On 28/09/2010 18:40, Rusty Hinge wrote:
Aries on MacBook wrote:
Whilst watching TV earlier I heard a sort of crackling sound. I looked
to where the sound was coming from and saw a huge spider running down
a window blind just to the left of me. He then dropped onto the floor,
plonk! He's in hiding now under our black leather sofa and recliners -
not sitting there any more Just goes to show how large these
spiders are to make a noise like that!!

SHUDDER

I'm going out tomorrow to see what I can find for deterring spiders.
May have to send off for it tho as I'm not at all sure any of our
local shops will have such a thing.

How do these huge spiders get into the house anyway? No windows are
open and they always seem to drop from the ceiling!

They get in as ickle longleggety things and eat your pests. That makes
them grow, shed their exoskeleton, and cotinue their good work.

ATM I have a large spider patrolling my front-room ceiling.

Many years ago the GF demonstrated the Farm Spider - it used to cross
the hall at 10.10 pm every day. You could hear its stamping across the
Marley tiles, and it would have spanned a pint glass tankard.

Treat it as a pet - it won't harm you until it grows to about fifty tims
its current size, by which time, you'll need a biggerer sofa innit.

A few years ago I was sitting up in bed reading when a huge hairy black
spider dropped from the ceiling and straight down the front of my
nightie!!! God you should have seen me - jumping out of bed, screaming
the place down and ripping off my nightie not caring a fig about
exposing myself when I never ever let anyone see me without clothes.
That was the scariest moment of my life!

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"Aries on MacBook" wrote in message
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On 27/09/2010 23:42, Christina Websell wrote:
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Whilst watching TV earlier I heard a sort of crackling sound. I looked
to
where the sound was coming from and saw a huge spider running down a
window blind just to the left of me. He then dropped onto the floor,
plonk! He's in hiding now under our black leather sofa and recliners -
not sitting there any more Just goes to show how large these
spiders are to make a noise like that!!

SHUDDER

I'm going out tomorrow to see what I can find for deterring spiders. May
have to send off for it tho as I'm not at all sure any of our local
shops
will have such a thing.

How do these huge spiders get into the house anyway? No windows are
open
and they always seem to drop from the ceiling!

I had a similar experience. I was reading in bed, it was very silent and
I
heard a scratching sort of noise. I thought it might be a mouse, so I was
up
and looking for it immediately.
No, it was the biggest spider I ever saw in my life, climbing up the
wallpaper and making that noise.
I am a bit spider phobic, so rather than tackle it, I hid under the
bedclothes.
I'm better with them than I used to be but that one was a step too far.

Tina

Ooooh errrr! Now mice don't worry me at all.

Mice don't worry me either, but I don't want one fossicking around in my
bedroom. Spiders, big ones, I do have a problem with those. I've told
myself they cannot hurt me, I know that but it doesn't work. They horrify
me for some reason.
Tina

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"Aries on MacBook" wrote in message
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Whilst watching TV earlier I heard a sort of crackling sound. I looked to
where the sound was coming from and saw a huge spider running down a
window blind just to the left of me. He then dropped onto the floor,
plonk! He's in hiding now under our black leather sofa and recliners -
not sitting there any more Just goes to show how large these
spiders are to make a noise like that!!

SHUDDER

I'm going out tomorrow to see what I can find for deterring spiders. May
have to send off for it tho as I'm not at all sure any of our local shops
will have such a thing.

How do these huge spiders get into the house anyway? No windows are open
and they always seem to drop from the ceiling!

My duaghter used have a fobia about spiders, then she moved into the country
and there were so many she didn't worry about them any more!

Alan


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"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

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

On 28/09/2010 23:15, Christina Websell wrote:
Mice don't worry me either, but I don't want one fossicking around in my
bedroom. Spiders, big ones, I do have a problem with those. I've told
myself they cannot hurt me, I know that but it doesn't work. They horrify
me for some reason.
Tina

they can bite tho - not poisonous but can cause an itchy spot or
allergic reaction. My father was bitten by one once so I do know that.

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On 28/09/2010 22:59, Sacha wrote:
My spider shriek is tuned to concert pitch.

LOL, not really funny tho and I sympathise, even empathise!

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On 28/09/2010 23:35, Christina Websell wrote:
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.

Ditto

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Aries on MacBook wrote:
On 28/09/2010 23:15, Christina Websell wrote:
Mice don't worry me either, but I don't want one fossicking around in my
bedroom. Spiders, big ones, I do have a problem with those. I've told
myself they cannot hurt me, I know that but it doesn't work. They horrify
me for some reason.
Tina

they can bite tho - not poisonous but can cause an itchy spot or
allergic reaction. My father was bitten by one once so I do know that.

They are poisonous, but aren't dangerous to any animal above the
size of a large fly - we are, er, quite a bit larger. The itchy
spot is probably the response to the poison, which shows how minor
it is.

The main allergic reaction is to the hair of tarantulas and relatives,
but I don't know if any UK spiders shed hairs. Anyway, they cause
very, very few reactions so aren't a significant problem.

None of this applies in South America or Australia.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

On 29/09/2010 09:26, Sacha wrote:
On 2010-09-29 08:59:13 +0100, Aries on MacBook
said:

On 28/09/2010 23:15, Christina Websell wrote:
Mice don't worry me either, but I don't want one fossicking around in my
bedroom. Spiders, big ones, I do have a problem with those. I've told
myself they cannot hurt me, I know that but it doesn't work. They
horrify
me for some reason.
Tina

they can bite tho - not poisonous but can cause an itchy spot or
allergic reaction. My father was bitten by one once so I do know that.

Ray's lip swelled alarmingly when he was bitten by a spider a year or so
back. He didn't see it or feel it but when the nurse examined it she
could see the two mandible marks. shudder! He'd been working at a
potting bench and of course nice warm, slightly humid glasshouses are
spider heaven.


Eeeeeeekkkkk!

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On 29/09/2010 09:37, Sacha wrote:
On 2010-09-29 09:35:31 +0100, Aries on MacBook
said:

they can bite tho - not poisonous but can cause an itchy spot or
allergic reaction. My father was bitten by one once so I do know that.

Ray's lip swelled alarmingly when he was bitten by a spider a year or so
back. He didn't see it or feel it but when the nurse examined it she
could see the two mandible marks. shudder! He'd been working at a
potting bench and of course nice warm, slightly humid glasshouses are
spider heaven.


Eeeeeeekkkkk!

It was bit! He said it went totally number and felt rather as you do
after an injection at the dentist. I insisted he went down to our local
hospital simply because it was close enough to his windpipe for me to be
concerned it didn't spread.

Better to be safe than sorry.
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On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 22:59:13 +0100, Sacha wrote:


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

They fall in and can't get out!

Pam in Bristol

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In article ,
Aries on MacBook wrote:
On 28/09/2010 23:15, Christina Websell wrote:
Mice don't worry me either, but I don't want one fossicking around in my
bedroom. Spiders, big ones, I do have a problem with those. I've told
myself they cannot hurt me, I know that but it doesn't work. They horrify
me for some reason.
Tina

they can bite tho - not poisonous but can cause an itchy spot or
allergic reaction. My father was bitten by one once so I do know that.

They are poisonous, but aren't dangerous to any animal above the
size of a large fly - we are, er, quite a bit larger. The itchy
spot is probably the response to the poison, which shows how minor
it is.

The main allergic reaction is to the hair of tarantulas and relatives,
but I don't know if any UK spiders shed hairs. Anyway, they cause
very, very few reactions so aren't a significant problem.

None of this applies in South America or Australia.

Not just South America and Australia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrode...edecimguttatus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrodectus_mactans

Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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Stewart Robert Hinsley

In article ,
Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:

They are poisonous, but aren't dangerous to any animal above the
size of a large fly - we are, er, quite a bit larger. The itchy
spot is probably the response to the poison, which shows how minor
it is.

The main allergic reaction is to the hair of tarantulas and relatives,
but I don't know if any UK spiders shed hairs. Anyway, they cause
very, very few reactions so aren't a significant problem.

None of this applies in South America or Australia.

Not just South America and Australia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrode...edecimguttatus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrodectus_mactans

Those aren't a significant problem, either, despite the Merkins'
hysteria:

http://utextension.tennessee.edu/pub...nts/PB1193.pdf

Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

In message , Aries on
MacBook writes
On 29/09/2010 09:26, Sacha wrote:

Ray's lip swelled alarmingly when he was bitten by a spider a year or so
back. He didn't see it or feel it but when the nurse examined it she
could see the two mandible marks. shudder! He'd been working at a
potting bench and of course nice warm, slightly humid glasshouses are
spider heaven.

Eeeeeeekkkkk!

I used to have a non-specific allergy which caused my lower lip to swell
until the skin was painfully tight, and I daren't venture out in public!

I had all the tests dental, allergy clinic etc, but the clue was when
our daughter's border collie leapt up and licked my mouth one day before
I could stop her, yukk!

Washed my mouth immediately, but that night my lip and tongue swelled
up, the worst episode I ever had, and I was worried about choking.
Piriton tablets brought the swelling down during a very scary night...

The allergy specialist said that it would develop into hay fever
eventually, which it did, but no more swollen lips.
I cringe when I see people "kissing" their dogs....
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