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59 posts & 38 voices | Started 1 year ago by becky_kirk43 | Latest reply from mastiles_fanylion

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becky_kirk43 - Member

Just got home with my mum and we go into the kitchen to find this...

(the picture really doesn't do it justice!)

My mum said she couldn't catch it because she was brave when I was little so now it was my turn. In a few minutes of bravery of decided to catch it. Picked up something to get it in, got close and then decided that I shouldn't have picked something breakable!

Cue 15 minutes of me balancing on a stool and my mum on the worktop making various screaming noises every time it moved until my dad got back and picked up and put it outside!

Anyone else scared of spiders?

Posted 1 year ago #
iDave - Member

I hate them

I have a scar from a spider bite which reinforces this quite logical stance

Posted 1 year ago #
Houns - Member

Thanks for the warning in the thread title.

Thankfully i have 2 spider catchers that are sat next to me purring away

Posted 1 year ago #
Elfinsafety - Member

I like spiders. The catch and eat other insects in your house, and don't spread disease like cockroaches and flies and that. Spiders are cool.

Posted 1 year ago #
Harry_the_Spider - Member

Your dad put it outside!

It'll be there in the morning, cold, angry, hungry and... waiting.

Posted 1 year ago #
Harry_the_Spider - Member

Spiders are cool.

Correct.

Posted 1 year ago #
_tom_ - Member

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I didn't realise we got them so big round here.

Should have owned it with a set of bombers.

Posted 1 year ago #
MrNutt - Member

I once had a similar sized one downstairs in my house, thought "ah he's a big one, i'll let him live" that night I awoke and took a drink from the glass of water next to my bed. I cannot describe the sheer ANGER that coursed though me as I my brain anounced "contents of mouth: H2O + fuxking huge spider!", the contents which were then immediatly spat onto the floor. I then lept out of bed and stamped upon it only to then have my brain announce "foot now wet, includes sizable spider mulch between toes". not one of my best nights to be honest.

Posted 1 year ago #
roper - Member

These are part of my collection.
They really aren't that bad when you get to know them.

I they are amazing little creatures and I can't get enough of them.
Well done for not squishing it too

Posted 1 year ago #
mintimperial - Member

The catch and eat other insects in your house, and don't spread disease like cockroaches and flies and that. Spiders are cool.

Apparently big house spiders mostly eat smaller house spiders. The smaller ones (<1/2" or so) are the nice ones that do the fly and bug catching, the big ones are essentially nasty parasitic bullies and should be stomped on or fed to the cat on sight. (This may be complete nonsense - I heard it from a pest control chap who came to nuke a huge wasps nest, when I commented that it was a shame about all the gigantic dead spiders littering my attic space after he gassed everything.)

Posted 1 year ago #
Jamie - Member

There is one of a similar size above my head right now. Keeps out the flies so is more than welcome.

Posted 1 year ago #
iDave - Member

roper - looks like I'm going to live in Brazil. What can I expect to be bitten by? Any worse than the little shit that got me in Oz?

Posted 1 year ago #
becky_kirk43 - Member

I don't dislike them so much that I'd kill them, its the thought of it crawling on me that I don't like. I can't sleep with any sort of insect in my room in case it starts walking on me while I'm asleep.

Roper - I was looking at those pictures and hoping I'd start to like them, but I can't do it...in fact the more I look at them the more I don't like them I'm afraid

Posted 1 year ago #
MrNutt - Member

my spider experience then got worse, I've now been bitten four times by wood louse eating spiders, those little fuxkers I kill on sight! others I'm prepared to let live as long as they respect my boundarys

Posted 1 year ago #
ahwiles - Member

i'm not scared of 'normal' spiders - y'know normal ones... i wouldn't ever want to hurt or kill a spider, but the big ones do give me the willies.

i've always thought fondly of these handsome little fellas:

Posted 1 year ago #
atlaz - Member

We've had a few big ones in the house recently. Personally I don't care but my wife is really quite scared (where she comes from they have spiders that are actually dangerous) so they have to go out.

Posted 1 year ago #
Harry_the_Spider - Member

This lot lived in my washing line last year.

Posted 1 year ago #
MtbCol - Member

In my garden, I have a bush full of these;

Lovely to look at and very interesting to watch, they range in size from tiny, to a couple of big ones with abdomens the size of a penny coin.
I really need to take the hedge trimmer to that bush, but don't want to destroy their habitat at the moment.

Posted 1 year ago #
neallyman - Member

Been proper arachnophobic since I was about 12. I even visited my doctor about it as it was stopping me sleeping at night, usually about this time of year when these big bastaRDs start coming into the house.

So I'm 31 now and I seem to have got a little bit better as the time has gone on but my wife has to get rid of them now and they still make me feel physically sick and sweaty, even just the photos (though strangely I don't mind the really big tarantulas as much, just these awful house spiders).

And as for 'purring spider catchers'...our cat just plays with them like they're a toy, nae good at all.

I'm away to lie down.

Posted 1 year ago #
Shakey - Member

Roper - Love the Mexican Red Knee, I had one about 12 years ago but way to aggressive to handle.

Posted 1 year ago #
kerv - Member

Becky couldn't you have just left it? Looks like its heading back into its cage, just slam the door behind it!

Posted 1 year ago #
magowen100 - Member

iDave - Brazil has the wandering spider which is a truly nasty piece of work. The locals say that rather than run away from you they'll actually run at you! Check out this video for more on it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v6_nXLahuc - though a side effect of the venom is a permanant erection
I did read somewhere that people eat an average of 8 spiders over thier lifetime while they're sleeping (the people not the spiders)though that might be bull.
There is also a theory that because spiders evolved before insects the reason why some of the venom is so potent is that its to kill other spiders.
Got to say I'm with Roper- spiders are very very cool beasties!
Roper do you have pink toes - they were always my favorites.

Posted 1 year ago #
Mowgli - Member

I admit they are quite beautiful, but only when viewed from on a computer screen! Still pretty terrified when up close; they get caught in a glass and thrown outside.

My gf has a proper phobia though. We have been out climbing sometimes, and for no reason at all she's leapt from the cliff and taken a fairly big fall. 'I thought I saw a spider...'

Posted 1 year ago #
becky_kirk43 - Member

Lovely to look at and very interesting to watch,

If they're on a bush outside I have no problem watching them, I find it interesting watching them wrap up their prey and eating them. I even rescued a bumblebee from a spider once. But if they're in the house, or try to come near me its a different ball game!

Been proper arachnophobic since I was about 12. I even visited my doctor about it as it was stopping me sleeping at night, usually about this time of year when these big bastaRDs start coming into the house.

I must admit after my initial "braveness" I'm not feeling it any more! I keep getting a crawling feeling on my arms and legs...don't think I'll be sleeping well tonight.

Think I was lucky that I only had a few tiny ones in my room at uni last year - I can catch those ones on a piece of paper and let them out of the window. Its odd that it happened today, because I'd noticed earlier there were a lot of the ones in ahwiles picture about. I guess its due to the changing weather.

Becky couldn't you have just left it? Looks like its heading back into its cage, just slam the door behind it!

darn it, why didn't I think of that

Posted 1 year ago #
Elfinsafety - Member

I then lept out of bed and stamped upon it

Cowardly murdering bastard.

My flatmate would regularly get me to remove them from her bedroom. She'd make me take them some distance from the house, as she claimed she could see them coming straight back towards her room. A fair claim, as I found one bugger in her room 3 times, and I'd taken it right away from the house. Funnily enough, they only seemed to go into her room, rather than other areas of the house. Must have been something in here room that attracted them, some chemical or fibre or something.

No need to be scared of spiders in this country, or most places tbh.

Posted 1 year ago #
buzz-lightyear - Member

My GF also has the full phobia - will scream the place down and weep uncontrollably if there is a house spider in the room. As a child she spend an entire day in her bed clothes "trapped" in the kitchen by a house spider, until her mum came home.

I don't like them in the house, but her reaction is really extreme

Posted 1 year ago #
CountZero - Member

The Garden Cross spider in mtbCols pic is a real beauty, and the pic above of the spiderlings is a web full of baby Cross spiders. I didn't used to mind spiders as a kid until a Cross spider I used to feed flies too got pissy with me playing with it and it bit me. I don't mind little ones, and I'll always get them out of the bath very carefully, but big house spiders just freak me out. It's the glass, card and door for them. As elfinsafety says, while there are quite a number in this country that can bite, none do a human any harm. Brown Recluse Spiders on the other hand...
Just thank your Deity of choice they've not got into this country, they particularly like sharing houses with humans.

Posted 1 year ago #
scott_mcavennie2 - Member

Some posters may remmeber this delightful little fella living in my sitting room a couple of months back:

Oh yeah, which one of you lot is 'overly curious bystander' on flickr?

Posted 1 year ago #
esselgruntfuttock - Member

Regarding the OP, that's probly a Cardinal Spider. I am led to believe theyr'e named after Cardinal Wolsey (who was apparently scared sh!tless of them when he lived at Hampton Court)
Dunno how true this is though.

Posted 1 year ago #
mastiles_fanylion - Member

Just had to kill yet another like the one in the OP - we are over-run by them at the moment and Mrs Mastiles will be having another restless night after finding it. I would happily pick up and put outside but I have to kill them to settle Mrs M (so she knows it can't possibly get back in).

Posted 1 year ago #
Elfinsafety - Member

Can't you just pretend to kill it? Keep one you've already killed, and just swap it over to appease her?

I really can't condone the senseless slaughter of any creatures. They're not doing any harm. People with phobias need to face their fears, and stop being so bloody hysterical.

Posted 1 year ago #
mastiles_fanylion - Member

I frankly don't care what you think - my wife is more important than any amount of spiders.

Posted 1 year ago #
Hadge - Member

Glad to see I'm not the only collector of spiders here, nice pics Roper.
Here's my recently addition to the family, a lovely Nhandu Crhomatus or commonly know as a White Striped Bird Eater - isn't she lovely. Also have 2 Chile Rose, Red Knee and a Blue Femur - plus more to come

Posted 1 year ago #
Elfinsafety - Member

I frankly don't care what you think - my wife is more important than any amount of spiders.

S'fine. Keep pandering to her attention seeking then, because 99% of the time, that's all it is, you know. Why is it almost always women who scream blue murder when a creepy-crawly appears? It's so that they can get men to act all brave and save them from the terrible monster!

A real phobia, however, should be addressed properly by trained professionals.

Posted 1 year ago #
ernie_lynch - Member

Elfinsafety - Member

......... stop being so bloody hysterical.

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mastiles_fanylion - Member

I frankly don't care what you think - my wife is more important than any amount of spiders.

Stop being so bloody dramatic.

Posted 1 year ago #