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Chris_2k11
31-08-2009, 18:55
Coming across loads lately! Was just about to go for a shower until I saw this in it! http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/2231/spiderf.jpg

I suppose it doesnt help that most of our windows are open a lot of the time! do you get many where you live and what do you do if you come across one? :D I hate all type of insects and wont touch them.
Meh
31-08-2009, 19:02
Don't really have a fear of spiders anymore - not the UK kind anyway.

Was in South Africa and one was brreding in the tree outside the house. It was MASSIVE
Chris_2k11
31-08-2009, 19:04
I can quite imagine!
Bad Wolf
31-08-2009, 19:04
hate them hate them hate them!!!!!!
Chris_2k11
31-08-2009, 19:08
Is that thing true about eating 8 spiders in your life whilst you sleep?
GossipGirl
31-08-2009, 19:19
I hate them too. I hate moths, butterflies, mice and rats.
Spiders seem to be all the place these days - I used to sleep with the window open but not anymore as one morning I woke up and had a lovely spiders web above my bed :(
Meh
31-08-2009, 19:19
Is that thing true about eating 8 spiders in your life whilst you sleep?

Urban myth
Chris_2k11
31-08-2009, 19:25
Well its still there and I want a shower so I have some paper and a glass at the ready! wish me luck :cool:
DaVeyWaVey
31-08-2009, 19:30
Good luck Chris lol

I get spiders and moths coming into my room which is really annoying. I leave my bedroom windows open all day though and close them at night so that's why.

I can't sleep until I've killed them all, or I get paranoid that they'll start crawling on me in my sleep and I'll end up eating one or something.
GossipGirl
31-08-2009, 19:34
Good luck Chris I wouldn't have the heart to try and kill or trap a spider I would call for help from my parents instead!
Debs
31-08-2009, 21:01
hate spiders!!!
i was folding washing last week and one was on connors bedsheets! i squashed it!!
GossipGirl
31-08-2009, 21:05
There everywhere :(
Chris_2k11
31-08-2009, 21:27
Good luck Chris I wouldn't have the heart to try and kill or trap a spider I would call for help from my parents instead!I caught it then just let it out the door, it can go and bother someone else now LOL

It makes you wonder though doesn't it, like how many are around you that you dont know about!
GossipGirl
31-08-2009, 21:32
Don't say that I won't sleep tonight!
Abigail
31-08-2009, 21:33
Well its still there and I want a shower so I have some paper and a glass at the ready! wish me luck :cool:

Oh no, no, no. What you need to do it turn the shower up to the hottest setting and spray it on the spider :cool: That's what I do if there are any in the bath.

Slugs get the salt treatment :D I love watching them dehydrate as their juices ooze out and they shrivel up.

I don't like creepy crawlies. Far too many legs.
Abbie
31-08-2009, 21:35
omg!!! Thats massive! :(


I HATE them we get loads in our bathroom, some of the things Ive done though when I spider is in the same room as me....its not good!
Debs
31-08-2009, 22:26
Slugs get the salt treatment :D I love watching them dehydrate as their juices ooze out and they shrivel up.

I don't like creepy crawlies. Far too many legs.

:rotfl: You sound evil!!!!

same here, any creepy crawlies DIE!! I dont want to put thme out they'll only come back in and get me later!! Squish them and thats that!
Chloe O'brien
31-08-2009, 22:34
We had one that size last week in the kitchen sink. Marley was in the fridge getting a drink when she saw it will getting a cup, she brought it through to show me in a glass before she let it out the window. We used to have a dog that Marley used to feed spiders and daddy-longlegs to. She used to catch them and say here Ug (pet name for dog) yummy yum's :sick:
Siobhan
01-09-2009, 10:56
Chris.. you were lucky it was in the shower.. I found one that size crawling up my top along my arm and it ran into my hair.. My kids screamed the place down.. scared the living daylights out of me
Chris_2k11
01-09-2009, 16:14
Chris.. you were lucky it was in the shower.. I found one that size crawling up my top along my arm and it ran into my hair.. My kids screamed the place down.. scared the living daylights out of me
omg :eek: :eek:
Siobhan
01-09-2009, 16:28
Chris.. you were lucky it was in the shower.. I found one that size crawling up my top along my arm and it ran into my hair.. My kids screamed the place down.. scared the living daylights out of me
omg :eek: :eek:

I know... and it ran off somewhere so I have no clue to when it will pop up again.. Hopefully not on me... There is 2 of those in my house somewhere and I can't catch them.. but for some reason they seem to like my clothes..(have found one or two others over the past year on my coat)..
Chris_2k11
01-09-2009, 16:38
its horrible when you dont know where they are!!
Perdita
25-09-2009, 06:44
Conservationists say there could be more spiders and daddy longlegs than usual this autumn because of favourable breeding conditions.

Researchers at insect charity, Buglife, said last year's wet autumn meant the larvae of daddy longlegs had plenty of decaying plant matter to eat.

Experts also said this year's temperate summer had been good for spiders.

The charity says it will provide a good boost for declining insect populations and benefit other wildlife.

Matt Shardlow, chief executive of Buglife, said there had been a decline in the numbers of some species but 2009 could see the rate slowing down.

British biodiversity

Last year's damp autumn was good for daddy longlegs larvae or crane flies, which live just below the ground's surface.

Although the population is in general decline, Mr Shardlow said a "good number of eggs" had been laid and they should provide a boost to the number of daddy longlegs scuttling about in Britain's homes and gardens this autumn.

Daddy longlegs are also known as crane flies

He said crane fly larvae helped keep the soil clean and the adults were food for birds and animals.

Mr Shardlow said: "They are very important for biodiversity, without which we would not last very long.

"The last few years have been very bad for British biodiversity, with low numbers of moths, spiders and crane flies."

He said the lack of dramatic weather this summer would help spiders, which kept other bugs at bay.

"Spiders are predators and if it weren't for spiders, we would be overrun with flies and other pests which make life unbearable."

'Plentiful supply'

John Partridge, secretary of British Arachnological Society, said Buglife's predictions were good news for spider populations and bug enthusiasts, but not for those who had a fear of the creepy crawlies.

"It is this time of year that people become more aware of them - it is the silly season for spiders. The garden spiders are getting fatter for laying eggs and bundles of tiny spiders start hatching," he said.

"Those who don't like them, just leave them alone and they will leave you alone. But if you can, get up close and have a look at how beautifully coloured they are."

He said there are some 600 species of spider in Britain and it was important to remember the service they provided.

Ian Dawson, of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), said they were an important foodstuff.

"It's debatable whether some of our resident insect-eating birds, like the wren, would be able to survive the winter without a plentiful supply of spiders in leaf litter and under shrubbery," he said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8273960.stm


Be afraid, be very afraid. I have got one waiting for me in the kitchen sink which I could not be bothered to chuck out this morning :sick: Hate them but manage to stick a glass over them and throw them over the balcony, as long as they are not too big and hairy. Last weekend, there was a baby tarantula in the bath and I am afraid, it had to go for swimming lessons, I was not able to dispose of it in any other way. :eek:
sindydoll
25-09-2009, 10:26
killing them with hot water is the only way
and if you let them outside they come back in
Perdita
25-09-2009, 10:32
I throw them over the balcony and hope that they get too tired to climb up again or that a bird spots them on the way :D
Siobhan
25-09-2009, 10:33
I throw them over the balcony and hope that they get too tired to climb up again or that a bird spots them on the way :D

hey, that is my method for getting rid of the kids :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
sindydoll
25-09-2009, 11:10
the worst month is october they come in when the weather gets cold so they can keep warm
parkerman
25-09-2009, 11:49
Spiders are really the good guys of the creepy crawlie world as they eat flies, mosquitoes and other unwanted guests that are harmful to humans. Their problem is they look so scary, but really, if you can, you should not kill them. They're on our side.
Perdita
25-09-2009, 11:50
Spiders are really the good guys of the creepy crawlie world as they eat flies, mosquitoes and other unwanted guests that are harmful to humans. Their problem is they look so scary, but really, if you can, you should not kill them. They're on our side.

I know that, but I wish they would eath the flies, mosquitoes etc. outside and not in my living room, bathroom or bedroom :)
.:SpIcYsPy:.
25-09-2009, 17:17
I have most definitely seen an increase in spiders this year.. *shudders* :(
Bad Wolf
25-09-2009, 17:28
and we are still talking about this, grrrrrrrr
sindydoll
26-09-2009, 13:23
my daughter had a huge one last night in her bed room...it was having a bod around the floor until it came to its death
sindydoll
26-09-2009, 13:25
Spiders are really the good guys of the creepy crawlie world as they eat flies, mosquitoes and other unwanted guests that are harmful to humans. Their problem is they look so scary, but really, if you can, you should not kill them. They're on our side.
sorry i cant agree with you because im my opinion spiders are a danger to the human heart
parkerman
26-09-2009, 14:12
Spiders are really the good guys of the creepy crawlie world as they eat flies, mosquitoes and other unwanted guests that are harmful to humans. Their problem is they look so scary, but really, if you can, you should not kill them. They're on our side.
sorry i cant agree with you because im my opinion spiders are a danger to the human heart
If there were no spiders we'd all soon know it. Disease caused by flies, mosquitoes etc. would be rife. They are only a danger to your heart if you let them. You have no choice with the other insects.
sindydoll
26-09-2009, 22:56
Spiders are really the good guys of the creepy crawlie world as they eat flies, mosquitoes and other unwanted guests that are harmful to humans. Their problem is they look so scary, but really, if you can, you should not kill them. They're on our side.
sorry i cant agree with you because im my opinion spiders are a danger to the human heart
If there were no spiders we'd all soon know it. Disease caused by flies, mosquitoes etc. would be rife. They are only a danger to your heart if you let them. You have no choice with the other insects.
:lol: i know all that but im still petrified of them