brushed it off and turned over, only remembered in the morning.

Hi all i was always lead to belive that spiders only go into happy homes!
You can tell me anything and i'd belive it lol

Yes, I love spiders. They are an almost perfect lifeform. There was a study done that was aired on Discovery or NG or something that was talking about a spider that hunts spiders.
They did an experiment where the hunted spider (the size was much bigger x3 I would guess) was placed in an area where it could see where any attack could come from. It was centered on its web waiting for any vibration.
The hunting spider reasoned that if it climbed the plant on the opposite side of the other spider and then lowered itself down onto the other spider, it could take it by surprise and eat it. This made me very glad that size wise...we are too large to be prey.

I actually quite like them too - even though one jumped on my head. We both sat down and talked about it (I was eating 'curds and way (sp?)' at the time), made up and really got some closure. So much so his great-great-great-great grand spiders come and visit me in my home every year .

As for the giant flying cockroaches, I just can't seem to see eye to eye with them.

There is a huntsman living in our garage atm. Quite a large one too bigger than my outstretched hand (fingers and all) but we love it. DS's favourite game is to find where it pops up every morning.
True story - my very first time behind the wheel of a car a HUGE (oz standard huge) spider jumped off the sun visor thing and landed on my face!, I was on the highway.
scared shitless of mice though...