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AMEN! I loathe loathe loathe spiders. Always have. But I thought it was an unfounded fear. Until 1997. I woke up and my face was practically paralyzed. It was a spider bite. Now I kill the little b@stards anytime I see one.
I feel the same way, i cannot tolerate them, but i do like to watch them spin webs and the webs are beautiful in the morning with the dew on them. Actually spiders intrique me, but no way, no how do i want them in my house, they will die if i see them, if i don't die first from the fright of it all.
I used to have a tarantula as a pet. I like big furry spiders. Not sure I'd be happy about a Wolf Spider sharing my house with me, living in the open, in a glass case...maybe.
Did you know, that one of the spiders with the most potent and deadly venoms in the world are the daddy long legs spiders!?!?! Even worse than a black widow. The only reason they are not seen as such a threat is that their fangs are so short they could never penetrate our skin.
I am the offical "Kill anything that even remotely resembles a bug" man in my house. My wife and MIL run screaming. I was once forced to smack a small tack/nail with a rolled up magazine to make them feel better. It did not matter that Im the one that put the tack there in the first place. If my wife saw a wolf spider in the house Id get a call from some neighboring state informing me shes not comming home till the spider is gone and dead and I could provide photographic proof.
Hmmm, that gives me an idea....can I borrow your spider for the weekend??? :-)
I've had those. They are big and a bit scary. Yeah, I put them outside too. They are not the scariest spiders that I've ever seen. When I lived in Europe, in the basement, in the laundry where there was a sump pit, there were HUGE spiders that would jump when you went near them. I have no idea what they were but I don't want to see them ever, ever again.
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for the record. i didn't kill it. but this wasn't any ordinary spider. i leave regular ole spiders alone. this one was the size of a small Chihuahua!!!!!
i thought i was being a grown up and not freaking out. last night i had a melt down. since i originally called the exterminator for my crickets, that's why he was here and he put down stuff to kill them. after seeing two dead ones and one still alive, i threw in the towel on my maturity and threw a small tantrum. i HATE, HATE, HATE bugs!!!!!! now i can't walk into my garage without checking the whole place out. i don't leave the windows open in my car. i'm afraid of what it could do to my dogs if it ended up in the house. wha-a-a-a-a-a!!!!!!!!! this is when i wish i had a man to kill the nasty little buggers!
yeah, my wife has some irrational fear of lizards (she grew up in puerto rico). i asked her if i could just get rid of it and she said no, it must die. it was probably 2am and i wanted to sleep so it had to be done.
Those little lizards are harmless....poor little guy!
I used to have a tarantula as a pet. I like big furry spiders. Not sure I'd be happy about a Wolf Spider sharing my house with me, living in the open, in a glass case...maybe.
Did you know, that one of the spiders with the most potent and deadly venoms in the world are the daddy long legs spiders!?!?! Even worse than a black widow. The only reason they are not seen as such a threat is that their fangs are so short they could never penetrate our skin.
I am the offical "Kill anything that even remotely resembles a bug" man in my house. My wife and MIL run screaming. I was once forced to smack a small tack/nail with a rolled up magazine to make them feel better. It did not matter that Im the one that put the tack there in the first place. If my wife saw a wolf spider in the house Id get a call from some neighboring state informing me shes not comming home till the spider is gone and dead and I could provide photographic proof.
Hmmm, that gives me an idea....can I borrow your spider for the weekend??? :-)
That reminds me. The guy that used to fix my car had Tarantulas as pets. He would put one in the customers car sometimes for a joke. I would have had a heart attack if one of those huge things crawled on my leg while I was driving. I would guess he knew the customers pretty well that he did that too!
I remember when I was 17, I left my car at a friends overnight, because when I got in to drive home a big spider was on the inside windshield.
woah.. i found 3 spiders on my shower curtain last week after it rained.. bugs seek shelter indoors when the ground is too wet.. spring is definitely bug season.. i know it's scarey.. i didn't even shower that morning `=P but they eventually disappeared when the sun came back out.. THANK GOD!
I'd consider letting some live depending where they were in the house, and then I found out that the avg person swallows something like 7 spiders in their lifetime while they sleep, since then all have perished within my sight.
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