Spider deterrent……. Not….🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️

It's a different, intrinsic fear, I think.
Just the mere sight of them, regardless of whether they bite; its the way they move, their legs, just everything, all rolled up in one awful package.

I had a huge, huge, repulsive looking one in here, once.

I think they're getting bigger, too!!

JenniRen

The spiders in the UK don't usually bite and the only native poisonous ones are tiny and have jaws that are too weak to bite humans.
They're probably more scared of you.

Unfortunately, fear at a primal level isn't rational like that. You can tell someone who is afraid of spiders that until you are blue in the face, and it still won't stop them being afraid of the eight-legged creatures!

I'm fairly sure I read that all spiders actually bite, its just that a lot aren't big enough to puncture our skin.
I may be totally wrong on that, though.
Mu friend worked at the hospital, and had a huge, swollen gnat bite come up on her knee.

The dr she saw said it was a spider bite, as are a lot of what we dismiss as gnat bites.

You can have desensitisation treatment, available on the NHS.

They are getting bigger! And they do bite. My gardener was properly bitten by one, a big brown one with pointy knees and stripes.

Pointy knees!?!
Oh horror of horror!

I jad one in here that looked like it was wearing those bonce boppers on its head...

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Here he is..
About as big as my hand, too!

Ah, rather like the one I used to chat to in my downstairs loo.
Sweet.

Good for curing constipation, I'd imagine.
Looking around and seeing that beastie.

Amazing bravery to take the photos MissA - !!!!

Thank you!

I evicted a huge spider last night.

It was sitting on the electric piano, and it was so big that i'm sure it would have been playing a tune as it walked up and down, if the piano had actually been switched on!

The big spiders seem to be moving in (or attempting to) quite early this year.

I like house spiders as they kill the flies which are a real nuisance at the moment. Therapy for those who don’t like them is read Charlotte’s Webb or watch the film!