HUGE house spiders!!! Please help??

[wizzo]

Nadmat, try reading as much as you can about spiders. Get familier with pictures. If you can bear it, try and catch one in a jar or get someone to do it for you. Gradually go closer to the jar and see if eventually you can pick the jar up. It's a slow process and it wont be easy, but it will work if you persist. At the very least, your fear will diminish to the extent that you'll be able to at least tolerate these marvellous creatures. Most, if not all fears and phobias are based on illogical, deep rooted perceptions, even ignorance. Learn to love 'em and you'll no longer fear them! Hope this helps

[daveyiv]

The problem;

Spiders in house, arachophobia

The Solutions;

1;

Conkers are a nice natural solution, but they dont really work.

I cant imagine, if i was a spider, to be scared of seeing a conker, try this if you think it'll work.

2;

The hoover, since most of you arent averse to killing spiders (using cats / dogs and the like), use a hoover.

3;

there is the argument that a spider is more scared of you, than you are of it, but a phobia is an irrational fear (the spider will have a rational fear).

So you can kill it. Its not merciless, as a traveller spider in your house, or a traveller (as i like to call each travelling species that comes into the house mid july to early autumn) is not there to catch flies. They are just there to mate, and or get eaten by cellar spiders.

Ways to kill them:

Sweep onto floor with a mop/broom any long ranged arm extention and they will cower in fear.

Attack with flat object and make it quick, dont be any meaner about it than you have to be.

I can put this in a human perspective;

If a drunk man & wife walked into your unlocked house and started to copulate would you evict them from the premises? I think so.

The intrusive spider is doing the same thing.

Solution 4-5. The perfect anti-spider solution.

If you really have an agenda against spiders, pick up the pieces of spider, and leave them by openings to your room. I'd be more scared of the remains of several spiders (if i were a spider) than a xexexexexexexe chestnut.

Solution 6.

You REALLY dont wanna be squishing spiders, taking them outside so they just re-enter the household and dont want to mess up your household, dont want to buy a cat.

Then walk up to a spider that makes you scared, and squish it with your bare hands, i really dont have the nerve to do this but it should work once your subconcious understands as well as your concious that your fear is completely rediculous anyway and you have no reason to be scared of spiders.

(DONT) squish the ones you find in bananas, get professional help.

[ladyhawk]

I have the perfect remedy little Staffie she is called roxi and loves diving of the sofa to pounce on the biggest spiders that run across the floor and she eats them too ugh

[Pigeon feather]

My cats just eaten a huge house spider that ran across the floor! he has left a pile of legs though think he got bitten a few times by it too as he jumped back and dropped it whilst doing so but in the end it disappeared.

[daveyiv]

Originally Posted by Pigeon feather

My cats just eaten a huge house spider that ran across the floor! he has left a pile of legs though think he got bitten a few times by it too as he jumped back and dropped it whilst doing so but in the end it disappeared.

They probably have a nice tasting torso. Otherwise kitty wouldent bother.

[tomomoto17370]

Spiders like warm, moist environments at this time of the year ( they collect moisture on their hairs to drink ), so using a dehumidifier may deter spiders, i have used citronella with mixed results. Alternatively, you could just buy a gadget from the shopping channel which harmlessly traps the spider in soft nylon bristles making it easier to evict and for those of us who are arachnophobic it helps to maintain your critical distance from those pesky critters.

[John_M]

Originally Posted by daveyiv

The problem;

Spiders in house, arachophobia

The Solutions;

1;

Conkers are a nice natural solution, but they dont really work.

I cant imagine, if i was a spider, to be scared of seeing a conker, try this if you think it'll work.

2;

The hoover, since most of you arent averse to killing spiders (using cats / dogs and the like), use a hoover.

3;

there is the argument that a spider is more scared of you, than you are of it, but a phobia is an irrational fear (the spider will have a rational fear).

So you can kill it. Its not merciless, as a traveller spider in your house, or a traveller (as i like to call each travelling species that comes into the house mid july to early autumn) is not there to catch flies. They are just there to mate, and or get eaten by cellar spiders.

Ways to kill them:

Sweep onto floor with a mop/broom any long ranged arm extention and they will cower in fear.

Attack with flat object and make it quick, dont be any meaner about it than you have to be.

I can put this in a human perspective;

If a drunk man & wife walked into your unlocked house and started to copulate would you evict them from the premises? I think so.

The intrusive spider is doing the same thing.

Solution 4-5. The perfect anti-spider solution.

If you really have an agenda against spiders, pick up the pieces of spider, and leave them by openings to your room. I'd be more scared of the remains of several spiders (if i were a spider) than a xexexexexexexe chestnut.

Solution 6.

You REALLY dont wanna be squishing spiders, taking them outside so they just re-enter the household and dont want to mess up your household, dont want to buy a cat.

Then walk up to a spider that makes you scared, and squish it with your bare hands, i really dont have the nerve to do this but it should work once your subconcious understands as well as your concious that your fear is completely rediculous anyway and you have no reason to be scared of spiders.

(DONT) squish the ones you find in bananas, get professional help.

I don't think spiders are supposed to be afraid of chestnuts, it's much more likely to be a chemical aversion, and there is at least anecdotal evidence to support this.

The spiders don't move into your house to mate; they're already there, it's just that you are much more likely to see them during the mating season because - the males anyway - move about more.
I'm not sure I agree that they will just move back indoors if they are taken outside; they will pretty much stay in any suitable environment. If you have one of the species that is only found indoors in your particular area of the country, then it is unlikely to survive outdoors.
Spiders are fairly sedentary animals, and tend to stay pretty much where they are, except for ballooning when they are juvenile. I don't know how far hunting spiders will travel, but I wouldn't have thought it was any great distance.

Why do you need professional help with the spiders you find in bananas?

[SpikyPhasmid]

Originally Posted by John_M

Why do you need professional help with the spiders you find in bananas?

Because they're hallucinations!

[John_M]

Originally Posted by spikyphasmid

because they're hallucinations!

Excellent answer!

[daveyiv]

The spiders don't move into your house to mate; they're already there, it's just that you are much more likely to see them during the mating season because - the males anyway - move about more.
I'm not sure I agree that they will just move back indoors if they are taken outside; they will pretty much stay in any suitable environment. If you have one of the species that is only found indoors in your particular area of the country, then it is unlikely to survive outdoors.
Spiders are fairly sedentary animals, and tend to stay pretty much where they are, except for ballooning when they are juvenile. I don't know how far hunting spiders will travel, but I wouldn't have thought it was any great distance.

Why do you need professional help with the spiders you find in bananas?

Brazilian wandering spider - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


"The spiders don't move into your house to mate; they're already there, it's just that you are much more likely to see them during the mating season because - the males anyway - move about more."

Hard evidence please mate.


"I'm not sure I agree that they will just move back indoors if they are taken outside; they will pretty much stay in any suitable environment. If you have one of the species that is only found indoors in your particular area of the country, then it is unlikely to survive outdoors."

And to finish that off, will just go back where it came from if thrown out the window or not exported at least down into the garden or outside the house.

"Spiders are fairly sedentary animals, and tend to stay pretty much where they are, except for ballooning when they are juvenile. I don't know how far hunting spiders will travel, but I wouldn't have thought it was any great distance."

I was under the impression they would travel as far as they needed to for a meal, if they were not of a breed that spun a web, such as the brazillian wandering spider, they move around often.