A spider just crawled down my neck..... - Page 3

jannieC · #31 07-22-2010, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by iamnotafraid

JannieC, Actually that is what I meant, I just didn't write it right.
The Garden Spiders can grow to be as big as a hand. Not as thick
as some spiders, but still rather large.

There are no words.

michelle2677 · #32 07-22-2010, 01:45 PM

spiders don't bother me

i got bit by a brown recluse back in feb and i still have a huge bruise about the size of a quarder on my stomach. that **** was nasty/ugly, but it still didn't change my feelings about them.

snakes, on the other hand

MissLadyLoki · #33 07-22-2010, 02:31 PM

Another bug that freaks me out like nothing else are yellow jackets. Up by my school last fall, there was a yellow jacket problem and traps had been set up, but they were still all over the place.

One day, during Campus Lifetime (it's an hour and a half on Wednesdays where there's no class and events are held), I think either the gays and lesbians or the campus Republicans held a free barbecue (they both have done it then on separate weeks). As I was eating my food at an outside table, a yellow jacket decided to hang around my plate. I was absolutely freaking out and not even the blowing trick (gently blowing on one will make it think it's a breeze and move on) wasn't working and had t throw out my food just so it would leave me alone.

iamnotafraid · #34 07-25-2010, 03:34 AM

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Originally Posted by michelle2677

i got bit by a brown recluse back in feb and i still have a huge bruise about the size of a quarder on my stomach.

Ouch! You haven't gained any Spidy skills.....have you?

A spider update...
A very small spider crawled over my shoe today as I picked it up
out of the utility room. And while finishing up a little mowing I saw
this garter snake take off in the grass. He got chopped up into
little pieces.

jaycee · #35 07-25-2010, 08:37 AM

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Originally Posted by iamnotafraid

Ouch! You haven't gained any Spidy skills.....have you?

A spider update...
A very small spider crawled over my shoe today as I picked it up
out of the utility room. And while finishing up a little mowing I saw
this garter snake take off in the grass. He got chopped up into
little pieces.

So you're saying a snake slid away from you, and you made the effort of chasing it down to kill it in a rather menacing manner?

Expect little sympathy from me should you be bitten by one.
On Friday I was cleaning up leaves spread all about the backyard and over garden beds, and I revealed a rather small grey/black spider which made me jump back about a foot.

It climbed up a plant and stayed out of the way though, so it was left alone.

iamnotafraid · #36 07-25-2010, 07:47 PM

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Originally Posted by jaycee

So you're saying a snake slid away from you, and you made the effort of chasing it down to kill it in a rather menacing manner?

If a snake is in the yard, or anywhere close to me off with it's head.

With that said, I have picked up a green snake with my hands and carefully
took it out of the yard. I'm not as bad as you might think. I'd just rather not
be around snakes.

On second thought, this post belongs in my snake thread.

Silver Springs · #37 09-13-2010, 03:27 PM

There's one around the size of my Cat's head sat plotting with a somewhat smaller one on my bedroom wall as we speak. When I have the guts to do anything other than sit on my bed and make noises that can only be likened to a murder victims, I'll have to change my underwear. I guess it's unlucky for me that my Cat also seems to have developed a vendetta against them and keeps attempting to bat them in my direction. Anybody have a good recipe for Cat Kebabs? I don't eat meat but my family would appreciate the gesture.

jannieC · #38 09-13-2010, 08:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Silver Springs

There's one around the size of my Cat's head sat plotting with a somewhat smaller one on my bedroom wall as we speak. When I have the guts to do anything other than sit on my bed and make noises that can only be likened to a murder victims, I'll have to change my underwear. I guess it's unlucky for me that my Cat also seems to have developed a vendetta against them and keeps attempting to bat them in my direction. Anybody have a good recipe for Cat Kebabs? I don't eat meat but my family would appreciate the gesture.

You need to find some bug spray or get the hell out of there.

Nikolaj · #39 09-13-2010, 09:10 PM

This is spooky that I see this thread today. Spiders are about the biggest phobia in my life, and I've been dealing with it for a month, prior to my move to this house I now live in, I was able to move in gradually by doing most of the needed cleaning, myself. That, and signing a 3 year lease.
A long spider rant follows, but
a) I offer some solutions,
b) I have a couple questions (like, does wall to wall carpeting deter spiders?)
and 3*) please be kind, this has all happened to me with no painkillers!
* -- "a, b, and 3" is my 'Postcards From The Edge' nod.

SO, I recently moved into a house, built in the '50s, that hadn't been lived in for about 8 months. It got completely renovated, with a new kitchen, new windows, new appliances, but there were cobwebs and spiders in every room corner. There was a contractor as I moved in, who did the spider/cobweb thing outside of the house, I did the inside myself.
Got some bites, got rid of spiders, they'd come back, I'd get more bites-
This works: Lemon Pledge them. They hate lemon. Lavender liquid Pine Sol works, too, in keeping them away. A citrus Lysol spray is what I use on the windows, they hate citrus too, and have plenty of paper towels and trash bags and throw them out windows as you go along, then collect and dispose. The first and second floor now seem to be spider free, tomorrow is 2 weeks I've lived here. The Lemon Pledge seems to kill them. (This house has 30 freaking windows! Spiders love windows!)
I avoid the basement. I have only ventured to the basement once. And that's where the washer and dryer are. It looks fine, but I haven't looked under the basement doors that lead to outside, and that's where the spiders will be. I hate basement double doors. Spider country clubs.
I go to a laundramat, and to my parents house with laundry. I can't deal.
I just stopped thinking about spiders, only today. Then, I saw this thread!
I hate, loathe and despise spiders. They scare me beyond words. I'm hiring someone- maybe tomorrow!-- to go down into the basement and super clean it, I won't do it.
Oh, and now I won't keep my vacuum cleaner in the house. It's a bagless, but I'm sure there's spiders in it. It's now an entry-way vacuum. I'll buy a new vaccum and use the current one just to vacuum the back-entry way. A eucalyptus wreath I placed on the floor by the front door also seems to work in keeping spiders away.
This house is too big for me, I need a wife and some kids! Or maybe I could get an exterminator to move in.
Seriously, though, it's 'spider season'? -- and it ends in October? I hope that is so.
Does anyone know if having wall-to-wall carpeting helps get rid of spiders forever? I never once in 15 years saw a spider at my apartment that was all carpeted.
Here, nothing but wood floors on both floors of the house, except for the bathrooms, hate it.
Even in the huge kitchen, a wood floor. Dust mops, Mop & Glow, dry Swifter, wet Swifter, f**k. Sorry.
And I'm way overdue for the Lyme's Disease bloodtest I've needed to take since June unrelated to any of this.
Now, I won't go much into the wet-dry vac I used on the fireplace on August 16 and still have unhealed skin on the side of my nose that got covered in soot and then blistered, when the hose fell out of the vac and the fireplace ashes went all through the house and in my face. Spent a good 40 hours cleaning all the floors, walls and cielings before moving in on Sept. 1 with my cat. I had to make sure the house was safe for her.
The house is clean. Spiders are gone. I don't need a Xanax. SEAL that inside basement door in the kitchen at the bottom with duct tape before bed tonight. Do the Swifter again.
Hey, you guys put a spider thread here! It is so strange I just saw it now. Y'all don't know from spiders after the month I've put into getting this place liveable

I want a mosquito net for over my bed, didn't Stevie have one in the 'If Anyone Falls'video? Or was that Cher in the 'We All Sleep Alone' video? Do the nets keep spiders out, too?
F*ck me with a chainsaw, then cut off my head, put it on a stick and let the spiders build cobwebs ear to ear. I DO need a Xanax, immediately. I won't take it, however.
But, just remember about the Lemon Pledge and LAVENDER Lysol liquid, it repels spiders, and seems to keep them away. I think. Spider season ??
Yes, it is very wooded here. And yes, I see new cobwebs outside in the back yard nearly every day. The yard guy's on it. The inside, though, is up to me. Just a renter.

iamnotafraid · #40 09-14-2010, 02:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Silver Springs

There's one around the size of my Cat's head sat plotting with a somewhat smaller one on my bedroom wall as we speak.

Splat it with a flyswatter. (I might be a little late)

Hope they didn't eat you during the night.

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Nikolaj,
No carpet doesn't deter them. And I'd never heard of the Lemon Pledge thing.
I thought lavender stopped scorpions (who knows?). I think the mosquito net
would just give them something to launch off of down to your bed.

Your basement sounds like the cave from the Raiders of The Lost Ark movie.
Remember when Indy turned around, and they were on his jacket!

Silver Springs · #41 09-14-2010, 06:51 AM

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Originally Posted by iamnotafraid

Splat it with a flyswatter. (I might be a little late)

Hope they didn't eat you during the night.

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Nikolaj,
No carpet doesn't deter them. And I'd never heard of the Lemon Pledge thing.
I thought lavender stopped scorpions (who knows?). I think the mosquito net
would just give them something to launch off of down to your bed.

Your basement sounds like the cave from the Raiders of The Lost Ark movie.
Remember when Indy turned around, and they were on his jacket!

It's okay now. I slapped it with my copy of Storms by CAD (finally found a use for it lol). Just a shame its stanky corpse fell down my shirt when I did it. I jumped off of my bed and shook so hard I may just have brain damage. I destroyed 6, count 'em SIX Spiders last night in the space of a half hour. Not good

iamnotafraid's right. Carpets do nothing to repel Spiders. We have all carpets and they still terrorise me. I heard that placing Conkers in the corners of the room and near the windows helps deter them. If that's true, next summer I'm changing my address to 123 Conker Tree. I swear they're mutants compared to the small ones I had last year :s

Nikolaj · #42 09-14-2010, 10:26 AM

^
What's a conker? I'll google it, then head back to the Home Depot and ask for the conker aisle. That's a new word for me.
Dang, about the carpeting. I was all set to spend way too much to have wall to wall installed with the mats or padding underneath. Home Depot's having a deal on it this week.