Spiders are about

NorthumberlandBoro said:
Don't have a problem with spiders, quite like them.
Snakes on the other hand....
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I’ve recently relocated back to SE Asia and happily no spiders yet, but I have had 5 snakes in the garden, got to say I defo prefer the snakes and they can stay if they munch a few spiders!

I also lived in Brunei for two years, used to get big huntsman spiders in my house, occasionally saw the bigger forest huntsman too, massive things (although still not as gargantuan as the the Australian ones) - one jumped out of folded chair I opened once, I swear it was the Rasputin of spiders… survived bug spray and hose pipe spray, but eventually the flipflop got it. I hate killing them but they’re too fast to easily catch, I’ve got a kid and they can give a nasty bite.
 
Spiders are a great bunch of lads. Never understood the fear. Easy enough to just catch them with a glass and a coaster and put them outside. I'm forever doing that at my parents house. My Dad is a big tough bloke but he's terrified of spiders.
 
bumface said:
Spiders are a great bunch of lads. Never understood the fear. Easy enough to just catch them with a glass and a coaster and put them outside. I'm forever doing that at my parents house. My Dad is a big tough bloke but he's terrified of spiders.
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You’d need a bucket for the ones I’m on about! That said, I always catch and release the ones back home, they’re tiddlers by comparison.
 
Smoggle said:
You’d need a bucket for the ones I’m on about! That said, I always catch and release the ones back home, they’re tiddlers by comparison.
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We've had some big b*ggers here recently. They don't look quite as big when you have them captured in a glass. They hide their legs, and make themselves look small. I don't kill anything mate. Not even wasps. They all end up back in the back garden/nature reserve.
 
Bit by one in France this year on a knee. 3 months it took the scab to heal.
Never used to bother with them until then.
Mate of mine got bit by a Camel Spider in Egypt, what a mess he was in.
 
My wife has got two rules when it comes to spiders - if you can see hairs on it’s legs, then it’s too big and you kill it. And if you can’t see hairs on its legs….then you kill it.
 
My hubby is a complete wuss, one had a massive sprint at him over the rug the other night (saves him right for changing the rug, now light coloured so can see them) and he shat himself, I was sat on the sofa crying obviously 🤣🤣🤣🤣. I'm no big fan myself but it's not hard to use the glass/cardboard technique to throw the cheeky beggars back out.
 
I’ve been trying hard not to pass on any fear of spiders to my toddler. I’ll put my big boy pants on and pick up little ones and let them crawl around my hands to show him there is nothing to fear. Of course in my head I’m cacking it. I’ll put it in his hand before we let it go outside.
Of course it’s totally backfired and now whenever there is a massive one he runs to it thinking it’s a flipping pet to play with.
 
I even got one of these devices you plug in the wall that is meant to make some vibrations that Spiders don't like
 
Never kill a spider, glass and cardboard then a trip outside for it to find alternative accommodation. Rats and mice however, that's a whole different emotion.

#UTB
 
bumface said:
We've had some big b*ggers here recently. They don't look quite as big when you have them captured in a glass. They hide their legs, and make themselves look small. I don't kill anything mate. Not even wasps. They all end up back in the back garden/nature reserve.
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I always used to pop them closer to the neighbours house, if they want to be inside then they can go there instead!
 
Now there's a big hairy one nestling in behind the curtain in the living room, but I'm not going to tell anyone.

The kids are also freaking out about daddy long legs (what a great name!). I don't mind catching these critters with my hand, but their legs are very delicate so you have to be careful. It's the random flying about that's tricky, and they're quite hard to catch.
 
Kill em all.

I'm absolutely terrified. They run out from under the sofa when we're watching TV, they crawl up the wall when im working from home, they scuttle across the kitchen floor as i walk in for a drink. They're horrible, evil, hairy horrible b***ds and deserve to die.

Our lass throws them out but I'm sure the same ones make their way back in. I trap them and torture them. Can't stand them. I'd rather we had a fly, cranefly or whatever. The people who walk by them or go to sleep knowing they have a beast in their room want sectioning. I'm debating getting a cat just to feel a bit better, knowing we had a live in Spider killer.
 
They drive my doggo bananas. Why he thinks barking at them on the wall will achieve anything is beyond me. But he's a good look out for us.
I'll trap the identified arachnid and relocate to the garden. All the while in a cold panic that it's going to somehow crawl through the glass onto my hand.
Totally irrational. I put it down to the total unpredictability of their movements and the thought that they are actively out to get me.
 
VestasBoro said:
Kill em all.

I'm absolutely terrified. They run out from under the sofa when we're watching TV, they crawl up the wall when im working from home, they scuttle across the kitchen floor as i walk in for a drink. They're horrible, evil, hairy horrible b***ds and deserve to die.

Our lass throws them out but I'm sure the same ones make their way back in. I trap them and torture them. Can't stand them. I'd rather we had a fly, cranefly or whatever. The people who walk by them or go to sleep knowing they have a beast in their room want sectioning. I'm debating getting a cat just to feel a bit better, knowing we had a live in Spider killer.
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perhaps you need some therapy for this. Think about their qualities.. quite amazing how patient they are, and they do eat those pesty flies.
 
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