Arachnophobia…

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Hi Shinamae I totally understand your reaction to spiders. when I once saw one rushing towards me as though to get from one dark area to another under the sofa, I realised they are not happy in light. Putting a couple of nightlights in the bedroom plugs near the floor seems to be doing a good job On in the evening and one left on by my bed all night has worked for months now. With spray too though.

Hello Shinamae I understand very well your reaction to spiders. When I once saw one dashing towards me as though to get from one dark place to another, under the sofa, I realised they are not partial to light. Putting two plug-in nightlights, at floor level with one left on all night by my bed seems to have done the trick. With that and kind spray I do sleep better

Why did I start reading this thread! I am lying reading on a boat waiting for a breeze to get the sails up. High above me the spiders are abseiling from the crosstrees. I wouldn't normally notice them but now am super sensitive. Thanks everyone.

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Hello Shinamae I understand very well your reaction to spiders. When I once saw one dashing towards me as though to get from one dark place to another, under the sofa, I realised they are not partial to light. Putting two plug-in nightlights, at floor level with one left on all night by my bed seems to have done the trick. With that and kind spray I do sleep better

Thank you, I will definitely try that with the lights and keep on with the peppermint oil!! ????

I am in a downstairs flat and I got someone to put a draught excluder along the front door. I also put a wide piece of sellotape down the door frame. This keeps most of them out. I tried all the other methods and none seem to work.

Good luck.

Nightmares here! The family is staying and Dh and I have decamped to a hotel. The dds are sleeping in our room and gw9 nights ago one of them spotted an ENORMOUS spider on her suitcase. In faffing around so she didn’t wake her sister she lost sight of it and it’s now loose in my ‘hoose’! ? ? ?

Then, last night they spotted another monster - or the same one?? - in the sittingroom and mislaid that one as well! I may have to remain in the hotel until December.

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SueDonim
Oh my God, I wouldn’t be able to go home!
The only thing that’s worse than finding a spider is losing it again!
My husband will testify to that, he’s spent many hours pulling the house apart.

That would be me, Shinamae! Gimme a flame thrower and I’ll find that damn spider!

I wouldn’t be safe in the hotel either, Sara1954. Got back to our room last night and there was an eight-legged monster just sitting on the threshold! Luckily dh’s size ten put an end to it.

We’ve also had pest control at the house today - we discover a wasps nest in our garage yesterday. I feel besieged by unwanted wildlife! ? Why can’t spiders eat wasps or wasps eat spiders??

We had a visitor yesterday morning in the bedroom. I opened the curtains and a tiny blue tit flew in. We think he had been eating the spiders around the window sill and wandered through the open window. It took ages to get him back out of the window - he kept flying off and smashing into the mirrored wardrobe doors, then back to the window and flying into the window. Like a kamikaze blue tit. I opened the side windows wide and eventually we saw him fly out. We thought.

But there must have been two of them. When I went to the bedroom last night he was sitting on the window sill. He flew off and went under the chest of drawers. We finally got him back out through the window. I'm just hoping that while he was in residence he managed to eat some of the spiders that are probably lurking behind the cupboards.

I was brought up never to kill a spider and I hope I never have, though may have inadvertently committed 'arachnocide'. I use a sheet of paper and a tumbler to capture the creature and put it outside.
My niece used to be - literally - hysterically arachnophobic but went on a course organised - I think - by a local University to help her overcome her fear. It worked and she is now even able to pick up a spider, which would once have had her in a flat panic.

Well it’s started, a giant on the landing last night, causing my screaming to bring the family running, my husband in a deep sleep having to chase it around, with my oldest granddaughter and me screaming in panic!
Now my daughter has just reported one in her shower.
Then I dreamed there was another one in my bedroom, and I announced I was going to take Valium through the season, I hadn’t thought of that, but it maybe worth considering.

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More incidents to report. ? One in my bedroom (the missing one from in DD’s suitcase?) appeared on Fri evening, followed by another in the sitting room on Saturday. One of those that just randomly appears in the middle of the carpet!

I didn’t see either, luckily, and Dh despatched them both. Also had a daddy-long-legs in which soon met its maker. Dh is more scared of them than spiders, whilst I can just about cope with DLL’s. ?

Thankfully as yet I have not clapped eyes on any house spiders, probably helps I’m very shortsighted and that I have a very dark carpet so one could actually be sat looking at me now and I wouldn’t know which obviously is a blessing ??

I was laid in bed reading the other night when I looked up and saw a large spider making its way slowly across my ceiling. I debated if I l should just leave it but then I remembered the jokes where it used to fall into the sleeper's mouth. So I grabbed a jar and a fish slice, scooped spider into the jar, shook him out outside the door, went back to bed and slept well.

Instant cure for spider fears. Someone in a class of 30+ infants spots one. Pandemonium breaks out. You discard your fears and remove it quickly!

How are all the arachnophobes getting on? We’ve had visitations from far too many of the eight-legged critters this past week, including two monsters within ten minutes the other evening! ?. Thankfully my patented spider-dispatcher (Dh) did an excellent job. I am very jumpy, though. I mistook the flicking of our cat’s tail for a monster you-know-what last night. ?

The BBC currently has an article on the invasion. It seems that house spiders come from the Mediterranean which is why they like warm houses. I am quite offended by the thought of spiders having sex under my sofa - it’s just not British, is it?

There is a photo of a beast in the article but it’s about two thirds the way down and I managed to skip over it.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-49730011

Very interesting article Sue….??????????

Very interesting article Sue….???????

And so it begins….Must’ve popped in for a drink, I didn’t kill him just found him
like that…

I was very, very brave and picked up quite a large one in some toilet paper yesterday.
I kept repeating "it's just a blob" to myself, took my glasses off so I couldn't see any details, then did it!

By large, I mean about 2cm.

Crying with laughter at this thread. I do genuinely sympathise with anyone with a phobia though.