Arschnophobes beware!!!!!

Why do so many people want to KILL spiders?
Do you want us to be overrun with flies?
Spiders trap and EAT flies
QED
Use my broom/feather duster trick, shake it outside and let them go! Panicking and squealing at a harmless creature and squashing it is pretty pointless as well as unnecessarily cruel. ? ? ?

MissA I'm not 100% sure but think the females are the larger ones.

I just hope mine was the female.
I don't want to find an even bigger one!!!
You're very brave, silverlining
I have a,new found respect for you!

Have just found a spider in my bath,watched it trying to clamber up the side a couple of times, he kept falling back down so got a sheet of loo roll, put it where he was going to fall, but he saw and ran the other way.
A second attempt was successful, he went out of the window where there was something to hang into to break his fall.
Bash him with a slipper? No, I Couldn't do that.
I am glad your spider is safely off the premises all in one piece MissA.

Hymnbook

Just whack it with your slipper or wash it down the plug hole. I hate them to the best spider is a dead one.

I do agree!
I cannot bear the things.Autumn is their mating time I have heard, and they are dashing around boldly to find a mate quickly.The biggest ones are the females.

I'll be checking my head all night, I think.
If any spider thinks it's going to sit on mine it'll be in for a surprise.

I shall hit my head with my racquet and see how it likes them apples!

Hurray!
We can all sleep soundly tonight I hope!

Oh a genuine hero MissAdventure!
As you say, what a relief!!!

If you hold the racquet at arms length, then the distance is quite far, because the racquet itself has a long handle, and you know you can easily get your target..

But not today.
One of my exes just came to fetch me some bread, and he got the spider for me, and walked a long way from my flat to let it go.

What a relief!!!

MissAdventure
Don’t you have to get up really close with those racquet things?

As for courses, even the thought of the course is terrifying, I think I’m a lost cause,

Just whack it with your slipper or wash it down the plug hole. I hate them to the best spider is a dead one.

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Yes, I did think that might have been the case!

Oh, I never saw the link.
My mind was focused on the spider.
Thank you.

MissAdventure

I have heard that there are courses to teach you how to overcome the fear, and that they work.
A teacher when I was very little put some time in, and got me to hold a stag beetle, by teaching me all the fascinating facts about them.

Yes it called Exposure Therapy.
I mentioned it to you and posted a link about it earlier this morning.

Well done with the bowl and the wee MissA.

WARNING - big spider story
When we were in Goa, a minor tourist attraction was the most ginormous spider.
It lived in a tree next to a river.
In order to get the spider to come out to be admired, a local chap would bang its web with a broom handle.
It didn’t damage the web
I think that it may have eaten birds

I have heard that there are courses to teach you how to overcome the fear, and that they work.
A teacher when I was very little put some time in, and got me to hold a stag beetle, by teaching me all the fascinating facts about them.

I think it will straddle the plughole if you try to wash it down.
Not nice!!

My niece was arachnophobic on the extreme scale like you MissA. She went on a course, held, I think, at a local zoo, and is now able to tolerate - even handle - spiders the size of a tarantula. So it is possible to conquer this disabling phobia.
I was brought up never to kill a spider and I never have. I use the sheet of paper and a tumbler method to help them out of the bathroom and through the window.

That's why I like my electric racquet.
Instantaneous, nothing drops off them, it even shrinks, dries, and holds the husk thats left on it's wires.
A sharp tap over the dustbin and the job is done.

I looked in the mirror one morning and saw one on top of my head. ? It must have been lurking in my top and fell onto my head when I put it on. Horrors!!! Thank goodness for a handy towel to swipe it off and cover it while I got my catcher.

Oh I couldn't do it either.
That sounds shocking, doesn't it?

Yes, Beautful, they can be really nasty. My son found one inside the lid of his wheelie bin.

It was galloping around before it fell into the bath. It will be so traumatised by the experience it will run away and hide. It may visit your neighbour.

harrigran

I have one of those battery powered sucky things but the last couple of spiders ? I tried to suck up were too big to go in they splayed their legs over the opening ?

The image this conjures up has made me laugh out loud!!
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