Originally Posted by heyjupiter678

I started to head out the front door tonight, when I noticed a huge spider hanging on the porch. I couldn't even step outside until my boyfriend killed it. I was SO freaked out.

I'd never really been afraid of them before, but lately the sight of even the smallest spider makes my skin crawl. I think it has something to do with what I found a few weeks ago on the curtain behind my bed - about a foot above my pillow:
It's leg-span was well over two inches - probably closer to three. :eek: Ugh, it's still creeping me out . . .

So, do any of you have phobias?

Originally Posted by heyjupiter678

I started to head out the front door tonight, when I noticed a huge spider hanging on the porch. I couldn't even step outside until my boyfriend killed it. I was SO freaked out.

I'd never really been afraid of them before, but lately the sight of even the smallest spider makes my skin crawl. I think it has something to do with what I found a few weeks ago on the curtain behind my bed - about a foot above my pillow:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...spider2_sm.jpg

It's leg-span was well over two inches - probably closer to three. :eek: Ugh, it's still creeping me out . . .

So, do any of you have phobias?

Originally Posted by Lux

Just for future reference, I would advise that you don't ever move to Australia. This is the common huntsman which can always be found sticking its nose into your household business. I've spent hours chasing one out of my bedroom on occasion. You get used to it a bit, but when they're the size of your extended hand you still tend to yelp. These aren't venomous though.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...s/Huntsman.jpg

The female Redbacks are the ones around here which do the damage. I would say it's a myth that they actually bite and do damage but then the family came over from New Zealand and just as we were telling them they were being paranoid, a redback bit a few of them. Lovely way to send the tourists away.

But then you have the most venomous spider in the world. The male Funnel Web is found in Sydney and every year a few more Sydney-siders drop off in the annual cull.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1.../FunnelWeb.jpg

We do of course also have something like 9 of the 10 deadliest snakes aswell but you don't see them. Some are alledgedly found where I live but basically they live out west (which is Australian for in the middle of nowhere or central Australia). You do see the spiders though, so yeah the point was, the whole myth about Australians living amongst deadly creatures is just that, a myth........well except for the spiders. Well that last sentence didn't make any sense and what better way to conclude than on incompetency.

Originally Posted by DeeGeMe

Spiders don't bother me. We once had a "pet" spider take up residence on our back porch. Every night he'd weave the most amazingly intricate webs. We'd ooh and ah over the every morning. I also enjoy watching the bats fly around as the sun begins to set. I don't like other kinds of bugs though.
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Originally Posted by Nixxxed

I love spiders! My friend Alex has a tarantula that we used to let crawl all over us when we were ... ummm ... getting high. (Please don't ban me! :xoxo: ) It's like a miniature massage, the way she moves her legs, although the hairs on her belly start to tickle after a while. Her favorite place to be is at the base of your neck, hiding her head in your hair. But you had to watch her, or she'd crawl inside your clothes and seek the warmest, dampest place to play house. Yes, I mean there...

What I don't like -- spiderwebs. ICK!!! Love to look at them and watch them being spun, but immediately have to take a shower when I walk into one. And then for the next day or so, I still feel like I have strands of it stuck to my skin, especially when I get a face full of them.

Also, going into hospitals makes me nauseous. I spent a good part of my childhood being operated on to correct a congenital esophagus defect. I stayed in the hospital about a week every few months for a few years until they decided I was old enough to just slice open from bellybutton to sternum and be done with it. To this day, I want to vomit when I smell or see jello or chicken broth. Thankfully (or not, considering my current waistline), I never developed an aversion to ice cream, as those were the only three things I was able to swallow without choking.

Originally Posted by Gypsy-Rhiannon

I don't like any bugs really. And I hate spiders. But I've had to become a little braver as my kids make me get rid of any that are in the house. One of us has to be brave! Before kids I would put a cup over the little blighter and leave it there until my hubby got home from work! heh

Pip