SPIDERS!!!

[Barnes Mum]

I'm not sure on that one but I've always assumed that they wouldn't be in a very fit state to crawl much any more after a quick trip to the dust bag!

[J.R.]

Why on earth would you want to kill a spider ? Any spider ?

They eat the nasties that we DON'T like.

Incidently, it must be the weather, but we had a H-U-G-E one walk across the living room floor last night !

[Barnes Mum]

Sorry JR. I really don't want to kill spiders, the hoover really is the last resort, and only used if there is no alternative and no one around to save me! Guilty as charged!

[Fjgrogan]

JR - this one was probably big enough to eat bits of me. Nevertheless I let it survive to fight another day - as long as it is someone else that it choses to visit next time!

[NEILL THE NOTORIOUS]

Nobody has mentioned the inherent ability of Husbands to feign unconciousness !

[lonelymom]

Nobody has mentioned the inherent ability of Husbands to feign unconciousness !

Mine doesn't have to feign unconciousness, he's already got boneidleness!

[NEILL THE NOTORIOUS]

OOOOH !
I assume , lonelymom, that your Husband, like my Wife, is quite unable to access this Forum ! !

[lonelymom]

I must confess the vacuum is my main spider-disposal tool. The reason being that I can use all the pole extensions so that I can suck up the offending insect from about 10 feet away! It works just as well for other insects too And before anybody says anything, I KNOW I'm cruel, and nasty, and evil, and just plain bad, but I'm afraid it's a case of needs-must. I can't get anywhere near close enough to use a cup and piece of paper etc, and even if I did, I would be shaking too much to do it!

As for a spider half the size of a tarantula, I felt sick just reading about it!

[lonelymom]

OOOOH !
I assume , lonelymom, that your Husband, like my Wife, is quite unable to access this Forum ! !

Correct! His boneidleness doesn't allow him to exert any unnecessary energy!

[Fjgrogan]

In this household it is a foregone conclusion that the husband can and does feign unconsciousness, along with selective deafness and blindness, and assorted other disabilities, so much so that I didn't consider the idea worth mentioning! Maybe if said arachnid returns I should let it loose in his bed? Spiders running across the floor I can more or less handle, but not when they are hovering above my head ready to pounce in semi-darkness. I feel similarly about daddy-longlegs, flying beetles, and large moths, but strangely not butterflies. No doubt 3-year-old Hanna would have loved it!

[lonelymom]

In this household it is a foregone conclusion that the husband can and does feign unconsciousness, along with selective deafness and blindness, and assorted other disabilities

Maybe your hubby and mine are related? Or maybe, sadly, all men are the same...

I feel similarly about daddy-longlegs, flying beetles, and large moths, but strangely not butterflies.

Want to join me in therapy? We need to 'talk about our fears', although I'm going to be talking about butterflies too. Have you ever noticed the way the fly round your head deliberately? Like they're tormenting you? Like they know you're frightened and they're laughing? Ok, I'm paranoid

[Fjgrogan]

Oh dear (or words to that effect!) - I just typed a long reply and it has disappeared into the ether! OK ladies, how do you feel about frogs? We are about to demolish an old shed which lost its roof about a year or so ago so the contents have been rotting. We shifted a load of the little bits into an old builder's bag - those fibre glass things that turf, topsoil etc are delivered in - until we get around to ordering a skip for the large stuff. I thought we would try our luck at tipping the stuff from the bag into our wheelie bin which is only supposed to take landfill waste (no doubt World War Three will break out tomorrow when it is due to be emptied!). In the process we dispossessed a large frog and about six smaller ones. I neither know nor care where they have gone to; if they are supposed to eat slugs they have been failing miserably. Perhaps one of them has eaten my spider, although I doubt it - more likely that there were originally more frogs and the spider has eaten the others! I dread to think what horrors will come to light when we actually get into the shed to empty it. Among other things it contains a rusty rowing machine, an old radiator, a ship's wheel, and a full set of old kitchen units which we were hoping to recycle into the utility room; also no doubt all manner of widllife! And none of this would have been necessary if a few nails had been applied to the roofing felt as soon as we realised that the foxes and magpies had been attacking it. No, obviously my husband does not have access to this forum!!

[lonelymom]

OMG! We are so alike! Frogs - hate them! Toads - hate them! Slugs, snails, spiders, moths, daddy-long-legs, butterflies, ants, ladybirds, gnats, wasps, bees, mice, birds - hate, hate, hate them all! I don't like anything smaller than a cat (including guinea pigs, rabbits, fish etc - sorry to those who think they're cute). Actually it's not just that I don't like them, I'm frightened of them (including rabbits - I know, totally irrational!) But if I saw a ma-a-a-a-ssive spider or something and I ask His Boneidleness to remove it, he wouldn't, so I have no choice but to Dyson it and watch it spinning

[icomefromalanddownunder]

You're much braver than me! If I do ever manage to actually trap a spider in a container the whole lot would go out of the window, container included!!! I find a hoover works quite well, although not very good for throwing out of the window!

I tried hoovering up one of the first huntman spiders I encountered. It hung onto the cornice and defied the suck of our pastitsbest vacuum.

Anyone tempted to deplete the population by stamping on one would need VERY wide feet if they were to avoid having the legs wrapped around the offending foot.

xx

[lonelymom]

Anyone tempted to deplete the population by stamping on one would need VERY wide feet if they were to avoid having the legs wrapped around the offending foot.

Too scary for me to think about!