"Healthy respect. Identify, find gloves if the biting kind, deal with it."
I will absolutely never intentionally kill one.
We are reasonably lucky in the UK only really the false widow.
But some can give a nasty nip.
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"Healthy respect. Identify, find gloves if the biting kind, deal with it.
I will absolutely never intentionally kill one.
We are reasonably lucky in the UK only really the false widow.
But some can give a nasty nip.
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I've dealt with both poisonous kinds in Australia. Bite proof gloves do the job. |
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Find out where it lives and feed it flies.
The other day I gave the one in the shed a wasp, absolutely fascinating to watch this little tiny thing drag something double its body size, got a little intense as well thought he was going to drop it on a few occasions.
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Hate them. Even the tiny ones. I have the hoover the big ones up with the long attachment as I can't settle if I see one in the house and start having palpatations  one of the downsides of living alone, nobody to remove spiders for me  |
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I like them. Find them interesting but crawling over me is a no thanks, I’ll pick them up and put them outside happily- I don’t kill them as I hate killing things, they are just trying to find some food, so I’ll let them do their thing- outside  |
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" Are you in the absolutely terrified of them camp like Mrs.
Or like myself
Don't mind them finding them fascinating but in no hurry to let them crawl over me ,camp?"
I love them, so beautiful and interesting and I feed them crane flys when I can |
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One of the things I look for whenever I move house is how likely the new place is to be spidery.
"Established garden" Nope.
"Delightful tree-lined driveway" Nope.
Any climbing plants on the wall is a big no-no.
That's how I've ended up in a high-rise - yes the view is amazing but I'm here primarily because it's non-spidery.
An ex offered to send me on an arachnophobia course at London zoo but I wouldn't go because at the end of it I knew I'd be sitting with a giant spider on my hand.
Many years ago I called a taxi driver out to kill a massive spider. He commented how huge the spider was (the taxi driver, not sure the spider could speak but I wouldn't put it past them, sneaky fuckers that they are) and then didn't want to take any money off me.
I can deal with rats, mice, carpet beetles, earwigs, moths, cockroaches, lizards, snakes, pretty much anything, but spiders send me straight into panic mode and my brain just shuts down. |
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I’m absolutely fine with spiders they don’t faze me one bit I often put them back outside if there any in the house it’s the furry little things rats/mice that really really petrified me if my cat brings one home for me I phone my son to come & sort it out |
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"They're lovely.
Apart from that really big, vicious-looking hairy one behind you all right now.
Staring...
Staring...getting ready to run all over your exposed flesh...."
The dinner plate sized ones are fine.
It's the tiny* ones that will creep up on you and land you in the hospital.
(*"Everything's bigger in Texas"
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Spiders and I have a mutual understanding. They stay in the corners and keep the bug population under control. I in turn do not disturb them. If they make a nuisance of themselves however, they will be put in a glass and forcefully evicted to the garden. |
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I'm not so fussed tbh and tend to leave them be.
If there's a massive one say on my bed it'll get kicked out into the shed or somewhere but otherwise I tend to leave them to their own devices.
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