Spiders

lene1949 · 12-04-2010, 04:18 AM

They make me physically ill... It's been raining a lot here lately, and the spiders come inside the house...

The other night I had the biggest spider I ever saw in my bedroom, right next to the door, which is in the corner of the room. I managed to get out to pick up the bug spray, and eventually it died (drowned, probably)...

Today again, it was pouring down with rain, and I felt sick... to the point where I couldn't go to work, thinking about seeing another huge spider in my house...

I really need help...

kindlekitten · 12-04-2010, 09:45 AM

ahhhh *pets* I'm the same way about snakes

LtDARKPhoeniX · 12-04-2010, 11:52 AM

Get some cats ours catch spiders but we don't realy have poisonous ones so.....

desertblues · 12-04-2010, 01:23 PM

poohbear_nc · 12-04-2010, 05:42 PM

I share your dread of the grizzly beasties! Outside the house OK. Inside the house = dead spider. And cats do help hunt them down!

Fbone · 12-04-2010, 07:33 PM

Australia has bad spiders too. Those funnel webs.

CazMar · 12-04-2010, 07:44 PM

I find that with spiders (and snakes) the best strategy is to leave them alone and they will leave you alone. We get some very large spiders here but they are harmless. If spiders are in a place like the kitchen I either use the glass and sheet of paper technique and put them outdoors or "encourage" them to go outside with a broom. They actually get rid of a lot of mosquitoes and flies (far worse pests). I only ever kill poisonous spiders in the house (red-backs and white-tailed spiders).
Snakes are beautiful creatures and an important part of the ecosystem. Like most wild animals they usually only attack if threatened. But f you see one in your house call in a professional snake catcher, unless you actually can tell the difference between a highly poisonous brown snake and a harmless python!

sabredog · 12-04-2010, 07:57 PM

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Originally Posted by CazMar

But f you see one in your house call in a professional snake catcher, unless you actually can tell the difference between a highly poisonous brown snake and a harmless python!

A bloke died here last week from a Tiger snake bite. The snake was only a foot long. Shows how venomous they are!

We kill redbacks, white tails and black house spiders on sight. I do the great white hunter act and catch huntsmen being harmless. They belong out and not inside.

My wife was bitten on the neck in the car by a large whitetail about a month before our wedding. It was quite a worry, but the doctor pumped her full of antihistamines, which prevented the allergic reaction that causes all those problems associated with whitetail bites.

CazMar · 12-04-2010, 10:17 PM

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Originally Posted by sabredog

My wife was bitten on the neck in the car by a large whitetail about a month before our wedding. It was quite a worry, but the doctor pumped her full of antihistamines, which prevented the allergic reaction that causes all those problems associated with whitetail bites.

Yes, I have seen the effects of poorly treated whitetail spider bites - they can cause tissue necrosis and keep recurring. Hope your wife recovered fully!

emonti8384 · 12-05-2010, 03:47 PM

I was outside at work sitting on a step reading. There is a bridge above that lets patients walk from the main hospital to the clinic. So I'm sitting there, reading, and I see this thing to my left. I look and it's a spider on my arm- I brush it off and look down and I was covered in spiders! They were only little ones but still! It was so gross, they were in my purse and everything! Yucky!

kindlekitten · 12-05-2010, 04:03 PM

spiders do not normally bother me, but long ago when I first got out of the Army and was going to college I was on a part time crew that was winterizing homes for the elderly and low income. I was knocking out a bunch of plywood that was around the foundation of a house, had my hand through an opening and was beating outward with a hammer when all of a sudden my arm felt all "crawly". I pulled my arm out and I had what seemed to be dozens of small black widow spiders from my fingertips to my shoulder. I started dancing around, pulling my shirt off, one of the guys on the crew saw what was going on and turned a hose on me. all the other guys were of course perplexed as to why I was being hosed down in the middle of a Colorado winter ;o(

SolRaven · 12-05-2010, 04:28 PM

Lene, I can't blame you. You have some pretty bad spiders in your neck of the woods. Yesterday, while I was sitting on my sofa reading from my new PRS-650, I noticed a spider web outside my front window going across the walk way to my front door. All I can say, is thank goodness I didn't "notice" it when I went out that evening. It was a Florida crab spider, which I would never have realized were spiders if they didn't make big round webs. You really can't see their legs, and when you do, they're situated under their crab like shell, so it looks like some kind of weird bug.

dsvick · 12-06-2010, 09:28 AM

I may not be as bad as you lene but I've been known to be the first one of the room if there is sufficiently creepy enough looking spider in it. I've never thrown the kids in front of me or anything but .... well umm nevermind .....

Snakes are ok, we dont get them in the house, and we dont have any poisonous ones anyway. What scares the heeby jeebies out of me mostly are wasps and bees in the house - I'm pretty sure we have a nest in the attic, and we lit the fireplace for the first time over the weekend and ended up with two of them in there - I'm hoping they were in the chimney and that all their friends flew out the top.

Sweetpea · 12-06-2010, 10:07 AM

I always wanted to visit Australia.

Until I found out about the spiders there. Which make me say: thank you, but no thanks!

I'm getting past the point where I'll scream from the little ones, but they musn't grow larger than 5mm.... I've been known to utter some very weird sounds and do even weirder movements...

jinlo · 12-06-2010, 11:40 AM

Just tell yourself it's not a spider. It's just a dog in a really bad costume.

12-04-2010, 04:18 AM	#1
lene1949 Wizard Posts: 1,952 Karma: 213930 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Middelfart, Denmark Device: Kindle paper white	Spiders They make me physically ill... It's been raining a lot here lately, and the spiders come inside the house... The other night I had the biggest spider I ever saw in my bedroom, right next to the door, which is in the corner of the room. I managed to get out to pick up the bug spray, and eventually it died (drowned, probably)... Today again, it was pouring down with rain, and I felt sick... to the point where I couldn't go to work, thinking about seeing another huge spider in my house... I really need help...

12-04-2010, 09:45 AM	#2
kindlekitten Professional Adventuress Posts: 13,368 Karma: 50260224 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Olympic Peninsula on the OTHER Washington! (the big green clean one on the west coast!) Device: Kindle, the original! Times Two! and gifting an International Kindle	ahhhh pets I'm the same way about snakes

12-04-2010, 11:52 AM	#3
LtDARKPhoeniX Member Posts: 10 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: South africa Device: None	Get some cats ours catch spiders but we don't realy have poisonous ones so.....

12-04-2010, 01:23 PM	#4
desertblues Home for the moment Posts: 5,127 Karma: 27718936 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: travelling Device: various

12-04-2010, 05:42 PM	#5
poohbear_nc Now what? Posts: 58,852 Karma: 135181808 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	I share your dread of the grizzly beasties! Outside the house OK. Inside the house = dead spider. And cats do help hunt them down!

12-04-2010, 07:33 PM	#6
Fbone Is that a sandwich? Posts: 8,189 Karma: 100500000 Join Date: Jun 2010 Device: Nook Glowlight Plus	Australia has bad spiders too. Those funnel webs.

12-04-2010, 07:44 PM	#7
CazMar Book Geek Posts: 596 Karma: 1499085 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Adelaide, Australia Device: Kobo Touch, Asus MemPad 7" tablet, Nexus 5, Asus 10" tablet	I find that with spiders (and snakes) the best strategy is to leave them alone and they will leave you alone. We get some very large spiders here but they are harmless. If spiders are in a place like the kitchen I either use the glass and sheet of paper technique and put them outdoors or "encourage" them to go outside with a broom. They actually get rid of a lot of mosquitoes and flies (far worse pests). I only ever kill poisonous spiders in the house (red-backs and white-tailed spiders). Snakes are beautiful creatures and an important part of the ecosystem. Like most wild animals they usually only attack if threatened. But f you see one in your house call in a professional snake catcher, unless you actually can tell the difference between a highly poisonous brown snake and a harmless python!

12-05-2010, 03:47 PM	#10
emonti8384 browneyedgurl Posts: 523 Karma: 356470 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Warren, OH Device: PRS-505/950x2, PRS-600 silver, Galaxy III purple, T2 black	I was outside at work sitting on a step reading. There is a bridge above that lets patients walk from the main hospital to the clinic. So I'm sitting there, reading, and I see this thing to my left. I look and it's a spider on my arm- I brush it off and look down and I was covered in spiders! They were only little ones but still! It was so gross, they were in my purse and everything! Yucky!

12-05-2010, 04:03 PM	#11
kindlekitten Professional Adventuress Posts: 13,368 Karma: 50260224 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Olympic Peninsula on the OTHER Washington! (the big green clean one on the west coast!) Device: Kindle, the original! Times Two! and gifting an International Kindle	spiders do not normally bother me, but long ago when I first got out of the Army and was going to college I was on a part time crew that was winterizing homes for the elderly and low income. I was knocking out a bunch of plywood that was around the foundation of a house, had my hand through an opening and was beating outward with a hammer when all of a sudden my arm felt all "crawly". I pulled my arm out and I had what seemed to be dozens of small black widow spiders from my fingertips to my shoulder. I started dancing around, pulling my shirt off, one of the guys on the crew saw what was going on and turned a hose on me. all the other guys were of course perplexed as to why I was being hosed down in the middle of a Colorado winter ;o(

12-05-2010, 04:28 PM	#12
SolRaven Wizard Posts: 2,214 Karma: 12796976 Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: The Sunshine State Device: Clara, Voyage, Oasis, Paperwhite & PRS-650	Lene, I can't blame you. You have some pretty bad spiders in your neck of the woods. Yesterday, while I was sitting on my sofa reading from my new PRS-650, I noticed a spider web outside my front window going across the walk way to my front door. All I can say, is thank goodness I didn't "notice" it when I went out that evening. It was a Florida crab spider, which I would never have realized were spiders if they didn't make big round webs. You really can't see their legs, and when you do, they're situated under their crab like shell, so it looks like some kind of weird bug.

12-06-2010, 09:28 AM	#13
dsvick Wizard Posts: 2,737 Karma: 635747 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Northeast Ohio, USA Device: PRS-900	I may not be as bad as you lene but I've been known to be the first one of the room if there is sufficiently creepy enough looking spider in it. I've never thrown the kids in front of me or anything but .... well umm nevermind ..... Snakes are ok, we dont get them in the house, and we dont have any poisonous ones anyway. What scares the heeby jeebies out of me mostly are wasps and bees in the house - I'm pretty sure we have a nest in the attic, and we lit the fireplace for the first time over the weekend and ended up with two of them in there - I'm hoping they were in the chimney and that all their friends flew out the top.

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12-06-2010, 10:07 AM	#14
Sweetpea Grand Sorcerer Posts: 9,707 Karma: 32763414 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Krewerd Device: Pocketbook Inkpad 4 Color; Samsung Galaxy Tab S6	I always wanted to visit Australia. Until I found out about the spiders there. Which make me say: thank you, but no thanks! I'm getting past the point where I'll scream from the little ones, but they musn't grow larger than 5mm.... I've been known to utter some very weird sounds and do even weirder movements...

12-06-2010, 11:40 AM	#15
jinlo aka coco jinlo Posts: 415 Karma: 500002 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: NJ-USA Device: Just purchased Sony 505, but alas, it is for the wife	Just tell yourself it's not a spider. It's just a dog in a really bad costume.