SPIDER!

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

We don't really have nasty spiders here, but one that we DO have is the common House Spider. Chunky and fast, these little critters live in the house (duh) under the floorboards. They don't often venture out, but when they do, I'm standing on a chair!

Anyone else not too happy with spiders?

 

[fla4fun]

I don’t like any kind of insect, although I know most of them have a reason to exist. I would rather they kept far away from me though. I have cans of bug spray in every room in the house.

 

[PollyannaMom]

I'm not a spider fan either.

 

[goooof1]

 

[BrianL]

Spiders don't really bother me. I usually just leave them be, unless they are rather large, then I will catch and release if they are in the house. If they're outside, they are totally fine.

 

[Scotgirl]

I know we need spiders and that really no matter how big they are they are always so much smaller than us - this is the rational part of my brain speaking. Then they move and rationality goes out the window and I may have a little scream! They just give me the heebies big time!

 

[Moliphino]

I am arachnophobic. I leave them alone outside, but if they're in my house they're toast.

 

[dez1978]

We have brown recluse spiders here. I was never seriously afraid of spiders until I moved here and heard of those. I guess they weren't common further north, or I was just lucky enough to have never heard of them. Those are some nasty little things. While it won't kill you, the bite can become necrotic and leave you with a pretty significant amount of flesh missing. If you haven't heard of these, they are mostly in dark or unused spaces. So people often get bit like reaching under the bed, or the spiders are in your bed and you roll over on them and get bit, or reaching behind the couch or something. So sometimes you have no idea what it was that bit you to begin with do you don't get it treated until it's already looking much worse than a normal bug bite would and they get pretty nasty. So now anything thats not a daddy long legs or wolf spider gets unalived very quickly.

 

[mrodgers]

They don't pay the bills so they get evicted from the home as an intruder.

Outside they're fine. I just found a beautiful huge yellow garden spider in my landscaping. I leave him alone. Another one has an elaborate home in the corner of my porch near the door. He's out of the way, I leave him alone.

The big issue was the other day. I take a shower, then put my contacts first thing after the shower. It's a major problem when I get in the shower, close the shower curtain, and one drops down into the shower when I am not able to see. Total chaos ensues, LOL

 

[tazdev3225]

I am not too fond of them but mostly because I have a serious allergy to their bite. I've been in the ER a couple of times because of how swollen I get around the bite. My daughter is allergic also. Be careful stomping them though. She did that once and my kids said it was the weirdest thing they ever saw; they guessed at least 100 baby spiders came out of the stomped spider. I just give them a wide berth.

 

[Mysterian]

Recently, I've developed a large number of Black Widows in spots around my back porch. There's another large one who's made a home on a part of my recycling bin, along with a big fat spider egg. The widows don't bother me, and they're probably keeping many pests away.

Another of the BW's had kids, I saw a ton of tiny skittery ones all playing along their web. It was kind of cute.

With Fall coming, there's usually a huge Orb spider that sets up shop near the woods. Those are interesting to watch. After a storm, I remember one had leaves in her web. She carefully clipped out the strands holding the leaves and re-sewed the holes in the web.

 

[DLgal]

I HATE spiders. Although I recognize the role they play in eating other annoying bugs, they are so creepy. I don't mind when they are outside, but once they come in my house and I see them, sorry pal.

We have this phenomenon in the fall down here where TONS of huge, furry brown spiders string up webs across sidewalks, from tree to tree. These are THICK webs/strings and they tend to do this mostly at night so if you go on an early morning walk, you will likely walk right onto one of these. It is awful. I basically avoid sidewalks between now and about early November.

 

[mrodgers]

I HATE spiders. Although I recognize the role they play in eating other annoying bugs, they are so creepy. I don't mind when they are outside, but once they come in my house and I see them, sorry pal.

We have this phenomenon in the fall down here where TONS of huge, furry brown spiders string up webs across sidewalks, from tree to tree. These are THICK webs/strings and they tend to do this mostly at night so if you go on an early morning walk, you will likely walk right onto one of these. It is awful. I basically avoid sidewalks between now and about early November.

When I tour on the bicycle, my buddy from work every morning cries out, "Why am I the one always leading? All I get is spider webs in my face!" That's when he has 4 or 5 of us behind him, "That's why we let you lead!"

I was riding behind his wife one morning heading to the trail head from breakfast. I hollered at her to stop as there was a spider climbing a thread back up towards her hand. She laughed, "ha ha, very funny." I was freaking out because I saw it reach her hand.... She finally stopped and I swatted it away, "Really, there was really a spider crawling towards your hand."

 

[Mysterian]

I HATE spiders. Although I recognize the role they play in eating other annoying bugs, they are so creepy. I don't mind when they are outside, but once they come in my house and I see them, sorry pal.

We have this phenomenon in the fall down here where TONS of huge, furry brown spiders string up webs across sidewalks, from tree to tree. These are THICK webs/strings and they tend to do this mostly at night so if you go on an early morning walk, you will likely walk right onto one of these. It is awful. I basically avoid sidewalks between now and about early November.

Some spiders actually look quite elegant. Wolf spiders, on the other hand, they're harmless, but they look about as appealing as roaches. Unlike other spiders that lay eggs, these spiders grow little egg sacs on their backs, which when burst, send loads of tiny spiders scurrying. So that's gross, yes.

However, it's remarkable that these tiny things are able to run immediately on birth. Nature, man. WHOA.

 

[MrsCobraBubbles]

We get huge spiders, our backyard is woods. I absolutely hate them and so do my kids! We have what we call the "spider box" which we use to trap and kill them. When we see a big one on the wall or ceiling we use the clear plastic box to cover it from a distance, then move the box around until the spider crawls into it, then quickly turn the box over and spray the spider with bleach until it stops moving. Then I flush down the toilet. It's a system that works for us, but I'm definitely not looking forward to spider season when all the spiders try to invade the house before the cold weather. Ugh.