I hate spiders!!!! **WARNING -- BAD DREAM-CAUSING PIC INSIDE**

[Gina]

So I'm sitting here at my desk minding my own business, and something on the floor catches the corner of my eye. I turn to look, and it's a %^$# wolf spider. It's not a HUGE one, maybe the size of a quarter, so I don't immediately flatline over its presence. I gracefully leap over it like a gazelle and race into my boss's office. He is as terrified of spiders as I am (makes his wife kill them at home) but musters up the courage to kill it when he sees that it isn't one of the giant man-eating wolf spiders that are common around here.

STOMP, down comes his shoe... and suddenly we see this vague, ground-cloud of movement. We realize that it is a kabillion little baby evil spiders, and both proceed to freak out. He grabs a broom, and I became the spotter. "There's some!" WHAM "There's some more!!" WHAM Finally, we see no more movement, and I vacuumed this small space for about 10 minutes just to make sure. We're fog-bombing the place this weekend.

Did I mention how much I hate spiders?? I need to go have a Malibu Colada for lunch, I think...

 

[missj1975]

Oh my, I would have freaked out. I hate spiders. I have had my house sprayed twice this summer because of an influx of spiders.

 

[minnieandme]

I've never heard of a wolf spider... now you're making me look it up.

BTW, I hate them too. A few weeks ago my DS14 found a black widow crawling towards the garage outside. I told him to kill it but he starts acting like a little girl. So I went in the house and grabbed one of his boat-sized shoes and killed it myself.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Found a BIG brown recluse in my dd's bedroom 2 days ago.

Oh yea...we always check for babies before we hit the wolf spiders. Well usually I capture them and send them outside.

 

[gypsydoodlebug]

Oh, man wolf spiders get big!! I would have freaked out, too.

 

[Barbossa]

Found a BIG brown recluse in my dd's bedroom 2 days ago.

Oh yea...we always check for babies before we hit the wolf spiders. Well usually I capture them and send them outside.

I have to admit that I like spiders, they're a natural insecticide. However, I do make exceptions for Black Widows (we get tons of them in the winter). My DW hates spiders, though, so I catch the "good" spiders and take them outside. My DW would have a heart attack if we had something as large as a wolf spider, though.

 

[Gina]

For anyone not familiar with them, here is a female wolf spider with all her disgusting little spiderlings on her back:

I really just didn't think the one this morning was a wolf spider because it was so much smaller than usual... Normally, a wolf spider would take up the palm of your hand. (That is just for reference -- if you're insane enough to hold or even touch a spider, you need to have yourself committed immediately. )

 

[Barbossa]

Ahhh, they're so cute!

We used to have these "daddy long leg" type spiders in our house. Once in a while there'd be one with a brood of babies. When my DW was pregnant, I refused to harm the babies out of superstition. I know, very odd.

 

[kelleigh1]

Why? Why? Why? did we have to post a picture. Now I've got the creepy crawlys!!!

 

[Crystal0608]

Ewwyy, I got the creepy crawlies now too. I've never seen a wolf spider in person, now I sure don't want too. I got spider bit on the chest 3 weeks ago and the bite is just now going away. It burned really bad.

 

[alizesmom]

Why? Why? Why? did we have to post a picture. Now I've got the creepy crawlys!!!

Me too, I absolutely hate those things and can't tolerate any size, shape or color. It's your fault if I get nightmares. Karen

 

[Gina]

Sorry, didn't mean to cause nightmares! Even though I'll be having them myself... I guess misery does love company.

I'll edit the title to warn people.

 

[Barbossa]

I'll edit the title to warn people.

Nice title!

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

I have to admit that I like spiders, they're a natural insecticide. However, I do make exceptions for Black Widows (we get tons of them in the winter). My DW hates spiders, though, so I catch the "good" spiders and take them outside. My DW would have a heart attack if we had something as large as a wolf spider, though.

I don't mind spiders either. The smaller ones can stay in the corners of the house to eat bugs, the bigger ones are escorted outside. My DH has a rule that nothing is killed on his watch. I also make an exception for Black Widows and have "popped" a couple with a stick in my kids playground equipment, which they were never allowed to use again.

Wolf Spiders are very ferocious looking, kinda hairy! I do admit that the surrying babies would give me the heebie jeebies.

 

[cheerful chickadee]

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That ugly disgusting thing reminds me.....Last year while I was pregnant I got up for one of my 100 potty trips of the night and saw a huge spider along the floor molding of the bathroom. I woke up DH to kill it (yes I know it's 3am, just get up and kill this thing!). He got a paper towel to smash it, when he hit it we heard a "pop" sound and saw hundreds of baby spiders jump off it's back and run every which direction. Yes, that was my very pregnant self screaming at the top of my lungs and jumping around like a freak of nature at 3am. DH was able to kill many of the tiny ones but some got away. I was so disgusted at what I had just seen I think I itched for days, I couldn't even go back to sleep that night. Ugh, it was terrible. I'm itching again just thinking of it.

 

[Gina]

That would induced labor for me, for sure!!

And I know what you mean about the itching... all day at my desk, I kept feeling like things were crawling up my legs!!

oh



my


god


That ugly disgusting thing reminds me.....Last year while I was pregnant I got up for one of my 100 potty trips of the night and saw a huge spider along the floor molding of the bathroom. I woke up DH to kill it (yes I know it's 3am, just get up and kill this thing!). He got a paper towel to smash it, when he hit it we heard a "pop" sound and saw hundreds of baby spiders jump off it's back and run every which direction. Yes, that was my very pregnant self screaming at the top of my lungs and jumping around like a freak of nature at 3am. DH was able to kill many of the tiny ones but some got away. I was so disgusted at what I had just seen I think I itched for days, I couldn't even go back to sleep that night. Ugh, it was terrible. I'm itching again just thinking of it.

 

[Where'sPiglet?]

AHHHHHHHHHHH


That thing is UGLY!!

At least when I kill roaches, there aren't a million jumping off the one I just killed.

The photo is like whack-a-mole on steroids.