Hideous spider

[Bill HH]

We get big ones with attitude here in Devon, they terrify me. My wife prodded me in bed one night and said "Look up" On the ceiling above me was the daddy of them all, I swear he was waiting for my to go to sleep so he could drop down and lay eggs in my ear. I haven't moved so fast in years, when I returned with the vax he had gone!!!!My wife thought calling the fire brigade was not a good idea nor my next idea of the RSPCA. Then I noticed the table lamp actually rocking as her emerged round the shade. He went up the vax with a satisfying "thunk" I put it on the landing and went back to bed. Lying there traumatised I wondered if he might crawl back out! So off to the garage with the machine and finally to bed. Yes I know I am a big baby.

[Nannysally99]

We get big ones with attitude here in Devon, they terrify me. My wife prodded me in bed one night and said "Look up" On the ceiling above me was the daddy of them all, I swear he was waiting for my to go to sleep so he could drop down and lay eggs in my ear. I haven't moved so fast in years, when I returned with the vax he had gone!!!!My wife thought calling the fire brigade was not a good idea nor my next idea of the RSPCA. Then I noticed the table lamp actually rocking as her emerged round the shade. He went up the vax with a satisfying "thunk" I put it on the landing and went back to bed. Lying there traumatised I wondered if he might crawl back out! So off to the garage with the machine and finally to bed. Yes I know I am a big baby.

I can remember sucking a huge spider up in the Hoover. Laid it down and went and had a cup of tea. When I came back it had crawled out covered in dust so looking twice as big and crawled up the landing wall. I made my husband come home from work ......


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[Ja9]

Nannysally99 and billHH,glad I'm not alone.We live in a thatched cottage and particularly when we first moved in there was a ridiculous number of strange ghost like spiders. I never go up into the loft as the roof is festooned with them.When cleaning the lounge it was not unusual to suck up at least 20 with the Hoover and hear them rattling up the tube.
Don't mind spiders outside and find the webs beautiful in the morning dew...just not indoors where I'm confined with them!Watched this nest for ages this week,it was amazing

[lottie dolly]

get a jar plus lid at the ready,then empty outside,the only time i get a bit freaked out is,pull the quilt back and one run,now I just have to find it,have heard somewhere that most peeps will swallow one in their sleep,and not know,so if you wake up coughing...........................................have a tissue handy

[Plot10]

I think I've posted this before but a while back my brother and I were both visiting my Mum and got into a faff trying to herd a huge spider out of the window. My 89 year old mother responded to our shrieks armed with a dustpan and brush, calmly swept it into the dustpan and chucked it out the window.

[Alison]

I think I've posted this before but a while back my brother and I were both visiting my Mum and got into a faff trying to herd a huge spider out of the window. My 89 year old mother responded to our shrieks armed with a dustpan and brush, calmly swept it into the dustpan and chucked it out the window.

I just leave them where they are but if I do need t move them I just pick them up and carry them to where they need to be.


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[bario1]

I don't know how you can do that Alison, I was sweating blood just getting near enough to take that picture! Look at it's teeth!

[Fleurisa]

I've got one of those giant monsters living in my shed, I could swear it's wearing Doc Martens!

[Ananke]

We have come across some massive ones here in Glasgow and we usually have loads of the "regular" sized ones but this year there are hundreds of them. The mild winter possibly?

[Trix]

have heard somewhere that most peeps will swallow one in their sleep,and not know,so if you wake up coughing...........................................have a tissue handy

I'm not afraid of spiders but I've heard this too and I do sometimes wake up coughing. I have to admit I've wondered... I just drink a lot of water and swallow - if I am eating spiders I think I'd prefer not to know!

[Alison]

I don't know how you can do that Alison, I was sweating blood just getting near enough to take that picture! Look at it's teeth!

But it's just a house spider not one of those Australian ones which can kill.


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[Jardiniere]

BUT she is beautiful! I love spiders.....

[Kaytee999]

....and she is almost certainly a she! Spiders are one group where the words of Kipling (or the group Space!) are true, in that 'The female of the species is more deadly than the male'. Poor male spiders are generally pretty small in comparison to their female counterparts, and don't actually look a lot like them!

You don't want to be a male spider, for the lucky species, the 'worst' you put up with is for the female to mistake you for any other bug and eat you (hence rather elaborate mating rituals to establish you are of the same species). Get past that bit, and you run the risk of being eaten 'post event' so to speak (maybe that only applies to non-performing chaps!!). In other species its even worse, assuming they get past the 'I'm the same Spider as you, lets put the Barry White music on' - your 'bits' then get stuck in the female, pretty much disabling you, and then you get eaten!! One or two species though have evolved such that the male is so tiny and insignificant that the females can't be bothered with the effort of trying to eat them - they think they are just tiny bugs. So and the males run around doing their business without the need for elaborate rituals or risking being eaten!

Whatever you're phobias or fears, they really are fascinating creatures!

[taff]

Call that a spider?

THIS is a spider....

[Plot10]

....You don't want to be a male spider,

Or a fish......................

BBC News - Fish-eating spiders 'widespread'