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A Spider Crawled Under My Bed....
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There seems to be a colony of spiders living in the lawn that I mow every week. Whenever I run over a certain spot 15-20 nickle-sized spiders run onto the patio, until I go by again and the gust of air out of the side sprays them about.
I'm scared of spiders bigger than a dime, especially if they are indoors. I get absolutley terrified. However, they never appear in my room, always in my sister's who is about 10 times more scared than me. Or maybe she just screams louder, I don't know.
I'd go hunting for it...with a shotgun. You don't have anyone living below you do you? a 12 gauge and some really fine birdshot should do the trick...
I'm scared of spiders bigger than a dime, especially if they are indoors. I get absolutley terrified. However, they never appear in my room, always in my sister's who is about 10 times more scared than me. Or maybe she just screams louder, I don't know.
I'd go hunting for it...with a shotgun. You don't have anyone living below you do you? a 12 gauge and some really fine birdshot should do the trick...
You guys need to read the links I posted early in this thread. BTW, those pics are of common house spiders. And wolf spiders are only found outside. And if you put a house spider outside you will likely kill it, so you might as well just smash it right there. Just answering a few posts. 
I've met the guy that runs that website, he is very nice and of course knowledgeable. He's at the univerity of washington and is considered the foremost authority on spiders in north america. In med school we were told to contact him if we had any suspected spider related cases in practice.
I've met the guy that runs that website, he is very nice and of course knowledgeable. He's at the univerity of washington and is considered the foremost authority on spiders in north america. In med school we were told to contact him if we had any suspected spider related cases in practice.
Yawn. Since more than one click is hard, I'll make it easy for you.
http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/spidermyth/myths/insidewolf.html
http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/spidermyth/myths/insidewolf.html
Ok, so tonight, my daughter and I are about to go in to the house, and there's a spider by the door about 8 feet up, and she JUMPS off the wall without regard to her LIFE right at us! Fortunately, she missed (wonder how their depth perception is with all those eyes?) and landed in a umbrella holder type jar thingy. We ran into the house fast-like, hoping she wouldn't jump on us to catch a ride to my bed or something.
ugh!!!
ugh!!!
mcarnes said:
The spiders I most often find in my home resemble the spider on the left. I've never seen anything quite like the spider on the right in my house. My house is in the middle of a heavily forested area. They appear most often in my basement, usually in or around the underground window wells.
I was on the ******* one day, reading my hardcover Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (all 5 books of the trilogy), when I see what I think is a centipede crawl from the back of the book onto the front page. I freak the **** out, slam the book shut, and toss it on the floor. I don't see anything moving for a second, so I wipe and get the hell out of there. I don't even go back in for a day. I finally get up the nerve, and open the book. After turning a few pages, there's a squished centipede on one of the pages.dpaanlka said:
And this is just after I killed one in the basement while playing X-Box.
Counterfit said:
Centipedes bother me much more than spiders. Unlike spiders, which cling to corners of walls and generally try to run and hide, centipedes seem to find their way into the most obnoxious places and I've even been followed by centipedes before! I hate them so much.
dpaanlka said:
They are likely house spiders. It doesn't really matter, you just got the name wrong.
The wolf spiders are small. The house spiders are much bigger and scary. Very fast runners (but so are wolfs). The best way to find wolf spiders is mount a flashlight on your forehead (close to your line of sight) and walk in a clear field at night. You'll see them by the light shine in their eyes when they look at you.The only spider I really like are the jumpers. Very curious and friendly. Visit Fred Miranda macro forum and you'll see lots of face shots of jumpers.
House centipedes on the other hand, now those are just plain nasty.
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mcarnes said:They are likely house spiders. It doesn't really matter, you just got the name wrong.
Thats funny you say that. I generally considered what I believed to be Wolf spiders as being relatively small, and not scary at all, just gross.
Centipedes are my enemy.
juicedus said:
Thats very similar to the woke that I woke up to inches from my face. I sleep in the basement as well so although I know they arent house spiders he must have followed some food into the house or something.
Edit: It may have been a fisher spider, they look sorta alike. This guy had atleast a 3-4 inch leg span
I can't even look at that thing, OMG, I'd be freaking out, I am just from the pic, *shivers* yuck!!juicedus said:
dpaanlka said:
Here is a Google image search for "house spider". Not all the pics are captioned accurately, but enough are. These are the spiders common in most people's house. I've photographed the face of the common house spider (canon mp-e 65mm) and it is very mean looking (but harmless).
What I really want to do is go to Australia and get some face shots of the net-casting spider (shown below). Look at those pearly blue eyes.
Note the four smaller eyes above and below the main eyes.
If I saw a spider anywhere near me I'd kill it.
See, killing spiders here doesn't count towards your karma because pretty much all of them have the ability to put you into hospital or, if you're not quick enough, a wooden box in the ground.
I hate spiders so very, very much.
See, killing spiders here doesn't count towards your karma because pretty much all of them have the ability to put you into hospital or, if you're not quick enough, a wooden box in the ground.
I hate spiders so very, very much.
:S
I hate spiders.
Last time there was one in my room I devised this intricate plan involving a book, my half-full cup of coffee bean coffee and my magic fork (looks like a regular fork but extends to be around 3-4 feet long) to get the spider to drown in the coffee or at least not try to escape for the minute it took me to run downstairs and toss the whole thing into the trash can Ended up getting the spider to crawl into a water bottle, and I threw it into the trash anyway. Not with the bottle closed though...I'm not that cruel :S
I seriously hate spiders. Just can't kill them, but I seriously hate them.
I hate spiders.
Last time there was one in my room I devised this intricate plan involving a book, my half-full cup of coffee bean coffee and my magic fork (looks like a regular fork but extends to be around 3-4 feet long) to get the spider to drown in the coffee or at least not try to escape for the minute it took me to run downstairs and toss the whole thing into the trash can
Ended up getting the spider to crawl into a water bottle, and I threw it into the trash anyway. Not with the bottle closed though...I'm not that cruel :SI seriously hate spiders. Just can't kill them, but I seriously hate them.
The small spiders I don't get so much worked over and try to put them outside. Now, when I find more than 3 large ones in a day or an evening in the haus then it is up to the shoes to do the rest.
then it is up to the shoes to do the rest.