On 29/09/2010 08:43, Sacha wrote:
On 2010-09-29 00:27:01 +0100, "Christina Websell"
said:


"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 2010-09-28 23:35:25 +0100, "Christina Websell"
said:


"Sacha" wrote in message

Oh yeah. ;-)) So how do they get into the bath?

They fall in.


One of ours is slap
up against the wall under a closed window - closed since I found
Arachnizilla in there one night recently. AIUI, some spiders can
create
a
sort of air bubble around themselves that copes with the diving bell
problem. All I know is that we've had at least half a dozen
spiders-on-steroids in this house very recently and that is quite
beside
the sort of pin-bodied thready ones that are around almost all the
time.
My spider shriek is tuned to concert pitch.


It's spider breeding season right now and all the boy house spiders you
have
in your house are out and about looking for the girlies.
If you are interested, you will know a boy from a girl by the those two
things they protrude from the front. Boys have lumps on them and girlie
ones are straight.
Knowing that does not help me with my arachnaphobia, however.
It's something I try to control, I can do small ones now, but the big
ones,
no. It's ridiculous. Moths, beetles, snakes, anything else, but not big
spiders.

Tina

I agree with you and I can absolutely assure you that I'm not going to
check their gender!
--

I thought if I studied them a bit, it might help. It doesn't.
Tina

It does help some people, though. Spider, who posts here at times had
aversion therapy (IIRC) and now really likes spiders and studies them,
knowing the Latin names etc. Hence her nom de net!


You do remember correctly, Sacha :~)). Increasingly holding and then
studying spiders certainly helped me, but it wasn't easy. However,
being free of arachnophobia has changed my life for the better.

If you can't actually hold a spider, try staying close to it until your
level of anxiety drops. It will eventually help you cope with difficult
encounters, as will Tina's ploy of dealing with smaller spiders. After
all, with your petticoats around your ears, you can't run very fast! :~))

--
Spider
from high ground in SE London
gardening on clay