Huge Spider In My House

It's always this time of year (towards the end of the school summer holidays) when giant house spiders come out. It's the males looking for a mate. They are huge, and very fast - but totally harmless.

If there's one in a place I don't want it to be, I use a spider catcher to move it.

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Stuuuuuu said:
It's always this time of year (towards the end of the school summer holidays) when giant house spiders come out. It's the males looking for a mate. They are huge, and very fast - but totally harmless.

If there's one in a place I don't want it to be, I use a spider catcher to move it.

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I think it might be the other way around - I think female spiders are bigger than male spiders.
 
I don't mind them but I do have an unconscious aversion to the speed of them. It's the cat that does my head in. She hunts them and brings them into the house, still alive but f**ked up. Legs bit off and a bit chewed
 
dickie davies said:
I posted on the sunset thread the farmer harvesting the field behind our house, which in turn means the spiders are on the move
This bugger was sat in my bedroom

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My 9 year old daughter screamed the house down shortly after going to bed the other night, I ran in turned the light on and I swear to god a spider this size ran under the bed, it seems the fucker crawled across her face as the light went out! I must admit I’d have shit myself as well, although later it I did chuckle to myself it reminded me of that bit in Home Alone, ha ha .
 
My blood ran cold just seeing this thread title.

I am a serious arachnophobe = it's no good telling me "They are friendly" or "they get rid of pests" and so on.

I find them disgusting and loathsome, and they are intruders in my house and have no right to be there, so they forfeit the right to exist.

I expect abuse from arachnophiles.
 
Big Swifty said:
My blood ran cold just seeing this thread title.

I am a serious arachnophobe = it's no good telling me "They are friendly" or "they get rid of pests" and so on.

I find them disgusting and loathsome, and they are intruders in my house and have no right to be there, so they forfeit the right to exist.

I expect abuse from arachnophiles.
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Totally agree they're devil spawn fly squatters/traps get rid of flies I don't need their help thanks very much. I have a relative who lives in Australia when she was driving a huntsman spider (Google them, huge and fast) jumped off dashboard onto her arm. If that were me I probably would've toppled the car and had a heart attack.
 
Put me down as someone who suffers badly from an irrational fear of them. I can deal with the smaller ones but anything remotely big and I’m often engaged in a stand off with them hoping they make the first move and disappear.

You’ll laugh but… one time I tired rescuing one and putting it outside i took that long after getting in under a cup that i accidentally suffocated it… felt a bit bad I’m not gonna lie.
 
My lovely wife is, shall we say, not keen on them so out they must go.

The big ones I pick up and throw over the hedge but it's rather trickier to catch the small nippy buggers so they unfortunately end up in a kleenex and get flushed.
 
Big Swifty said:
My blood ran cold just seeing this thread title.

I am a serious arachnophobe = it's no good telling me "They are friendly" or "they get rid of pests" and so on.

I find them disgusting and loathsome, and they are intruders in my house and have no right to be there, so they forfeit the right to exist.

I expect abuse from arachnophiles.
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Did you display these signs ? You could end up in the slammer.
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