Comments on: Spider Babies

By: K8

K8 — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:33:49 +0000

Oooh dodgy… I once did the same thing, trapped a huge fecker under a pint-glass and left him there. The next morning he was gone – crafty beggar had lifted the damn pint glass and escaped! They’re stronger than they look. Or, he might have called his mates to help him out – I should’ve frisked him for a mobile phone I suppose.

By: saddened

saddened — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 02:30:36 +0000

im so glad I’ve found this blog its wt I needed @ dis mo in tym lol. Me mam n I moved 2 the ‘sticks’ a few years ago n evry so often we get a few bugs creepn n crawln about bt sumtyms da big boiz decide 2 pay us a visit. Ders 1 dts bin stayin 4 a couple of days n wz hidin n decided 2 make an appearance whilst I wz watchin tv n scared d bejeebers outta me. So I had 2 climb ovr d chairs 2 get outta d room n go toilet den 2 bed bt whilst in d bthroom wiv da door closed, I myt add, the THING ran str8 4 my feet n I nearly sh4t myself…again…n it hid again so I w8d in d bath tub with a jug in my hand 4 it 2 reappear n wen it did I covered it so I can face it in d morn bt nw I keep thinkin its gona suffoc8 2 death n I cnt sleep thinkn bout d poor BUGger??? Y oh y cnt I b heartless :(

By: K8

K8 — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:30:48 +0000

Yeauch. I know how you feel, I found hundreds of the little feckers in my son’s room a few months ago.

You can do one of two things.

#1: You can go gung-ho on these spider babies with a can of hair-spray, or plain old bug spray. Once the nest has hatched they tend to disperse, so there’s no real point in looking for it anymore. Just keep the spray can in the room so you can zap on sight.

#2: If you want to be humane, you can just leave them. Chances are, most of them will die without food. If you open your windows and doors, there’s a good chance they’ll just blow away as they’re supposed to, leaving one or two behind in your house to catch flies for you.

When I found them in my kids room, I left them alone and never had a problem apart from one which has done very well for himself and hides in the skirting board. He is now huge, and makes brief appearances every now and then. He is far too fast for me and my pint glass!

I named him Squirly.

By: fred

fred — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:55:18 +0000

im not a spider fan, but i try not to kill them either.i find the odd one here and there, and move it far outside away fromthe house

earlier tonight, i felt something crawling on my arm, it looked like a little baby spider very small, like half the size of your fingertip on your baby finger, almost transparent like. that freaked me out a litttle bit.

but when i looked around the walls in my room, like, really looked? i found 75 to 100 of them all on my walls, and who knows how many in the rug and floor.

if that one would not have landed on my arm, i would not have known.

theres gotta be a nest somwhere, i just cant find it.. any idea how to get rid of all these baby spiders?????

please help

By: K8

K8 — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:49:56 +0000

I’m glad so many people are respectful of spiders. Squishing them seems so barbaric. I’ll flush the odd one down the drain, but I know the hairs on their legs keep them floating so they’ll be okay eventually.

How long can spiders hold their breath?

It’d be a cold day in hell before I’d let a huntsman stick around in my gaff. As for a load of them hatching in my house?!?! That is the stuff of nightmares. *shiver*
I don’t blame you for doing whatever you did to them, Baino, and you probably won’t go to hell. You’ll probably just be re-incarnated as a fly, that’s all.

By: baino

baino — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 03:31:45 +0000

Aww, I was here for your bloggy birth but too shy to say anything! (My how that’s changed!)

I’m afraid I once had hundreds of baby huntsmen hatch in my Laundry toilet . . .the prospect of them growing into 4″ monsters was too much to bear. . . I’ll go to hell for what I did to them.

One or two grown ups can stay around the curtain rods to eat the mozzies but once they approach the bedroom . . . its curtains.

By: Medbh

Medbh — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 22:57:50 +0000

I leave them be and if they are super big or scary I lift them up with a magazine or a plastic container and put them gently outside. Spiders are our friends and keep the nasty bug population down. For example, right after we moved in here we developed an ant infestation in the kitchen. And then the spiders spun their webs and saved the day. Yay!

By: GoingLikeSixty

GoingLikeSixty — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:31:07 +0000

If they don’t get right in my way, let ‘em live. But if one crawls right by my foot he is taunting me.
Squish.

By: b3n

b3n — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:41:30 +0000

I’ll never kill a spider and anything above a 3″ diameter I won’t hold either. They do a brilliant job. Mucho respecto.

By: Grannymar

Grannymar — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:54:24 +0000

I remember reading this first time round.

I thought at the time ‘this will give my Elly the creeps!’

I did an early post about My Sleeping partner with a photo of the evidence and Elly refused to read it!