SPIDERS!!! I've just been bitten by one...

[sb34]

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This 'az 'appened also to Spiderman wot 'az 'ad quite good results
Woz you in the Oscorp laboratory at the time?

sb34 - a friend of the family is very interested in spiders - watches them and collects dead ones - he assures me that the have dies naturally. There are some really obscure spiders that are native to Britain - I recall him saying that he has been nipped numerous times by various spiders.

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Please let him go sb34 - poor wee thing. He is probably more scared of you than you are of him/her

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Let him out in the vicinity of (ahem) "someone elses" house I'm sure you know what I mean!!

You have to let him out...surely a morning in a glass jar has throughly rehabilitated him?

Free the Spidey One.

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Releasing Spiders down near the station I guess! No, actually I'm having my hair cut, doing a spot of shopping and not picking the boys up til gone 5pm... Ahhhh

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I think you will find that most of us will be running away from spiders who look like they have missed 'the bite' during their time in the big (glass) house.

If that happens to your arm, you won't be worrying about what you did with the spider Set him free. If he's a foreign one, he probably won't survive long in the wild anyway and if he's British, he's not poisonous.

Omg, I demand you STAMP on it this very minute!!!

sb34 - I have been bitten by British spiders before (hazard of living in the country in an old house). I am a bit prone to being allergic to bites (not seriously but will swell up and they last longer than on others). I had a bite from a big garden spider on my hand that swelled up to about 4 inches across and lasted for several days - ouch. If it is still hurting/arm aching etc. then take some antihistime tablets (same as you get for hayfever) - should help a bit.

Yikes, poor you sb34! Hope the ache is starting to ease now. I would have fainted dead away, I'm sure! I'm an absolute WIMP with insects.

There are loads of pretty big spiders in the UK, most of them dark brown. (I think the biggest is called a hawk-spider and is essentially a garden spider.) My in-laws live on a farm and some of the spiders there are as big as your hand. These can bite, in fact all spiders can bite but not many can pierce the skin. Also all spiders are venomous, but none in the UK have enough venom to kill a human, it will just swell up and sting a bit. There is also this article on the BBC news web about a biting spider in the UK, it has a picture so see if it matches yours.

I don't like spiders but I can't say stamp on it, that makes me shudder just as much! - think of the mess! Let it go somewhere green and it probably won't bother anyone again.

We once found an already dead spider in our last house, all I can say is I'm so glad it was dead as if I'd seen alive I would have died of shock.
I called the Natural History Museum (referred there from London Zoo) as I was sure it couldn't possibly be native to England. It was called a Cardinal spider and was 5.25" from it front to back legs and just a wide from side to side. Apparently the record for one of these in the UK is 5.5" so the man I spoke too was quite impressed and said 'You have quite a specimen there.'
We kept it for a while a no-one believed us but after about a week it started to freak me out so I had to get rid of it. Apparently they like old houses and are most common in the south London/Surrey area so keep you eyes peeled ladies........not that you'd miss a brute like that running across you living room floor!

sb - how are you feeling now ?

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You may be developing a phobia?

sb, I am developing a phobia from your bite!

A few months ago I picked up a pile of used clothes from the hall floor and when I reached the bathroom (laundry room) felt a tiny tickle on my arm - looked down and it was a spider about 2" long on the sleeve of my T shirt. It didn't bite me but I screamed and flailed anyway, DS1 found it in yet another pile of clothes on the bathroom floor and kindly said he would have screamed too (it was quite big though not 5" like Emma's!!!)

I also once saw a spider crawling across our attic wall that was sooooo big it fell off the wall and hit the floor with a clonk!

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I once had a spider crawl down the back of my neck after a shower. I ran out into the hallway of the flat screaming, and our (male) flatmate cam rushing out of his room to see what was wrong. I was screaming "get it off me, get it off me" and in my panic, didn't realise that I had dropped my towel! I don't know who was more frightened - the spider or our flatmate . He did get rid of the spider for me though.
Oh, and I had to get a ruler out to visualise EmmaTMG's spider, sent shivers down my spine!

Don't read the next bit sb34

Does anyone remember the story in the paper - Sunday Post - many years ago about the person who was 'bitten' by a spider on a foreign holiday? When they came home, there was a swollen raised red mark on their arm that got bigger over a few of weeks. When they were lying in a warm bath one night the lump burst and thousands of baby spiders came spilling out of it? I did read it myself and couldn't sleep for weeks ( I was a teenager at the time ).

Don't read the next bit sb34

Does anyone remember the story in the paper - Sunday Post - many years ago about the person who was 'bitten' by a spider on a foreign holiday? When they came home, there was a swollen raised red mark on their arm that got bigger over a few of weeks. When they were lying in a warm bath one night the lump burst and thousands of baby spiders came spilling out of it? I did read it myself and couldn't sleep for weeks ( I was a teenager at the time ).

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