Oh God... Just had to kill the biggest spider!

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As daft as I feel for it being quite a big bloke, I am petrified of spiders:'( I was sitting here in the office when out the corner of my eye there it was, a monster of a spider walking past me. I did manage to kill it with a size 11 but now cant stop shaking!
Wimp or what:shrug::bang:
 
why kill it in the first place...........:thumbsdown:
 
lots in my farm cottage

push into a cup - out the window - sorted
 
But they will eat your soul while you sleep, even from outside..
 
Yardbent said:
lots in my farm cottage

push into a cup - out the window - sorted
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And they're incredibly territorial and come back in.
 
ukglyn said:
As daft as I feel for it being quite a big bloke, I am petrified of spiders:'( I was sitting here in the office when out the corner of my eye there it was, a monster of a spider walking past me. I did manage to kill it with a size 11 but now cant stop shaking!
Wimp or what:shrug::bang:
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Not a wimp Glyn. I am exactly the same when it comes to spiders or cockroaches. They they are a real problem for me. Get em killed:thumbs:

At the minute I am catherterised but at home following an operation. I haven't been able to hardly move for the past 10 days due to the pain. Yesterday I was watching the football and saw a big spider wander past. Well I was off like a rocket. Nearly pulled the catherter out in the scramble and was in agony as a result! Still am :(

My partner sorted it out as she usually does. She lived in Hondures / Nicaragua for 3 years and dealt with large dangerous spiders, rats & roaches that were big enough to skateboard on (and a civil war where she treated casualties hacked to bits), so thinks I am a bit soft. I don't care. They freak me out to the point where if I lose sight of one I struggle for hours. I have to know they are gone. She says that where they were living they used to throw pizza boxes over tarantulas that came in to their room and then have to jump on them. When they didn't get it right they had seriously ****ed off spiders with attitude running around like lunatics:shake:

Chris :)
 
Just Dave said:
True but should have caught it in something and let it go
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As I said, easy to say! I have spent years trying to conquer the fear and can now just about manage to do that, IF I remain far enough away from it - I certainly couldn't do the piece of paper/glass thing... I can now even bear having one in the same room at a good distance, but you wouldn't believe the agonies I have been through to do that and I still get Mr Yv to check any shoes I haven't worn for a while, especially gardening shoes that live in the conservatory or shed :exit:
 
I nearly crashed my car on the M6 a few weeks back as a BIG house spider crawled out from the door onto the window right where my arm had been. Luckily I was in lane one so pulled straight onto hard shoulder.

If it had escaped back into the door the car would be sold now.
 
It really winds my wife up when I pick them up and let them run over my arms/hands. Amazing creatures.
 
I don't kill them because I'd hate to clean up the mess but my partner must drop whatever he is doing to get rid of them!! Yesterday the largest one I've ever seen ran like Usain Bolt across the living room and under the sofa! Needless to say I made my poor husband lift up the sofa whilst I bravely trapped it for him!!

He then puts them across the street in the hope that they don't come straight back in!!
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Blue Moon 7 said:
When they didn't get it right they had seriously ****ed off spiders with attitude running around like lunatics:shake:
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:lol:

I've got this vision of a spider chasing and biting you on the arse now :D
 
I've had to deal with several large ones lately. Jumping up and down on a large one with mere size 6s is a lot more dangerous!
 
Its strange, 90% of all the calls I get for arachnid control are from men.
It usually starts something like this,
.............Erm "my wife" is scared of spiders and we she would like them removed / destroyed.

Come on guys man up, they are hardly poisonous and their fangs barely long enough to penetrate human skin.
They are great for controlling unwanted insects crawling around the place.
:)
 
Nope sorry Chris, I'm bloody petrified of 'em :(

I spoke to a hypnotist many years ago (I wasn't actually hypnotised, it was just a chat with a friend of a friend) and he told me that most people's fear of spiders or other creepy crawlies stems from a childhood experience. Basically your memories never mature with you as you grow up, so the fear you feel when you see a spider is the same fear you first felt as a child. He said that in hypnotism, he would regress the patient to a childhood memory involving a scary spider and let you face the memory again as an adult. The "memory" would then remain as adult memory and leave you with no remaining fear of spiders. Clever eh?
 
I used to catch spiders in my hands and put them outside.... until one of them decided it would be a good idea to bite me.

My hand swelled up like a balloon

Now I cant stand having spiders anywhere near me
 
The odd thing about my fear of spiders is that I'm rarely all that fearful of them when I'm the invader to their environment - ie, when they're outside.

When I lived in the US, I occasionally had to go under the pool decking to sort out the filter hosing, and there was always a handful of brown recluses down there, even they didn't really freak me out too much (even after having been bitten by one, but the parasitic wasps we had were far more painful in their bites).

Find me a harmless house spider inside though, and I'll scream and scream and scream. Raise to the 100th power if it's a less harmless one (like one of the bigger wolf spiders we get - which seem to have ballooned in population here in the UK over the last 10-15 years).
 
NikkiA said:
The odd thing about my fear of spiders is that I'm rarely all that fearful of them when I'm the invader to their environment - ie, when they're outside.
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See im just the same:shrug:

I love camping & spend as much time as I can in the summer under canvas, I dont get freaked out by them in this environment, couldn't handle 1 but can cope with seeing them, one in the house & im carping myself:shrug:
 
Oh I love this thread.

Yes I am a typical female & I really hate them (altough did hold a tarantula a few years ago - that was cool - it was more like a small dog).

There is a chap in my office, the biggest whip as far as spiders are concerned. In 3 weeks time - he's walking up Kilimanjaro !!
 
I went to a snake and reptile show about 20 years ago, and there was a guy that had terrantula's(spelling) I asked if I could hold one, Now this is going to sound really stupid and strange, but it did not bother me one little bit having this thing the size of my hand sitting there looking at me as if to say "yes and".

Now that was fine, it was great infact but it still did not get rid of my fear, If i see a spider now I have to kill it, the wife goes mad and useually take sit outside for me.

spike
 
Grendel said:
Nope sorry Chris, I'm bloody petrified of 'em :(

I spoke to a hypnotist many years ago (I wasn't actually hypnotised, it was just a chat with a friend of a friend) and he told me that most people's fear of spiders or other creepy crawlies stems from a childhood experience. Basically your memories never mature with you as you grow up, so the fear you feel when you see a spider is the same fear you first felt as a child. He said that in hypnotism, he would regress the patient to a childhood memory involving a scary spider and let you face the memory again as an adult. The "memory" would then remain as adult memory and leave you with no remaining fear of spiders. Clever eh?
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I ran into a big web with the biggest spider in the world right in the middle when I was about 6. Thats where I say my fear comes from.
 
I'm the same. I had a really scary encounter with a large baboon spider in South Africa when I was 8 years old and it's because of that single experience that I now suffer from arachnophobia. For about six years after that experience, I slept with a blanket over my head because I was convinced that spiders were going to fall on me in the night. I managed to lose the blanket habit but still have a terrible phobia of them - even a small one is enough to make my throat close up and increase my heart rate.
 
Im glad its not just me who is scared of them lol, better than i use to be but still scared.

Strangely enough i didnt use to think about them much but since being on this forum i think about them more, must stop looking at the macro boards.
 
The23rdman said:
And they're incredibly territorial and come back in.
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Lol, yep. I did this once with a big'un that i caught in the bath. Dropped it out at the far end of the hall and dashed back inside. As i did the spider ran as fast as it could to try and get inside before i closed the door!
 
onona said:
I'm the same. I had a really scary encounter with a large baboon spider in South Africa when I was 8 years old and it's because of that single experience that I now suffer from arachnophobia. For about six years after that experience, I slept with a blanket over my head because I was convinced that spiders were going to fall on me in the night. I managed to lose the blanket habit but still have a terrible phobia of them - even a small one is enough to make my throat close up and increase my heart rate.
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I like spiders, but I know what you mean. Baboon spiders are big - about the biggest spider in Southern Africa - and look pretty formidable. I kept reading that their venom is inconsequential to humans, but I've been bitten and it hurts like heck, even if it's not dangerous. The nasty ones are quite small though, the widow/button species, sac spider and violin spider plus a few others!
 
I'm terrified of them too. I know they're not going to hurt me but that doesn't stop me being scared. I panic when I see one. And people who mock and say they're only spiders, do you not have fears?
 
have a thought for the male spider ...................:shake:

WIKI..

''The Redback spider is one of few arachnids which display sexual cannibalism while mating.

Redbacks are considered one of the most dangerous spiders in Australia.[1] The Redback spider has a neurotoxic venom which is toxic to humans with bites causing severe pain.''

often found in outdoor 'dunnies'' so you get bitten on the bum....:D
 
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kelack said:
And people who mock and say they're only spiders, do you not have fears?
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Yes, I have fears but not of little (or even big) creepy crawlies.
IIRC, phobias are irrational fears. I don't like heights ( and, let's frace it, long drops (or the sudden stop at the end) can and do kill. put a decent sturdy fence at the top and I'm happy but keep me well away from cliff edges, please.
Venomous creatures aren't favourites of mine but IIRC, few indiginous spiders here in the UL are venomous enough to cause us a problem, even if their teeth are long enough to break the skin.
 
I'm the first to admit that it's a completely irrational fear. I have nightmares about being caught up in spider webs etc and I suppose this translates to my phobia. I blame my mates for making me watch Arachnophobia when I was younger!
 
I have terrible arachnophobia! I cant even kill them most of the time. The other night one ran towards my feet in the living room and i threw my shoe at it then hyperventilated for 10 minutes, didnt get rid of the "body" for a good 3 hrs, took me that long to calm down.
I studied animal care at college, which involved exotic species too, the exotics lecturer bought in some tarantulas and scorpions, i was fine with the scorpions but as soon as he brought in the box with the T's in i was gone, at the other end of the 40ft room, shaking and squirming, I refused to even go near the shed skins he'd bought with him!
 
Ha ha, I'm the same, I will run out of the room and shout abuse at it hoping it will leave :lol:
 
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