Oooooooooooooooooooooooh yuck am hating spiders!!! Am sure there was a guy on here that had a huuumungus one or three. Obviously though that doesn't help. Sorry am no use at all in helping normally I just run away......................................................................

 

Spiders are your best friends - they get rid of flies, gnats, mozzies, midges, daddy long-legs and other disease-spreading and biting nasties

Never ever kill a spider - unless you are in Australia and you happen to be a black widow.

Err, did I get that wrong somewhere?!

Arachnaphobes - get treatment - you will come to love spiders eventually.

Let's make this hug-a-spider week!

 

Spiders

Spiders are your best friends - they get rid of flies, gnats, mozzies, midges, daddy long-legs and other disease-spreading and biting nasties

Never ever kill a spider - unless you are in Australia and you happen to be a black widow.

Err, did I get that wrong somewhere?!

Arachnaphobes - get treatment - you will come to love spiders eventually.

Let's make this hug-a-spider week!

Thanks,

As I said, I usualy pop them back into the garden for the reason you suggest, just don't like them in the bed!. However, when in France as an example, we never move these >These< for the same reason.

Just a few too many spiders in the wrong place at the moment.

Trev.

 

Hug a spider week? Not on your nelly would rather eat my own limbs!

I never kill em have a big spider catcher for me (Andrew) he my super hero in the spider dept. :lol: :lol:

If its any consolation having houge spiders in your house means you have no damp or rot to worry about they don't like that but as for running out from under your pillow - I'd be living outside in me van after that!

I have one of those spider sucky things which doesn't harm them its good in times of no super hero.

Have got a problem with mayflies they just hover in front of me about 10 cm away and give me the eye ball whats all that about? 8O 8O

Greenie

 

Have got a problem with mayflies they just hover in front of me about 10 cm away and give me the eye ball whats all that about? 8O 8O

Greenie

They probably thinkng nah will leave that one for the Scottish midges

 

Terrified of them since someone told me that they are actually WATCHING you when they sit on the wall/floor/ceiling as you move about!!! Would never kill any living creature other than wasps but if you are afraid then I reckon given the circumstances anything is possible. It's no good saying get a glass and piece of paper cos they are just TOO close if you are doing that. I have laden the van with moth balls (I can hear them rolling around as I drive) in the hope that this keeps flies away and hence the spiders won't bother coming in. It might be worth trying if you can put up with the smell of moth balls ..

(Offside: Trevor: I found a baby gecko in a tin of plummed tomatoes once. It was dead but perfect....)

 

Gecko

Terrified of them since someone told me that they are actually WATCHING you when they sit on the wall/floor/ceiling as you move about!!! Would never kill any living creature other than wasps but if you are afraid then I reckon given the circumstances anything is possible. It's no good saying get a glass and piece of paper cos they are just TOO close if you are doing that. I have laden the van with moth balls (I can hear them rolling around as I drive) in the hope that this keeps flies away and hence the spiders won't bother coming in. It might be worth trying if you can put up with the smell of moth balls ..

(Offside: Trevor: I found a baby gecko in a tin of plummed tomatoes once. It was dead but perfect....)

Gecko and tomatoes, perfect flavour or consistency?

Trev.

 

One of the best presents I ever got from Alison was a spider catcher. As a boy I used to have nightmares about the damned things - reckon my elder brothers must have tortured me or something!

This isn't it, but seems to be the one of choice nowadays:
http://www.spidercatcher.net/home.htm

Dave

 

Lions, tigers, rabid Alsatians (the canine sort), sharks, Brownhills salesmen I can understand -

but spiders?

Seriously, why put up with having a fear of such small, harmless everyday creatures.
Phobia treatment is well worth having, relatively painless and effective in 99% of cases.

Unless you have a phobia of phobia treatment, whatever that might be called - phobiaphobia?

 

You are so brave

 

Spiders

Lions, tigers, rabid Alsatians (the canine sort), sharks, Brownhills salesmen I can understand -

but spiders?

Seriously, why put up with having a fear of such small, harmless everyday creatures.
Phobia treatment is well worth having, relatively painless and effective in 99% of cases.

Unless you have a phobia of phobia treatment, whatever that might be called - phobiaphobia?

They do bite!

Trev.

 

And they are hairy and move damned fast, too!

 

I am so petrified of them I go breathless and panic and hooooo I can't tell youhow upset I get...

I've got one of those machines and although, I don't seem to have as many coming in, it does not stop them!!

I'm in a right old state at the moment as hubby away and I have builders in..could do with a toy boy here just to kill spiders....

Easy to say get treatment, living inAfrica did it for me.....I can cope with anything else but just not Spoogies......UGH!

Edit: they say horse chestnut scares them off, I use a spray with it in around the doors etc

 

And they are hairy and move damned fast, too!

Are you still talking about the Brownhills salesmen there?

 

Can't be...the only time Brownhills salesmen move fast is closing time and then they come second behind Oaktree staff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!been there seen it with my own eyes

 

hi,
i have heard that these are the uk's only venomous spiders but because they are so small they cannot bite you
simon

 

Hello,

We seemed to be plaugued with Spiders both around the home and in the MH. I don't usualy kill them just pop them back in the Garden. Over the last few months we seem to be infested with them. Pulled back the covers last night and one ran out from under the pillow. An hour later our Duaghter went to bed and found a huge house spider in her bed.

Anyone tried these?

Stop Pest - 4 in 1 Pest Repeller < Click Here

:spider:

Trev.

As a Buddhist I will not kill anything
But having lived in southern Spain for 6 years and taken several friends to hospital with spider bites I kill all the spiders I can see,the others I leave to the small lizards that live near our house and can be seen crawling over the walls at night. Last year I took a friend along with the spider that bit him to hospital.After showing the doctor the spider he rushed us straight into his surgery gave my friend a jab in the bum,several tubes of cream and then told me it was a Black widow.

 

Hi I have also heard that a horsechestnut in the corners of the room keeps them at bay but I haven' as yet tried it myself...
Lin

 

As a Buddhist I will not kill anything
But having lived in southern Spain for 6 years and taken several friends to hospital with spider bites I kill all the spiders I can see,t

:?:

 

Hi I have also heard that a horsechestnut in the corners of the room keeps them at bay but I haven' as yet tried it myself...
Lin

You are right, collect conkers and place them around the rooms, they do work, and very well!

We have a static mobile home which, after being closed up for two months or so in the winter, used to be plaqued with spiders of quite large proportions on our return, but after placing conkers around, we have no spiders. Replace them each year - they do not like the smell, but you won't smell them. They certainly worked for me!

Also to reduce flies, place citronella nightlight candles (unlit of course) on windowsills, and in the motorhome or caravan next to vents also, these will help to repel flies.

 

From

http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/Spiders/spidhome.htm

Most people think that spiders are dangerous creatures that should be wiped away with a cloth, sucked up in the vacuum cleaner or smashed with a newspaper. That is not wise because spiders play a very important role in our Eco-system. They catch many annoying and harmful insects and are therefore very useful creatures. As you will see on these pages, many of the spiders are beautifully colored, and therefore very pleasant and wonderful to look at. Since most spiders are very small, you need a magnifying glass or a camera to study them or to reveal their beauty.

I receive many questions about poisonous/venomous spiders. Most spiders use venom to kill their prey. Spider venom is almost always harmless to humans. However, there are a few exceptions. In Europe there is one spider, called "Black widow", whose effects of the bite may hurt. The stories about her deadly venom are exaggerated. She lives in the southern parts of Europe.
Recent, controlled, studies show that the necrotic or neurotoxic effects of spider bites are often mild and of no medical importance. Severe necroses is never caused by a spider bite.
Only the Australian funnel back spiders are to be avoided, but with only two registered bites a year, not to worry about.

Relax guys - killer spiders are the stuff of horror films!

 

I'm with pippin on the subject of spiders.

No reason to harm them. Silly to be afraid of them.

They are our friends.

SD

 

I'm with pippin on the subject of spiders.

No reason to harm them. Silly to be afraid of them.

They are our friends.

SD

They may be, but for those who do not like them within their environment, especially those who get histerical, surely it is better to discourage them, than to kill them!

 

Please don't think for a minute that I am making fun of those who have a genuine phobia of spiders.

I realise that for you it is a very real fear.

However, it is not insurmountable - conquering it will make your life so much easier.
Not to mention better for the spiders you chance upon.

Perhaps the first step on the road is to read up on the little critters.
The earlier post I made with info from the web (!!) would be a good start.

 

Spiders

Hello all,

Not Arachnaphoic just fed up of them crawling around the house, or more the bed.

Trev.