Arschnophobes beware!!!!!

I found one between my two pillows when I made the bed the other morning. It wasn't a large one but was quite sturdy. It looked at me as if to say "Ha ha, I've been there all night and you didn't suspect a thing".

Luckily I managed to drop it through the window on to some foliage.

I’m sure it would go down the plug hole MissA. It can’t get out of the bath, the sides are too slippery, so turn the cold tap fully on and it will scrunch up and go down the plug hole. You could direct it towards the plug hole with a jug of water. Keep the water running to make sure it’s drowned and washed down into the drain, then turn off and put the plug in. Alternatively you could pour boiling water over it, which would be instant death, but I don’t think I could do that.

We have quite a lot of false widows around here, I think.
For me, it's all to do with the look of a spider, rather than fear of being bitten, or stung, or whatever they do. The spider in the bath is very detailed.
I don't like detailed ones.

I don't want it to come out of the bath, though.
It would be galloping around, free!

GSM
Being unlucky ... my son inlaw was unlucky as he got bit by a False Widow Spider ... think last year & was in hospital ... thats unlucky ... saying that ... I can understand the way you feel though

Just drape a towel over the edge of the bath. Instant spider ladder, problem solved.

I’m quite averse to arsches but I don’t mind spiders.

I think I am going to have to look at some spider catchers.
Outside my flat are all my plants, so I have to bypass them, still holding the spider, to get it away from my space.
The longer I'm near a spider, the more the panic wells up.

Just be extra careful ... like someone has said ... spray it with insect spray ... could you get shower spray & flush him away ? Just a thought ...

I have two spider catchers from Lakeland - one kept upstairs and one downstairs. They have a very long tube and a battery operated vacuum in the handle so you can hoover the beast up into the tube and keep it at arms’ length until you can chuck it outside. I don’t kill them, much as I fear and hate them, because I remember hearing once that it was unlucky. Obviously an old wives’ tale but I don’t take chances!

It wouldn't fit down the plug hole!!!
It's about three times too big, and I have s very small and delicate plughole, I'll have you know.

Wash it down the plug hole with cold water then put the plug in. At least it's got a fighting chance then.

Nope.
I can't get close to a spider that size.
Absolutely no way.

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Spice101

Insect spray will fix it!

Nooooo!

However is you are really scared of them you might try and wash him down the plug hole
He might climb back up though.

Is he called Incy Wincy?

I used to be terrified of spiders but seem to have overcome that to some extent now.

Can you encourage it to walk on to a piece of card, put a tumbler or glass bowl over it then deposit it outside? Or do it the other way round, making sure it's little legs aren't trapped.
I'd come and do it for you but it's rather a long way to travel.

PS it's more frightened of you than you are of it. ?

I kill them, if it is my only option.
I wish I could be kinder, but I'm so frightened that the flight or fight response is strong.

I've been working on picking up small ones and putting them outside, and have managed that quite well, lately.
(With no glasses on, and the blob mantra, plus a whole toilet roll, almost)

Todays specimen, though, is,literally as big as my hand.

That's too much!

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 ?

must be spider season. huge one on bedroom ceiling so went out of the room to get something to deal with it with and it had gone when i returned so had to clean everywhere and hope i got it.
then went to a neighbours to feed the cat while they're away and a huge spider in the sink., I I done the bowl and card trick and through it outside.

I have an electronic device in my downstairs bedroom which I’m not sure whether it works or not but I am so shortsighted without my glasses that even if it was within 6 inches of me I would not see it… I read recently that they can hide behind pictures but I really don’t want to remove my pictures to check ? my dad always said leave a towel draped over the bath and then the spider will make its own way out and I would never kill one…

I think you may find the bowl TOO BIG! ???

I can't find my new peppermint oil, because that deters mice, too apparently.

It's probably in a cupboard somewhere, and I now wouldn't want to go poking around in case there's a spider in there too.

When I first did care work in a tiny home, i did nights.
I once had to wake up one of the residents to come and get a spider out of the kitchen sink.
I used to be exactly the same as E, downtoearth.
I have been patiently training myself over the years to deal with spiders, it's a slow process.

I have a spider catcher what sucks them up so you can take them outside I even struggle to use that ,I have sprayed peppermint all around house to try and deter makes coming in a wimp.

My DGD is just like you MissA,as was her mum and also my son,fortunately I dont have a problem with them.

E moved into her own flat 6 months ago,and one night I received an hysterical call from her,one was loose in her room,not having my car any more there was little I could for,next thing I know there was a knock on the front door,and there she stood in pjs,having paid £26 she could ill afford for a taxi as we live 25 miles apart,and left the spider to its own devices I then had to go and deep clean next day before she would return.

The thought of that!
On somebody else, obviously, not me.

I once was chatting to a friend and she started staring at my neck.
I said "what?" and just knew straight away.
A spider had crawled down inside my t shirt.
We were outside (on the usual place - my backdoor step) but I tore off the t shirt and stamped all over it and we were both screaming like banshees!!

MissAdventure
Probably nearly sixty years ago, I was at a friends house, a neighbor popped in for a cup of tea, she said she’d been cleaning the bathroom, and when she looked in the bathroom mirror, she was surprised to see one on her head!

I have never forgotten the horror of that story, and am constantly checking in mirrors.